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OCTOBER 1, 2020

In regions where open banking and other electronic payments pilots are becoming common, such as the Middle East-North Africa (MENA) region, pandemic-era payments are all about privacy, security and trust, particularly in B2B transactions. Merchants, their payment providers and their regulators must keep up,” per the new Guide.

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PYMNTS

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. Here again, trust is the heart of the matter.

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MAY 16, 2020

100 for User A in America, 200 pesos for User B in Mexico and so forth) in order to perform transactions in a secure, fast and reliable way.”. A central entity may be a central bank which regulates a monetary supply,” the company wrote. “A A central entity may be associated with a government of such a region.”.

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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 has refocused scrutiny on the open banking ecosystem’s privacy and security. The Data Privacy Twist .

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2020

Chinese regulators have seized control of nine financial institutions (FIs) alleging they violated rules and jeopardized the country’s financial system. In addition, the China Securities Regulatory Commission said it seized New Times Securities, Guosheng Securities and Guosheng Futures and two trust firms, New China Trust Co.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Regulation is perhaps the strongest driver of Lithuania’s FinTech-friendly environment. For traditional banks, compliance experts agree that it’s all about data — and the ability to share information with regulators. Lithuania wants to become a global FinTech powerhouse. Resuming Operations.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

That said, IoT device creators and consumers are looking at IoT security with a higher level of scrutiny. In the February Intelligence of Things Tracker , PYMNTS examines how countries, developers and consumers are responding to increased calls for security, as well as how the IoT market is growing worldwide. Around the IoT World.

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MAY 1, 2020

Financial institutions (FIs) and regulators in Singapore, the E.U. have passed laws or implemented programs over the past two years to put more focus on digital banking and data security, fundamentally changing how online transactions work. with ease, control and security.”. with ease, control and security.”. and the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2019

Merchants and customers are now transacting under PSD2 and GDPR in the European Union (EU) — regulations that allow a greater window into how customer data is being used. While these regulations are aimed at increasing consumer trust by allowing them more transparency, many consumers in the region are still adjusting.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

Small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have been especially hard hit, as many have pivoted quickly to enable online transactions and adhere to the regulations that often accompany them. The health crisis has brought about changes to this rule, however, and these may have long-term implications for payment standards and regulations.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2019

Though regulators and banks in the U.S. Amazon is also pushing into the region, relying on India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) to enhance P2P payments through Amazon Pay. Why Cash Security Deposits Should Be the Exception to the Rule. Around the Disbursements World. To find out more news and trends, download the Tracker.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2020

The EU enacted open banking rules in 2018, inspiring regulators worldwide to reconsider how they were transacting funds or transmitting data. The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on daily business has generated new questions surrounding these initiatives that regulators are now scrambling to answer. and the EU. Australia and Canada.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) filed an “emergency action” against former NS8 Inc. As alleged in our complaint, Rogas falsely presented NS8 as a successful business by fabricating revenue figures and providing them to investors,” SEC Denver Regional Office Director Kurt L. 17) statement. Gottschall said in a statement.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In a bit of high-tech saber-rattling, Facebook is threatening to pull the plug on its social media platform in the European Union if a controversial decision by Irish regulators is allowed to stand. according to Metro. government. That could prove to be “immensely complicated,” the Times reported, and likely highly expensive. “A

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2019

Faced with a growing number of transactions to process in real time, payment service providers (PSPs), financial institutions (FIs) and FinTech firms also need to make sure the security of these smarter payment systems is up to par. Regulators in regions such as Europe are changing the ways they look at cross-border transactions.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

That’s especially true with cross-border payments , where commerce done globally demands that firms be aware of regulations and payments preferences that are endemic to a specific country or even specific region. These include security and grappling with legacy systems in the embrace of real-time payments.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Japan ’s struggling regional banks are taking on riskier investments as they struggle to survive. There’s excessive competition among regional banks now, which is driving fierce competition to get profit margins,” said Takayuki Atake, head of credit research at SMBC Nikko Securities Inc.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

It is unclear whether the bank knew its services were being used to skirt anti-money laundering regulations, the paper reported. ‘Ndrangheta operates from the Calabria region in Southern Italy. .” The FT added: “Since then, more than 30 people have been sentenced for mafia-related crimes linked to the case.”

