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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

As government regulators in China increase tech industry oversight, Tencent said it will comply with new laws intended to curb antitrust activities and tighten FinTech acceleration, according to a Bloomberg report on Friday (Nov. The regulators are looking more closely at transaction-based platforms, Lau said, per Bloomberg.

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But in doing so, it will now face more scrutiny from regulators, Bloomberg reported. at online trading platform eToro , said in the report there are "storm clouds" on the horizon for the form of currency. Regulation will be more of an issue for crypto companies the bigger and more ubiquitous they become, Bloomberg reported.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

With the boom of eCommerce both before and during the pandemic, European Union regulators are taking another look at antitrust rules regarding internet sales and distribution platforms. Online sales in such countries as Spain, an EU member, are expected to grow by 20 percent , according to eMarketer. billion ($2.6

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JANUARY 22, 2021

And that opened up an entirely new playing field for online gaming establishments now free to operate in any state that would allow them. And I’d imagine the feeling among regulators has been that an organized money laundering effort could be policed because they [the casino] would actually see it happening. There have been advances.

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JULY 31, 2020

China’s State Council’s Anti-Monopoly Commission is considering investigating Alipay and WeChat Pay , two of the county’s biggest online payment and money transfer platforms, Reuters reported. COVID-19 and its aftermath moved the country from cash to online payments. The mobile banking market reported 56.2 Reuters reported.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The age of digital currencies might be fully upon us, but key questions swirl about how to issue and regulate cryptos – especially stablecoins. Among the potential and evolving use cases: private stablecoins can conceivably be adopted as a means of payment for online purchases, peer-to-peer and micro-payments and a range of potential future.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

UK Regulations to Create New Digital Markets Unit. antitrust regulators are creating a Digital Markets Unit that will be given the duty to enforce rules applicable to Big Tech firms. That new division will fall under the country’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Apple Faces $12M Fine Over iPhone Marketing.

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AUGUST 14, 2020

Amazon India has added an online pharmacy to its offerings in Bengaluru, one of the nation’s largest cities with a population of nearly 12 million. Reuters reports this is the latest initiative by the eCommerce giant to broaden its reach in a key growth market. In June, PYMNTS reported India’s West Bengal State Beverages Corp.,

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

15) extensive potential new regulations for digital services that would cover online marketplaces, social media and other platforms, offering first drafts for the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the Digital Services Act (DSA) to the public. The European Commission released on Tuesday (Dec.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Compliance with financial regulations market-to-market around the globe is increasingly automated yet relies on the same human emotion that undergirds all forms of exchange: trust. In other words, banks and financial institutions (FIs) have an obligation to make sure you are who you claim to be.

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JULY 1, 2020

Keeping up with customers’ shifting behaviors and preferences amid changing regulations is a familiar challenge for today’s small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), but the pandemic’s impact on the scale of digital payments has steepened the learning curve for these merchants. One study found that card-not-present (CNP) transactions rose 29.7

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

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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MAY 8, 2020

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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JUNE 12, 2020

regulators. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced Friday (June 12) the probe will determine whether the transaction will reduce competition and raise prices for goods or services. News that the online database for users to share videos was joining Facebook came in Mid-May. Facebook is drawing scrutiny from U.K.

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MAY 20, 2020

European Union (EU) regulators want feedback from users and digital service providers before they craft new rules that could manage giant tech firms Google, Facebook, Amazon and Uber, Reuters reported. Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg published “Charting the Way Forward: Online Content Regulation.”

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

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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MAY 31, 2020

Uber has been approved by the National Economic Prosecutor’s Office (FNE), Chile’s antitrust regulator, to acquire the Chilean grocery shopping app Cornershop, according to an FNE statement. Although Chile has now granted permission, Mexico regulators still have not.

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MAY 9, 2019

The banking regulator in Hong Kong has issued an additional four online-only banking licenses to Ping An, Alibaba, mobile phone maker Xiaomi and a joint venture (JV) consisting of Tencent, ICBC and Hillhouse Capital. Reuters is reporting that this totals eight total licenses handed out by the government. Expect fireworks.”.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) company Afterpay has pushed back against the Reserve Bank of Australia’s potential regulation of its fees. Afterpay has a market capitalization of around $10 billion. Afterpay CEO Anthony Eisen said the company should be seen as a sales and marketing company, more like Amazon or Google.

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DECEMBER 27, 2019

Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) over potential anti-competition issues, according to a report by Bloomberg. The move signals that Big Tech companies and their acquisitions are going to be under more and more scrutiny as regulators from countries all over the world continue to open investigations. A homegrown U.K.

