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US Treasury: Taxes On Digital Companies Are Discriminatory

PYMNTS

Treasury official said a French tax plan targeting American digital companies is discriminatory against American businesses. Treasury’s top international tax official, called the taxes “ill-conceived,” and said the better option was to go after tax reform internationally at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ).

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Zuckerberg Talks Guidelines For How To Regulate Facebook

PYMNTS

Facebook is something in between a newspaper and a telecommunications company, said CEO Mark Zuckerberg , and he wants it to be regulated accordingly, The Wall Street Journal reported. He has recently signaled that he would support Facebook paying higher taxes in Europe.

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Japan’s Central Bank Chief Presses For Global Effort To Regulate Libra 

PYMNTS

Bank of Japan Head Haruhiko Kuroda spoke to business leaders in Osaka about the importance of having a coordinated global plan to regulate Libra and other cryptocurrencies, Reuters reported on Tuesday (Sept. He urged policymakers to ensure that the highest level of regulation is applied to such assets.

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Libra Forces Cryptocurrency Regulators To Reexamine Procedures

PYMNTS

Facebook’s Libra project has renewed focus on how cryptocurrencies are regulated, with current rules on the sector patchy and varying from country to country. A 2019 study underscored this point, discovering that even though the AML software market is slated to grow 15.25 The drivers of AML initiatives in the U.S.

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Banks failing to comply with anti-corruption rules and sanctions lists

TheGuardian

Officials named on Magnitsky lists as well as criminals can easily access global finance systems, study finds Criminals including terrorists and tax evaders, as well as government officials subject to sanctions, can easily breach regulations meant to bar them from the international finance system, a study has found.

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Disbursements By Voice Are Growing In Popularity – And Other Instant Disbursements Trends

PYMNTS

Consumers and microbusinesses now get an average of two disbursements each year, excluding tax disbursements from local, state and federal governments. The study surveyed more than 5,000 U.S. The study surveyed more than 5,000 U.S. Some business verticals are doing better than others, the PYMNTS study found.

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Sizzle Fizzle: Apps Sizzle, Startups Fizzle And Regulators Battle Bitcoin

PYMNTS

Fizzle of the Week: Cryptocurrency Regulation. The saga over bitcoin and its relationship to various regulators has become something of the payments answer to a romantic comedy. I can ask my friends who study abroad or travel there myself. But the idea that regulators can wave a wand and make bitcoin go away?

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