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Is ‘Embedded Regulation’ The Key To Stablecoins’ Success?

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The age of digital currencies might be fully upon us, but key questions swirl about how to issue and regulate cryptos – especially stablecoins. Regulators and lawmakers, however, can latch onto digital currency efforts as they must monitor and also supervise such stablecoins. In a paper that debuted Tuesday (Nov.

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Merchants Get Clarity Around Compliance As Global Payment Regulations Evolve

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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. Only 20 percent of these consumers are willing to share sensitive financial in- formation with third parties, according to the study.”.

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Perficient Included in IDC Market Glance: Lending Digital Transformation Strategies

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IDC recently included Perficient in the “Loan Collections-Recovery” category of its “ Market Glance: Worldwide Consumer & Small Businesses Lending Digital Transformation Strategies, Q2 2022 (Doc # US49009422, April 2022).” The IDC Market Glance offers an overview of the landscape for consumer and small business digital lending.

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Deep Dive: How SMBs Can Brace For Changing Digital Payment Regulations

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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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Australia is the Next Largest Market for Alternative Lending, KPMG Says

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Australia has become the second largest market for alternative lending due to the country’s favorable regulations for lenders. This is according to new data by financial regulator KPMG, in tandem with the Australian Centre for Financial Studies, which shows that the market grew over 50% within the last year.

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UK Regulators To Probe Google Chrome Changes Over Antitrust Fears

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s Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) has begun an investigation to look at whether Google’s proposals would hurt publishers and give the Big Tech behemoth an even bigger piece of the online advertising pie, Reuters reported on Friday (Jan. regulator’s CEO, told Reuters.

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Stablecoin Outlook Anything But Stable As Regulation, Legislation Loom

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It seems to be the case, then, that stablecoins may be regulated to the point where they are an adjunct to fiat – and to the modern monetary system that has been in place for decades – rather than a wholesale replacement. Recently, a BIS study concluded that embedded regulation might offer a solution for stablecoins.