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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The announcement did not specify the regulations, but it did note that the approach will ensure that the CBDC meets “the same minimum standards we expect of other payment methods.”. Regulators are slow, and there’s a reason we’re slow,” she said, speaking at CoinDesk ’s Bitcoin for Advisors event. “We

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 12, 2021

SB 1235 requires the DFPI to issue regulations implementing the specific requirements of the disclosures that must be given to recipients. Compliance with the new disclosure requirements is not required until the DFPI’s final regulations become effective. Modifications to the proposal were issued in April 2021.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

As a result of the passage and adoption of open banking regulations, like PSD2 in Europe, banks and other financial firms are sharing data more freely than ever before. The risk of attack can be mitigated by following a sound API architectural approach, one that integrates security requirements and tools into the API itself.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2019

billion IoT devices by 2025, up from 7 billion in 2018. Despite IoT’s popularity, however, security a nd privacy issues continue to make headlines. In the July Intelligence of Things Tracker™ , PYMNTS explores the latest news in IoT, including partnerships, innovations, security risks, and oversight from world governments.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

Regulators are looking into a possible merger between Dean Foods and Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) and its potential antitrust implications for the industry, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. million in 2018. In November, the two entities announced they were looking into making a deal with each other.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2020

The EU enacted open banking rules in 2018, inspiring regulators worldwide to reconsider how they were transacting funds or transmitting data. The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on daily business has generated new questions surrounding these initiatives that regulators are now scrambling to answer. and the EU. Australia and Canada.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Facebook , which has been under fire for months over data scandals, expressed openness to new regulation. According to a report in Reuters citing Facebook’s public policy manager Karim Palant, the executive said the social media giant is “open to meaningful regulation.” His comments came following calls by lawmakers in the U.K.

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CFPB Monitor

APRIL 14, 2021

The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) has issued modifications to its proposed regulations to implement SB 1235, the bill signed into law on September 30, 2018 that requires consumer-like disclosures to be made for certain commercial financing products, including small business loans and merchant cash advances.

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TheGuardian

APRIL 13, 2023

Regulator says Carlos Abarca ‘failed to take reasonable steps’ to ensure outsourcing firm was ready to migrate accounts en masse UK regulators have imposed an £81,000 fine on a former TSB information officer over the bank’s IT meltdown in 2018 that left millions of customers locked out of their accounts.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2018

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal citing cyber security specialists, the breach in which the personal information of as many as 500 million customers was exposed began in 2014, going undetected until September of 2018. The hack could hurt Marriott’s reputation at a time when it’s fighting off the likes of Airbnb.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2018

With fresh concerns about government regulation of cryptocurrency surfacing, Bitcoin and other digital tokens continued the recent declines in value, erasing $550 billion in value for the global cryptocurrency market since the start of 2018.

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2019

Henrik Ramlau-Hansen, the former chair of Denmark’s financial regulator and former Danske Bank finance director, has been charged by Danish economic prosecutors. Ramlau-Hansen chaired the Financial Supervisory Authority in Denmark from 2016 to 2018. He has recused himself from the investigation.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The following piece was written by Rob Eleveld, CEO of Whitepages Pro , as a contribution to our 2018 year-end eBook. . Payments 2018 was a year of accelerated disruption.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2019

s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) investigation found that Marriott “failed to undertake sufficient due diligence when it bought Starwood and should also have done more to secure its systems,” according to Business Insider. We deeply regret this incident happened. Marriott generated about $3.6

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The China Securities Regulatory Commission , China’s security watchdog, is setting up a technology regulation bureau and will announce Yao Qian as its new department chief, the Chinese business publication Caijing said on Wednesday (Dec. 11), as reported by Coindesk.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2018

Despite a regulation crackdown and other issues, investors have continued to fund cryptocurrency startups in 2018, with ICOs raising $11.8 This year’s surge comes as ICOs have faced stricter scrutiny from regulators like the U.S. This year’s surge comes as ICOs have faced stricter scrutiny from regulators like the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2019

Indian tech startups had a huge year in 2018, but the way the money is being distributed has some experts concerned about the future of the country’s financial ecosystem, according to reports. Early startups were a part of 304 deals in 2018 and raised $916 million. billion in funding – the most ever. In 2017, Indian startups got $10.4

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Facebook’s Libra project has renewed focus on how cryptocurrencies are regulated, with current rules on the sector patchy and varying from country to country. Between 2008 and 2018, approximately $26 billion worth of fines were levied against banks for AML, KYC and sanctions noncompliance. The Cost of Compliance. imposed a full $23.52

