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Big Tech Faces Regulation Reckoning As 2021 Dawns

PYMNTS

If 2020 was the year of streaming media, of content done a million different ways, of apps and Apple, and Google’s and Amazon’s algorithms … it was also the year of Big Tech regulation, where 2020 set the stage for a 2021 that could be seismic in changing the way companies — from Facebook to Apple to debt collectors — interact with consumers.

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New York State Regulations for Online Lenders to ‘Level Playing Field’ for Banks

Bank Innovation

Online lenders may own more than half of the personal lending market, but they face serious headwinds. For one thing, rising interest rates will increase their cost of funds, and perhaps make their offerings less attractive, and for another, regulations may arrive that make operating their businesses more expensive.

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Deep Dive: COVID-19?s Global Impact On Open Banking And Online Privacy Regulations

PYMNTS

The EU enacted open banking rules in 2018, inspiring regulators worldwide to reconsider how they were transacting funds or transmitting data. The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on daily business has generated new questions surrounding these initiatives that regulators are now scrambling to answer. COVID-19 Exposes Online Payment Concerns.

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FTC, Lawmakers Turn Sour On M&A; Could Innovation Suffer?

PYMNTS

corporates, including tech (and beyond Big Tech), Joe Simons , chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), indicated that roadblocks could be set up to stop some of the traditional means of growth and innovation. PYMNTS reported this year that the connected economy is seeing a tailwind from the emergence of online platforms.

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2017 Innovators to Watch: 44 Executives Shaping the Future of Banking

Bank Innovation

2017 was a tumultuous year, but despite some stops and starts, innovation in finance is only gaining more momentum.

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

PYMNTS

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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Online Platforms: Why Consumers Rule And Regulators Don’t

PYMNTS

But here’s the rub: The guilty verdict was made on the basis of A&P’s use of supply chain innovations to lower prices to consumers. Regulators didn’t destroy A&P in the end. Its failure to keep innovating in the face of new players that did was A&P’s downfall. It operated 70 factories and 100 warehouses.