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Big Tech Compliance Tracker: Europe Plans To Release Drafts Of Digital Regulation Legislation; UN Initiative To Tax Big Tech In Developing Nations Gains Momentum

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Europe Plans To Publish Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act Drafts. The Digital Markets Act is a second set of regulations. They will have two pillars, which Vestager described as a do’s and don’ts for large digital gatekeepers and a “harmonised” market probe blueprint “across the single market.”. Regulation.

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National Funding Explores AltFin’s Uncertain Growth Trajectory

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63 percent of small businesses applied for a working capital loan last year, data from S&P Global Market Intelligence recently found. However, Dave Gilbert, founder and chief executive officer of SMB alternative lending firm National Funding , said he’s seen a trend of growing traction within the small business community.

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Consumer advocates send letter urging Alternative Reference Rate Committee to consider impact on student loans in implementing change from LIBOR to SOFR

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Take steps to promote the broad adoption of SOFR (citing reports indicating “that industry has recently pushed for regulators to rubber-stamp the use of additional alternative reference rates”).

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No-Deal Brexit Could Cause Grey Market Retail ‘Explosion’

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In the case of a no-deal Brexit, an “explosion” in grey market goods could occur per a U.K. The term “grey marketreferences legitimate items sold through legal but unauthorized sellers; by contrast, a “black market” describes counterfeit products or illegally traded scarce goods, CNBC reported. retail expert.

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Deep Dive: How Marketplaces Use Market-Based Approaches To Recruit Sellers

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dollars, but the practice can be inconvenient for sellers in many international markets. Some markets have also made delivering sellers’ payments in local currencies a legal requirement. Domestic Seller Currencies. Some marketplaces try to pay all vendors in U.S.

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EDI Challenges Reference Data’s Big Four

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A relative newcomer to the reference data business, Exchange Data International, is challenging the incumbents for what it terms anti-competitive practices. Burton-Taylor International Consulting, the leading authority on the market data business, estimates the global market for reference data is $2 billion to $3 billion.

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Bonus episode: understanding pay and labour market tightness

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But bonuses could be really important to understand labour market tightness – a topic of much interest at the moment. A frequently used measure of pay by the Bank of England is Average Weekly Earnings (AWE) regular pay for the private sector , published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).