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Report: Helping Online Merchants Comply With The Middle East’s New Payments Regs

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One area where the pandemic may significantly impact emerging data protection and open banking rules is the Middle East and North African region (MENA). Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are attempting to square away increasing consumer use of online channels with their privacy and banking standards.

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Deep Dive: How The COVID-19 Virus Is Impacting The Online Gambling Industry

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Online gambling or gaming is one possible outlet, and the sector may even make it through the pandemic with less financial damage than other industries. Online Gambling Changes . The pandemic is sweeping through an already critical year for online betting. Such sites are expecting major growth in the U.S.,

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Merchants Get Clarity Around Compliance As Global Payment Regulations Evolve

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PYMNTS’ November 2020 Merchants Guide To Navigating Global Payments Regulations done in collaboration with Ekata examines issues around security and compliance as open banking continues its push across oceans and over legal hurdles and toward eventual ubiquity. For clues as to what open banking will look like in the U.S.

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Monetary Authority Of Singapore: What It Will Take To Win Digital Banking Licenses

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Some companies have been able to adjust quicker than others, leading to the first-ever fines issued and collected for breach of GPDR within the region. Other regulators in Australia, India and Singapore are examining financial innovation rules of their own, using GDPR and PSD2 as guidelines.

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Deep Dive: How The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Shifting Latin America’s Open Banking Plans

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Regulators in Mexico passed a law governing FinTechs in March 2018, just two months after PSD2 went into effect in the European Union, and others in the region have since followed suit. Brazilian lawmakers have been developing open banking plans since 2019, for example, outlining rough guidelines to be enacted late this year.

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Data Sharing, XaaS Target SMB Financing Efficiencies

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Currencycloud is connecting regional banks to advanced FX and global payments technologies, while the firm’s founder, Nigel Verdon, is also targeting Banking-as-a-Service with his new startup, Railsbank. But many of these businesses are also looking ahead to drive financial services efficiencies beyond coronavirus disruption.

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 FinTech Collaborations and Frameworks Gain Steam in Asia

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In terms of mechanics, the credit scoring software will use data spanning bank and corporate transactions, and Nikkei said the lenders would need to secure borrowers’ consent before accessing and using that data. Fujitsu has noted that there has been a shortage of data specialists that can provide credit analysis in the country.

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