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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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Sweden’s Financial Regulator: ‘We Can Do More’ On Bank Oversight

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Sweden’s financial regulator, the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority, said it needs to pick up its oversight of Swedish banks when it comes to money laundering. billion) were transferred between Danske and Swedbank spanning several years from 2007 to 2015. Was there any risk that a payment in 2007 slipped through?

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Want to save money and avoid annoying judges? Read the world’s first opinion evaluating Regulation F (Also: Read Regulation F)

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We have our first-ever federal court opinion evaluating the requirements of Regulation F! Reading Regulation F out loud” is more like it. The Question: Does Regulation F require debt collectors to use the CFPB’s model validation notice (“MVN”) to comply with the FDCPA? It’s official! See id. § 1006.34(d)(2). Id. § 1006.34(d)(2)(i)….The

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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.

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How does remuneration regulation affect bankers’ pay?

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Following the Global Financial Crisis of 2007–08, some regulators introduced rules on bankers’ bonuses with an aim to mitigate incentives to take excessive risks, and in turn promote financial stability. Following the crisis, regulators introduced remuneration requirements aiming to remedy this.

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The language of rules: textual complexity in banking reforms

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The banking reforms that followed the financial crisis of 2007-08 led to an increase in UK banking regulation from almost 400,000 to over 720,000 words. Did the increase in the length of regulation lead to an increase in complexity? Figure 1 provides a visualisation of the networks for 2007 and 2017.