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Big Tech Compliance Tracker: UK Regulators To Form Digital Markets Unit; Italy Fines Apple $10 Million Over Claims About iPhone Water Resistance

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UK Regulations to Create New Digital Markets Unit. antitrust regulators are creating a Digital Markets Unit that will be given the duty to enforce rules applicable to Big Tech firms. Regulators also called out the tech company’s warranty terms for not covering water damage. Canada Looks to Tax International Tech Firms.

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Buying into AML risks in real estate

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Regulations such as Geographic Targeting Order updates help identify AML risks by requiring identification for certain real estate purchases. The limited regulation around the real estate industry has made it especially easy for these bad actors to cycle their dirty money into the financial system using this avenue. In 2017, over 5.51

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The Biggest Banking, Regulatory Challenges For Today’s Entrepreneur

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National Small Business Week is this week in the U.S., But analysts from Bank of America, Square, Navcom and the National Association for the Self-Employed warn that challenges for some SMBs have reached new heights, too. and finance experts are celebrating with new data on the state of the entrepreneurial community.

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Despite Plenty Of Concerns, SMB Optimism Holds Fast

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Small business owners have a lot on their plates today and, depending on who one asks, top concerns range from taxes to late invoice payments. Bank of America also found in a fall 2017 survey that nearly three-quarters of SMBs expect their 2017 year-end revenues to beat 2016’s figures. Eighty-one percent of U.S.

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Businesses Can Have Their Identities Stolen, Too, Experts Warn

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million, in 2016 alone. with more than 16,800 victims recorded in 2016. A new report from The National Cybersecurity Society (NCSS) published this week warns that business identity theft is an emerging threat for entrepreneurs and executives. . But individual consumers aren’t the only victims of identity theft.

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Beneficial Ownership & Due Diligence: Stepping Up Your Institution’s Information Collection Practices

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The AMLA set the stage for establishing a national reporting system for beneficial ownership and for potentially changing current CDD/BO requirements in an effort to improve financial transparency and prevent criminals and terrorists from misusing companies to disguise illicit activity. BSA Rules and Regulation. Need to Know.

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In eInvoicing, Slow And Steady Doesn’t Always Win

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That goes for both businesses and government entities, according to eInvoicing firm Billentis in its 2016 E-Invoicing: Digitization & Automation report, released Monday (June 6). Those bodies can then issue mandates for corporations to submit and exchange invoices electronically, for tax purposes.

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