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

and Dutch regulators on Tuesday (Nov. This was not only a serious failure of data security on Uber ’s part, but a complete disregard for the customers and drivers whose personal information was stolen,” ICO Director of Investigations Steve Eckersley said in a statement. regulators. Uber was hit with a fine by U.K. Of those, 2.7

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Merchants in the European Union (EU) are still wondering exactly what changes the regulation will bring when it comes to their relationships with customers. Regulators in many EU countries have their own thoughts on SCA and how long it will take merchants to prepare. Around the PSD2 and GDPR world. About the Tracker.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The site reported that 1,932 BTMs were in the world in December 2017, while there were 4,009 by the close of 2018. There, people need to change a nation's money for cryptocurrency that isn’t regulated by a government or connected with it. But they have grown in popularity in markets that are not stable.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which went into effect May of 2018, has had some serious repercussions on tech companies all over Europe, but especially in the U.K. The latest company to be affected may be food delivery app Deliveroo, according to a report in the Financial Times.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

Fines levied under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) jumped almost 40 percent in the past 12 months as European Union (EU) regulators stepped up enforcement efforts, Financial Times (FT) reported on Tuesday (Jan. More than 50 percent of those penalties were levied by Italy and Germany.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

According to a report in The Financial Times citing the Financial Conduct Authority, during 2018 there were 145 breaches reported to the Financial Conduct Authority. Data breaches at financial services companies in the U.K. jumped fivefold last year, underscoring how the industry is a prime target for hackers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2019

Regulators in the United States have reportedly met to discuss levying fines against social media giant Facebook , a punishment that could be sizable in scope and which comes in the wake of privacy violations. The government shutdown currently underway has meant that regulators have not as of yet responded to the Friday reports.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

At the time, Zopa said it raised £60 million ($67.7 million) from new and existing investors in two funding rounds since applying for the banking license in 2016, and it added several former banking executives to create a board.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Fraudsters have been increasingly focused on mobile services, with one-third of all fraud attacks worldwide reportedly targeting mobile during the first half of 2018 — a 24 percent year-over-year increase. Financial services providers must run tight ships when offering mobile services, and various techniques can help keep them secure.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2018

The regulatory gaze become more fully trained on social media as in Germany, intelligence official Hans Georg Maassen said last week that regulation may be needed for social media companies if the European Union finds that more transparency is needed. Also, in the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2019

Australian financial regulators are feeling pressure to ensure financial institutions treat customers properly and have turned to artificial intelligence (AI) in an attempt to improve compliance, according to a report by the Financial Times. They also lied to regulators and adversely cost customers millions by giving bad advice.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 19, 2019

The California Department of Business Oversight (DBO) has issued proposed regulations to implement SB 1235 , the bill signed into law in September 2018 that requires consumer-like disclosures to be made for certain commercial financing products, including small business loans, merchant cash advances, and factoring.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Banks in the EU have been racing to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ) and the revised Payment Services Directive ( PSD2 ) since both measures were enacted in 2018. He explained that the cloud can help FIs swiftly respond to compliance and security challenges during the pandemic.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

million in 2018 and was valued at $170 million, according to PitchBook. Mike Belshe , BitGo's chief executive officer, founded the company in 2013 to offer highly secure digital wallets for crypto, which need multiple signatures for transactions. PayPal might also go with another target to purchase. BitGo raised $58.5

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2017

McAfee Labs recently published its 2018 Threats Predictions report , and after a year of high-profile cyberattacks and data breaches, analysts say the threat won’t let up in the new year. In this week’s B2B Data Digest, PYMNTS dives into new research about small businesses’ data security and cybersecurity efforts.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

16, Massachusetts securities regulators filed a complaint against Robinhood alleging that the company aggressively marketed to inexperienced investors and failed to implement controls to protect them, violating state laws and regulations. The FinTech offers a brokerage app that is often favored by inexperienced investors.

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BankUnderground

APRIL 27, 2021

Repo transactions are vital for facilitating the flow of cash and securities around the economy. We use repo volumes data collected by the Prudential Regulation Authority on 17 banks in the gilt repo market and repo rates data from Bank of England’s Bankstats. Importance of repo markets. Table 1: Identifying sign restrictions.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2016

businesses collectively facing fines of up to £122 billion in 2018. The regulator will be able to impose a stratospheric rise in penalties for security breaches, and it remains to be seen whether businesses facing these fines will be able to shoulder the costs,” said Jeremy King, director of PCI, in a statement.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2017

Protecting digital identities is all about keeping up — keeping up with new technology, new regulations and, of course, bad actors. . Meanwhile, Precise Biometrics is hoping to prevent biometrics fraud with a new mobile security suite. With new technology and capabilities comes new regulation. Around the Digital Identity World.

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