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OCTOBER 14, 2018

European Union lawmakers have proposed new regulations aimed at stopping an online marketplace such as Amazon from using data from merchants’ product sales to boost sales of their own branded products. She wants her committee to vote on the draft proposal on December 6, noted Reuters.

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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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DECEMBER 28, 2020

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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JANUARY 24, 2020

With an array of bills brought forward by lawmakers during this legislative session, Washington state could become a leader in artificial intelligence regulation. Microsoft , as well as its president, has been asking regulators to make legislation on artificial intelligence (AI) for months.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

Last week marked the third anniversary of PSD2 , the regulation that launched open banking in the U.K. Building on top of the open banking infrastructure, PayDirect is a new payment method that enables companies to take online payments in a highly secure way, and also pay out to customers through the same rails. and Europe.

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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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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 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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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. Reuters reported. The mobile banking market reported 56.2

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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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APRIL 24, 2017

The rise of insurtech is running parallel to the rise of regtech, as financial firms and startups apply artificial intelligence, blockchain, and other technologies to the dizzying world of financial regulation.

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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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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. the state agency that manages liquor licenses, granted approval for Amazon to sell alcohol online. In June, PYMNTS reported India’s West Bengal State Beverages Corp.,

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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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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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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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OCTOBER 12, 2020

Facebook's proposed global digital currency Libra is expected to get pushback from G7 leaders who are anticipated to publicly oppose the project due to a lack of regulations, according to a Reuters report on Monday (Oct. The draft will be presented on Tuesday (Oct. 13) during a meeting of finance ministers and central bankers from the U.S.,

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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.

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APRIL 21, 2020

A partnership between The University of Oxford , Saïd Business School and Mastercard will launch an online education program to teach business leaders about the strengths and perils of the modern day internet. The class, he said, was a way of ensuring that this was done with a measure of public trust.

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JUNE 12, 2020

regulators. A Facebook spokesperson told CNN Business it is “prepared to show regulators that this acquisition is positive for consumers, developers, and content creators alike.”. 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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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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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. This is resulting in increased revenue for these online gambling platforms in states like New Jersey — trends in growth that may well continue after the crisis.

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JANUARY 8, 2021

The Cyberspace Administration of China is considering a revamping of internet oversight regulations, rules that have not been updated in more than 20 years, according to a Reuters report on Friday (Jan. The plan to revise cyberspace regulations comes at a time when China is stepping up the scrutiny of tech giants.

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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 any regulations should take this into account. Jourova said Facebook couldn’t simply push away any responsibility.

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AUGUST 20, 2018

Regulators didn’t destroy A&P in the end. If you don’t believe me, read almost any article now about how the online platforms need to be investigated, castigated, broken up, etc. Then look at who is going to the legislature and regulators looking for help in blunting the online platforms. A&P destroyed A&P.

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JANUARY 8, 2021

In today’s top payments news around the world, the United States is halting tariffs on French products, while the Cyberspace Administration of China is considering a revamp of internet oversight regulations. China’s Cyberspace Watchdog Mulls Stricter Online Oversight . US Trade Representative’s Office Suspends Tariffs On French Goods.

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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. Eisen also noted that the Afterpay online store directory saw 48 million referrals in the previous year, and that tech giants charged referral fees of between 10 and 15 percent.

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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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AUGUST 4, 2020

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 over concerns the deal might hurt competition in the restaurant delivery sector.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2019

As regulators overseeing non-banks, our goals are clear: Ensure the safety and soundness of the financial system, protect consumers and streamline the multistate experience,” said Mark Quandahl, chairman of the CSBS Emerging Payments & Innovation Task Force, in a statement.

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DECEMBER 27, 2020

is focusing on whether the internet giant refused access to its online marketplace to vendors that also wanted to sell elsewhere, according to an official Chinese government website. China’s State Administration for Market Regulation posted a notice on its website Thursday (Dec.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

Grocery stores and other retailers looking to process SNAP EBT payments online just got another tech option as the pandemic reshapes shopping habits. 20) announced that its payment gateway integration for eCommerce platforms now supports SNAP EBT payments made online. Cardknox on Tuesday (Oct.

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MARCH 31, 2019

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote an opinion piece in The Washington Post calling on regulators to take a “more active role” in making rules for how to police the internet, according to reports. “By At Google, he pointed to its role in online ads as an antitrust and consumer protection concern. Landry said.

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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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