PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

The headline statement is that crypto firms have traditionally operated in a regulatory environment that might charitably be likened to the “Wild West.” In addition, any firms that carry out crypto asset related activity within the scope of the FCA’s regulations must register with the authority before conducting business.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

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. The creation of a “single European data space, a genuine single market for data” would include new rules governing cross-border use and data interoperability, among other tenets.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2019

Waste is becoming ever more of a vice, especially among younger consumers, and now regulators. By 2023, manufacturers and retailers will have to donate, reuse or recycle the goods” under a program that the French prime minister called the first of its kind from any national government. Amazon’s Role. Liquidation Trends.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The United Kingdom’s regulator on competition and antitrust concerns has signaled that eCommerce giant Amazon’s stake in food delivery service Deliveroo may need additional examination. 11) that Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has said the stake raises “serious competition concerns” and may need more investigation.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2020

Regulators in China are preparing to move against once-hot Luckin Coffee Inc. The revelations came shortly after Luckin was listed on the NASDAQ stock market. The company has since been delisted, and Luckin has fired its chief executive officer and chief operating officer. The Journal also noted that the U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The ascent of eCommerce and the digital tools that support it have made it easier — in both theory and practice — for retailers to not only see how consumers browse and what they buy (to analyze the entire path to purchase), but to get to know them in the same ways as those old-time general store operators who served small towns.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Looks like the digital advertising and marketing sectors are in for a reckoning. That’s a bad moon rising for some Big Data operators. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) turns two in May, and just like a toddler, it’s messing things up­ (for some). Together in a Privacy Sandbox. Merchants Waiting It Out.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

One of the biggest retail stories as we head into 2020 is how India is a battlefield of digital commerce, along with a hotbed of retail innovation. With a move that could make an increasingly crowded market more competitive, Amazon is reportedly planning to roll out a food delivery service in India. Amazon’s Moves.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

CBD has in short order become something of a retail fad. Short for cannabidiol, CBD is a chemical derived from cannabis plants that is increasingly favored for a whole host of medical and wellness related applications across the retail spectrum. Although some CBD products are now legal federally in the U.S., Probably not.

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Perficient

JANUARY 7, 2021

They had to change the way they operate with new social distancing guidelines. From retail to consumer goods, online and mobile sales are up significantly. The government has regulations for greenhouse gas emissions, and companies have carbon-neutral goals. No one knew what to make of it.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Meanwhile, airlines and other travel vertical players face fresh pressures on alternative payments , and new payday loan regulations are looming. Meanwhile, the luxury retail ecosystem could change via another online operation that offers relatively easy access to designer goods. payday loan regulations could take effect.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Legal marijuana may have a massive payments problem, but that’s not stopping retail innovation in perhaps the newest area of legitimate commerce in the U.S. Experts on dispensaries say such labeling is the only way to get around federal banking regulations. Big Retail. and Canada. Companies also have made more than $6.5

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NCR

APRIL 6, 2018

The new regulations came into effect on January 13th 2018. Is it possible that some banks could become ‘wholesalers’, looking after the core regulated banking functions, while others take on the role of ‘retailer’? New distinctions. Image: iStock/textureeyes. appeared first on Banking.com.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The banking firm has been talking with London regulators about the idea, according to The Financial Times on Saturday (Feb. The operation will likely include savings and lending products, and it comes just two years after U.S. JPMorgan Chase tapped an ex-regulator , Clive Adamson, to head up the efforts to launch the digital bank.

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MAY 18, 2022

After moving alone in 2020 to reform its Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) regulation, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has joined the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and Federal Reserve Board in issuing a joint notice of proposed rulemaking setting forth proposed amendments to their regulations implementing the CRA.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2019

Walmart CEO Doug McMillon went on a two-day trip to Bangalore, India and said his company is committed to the Indian market, and that the country presents a huge opportunity, according to reports. McMillon was asked about the changes to India’s market, such as the regulations put in place on Feb.

