US, Europe lock arms on payments regulation
Payments Dive
APRIL 15, 2024
and European regulators have joined forces to monitor digital payment concerns, including those related to buy now, pay later financing and big tech market participation.
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Payments Dive
APRIL 15, 2024
and European regulators have joined forces to monitor digital payment concerns, including those related to buy now, pay later financing and big tech market participation.
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Regulators in the Netherlands, South Korea and Australia have targeted the tech giant’s payments business, and antitrust litigation is brewing in the U.S.
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Payments Dive
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Kathy Hochul is seeking to require buy now, pay later providers to obtain a license to operate in the state, in addition to other potential regulations for the industry. New York Gov.
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Payments Dive
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Adapting to regulation could be a costly endeavor for BNPL companies already facing losses and more expensive funding costs, Moody’s analysts said.
Payments Dive
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Payments players can expect this year to be heavy with regulatory and legislative moves, both at the federal and state levels.
Payments Dive
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The company’s customers may experience a drop in quality thanks to EU regulation slated to take effect next month, said Tim Cook, chief executive of the tech giant.
Payments Dive
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A Mastercard executive painted Regulation II as potentially harmful to consumers, while Fiserv’s CEO said it was an appropriate update due to the rise of online transactions.
Bank Innovation
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EXCLUSIVE – Major European payments regulation, PSD2 is set to go live tomorrow in Europe. Banks across the European Union have been preparing for the revised Payment Service Directive or PSD2 since it was first passed in 2015 by the Council of the European Union.
Accenture
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From buy now, pay later to peer-to-peer payment fraud, there’s no shortage of payments targets for lawmakers and regulators.
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The European Council has adopted the Instant Payments Regulation, which is scheduled to come into effect in a matter of weeks.
Perficient
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Recognizing that regulated and non-regulated financial institutions seek to engage in cryptocurrency and crypto asset activities, the three largest federal bank regulators, the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, recently issued a joint statement on crypto assets.
Payments Dive
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State lawmakers and regulators are out-running their national peers in giving direction to the fast-evolving payments industry.
Payments Dive
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Discover executives met with regulators on the issue Monday, and the company expects further discussion, CFO John Greene said.
Bank Innovation
JANUARY 16, 2018
EXCLUSIVE – After more than two years of planning, Payments Services Directive II or PSD2 finally arrived in Europe on Saturday. The regulation has been dubbed as one of the more substantial regulatory changes of its kind in Europe.
Payments Dive
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“As the CFPB prepares to release new regulatory guidance on BNPL providers, it is important that any new regulations do not stifle the industry's growth and limit its availability,” writes one checkout services CEO.
PYMNTS
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Last week, Nacha held its Smarter Faster Payments Conference in Miami, a significant event for over 1,800 bankers and vendors. With 142 presentations and panels, the content was tailored to the needs of every bank interested in payments. Nacha saw three strong presentations covering various legal aspects of payments.
PYMNTS
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The Chinese government is preparing to crack down on what it views as antitrust behavior in the payments sector by tech giants such as Ant Group and Tencent Holdings. Payment companies that already possess state licenses will be given one year to comply with the new regulations.
PYMNTS
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PYMNTS
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Payments Dive
JULY 18, 2023
Buy now, pay later platforms, artificial intelligence and other developments “if left unchecked, could increase consumers’ exposure to fraud and manipulation,” the regulators said Monday.
PYMNTS
JULY 1, 2020
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Payments Dive
APRIL 27, 2023
Attorneys and payments professionals called out recent areas of interest for regulators during the Electronic Transactions Association’s conference this week in Atlanta.
PYMNTS
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.
Accenture
APRIL 24, 2023
The proposed legislation aims to prevent consumers getting into unmanageable debt while still allowing them the option to spread the cost of their purchases overā¦ The post BNPL regulation and its potential impact on UK banks appeared first on Accenture Banking Blog.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 19, 2018
Following the proposal of a payments regulator to be established independent of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the central bank has put forward a public objection. Regulation of the payment system by the central bank is the dominant international model for stability consideration,ā the central bank said in a note on Friday (Oct.
Accenture
MAY 23, 2022
As the payments ecosystem expands into the worlds of crypto and the metaverse, keeping up with customer expectations, regulations and technological shifts is becoming a big challenge for payments providers. The post Agility makes the pieces fit for payments players appeared first on Accenture Banking Blog.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 1, 2021
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PYMNTS
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In todayās top news, Wirecard files for insolvency, and New York proposes easing regulations for cryptocurrency licenses. Wirecard, the embattled Germany payment services company, said Thursday (June 25) it was filing for insolvency. New York To Ease Cryptocurrency Regulations.
Payments Dive
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Payments Dive
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PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
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PYMNTS
JUNE 26, 2020
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Payments Dive
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“I think a fair amount of our competitors believe that they’ll either talk their way out of [regulatory attention] or hide,” Affirm CEO Max Levchin said.
PYMNTS
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Robinhood has come under the watchful eye of regulators ā this time in Massachusetts. State regulators are set to file a complaint on Wednesday (Dec. 16) saying that the stock-trading platform failed to protect its customers and their assets, violating state laws and regulations.
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Payments Dive
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The Biden administration wants the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to “aggressively pursue investigations and enforcement actions against unlawful practices in the digital assets space.”
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