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Live Nation Settles With DOJ Over Ticketmaster Antitrust Violation

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Live Nation Entertainment reached a deal with the government, resolving concerns that the company had violated a 2010 antitrust settlement. The agreement — which was set to expire in 2020 — bars Live Nation from forcing venues to use Ticketmaster when they want to book tours, as well as retaliating when a venue uses another ticketing service.

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Can Comic Books Boost Compliance And AML Efforts?

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Comic books (along with their more sophisticated cousins, graphic novels) are treated not only as literature these days by fans and many scholars, but they also have a firm place in U.S. Now comes a comic book contribution to one of the most vexing and vital issues of modern payments and commerce — fraud prevention and ID compliance.

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Bitcoin Daily: Travala Users Can Use Crypto Again To Pay For Expedia Bookings; S. African Ex-Crypto Agency Chief Allegedly Scammed Investors Of $13.4M

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Travala.com , the Binance-backed online trading agency, will be allowing travel bookings through Expedia paid for in cryptocurrency for the first time since 2018, according to CoinDesk. The feature was shelved at that time, as Expedia’s systems weren’t set up to accept bitcoin payments. million South African rand ($4.4

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Digital Payments, Online Ordering And Memberships Top This Week’s News

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We have deep dives on digital payments, online ordering and memberships. Apple is still the most valuable company in the nation, but it’s worth $430 billion less than it was two months ago – primarily, analysts say, because of concerns that the new iPhones arrived too late, per news on Nov. Trackers and Reports.

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TSYS Inks Partnership With National Golf Course Owners Assn.

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16) that it has been named the official payment processing partner of the National Golf Course Owners Assn. TSYS, the payment processor, announced Wednesday (Aug.

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Kenya’s Central Bank Seeks To Govern Digital Lending Interest Rates

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Online lenders will need the green light from the central bank to roll out new offerings or hike lending rates if the legislation is put into law, Quartz Africa reported. Online lending has brought about a number of complications in Kenya, with digital loans reportedly leading rising personal debt for users in the country.

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National Trends Win Big With B2B Investors

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India led the competition with the most funding rounds, as investors supported the nation’s efforts to develop the digitization and sophistication of more traditional business operations: eProcurement, eInvoicing, logistics and supply chain management. market struggles with investor doubt and regulatory scrutiny. But the U.S.

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