Bank Innovation

MARCH 30, 2018

bank said it will be switching off access to 24 million customers as the bank restructures itself as required by national regulation. Barclays customers across Europe will not be able to use their mobile banking app this weekend. The major U.K. These changes were established by the Bank of England in 2011, and is referred […].

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2020

Merchants looking to expand their operations at home and abroad must be able to support their customers’ preferred payment methods, but doing so is no easy feat. The COVID-19 pandemic is driving consumers online to shop and pay, and their rapidly changing shopping habits are forcing merchants to rethink their digital strategies.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

European Commission Vice President Vera Jourova said the new European Democracy Action Plan aims to fight online disinformation that could influence elections in EU countries. million) in annual operating income in Spain. The agency said problems related to OTT services’ safety and privacy don’t require regulatory oversight.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

An Amazon representative said, per the report, “We continuously update our privacy practices to ensure that we meet the evolving needs and expectations of customers and regulators and fully comply with all applicable laws in every country in which we operate.”. Facebook and Google Could Face Large Fines With Potential Australian Legislation.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2018

As startups such as DadeSystems , FitPay and Jewel Paymentech expand across devices and functions, Tipalti , AvidXchange and Emailage announce new growth for their local, national and global footprints. Activity in the online gambling space has been heating up, especially since the World Cup began. Chargehound. DadeSystems.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2020

Many shoppers who make purchases online rely on eCommerce marketplaces to discover items and connect with trusted sellers. Robust international operations require winning over many sellers and operating smoothly around the world, activities that can be challenging for platforms. Domestic Seller Currencies.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

China is looking to keep up with consumers, financial institutions (FIs) and merchants that send funds and information through online channels, and several of the country’s related regulations resemble those from regions where such transactions are now commonplace. Confronting Chinese Compliance . and the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

As more firms worldwide push for workers to hunker down from home in order to fend off the spread of the coronavirus , people are advised to be vigilant of online fraudsters, according to Compliance Week. Compliance Week reported that U.S. Attorney General William Barr wrote in a Monday internal memo to all U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The battle over FinTechs and national banking charters is about to get a bit more heated. A national charter would allow FinTech firms to sidestep current practices which mandate they gain regulatory approval from each state where they operate. The GDPR’s Compliance Laggards. New York state is suing the United States.

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Perficient

MAY 27, 2022

Since 2014, New York has only allowed crypto companies to operate in the state if they obtain a BitLicense, and even then, licensed companies are limited in the types of digital assets they can sell. For instance, Coinbase can only offer about half the coins available on its platform to New York customers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

This month’s Next-Gen Sales Tax Tracker examines these compliance complexities and their impact, as well as ongoing efforts to streamline how retailers can fulfill their obligations. Easing tax compliance helps governments and retailers alike. National Retailers On Staying Compliant When Tax Exemptions Are Only Statewid e.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

million) financial penalty to Facebook and has pursued a criminal probe for allegedly sharing the personal data of users with other operators in the absence of permission, Reuters reported. “We to the nation’s prosecution for a criminal probe. South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission issued a 6.7 billion won ($6.06

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2020

The Southeast Asian country’s national tax office announced it will impose a 10 percent value-added tax (VAT) on foreign global technology companies as the nation looks for ways to defray the costs of battling the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Reuters reported. “It

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Across the globe, terrorists and criminals are leveraging cryptos in what is gearing up to be a significant national security threat to the United States. That’s according to the U.S. and international sanctions, and decrease America’s influence in the global marketplace. As recently noted by PYMNTS , Kenneth A.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

But that increased good feeling is largely reliant on the nation not undergoing yet another round of lockdowns. Nearly a third of decision-makers for at-risk firms plan to lay off their employees and continue working alone, whereas 43 percent plan to operate their businesses from home. SMBs Have Remade Themselves Digitally .

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 4, 2023

In addition, they may consider focusing on these five critical areas: Improve Operating Leverage. To improve the quality of their earnings, banks need their number one focus to be on making their operations more efficient. To the extent projects improve operating leverage and the total experience, so much the better.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Invisible” is the operative word here, as the tsunami of remote onboarding triggered by COVID lockdowns has given fraudsters yet more cover to add to their anonymity. Online account openings increased by as much as 15 percent when social distancing mandates were implemented, and one study revealed that 73 percent of U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

Xolo Go aims to accelerate freelancers’ ability to launch their business by connecting them to bank accounts, invoicing, expense management and payout functionality, while Xolo Leap supports the launch of EU-registered business with banking, accounting and tax compliance services. Our aim is to cut that down to near-zero.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2020

The London-based trade group for Europe’s ePayments community is waiting for the European Banking Authority , the European Union (EU) banking regulator, to provide the 27-nation bloc with an update on Strong Customer Authentication (SCA). But this has not been true for online transactions.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Financial institutions (FIs) and merchants from other regions have been dipping their toes into the Chinese market, but open banking has compounded the difficulty involved in setting up operations. as they upgrade their online data and financial rules to support global digital banking innovations. The law is still ambiguous.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Plus, online lending startup SoFi is looking to go public through a SPAC. economic slowdown fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to continue into 2021 but could start bouncing back by mid-year as the population gets vaccinated, according to a December survey from the National Association for Business Economics (NABE).

