The Bank of Lithuania has been selected as the winner of the first Catalyst Award in the FinTech & RegTech Global Awards 2018 organised by Central Banking. The award was given in light of the Bank of Lithuania’s activities in the field of innovation and was presented in Singapore, one of the most important global financial centres.

According to Central Banking, a journal on the world’s central banks, the judging panel was impressed with the central bank’s broad-based approach to FinTech, and particularly with having created an environment favourable to development of financial technologies and open to FinTech companies quickly forming relationships with the central bank and integrating within the financial system.

‘For an institution to transform from a hard-core regulator to a partner in sustainable development is not easy. And it is certainly not enough to simply say it. It takes the institution at all levels to embrace the strategic change and to deliver. I am proud of the Bank of Lithuania staff who made this change possible and noticeable. Without a doubt, we will continue shaping the financial sector in both Lithuania and the region to make it even more competitive and innovative,’ said Marius Jurgilas, Member of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania.

The Catalyst Award looked to acknowledge a technology incubator, sandbox, accelerator or equivalent which has furthered the development of FinTech and/or RegTech within the central bank community and wider financial system.

Development of a FinTech-conducive regulatory and supervisory ecosystem as well as fostering innovations in the financial sector is among the Bank of Lithuania’s strategic directions for 2017-2020. Together with other domestic institutions, the Bank of Lithuania aims to ensure that Lithuania becomes the FinTech hub in the Nordic-Baltic region.

The journal Central Banking awarded the Bank of Lithuania for the second time. This year, the Bank of Lithuania was also named Website of the Year in the Central Banking Awards.

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