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FICO

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Risk-Aware Marketing to Personalize Telco Customer Engagement. Innovators are shoring up their market share by opting for cloud-hosted platform technology more typically favoured by banks. Here's how technology from the banking space can help telcos compete with aggressively competitive sales and retention tactics. FICO Admin.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2018

Ever since 2013, when Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said the eCommerce giant was working on a 30-minute drone delivery program called Prime Air, people have been saying that delivery is the big retail use case for drone technology. Amazon is reportedly pushing for safety approval on its drone designs in addition to precise operating rules.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Worldwide legal cannabis products represented a $55 billion market in 2018, and most analysts estimate that it will have nearly tripled to reach $147 billion by 2025. the domestic market for legal cannabis in 2018 was $9.1 From there, the regulation of CBD gets a little more complicated. Here in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

Russia’s trade associations have accused Visa and Mastercard of abuse of market power in the country. In addition, it was alleged that both Visa and Mastercard charged different tariffs depending on the retail outlet, which the applicants assert is trade discrimination.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2020

Flipkart has rolled out its Flipkart Wholesale operations, which serves as a B2B marketplace for small businesses and shops. Made especially for business owners and retailers like you, our easy-to-use platform brings the entire wholesale market on your fingertips.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

From 7-Eleven to H&M , retailers are adopting digital payments and artificial intelligence (AI) technology to bring more convenient experiences to their customers. And retailers with brick-and-mortar locations in North America are starting to accept Chinese mobile payment systems.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

The pandemic has thrown daily operations for merchants in the EU and the U.K. Retailers have had to swiftly adapt to markets where online transactions have ballooned exponentially. Regulators Jump to Tailor SCA for COVID-19. financial and payment services UK Finance. financial and payment services UK Finance.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

billion deal between the country’s two retail giants — Reliance Retail and Future Group — despite protests by Amazon. Under the terms of the deal, Reliance will acquire Future’s retail, wholesale, logistics, and warehouse businesses, according to a report in Mint on Friday (Nov. percent stake in Reliance Retail. .

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PYMNTS

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. In 1946, the year the verdict was reached, A&P was the country’s largest retailer and, obviously, its largest grocery chain.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2019

Retailers in the physical world are at a real disadvantage when it comes to knowing the customers in their stores, and what they do once they get there. The list goes on, but suffice it to say, the jokes about digital retailers knowing more about customers than they know about themselves didn’t appear in the culture out of nowhere.

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Abrigo

MAY 24, 2023

This lack of access to financial services hinders these businesses’ abilities to gain a market foothold and contributes to the flourishing of an unregulated, underground marketplace. As such, companies are forced to operate in a cash-only model, which can result in robbery, money laundering, and organized crime.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2016

The fleet management market is estimated to grow from $9.54 According to MarketsandMarkets, the increasing need for operational efficiency is expected to be the primary driver for the fleet management market during the forecast period. When it comes to fleet management, the market is segmented into various industries.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 15, 2017

For example, it shows that the UK retail banking market place has become a dull playground thanks to mergers and acquisitions over the past half century: As a result, the six large banking groups held an 89% market share of the current account market. Anyways, there is some key metric data in the report.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2016

9), Michigan became the first state in the union to pass statewide, comprehensive self-driving vehicle regulations that allow autonomous vehicles to drive … well, autonomously. As of now, only motor vehicle manufacturers can operate self-driving car networks in Michigan. On Friday of last week (Dec.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The trend promises to heat up even more in the 2020s, and in a new PYMNTS interview, Butch Langlois, president, North America, for cloud-based retail management software seller Vend , provided an in-depth tour of those changes and a glimpse of what’s to come. It’s a lot cheaper,” he said.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The road to mainstream acceptance of cryptocurrencies will still have its bumps, its potential roadblocks set in place from regulators. At the heart of it all might lie a jousting existential in nature — namely, between the companies that create and issue cryptos and the agencies that regulate them.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Regulation. Tencent Holdings President Martin Lau said further regulations are needed in China to mirror a “new reality.”. As technology companies become bigger and more important to the economy, I would say more regulations to reflect the new reality are needed," Lau said, according to the report.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2019

Connected commerce is among the hottest trends in retail, and not just for streaming or ridesharing or online gaming services, but for subscription purchases, too. In fact, according to new PYMNTS research, digital services are expanding in the United States and in markets around the world.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2020

Equity crowdfunding program Equifund CFP is launching a Regulation Crowfunding offering to help cannabis tech company Drop Delivery raise money for its all-in-one delivery system for cannabis products, according to a press release. “We’re proud Drop Delivery has chosen to open its doors to early-stage investors with Equifund CFP.”

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