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China Issues First Guidelines For Ridesharing Industry

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A Cabinet document laid out the guidelines for registrations, fares, employment of drivers and how much they should get paid. Didi has operations in around 400 of China’s cities and completed 1.4 The new rules issued by the Chinese government are welcome news to the ridesharing startups. billion rides last year. The company raised $7.3

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How TIPS Is Helping ECB Expand Its Real-Time Payments Reach

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Making cross-border payments in the EU therefore requires interconnectivity between the regions’ various real-time payments rails. SCT Inst was developed in 2017 to establish operational guidelines by which all real-time payment rails in the EU are required to comply.

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

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Banks, businesses and consumers fundamentally altered how they interacted with each other in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic — and regulators tasked with making sure their data and payments are kept safe took notice. Regulators in countries like Egypt have only recently rolled out their data protection rules.

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

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Financial institutions (FIs) and merchants in the European Union (EU) have had some time to get used to both the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2). Australian regulators are still deciding how Open Banking will affect FIs within their country.

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Key Components of a Strong Sanctions Compliance Program

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In the guidelines, OFAC identifies five key components that are not unlike the BSA program requirements that financial institutions have been implementing for years. As seldom seen from the regulatory authorities, the Guidelines generally defines management as senior leadership, executives, or the board of directors. Learn More.

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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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Demand For Faster Payments Skyrockets

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Treasury’s difficulties getting relief money to individuals, has renewed calls for the government to accelerate its FedNow national real-time payments network, still not expected to be operational until at least 2023. But the plight of American SMBs and consumers seems more pressing at the moment. Problem No.

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