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Navigating the U.S.-Mexico border: Understanding the surge in criminal activity

Abrigo

While many think of trade, commerce, and cultural exchange when considering this region, ignoring the undertow of illicit activities is impossible—the border remains a hotspot for drug trafficking, illegal arms trade, human trafficking, and smuggling operations, necessitating vigilant scrutiny and transaction monitoring within the U.S.

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Entrepreneurs Know What’s Holding Them Back – And What They Need To Succeed

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The red tape of regulation. 80 percent of Chinese small businesses earn more than 10 percent of revenue from online sales , found CPA Australia for its Asia-Pacific Small Business Survey. Entrepreneurs in other regions of the U.K. A lack of access to capital. The burden of administrative tasks. 69 percent of U.K.

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InstaReM Rebrands To Nium, Launches Open Money Network

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Backed by investors including Vertex Ventures, Fullerton Financial Holdings, Rocket Internet and MDI Ventures, InstaReM is currently regulated in the U.S., Founded by the team that created InstaReM in 2014, Nium is used to create a wide range of payment services grouped into three categories: send, spend and receive.

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

CB Insights

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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EU ‘Link Tax’ May Shutter Google News Abroad

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He told the Guardian that the future of Google News in the region could depend on whether the EU was willing to make changes to the legislation. “We Gingras added that Spain enforced a similar tax in 2014, leading the company to shut down Google News in the country. We can’t make a decision until we see the final language,” he said.

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Solving For SCA’s $100 Billion Problem

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The PSD2 -related regulation counts itself among a raft of those set to become law across the continent, focusing on boosting online commerce security by requiring cardholders to provide two forms of identification to verify their identities when transacting. Those under €30 ($33.93

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China Aims To Fight Money Laundering With Int’l Cooperation

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The central bank’s efforts would home in on areas such as financial information exchange, anti-money laundering (AML) regulation and asset recovery, Reuters reported. From 2014 to 2016, it recovered illegal funds of $1.25 billion or 8.6 billion yuan from more than 90 countries.