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One of these strategies consists of a move towards an “ open consumer loan platform ”, which in practice means providing greater transparency to customers and improving the access of third party services via APIs . “ We have our API gateway to talk with our external business partners . Our organisation ’ s architecture is based around Kubernetes , and we ’ re setting up a new generation of online app , web and legacy applications using the Pivotal Container Service as an integration platform .”
UA has to remain on top of the requirements of respective statutory and regulatory government institutions of the industry , and the representative industry associations Licensed Money Lenders Association . “ One example of the requirements is in customer information protection , because Hong Kong has very strong requirements regarding the handling of such information . Another is in anti-money laundering . The money lenders ’ regulator has very detailed Electronic
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