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Deep Dive: Why The Pandemic Is Pushing MENA Regulators To Upgrade Open Banking, Privacy Laws

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Consumers and businesses have been moving online in recent years, and regulators from the European Union to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have worked to keep up with this migration. The pandemic is dramatically altering how merchants can transact, which data they can store and where they can store it, however.

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Denmark’s Ex-Finance Regulator Charged In Money Laundering Scandal

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Henrik Ramlau-Hansen, the former chair of Denmark’s financial regulator and former Danske Bank finance director, has been charged by Danish economic prosecutors. He resigned in 2018 at the same time a scathing Danske report from the regulator was issued. The money laundering went on from 2007 to 2015.

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Japan, Australia Back X-Border eCommerce Data Regulation

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Data from McKinsey Global Institute shows traded services and the exchange of cross border data have grown 60 percent faster than trade in traditional goods since 2007. This doesn’t mean, however, that the nation couldn’t join the call for more cohesive regulation. multinationals.

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Norwegian Regulators Say AML Measures Fell Short

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On of the main players in the scandals is Danske Bank , whose Estonian branch was used for some 200 billion euros ($227 billion) of suspicious payments between 2007 and 2015. It would be the worst possible end result of this discussion if banks would suddenly start to withdraw money from certain markets,” Tuominen said.

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What’s Changed in the 10 Years Since Quant Quake? Not Much.

Bank Innovation

Ten years ago today, in the months leading to the start of the global recession, the ‘Quant Quake’ of August 10, 2007 shook Wall Street. But what’s changed since the Quant Crash of 2007? Have we found ways to protect the market from unexpected and extreme downturns driven, at least in part, by quants?

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A fistful of dollars: transmission of global funding shocks to emerging markets

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Emerging markets (EMs) have become more exposed to the global financial cycle in recent years. In a recent paper , we propose the use of money market rates to measure transmission of global funding shocks to EMs. Money markets have been shown to play an important role in transmission of global funding conditions.

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Judge Rules Apple Needs To Face Shareholder Lawsuit Over Cook’s China Claims

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pension fund, can sue over Cook's 2018 comment that while the iPhone was facing sales pressure in some markets, China was not among them. The lowered forecast was the first one Apple reported since its 2007 launch in Cupertino, California, and shares fell 10 percent the next day, wiping out $74 billion in market value.

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