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JULY 2, 2020

The president of the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), Germany’s financial regulator, said the $2.1 His first public comments on a case that has captured the attention of Europe’s financial community came in an online panel discussion, the news service reported. billion went missing from two accounts in the Philippines.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on Tuesday (Aug. 4) ruled that Amazon’s acquisition of a 16 percent stake in Deliveroo would not significantly dampen competition as the online delivery service battles it out for market share with rivals Just Eat Takeaway, Uber Eats and Domino’s. regulator, in a press release. “We

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Breton said he’ll decide by the end of the year if he wants to adopt a set of stringent rules as a way for the EU to set out ironclad responsibilities for social media platforms and regulate them. He said that Facebook had failed to mention its own market dominance and that its rules had not set up any responsibilities.

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MAY 6, 2020

The pandemic has shut down brick-and-mortar casinos in markets like the United States to help minimize risk, for example, leading consumers to turn to online casinos and sportsbooks. There is one sticking point online casinos need to fix, however, and that is the speed at which consumers receive their winnings.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

How do consumers really want to search online ? DuckDuckGo does not track consumers’ browsing histories, nor does it sell consumer data to third parties for the purposes of ad targeting and precision marketing. Further regulations are looming. That’s a question with obvious relevance to payment and commerce operators.

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JULY 6, 2020

Buenos Aires-based eCommerce market MercadoLibre has seen a boost thanks to the pandemic, with shares climbing above $1,000 and sales spiking, Bloomberg reported. According to analysts with Bank of America, even as the market begins to recover and people go out more often, the tendency to buy more online might stick, Bloomberg reported.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Large Chinese companies, including Alibaba and rivals Tencent , food delivery giant Meituan and retailer JD.com , have lost almost $200 billion in Hong Kong since regulators announced last week that they were investigating Alibaba's reported monopolistic practices, according to Bloomberg. Regulators on Sunday (Dec.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

tech firms’ dominance across online platforms, and the collection and use of data. The European Union is examining the creation of a single data market that would reportedly challenge tech firms such as Google and Facebook, as Reuters reported. In Europe, another regulatory salvo may be aimed at U.S.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

increased regulation over content delivered online through platforms may be on the horizon. This past week, Britain’s federal government said its media regulator, known as Ofcom, would be given new oversight to monitor and regulate material posted on the web by companies such as Facebook, Google and Twitter. In the U.K.,

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Illustration by The Laundry Room/Stocksy Customer data fuels efficient and effective marketing these days. Andrew Catalano, Austin Williams While most community banks aren’t yet using first-party data for marketing purposes to grow revenue and retain customers, experts say those willing to invest in the effort can reap big rewards. “To

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AUGUST 20, 2018

The case against them, and the decision it rendered, deviated sharply from the traditional Sherman Act cases that accused companies of using their market power to raise prices to the detriment of the consumer. Regulators didn’t destroy A&P in the end. That decision caught many by surprise, including the Hartford brothers.

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MAY 4, 2020

In eight countries, it appears that the parent company has decided Uber Eats fails to deliver the desired market clout. As a result, Uber is dropping its online food delivery business in the Czech Republic, Egypt, Honduras, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine and Uruguay. Careem is an Uber subsidiary focused primarily on the Middle East.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

The pandemic has spurred consumers to go online for all manner of daily activities — and the fraudsters are following them. And new regulations are taking root or are on the horizon to help protect consumers, their data and how that data might be used.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

Small businesses continue to flock to online platforms to find much-needed financing, with banks still failing to fill the demand for small to medium-sized business (SMB) loans despite economic growth in the U.S. But the majority of online SMB lenders do not disclose publicly their fees and interest rates, reports warned.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

17) will discuss the fraud problem stemming from influencer marketing. The event strives to unite the worlds of communications and marketing to stimulate conversations about digital marketing and influencer campaigns, PR Daily reported on Monday (Sept. The first Influencer Fraudnomics Summit in New York City on Tuesday (Sept.

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JUNE 10, 2020

Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on Wednesday (June 10) announced that it would push off for two months a decision on whether to let Amazon push forward with plans to buy a minority stake in the delivery service. The British competition regulator has set a new deadline of August 6 for a decision on the Deliveroo deal.

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APRIL 11, 2019

As online food delivery services proliferate amid the battle for customer loyalty, and as grocery and related stores strive to gain more digital footholds, the online sale of alcohol is growing and becoming a bigger part of all those plans. Online food delivery is in the midst of what might one day be called a golden age.

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