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MARCH 9, 2020
A French hospital, in one case, noted that nearly 2,000 surgical masks were removed from its main operating room, while a trauma doctor reportedly took 12 boxes of masks from a storage room at a hospital in Spain. All of the nation’s schools were previously shuttered until mid-March. Grant Shapps, U.K.
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MAY 22, 2020
Treasury’s difficulties getting relief money to individuals, has renewed calls for the government to accelerate its FedNow national real-time payments network, still not expected to be operational until at least 2023. The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) disbursement fiasco, coupled with the U.S.
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MAY 20, 2020
Making cross-border payments in the EU therefore requires interconnectivity between the regions’ various real-time payments rails. SCT Inst was developed in 2017 to establish operational guidelines by which all real-time payment rails in the EU are required to comply. Best-Laid Plans.
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DECEMBER 2, 2019
China has implemented a new policy requiring citizens who want new phone service to scan their faces to verify identities instead of simply presenting ID cards, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The law doesn’t say anything about nationality or mobile virtual network operators, which are in the business of reselling services.
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FEBRUARY 14, 2020
In perhaps the most sweeping example, the member states of the United Nations have embraced, as part of “sustainable development goals,” a target to “provide legal identity for all, including birth registration,” by 2030. s policy represents “the right goal to set. An ambitious goal, to be sure, and one that the U.N.
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FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Financial institutions (FIs) and merchants from other regions have been dipping their toes into the Chinese market, but open banking has compounded the difficulty involved in setting up operations. The country’s government and regulators are keeping pace with those in the European Union and the U.S. The law is still ambiguous.
PYMNTS
APRIL 17, 2020
For New York City, the policy means that SummerStage in Central Park, which was set to start June 22, and the Brooklyn Half Marathon, which had been set for May 16, would be canceled. The biggest theater operator around the world, AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc., Movie Theaters . As of the end of March, AMC had $299.8
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