PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2018

Dean Garfield of the Information Technology Industry Council — a trade group that represents Google , Microsoft and other tech companies — is calling for faster development of national privacy norms to avoid opposing state rules. Companies will also have a tougher time sharing and/or selling data on children under the age of 16. ” .”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2020

The National Institute for Smart Governance (NISG) in India has published a report recommending that laws around blockchain should be based on what the technology does, and not the technology itself, according to a report Tuesday (Jan. said that national policy might not be enough in terms of crypto regulation. . “We

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón announced on Wednesday (Sept. Uber is accused of exposing the data of 57 million users and paying hackers to hide the breach instead of reporting it to law enforcement and regulators.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2019

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed legislation allowing for the establishment of public banks in the state, and advocates in San Francisco are jumping at the opportunity. Small businesses are another top focus for proponents of public banks, particularly in California’s legal marijuana industry.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2016

9), Michigan became the first state in the union to pass statewide, comprehensive self-driving vehicle regulations that allow autonomous vehicles to drive … well, autonomously. Additionally, these companies can also have vehicle prototypes approved by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2020

They spoke before the Subcommittee on National Security, International Development, and Monetary Policy Tuesday. In addition, National Cyber Security Alliance Executive Director Kelvin Coleman said in his testimony that Congress “should consider making game-changing investments in cybersecurity awareness and education.”

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Regulators recently announced plans to take a closer look at the early wage access industry, but as demand among the workforce for such FinTech solutions continues to rise, experts are encouraging lawmakers to get on board with a new normal of payroll. Regulators Step In. Defenders Weigh In.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2018

New rules may loom for technology providers pertaining to privacy — on a national level. The push comes in the wake of California passing legislation that allows consumers to demand that companies disclose how and why they are collecting data. Bloomberg reported that the top 10 regulated banks in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2016

But Clearinghouse CDFI can also offer interesting insight into the state of regulation of small business lending and how greater oversight may impact the SMEs that prop up their local communities. “Because real estate in California tends to be expensive and cost-prohibitive, many small businesses do not own real estate.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2020

The nation’s banks hoping to use COVID-19 as an excuse to shutter branches or get permanent concessions from regulators better think again, the Financial Times reported. Department of Treasury, told the newspaper he was not prepared to revisit the fundamentals of bank regulations as a result of the pandemic.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Lauren Saunders, who serves as associate director of the National Consumer Law Center, said state-regulated lenders “lauder their loans up to 160 percent annual percentage rates through banks in order to evade state interest rate caps. These schemes are spreading across the country and are starting to explode.”. The Rent-a-Bank Scheme.

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CFPB Monitor

MARCH 15, 2022

In 2019, California enacted AB 539 which, effective January 1, 2020, limited the interest rate that can be charged on loans of $2,500 to $10,000 by lenders licensed under the California Financing Law (CFL) to 36% plus the federal funds rate. Section 160.110(d). Section 7.4001(e).

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

In 2019, California enacted AB-539, the Fair Access to Credit Act (FACA), which, effective January 1, 2020, limits the interest rate that can be charged on loans of $2,500 to $10,000 by lenders licensed under the California Financing Law (CFL) to 36% plus the federal funds rate. A number of states have challenged these regulations.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

The change may have been telegraphed more than a year ago in October 2018, when Mick Mulvaney, who had been serving as acting director of the agency, said that the CFPB was working on a new regulation to define those practices, as reported in The Wall Street Journal. Digital Taxes, Abroad.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2018

When it comes to data privacy, it’s not all about General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and it’s not all about Europe. and in the wake of GDPR, which of course took effect in May, there exists the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, known colloquially as CCPA. Here in the U.S.,

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Payments Source

MARCH 17, 2020

The Australian firm agreed to pay around $1 million in connection with allegations that it broke the law by operating without a license in the nation's largest state.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2018

Sources say Robinhood Markets is in talks with regulators about offering banking services to its more than 4 million users. If Robinhood were to start offering more traditional banking services, it would follow in the footsteps of FinTech startups like Social Finance and Stash Financial , which have launched similar products in recent months.

