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Big Tech Compliance Tracker: Tencent Says Big Tech Needs Greater Oversight; Group Seeks To Block Maryland Online Ad Tax

PYMNTS

Regulation. Tencent Holdings President Martin Lau said further regulations are needed in China to mirror a “new reality.”. As technology companies become bigger and more important to the economy, I would say more regulations to reflect the new reality are needed," Lau said, according to the report. Larry Hogan vetoed the levy.

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Tencent, Other Chinese Tech Firms Called Out For Privacy Violations

PYMNTS

A total of 41 apps were found to be not in compliance of user data rules, according to regulators, and violations included improperly collecting or using information about visitors to their services. The rules of the regulators are secret, but discussion of politically sensitive topics has been known to disappear from websites.

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What are opportunities for accountants to provide advisory services?

Abrigo

Accounting, audit and tax services are unlikely to be the growth engines of the accounting profession in the coming years. Services geared toward compliance, meanwhile, are typically needed but not necessarily wanted, so clients continue to push for the cheapest options.

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Open banking APIs are open for business

Insights on Business

Regulations, such as Payment Services Directive (PSD2), are forcing banks to “open up”, enabling customers to easily share data with third parties. The emergence of financial technology (fintech) and the push of regulators for more competition are disaggregating and open this closed value chain. Examples of open banking in practice.

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CFPB Winter 2019 Supervisory Highlights focuses on deposits, mortgage loan servicing, and remittances

CFPB Monitor

Like the Summer 2019 Supervisory Highlights , the Winter 2019 issue contains the following language in its introduction: It is important to keep in mind that institutions are subject only to the requirements of relevant laws and regulations. Remittances.

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Who does AML hurt?

Tomorrow's Transactions

According to a KPMG survey, the cost of compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) regulations grew “beyond expectations” for banks last year. of the world GDP), while the maximum theoretical benefit in combating money laundering using financial regulation – in steady state – is equal to S$ 280 billion (0.6%

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Financial Crime: Technology can Transform Compliance

FICO

Visma Connect recently interviewed Jürgen Krieg, FICO's head of global compliance sales. In this excerpt from that article, Jürgen elaborates on the importance of compliance. . At FICO, I am responsible for planning and implementing growth strategies to develop new markets, and the expansion of our compliance business globally.