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

The operation also will provide traditional banking services, according to the backers. The backers wrote in a post announcing the branch opening that among its features will be giving customers the ability "to transact in cryptocurrency and (Indian rupees) through a single account.". Treasury Department announced Wednesday (Dec.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Additionally, the human capital investment—in terms of both hiring fraud prevention experts and training existing staff—represents a significant operational expense. As overseers tighten the leash with stringent regulations aimed at protecting consumers, the cost of compliance grows.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2019

The online retailer has already been looking to raise capital at a valuation of about $2 billion, and the acquisition of ShopClues could help its funding efforts. The company receives about 40,000 orders per day — a deal with Snapdeal could bolster its operations to fulfill those orders. As of 2018, Snapdeal had a market share of 1.9

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2019

The move also would seem to be a bit like Pepsi offering to help Coca Cola by letting them have slots in their vending machines, given that Google operates Android and Apple has iOS. ADA Compliance. Another suit that is noteworthy was the one brought by the National Federation for the Blind against Target.

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Abrigo

APRIL 6, 2022

In this guest column by Jeffrey Taft and Matthew Bisanz of Mayer Brown 's Financial Services Regulatory & Enforcement practice, learn more about how to be ready for compliance. For these purposes, a financial institution includes a national or state bank, a savings association, an Edge or agreement corporation, a U.S. Be Prepared.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The nation is forming a Direct FAST industry group, where the members will include traditional financial institutions (FIs), FinTech firms and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The movement to open that FinTech access, said the minister, brings “greater convenience to consumers” as those individuals use their eWallets.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Additionally, a recent survey by FIS shows that 37% of consumers began a new banking relationship with a major national or global bank that had a well-established online portal in the past 12 months. 18% of these consumers opened an account with an online-only direct bank. Benefits of FinTech partnerships.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

25, reported Snapdeal said some unnamed companies were taking advantage of “glaring loopholes” to operate inventory-based eCommerce models. Every nation has a right to frame policies that best suit its economic and social needs,” Snapdeal said in its letter. Reuters , citing the letter Snapdeal penned on Jan.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

The European Union’s financial authorities are monitoring how the pandemic may be affecting banks’ and FinTechs’ compliance with rules such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2), for example. Around The Data Protection World.

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Perficient

JANUARY 28, 2021

Creating strong passwords is a great first step to securing your data and maintaining your privacy online. Depending on the product you use, it can also protect your privacy, prevent you from visiting unsafe websites, help you to locate a lost device, and provide secure online storage. Let’s get started! Create a Secure Password.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 31, 2023

Recap and forecast The current state of AML/CFT regulations Terminology change Financial crime professionals have long referred to Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) compliance in conjunction with anti-money laundering efforts as “BSA/AML.” Russia still has the lead in cybercrime and has more experience with intelligence operations than China.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Montroll operated an unregistered online securities exchange and defrauded its users by misappropriating their bitcoins. We allege that BitFunder operated unlawfully as an unregistered securities exchange,” Marc Berger, director of the SEC’s New York regional office, said in the release.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Chalk it up to “unviability of operations” in the wake of new regulatory guidelines, mandating upgrades that focus on the actual management of the physical cash at those machines. New rules mean new compliance activities, which, of course, mean additional compliance costs for these stakeholders — as much as $489 million.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

By some estimates, total dollars spent online through the holidays should grow by about 14 percent, to as much as $143.7 And in the wake of all those sales lies a pressing issue for merchants plying their trades online: figuring out the tax liabilities. The hard part?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Since last year, when Canada legalized recreational pot in full, the nation became a kind of country-sized lab for how that new business would play out. Retail figures will vary as new stores continue to come online and the marketplace continues to evolve,” the report said. That market could reach as much as $5.1 Payments Warning.

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Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

We worked with them with loans to buy equipment and vehicles for delivery and the beginning operational cash needs of the business,” Bunnell says. American Bank, National Association. Classic Bank, National Association. The First National Bank In Sioux Falls. Dakota Community Bank & Trust, National Association.

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