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Regulating the unregulated

Chris Skinner

I was thinking about this question of how to regulate global technology platforms that don’t recognise national boundaries, mainly in the context of crypto and digital currencies. How can you regulate a global currency that has no view of state or national laws?

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Saving Main Street: Advocacy Groups Propose New Government Relief Programs

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The crisis is hardly over, but post-pandemic reality is setting in for Main Street retail. Other ideas include more government action regarding competitive regulation. She also urges government officials to remember the return in investment for Main Street businesses. Policy put into place must target Main Street.

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With New AML Laws, Latvia Looks To Remove Main Regulator

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Latvia’s parliament has passed new regulation to bolster the fight against money laundering and terrorism financing. million) for allowing clients to violate sanctions imposed by the European Union and United Nations on North Korea. In 2017, two Latvian banks were fined more than 2.8 million euros ($3.26

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Trending: How EU Regulators Are Complicating SCA Compliance

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Merchants in the European Union (EU) are still wondering exactly what changes the regulation will bring when it comes to their relationships with customers. It is still a matter of debate on what exemptions, innovations and changes can be left up to national authorities — and what cannot. Around the PSD2 and GDPR world.

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Bank Regulators Probe Amazon Cloud

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Regulators’ influence over non-banks is limited, and banks are left to vet their own vendors. Bank regulations hadn’t “sufficiently modernized to accommodate cloud and other innovative technologies,” according to a U.S. One of the main issues being revisited is Facebook’s purchase of Instagram and WhatsApp.

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Deep Dive: Why The Pandemic Is Pushing MENA Regulators To Upgrade Open Banking, Privacy Laws

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Consumers and businesses have been moving online in recent years, and regulators from the European Union to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have worked to keep up with this migration. The pandemic is dramatically altering how merchants can transact, which data they can store and where they can store it, however.

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The Finanser’s Week: 30th October – 5th November 2017

Chris Skinner

This week’s main blog headlines are … Regulating the unregulated I was thinking about this question of how to regulate global technology platforms that don’t recognise national boundaries, mainly in the context of crypto and digital currencies.

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