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For Big Tech, Antitrust Scrutiny Deepens

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On the Continent — and Taxes in Sight. Google’s own regulatory and tax issues extend well beyond domestic markets. In other news this past week, Google agreed to pay a $548 million fine in France to settle a fiscal fraud probe that stretches back four years. In France, the project has some clear opposition.

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Top News In Payments: The Fed Takes A Closer Look At Big Tech; Goldman CEO Denies Apple Card Credit Bias Claims

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People don’t know what’s true and what’s not, and what to believe,” he noted, adding that instead of uniting people, technology — like social media — is “splintering” them. Politicians, as well as privacy advocates, have asked regulators to block the deal. What we’ve seen is that fraud has gone mainstream,” Naumann said.

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Vietnam Goes After Facebook Over ‘Slanderous’ Content

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Facebook is facing accusations from Vietnam that the social media giant did not remove content that it said was “slanderous,” reported Financial Times. Citing a briefing in Hanoi, Vietnam on Tuesday (Jan. Citing a briefing in Hanoi, Vietnam on Tuesday (Jan. 1, 2019.

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SCA Preparedness — A Fizzle In The Making?

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That’s because Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) is on the way in September, but as has been seen with other sweeping changes mandated by regulators and impacting the very way payments are made, lots of folks are not paying attention. The economy is growing, and tax refunds may have also helped boost spend. Retail Sales: Rally 1.6

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7 Rules To Improve Total Experience Using the “Time-on-Task” Methodology

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We don’t care if it is an ATM, a new branch design, a fraud database, a deposit account opening product, or a core system, time matters. Either the regulation was modified, bank policy didn’t keep up, or technology arose to solve the problem and reduce the inherent risk of the desired action. The result?

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MyBank ID verification pilot points to data-rich future for banks

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Preta, the subsidiary of EBA Clearing that owns MyBank, says there is growing demand for a pan-European identity verification service, with around 225 billion authentication transactions per year across email, social media, e-commerce and e-government. And new legislation will mean they have to.

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Bitcoin Busts, Payments Get Faster And The Eyes Have It

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Visa also announced that it had extended the real-time, ubiquitous capability to other disbursement types as well including insurance claims, contractor payments, tax refunds and even merchant account real-time funds settlement. So, we all know this – chip cards were not going to fix the problem of fraud at the POS.

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