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 6, 2022

A California state court has overruled the demurrer filed by Opportunity Financial, LLC (OppFi) to the cross-complaint filed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) in which OppFi asked the court to reject the DFPI’s “true lender” challenge.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

About a year-and-a-half after a state Supreme Court decision that brought the issue to the forefront of legislators’ attention, the California Senate voted to approve Assembly Bill 5 on Tuesday (Sept. It seems AB 5 is done but for the final counting — and will soon be California’s local law of the land.

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American Banker

MAY 31, 2022

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

3, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) went into effect, ushering in the strongest consumer data protections in the U.S. While the new regulations are creating uniformity and fostering trust, small differences between markets continue to present opportunity. The Kismet of Open Banking. And there are other barriers, too.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Airbnb announced significant safety measures after a deadly house shooting in California. The startup is also getting ready for a public listing next year and is aiming to take care of regulatory issues with different cities across the nation. 5 when Jersey City residents voted to apply more regulations to short-term rentals.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In the November Credit Union Tracker , PYMNTS explores the latest in the world of CUs, including new Congressional regulations, partnerships between CUSOs and technology providers, and the new generation of cybersecurity threats. Another CU issue currently awaiting federal regulation is legalized marijuana.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Based in Santa Monica, California, one of its missions is to change the way the entire industry details its ingredients and manufacturing processes, including an advocacy effort to update federal regulations that have stood largely unchanged since 1938.

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MAY 30, 2024

We work with well-known national CPA firms that specialize in working with banks specifically to claim their ERC tax rebate. Due to varying government mandates, some of the more successful states include Alabama, California, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, and Texas. The average tax rebate is approximately $1.5

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2017

TechCrunch said the fight between states and the OCC centers on a proposal made by the OCC in December, in which it details a program that enables FinTechs to apply for charters to become special purpose national banks. Other concerns are that the OCC doesn’t understand FinTech and therefore shouldn’t regulate it.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2017

In fact, the federally backed National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) reported credit union membership grew by 4.3 This inaugural edition of the Tracker covers the most significant recent developments from around the credit union market, including notable innovations, industry partnerships and efforts to challenge and change regulations.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Perhaps it isn’t surprising that analysts are now musing about how to avoid a repeat of the Punjab National Bank fraud scandal, and some are looking towards blockchain to do so. As regulators begin to consider blockchain regulations, many have signaled a desire not to hamper innovation while doing so. United States.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Quick-service restaurants (QSRs), fast casual eateries and fast-food drive-thrus keep dominating headlines throughout the pandemic as a nation is understandably obsessed with staying fed on lockdown and after, when breathing the open air still feels oddly risky. A Tasting Menu Of Creative Approaches.

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Payments Source

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

A first-in-the-nation bill that drew unanimous support from the state Senate failed to get over the finish line this year. What happened?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The following Deep Dive explores the devastating impacts data breaches can have on credit unions, as well as the measures that CUs and the state of California are developing to protect CU members. Many are leveraging the Automated Cybersecurity Examination Tool, developed by the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), to bridge this gap.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2017

On Friday of last week, Apple secured a self-driving road test permit from the California DMV. Apple now joins 29 other automotive and tech companies who have received test permits in California for self-driving technology. Didi set up an AI lab in California last month, signaling yet another self-driving technology play in the works.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

One of the main ideas behind Real ID is to make it easier to authenticate a person’s identity, and to do so according to a single, de facto national standard. For instance, in a state such as California (home of Silicon Valley), its database will probably be among the most secure in the United States.

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CFPB Monitor

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Around the nation, regulators are preparing to implement and enforce new consumer-like disclosure laws for small business commercial finance providers. New York regulators have yet to issue final regulations implementing the state’s Commercial Finance Disclosure Law (CFDL), which went into effect on January 1, 2022.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2020

Shortly before the coronavirus pandemic became a national emergency, Verizon announced it was increasing its capital investment for this year by $500 million to accelerate its 5G efforts. But depending on who you listen to, 5G is still on track to make an impact.

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 4, 2018

On September 19, 2018, California enacted AB-3212. The Bill amends the California Military and Veterans Code to expand the protections offered to qualifying servicemembers under state law and to impose new criminal penalties for certain violations of its provisions. Scope of Coverage.

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