Multilingual fintech glossary for academic and production-grade learning.
Learn the language of regulatory controls that shape fintech product design and market access.
RegTech and compliance terms explain how fintech firms interpret legal duties as system requirements. This hub connects operational controls such as KYC, AML, SCA, and sandbox participation with the language of product access, monitoring, and auditability.
Compliance terminology matters because product scope, onboarding friction, identity checks, and transaction monitoring all change when a firm crosses from simple software into regulated financial activity.
BIST, MOEX, and broader global markets may use overlapping compliance language while applying different thresholds, documentation standards, and supervisory expectations. This hub treats that difference as part of the glossary itself.
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Compliance
Adherence to laws, regulations, and guidelines.
Know Your Customer
Verifying identity.
Anti Money Laundering
Laws against clean dirty money.
KYC
Know Your Customer.
AML
Anti Money Laundering.
Regtech
Technology to help companies comply with regulations.
Regulatory Sandbox
Controlled environment for testing new financial products.
Banking-as-a-Service
Platform enabling non-banks to offer banking services.
SandBox
Testing environment for new apps.
MiCA
Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation.
Challenger Bank
New bank challenging big banks.
Embedded Insurance
Insurance bundled with product purchase.
Peer-to-Peer Insurance
Individuals pooling risk.
Parametric Insurance
Payout based on event trigger.
Usage-based Insurance
Premium based on behavior.
Two-Factor Authentication
Security process requiring two verification methods.
Biometric Authentication
Verification using unique biological characteristics.
Sandboxing
Isolating programs for security.