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JANUARY 19, 2021

But it’s still on you as a brand to figure out what payment methods you need, how to sell locally, how [General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)] may apply, and how to manage taxes,” he said. Retailers are entering new markets at a time when regulations are becoming more complex and costly, not less.

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MARCH 27, 2020

While the advancement of open banking regulations may be seeing a small skip due to the spread of the coronavirus , many countries saw business and typical banking operations halted right after deciding upon new online privacy rules. European Union and other regions currently fighting the pande mic. Security .

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2019

EU banks and merchants also face the changes to data security, transparency and privacy that the PSD2 and GDPR regulations have marshaled across the region. As European countries and consumers move forward with data transparency, other lawmakers and regulators are seeking to do the same. Around the PSD2, GDPR World.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

Open banking is appealing to financial institutions (FIs) and regulators in many markets, even as the pandemic sweeps across the world. Regulators in other regions, including Latin America, are also shaping and announcing plans to enable open banking and better support digital financial systems.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an impact on open banking developments worldwide as regulators, financial institutions (FIs) and businesses set their sights on helping their current customers rather than future innovations. where regulators have been workshopping potential rules for several years. Seventy percent of U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Brad Garlinghouse , the company’s CEO, says he went to London in September and told the outlet that the Financial Conduct Authority does not consider XRP to be a security. He noted that other regions have given similar affirmations. A “security” designation could put XRP under stringent new regulations.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2019

Regulators want to have a greater stake in the way sharing platforms operate. Many of these regulators also now expect sharing and payment services to comply with shifting data regulations, like GDPR. To learn more about how Spotahome is approaching data security and customer trust, read the Playbook’s feature story.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Ongoing security concerns have prompted the Federal Reserve to further scrutinize big tech firms that serve the banking industry, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Thursday (Nov. The Bank Service Company Act gives financial regulators the power to audit third-party vendors that offer banking services, Ashton said.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

Banks are innovating their application programming interface (API) platforms to allow for more third parties, while online merchants are prepping for a potential loss in revenue due to the security frictions that SCA might bring. Both banks and regulators are re-examining how exactly SCA will affect the financial ecosystem.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The impact of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ) continues to take shape roughly five months after taking effect, and Facebook could be on the hook for billions of dollars in fines tied to a data breach of about 50 million user accounts. Crypto Regulations.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

But he noted branch conversions were delayed partly because of the agreement the firm reached with regulators and partly because the firm wanted to ensure it had a digital value proposition in place. And King noted that security losses due to its balance sheet restructuring were $116 million.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

Making cross-border payments in the EU therefore requires interconnectivity between the regions’ various real-time payments rails. This marked the first real-time payments regulatory framework in the region that addressed all EU countries. Official guidelines and regulations can only go so far, however.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Community and regional banks play a crucial role alongside our biggest banks in monitoring transactions across the country.”. financial system.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2018

But the recent thefts, along with other attempted and completed cyberattacks, demonstrate why payments officials in the region are expressing fresh concern about financial security there. Evidence of that comes from Swift’s Latin America Regional Conference , held earlier this month in Miami. Fraud is a Top Worry.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

Detailing similar efforts in India and the Asia-Pacific region, the new Tracker looks at faster payments systems getting built around the world to ignite whole economies. Having led on issues like consumer data privacy, the European Union (EU) is trying to pull ahead on real-time payments as well. Problem No.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Now, Reuters reported Amazon is lodging a complaint with India's market regulator. The whole controversy has likely damaged Amazon's ties with Ambani, who is Asia's richest man, and the Reliance group, fast spreading in the region as a leader in eCommerce. But Future said that order is non-binding. On Saturday (Nov.

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PYMNTS

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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JANUARY 31, 2025

Loose government regulation : The lack of regulation in the crypto space can create opportunities for fraudulent schemes. Although the regulatory agencies have pushed for enhanced regulation , it is unlikely that the incoming administration will call for oversight anytime soon. Global targeting: The U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

In a press release , eCurrency Mint said BRM will issue the digital tender, eCFA, in compliance with eMoney regulations of Banque Centrale des Etats de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (BCEAO), the central bank of WAEMU. The aim of the currency is to secure universal liquidity, promote interoperability and provide transparency.

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