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JANUARY 10, 2020

Chinese eCommerce and social media startup Xiaohongshu , also known as “Little Red Book,” wants to raise funds at a $6 billion valuation, according to Bloomberg. It eventually entered that field itself, and then it became a social media platform. It’s teamed up with a financial plan adviser to identify possible investors.

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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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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.

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JULY 23, 2019

Vietnam is introducing a social network similar to Facebook after the Communist-ruled government asked domestic tech companies to create substitutions. The social media company has teamed up with Sony Music Entertainment to feature music content, and aims to reach three million users in 2019 and 20 million by January 2021.

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JUNE 23, 2019

BIS said that the social media firm’s recent announcement that it aims to roll out its Libra digital currency and grow into payments has focused the minds of central bankers as well as regulators, Reuters reported. The Bank of England approaches Libra with an open mind but not an open door,” Carney said, per a Reuters report.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Regulation could be the answer, some companies have speculated, and Unilever said it is all for tackling the problem aggressively. As social media influencers are reaching mainstream status, they can ask for upwards of $22,000 per post. The 15 percent is an average. Some are going to have bought half of their followers.”.

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OCTOBER 16, 2020

Facebook’s Ireland and United Kingdom unit has agreed to change the way Instagram works to “make it much harder for people to post an (advertisement) on Instagram without labelling it as such,” Britain’s top antitrust regulator announced Friday (Oct.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Facebook , which has been under fire for months over data scandals, expressed openness to new regulation. According to a report in Reuters citing Facebook’s public policy manager Karim Palant, the executive said the social media giant is “open to meaningful regulation.” Google in 2012 paid $22.5

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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.

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OCTOBER 4, 2020

Facebook bought Instagram, the photo- and video-sharing social networking service, in 2012 for $1 billion and WhatsApp, the cross-platform messaging service, in 2014 for $19 billion. He said it was a natural extension of its global social media business and not an attempt to remove a potential competitor from the marketplace. “It

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JANUARY 18, 2019

Regulators in the United States have reportedly met to discuss levying fines against social media giant Facebook , a punishment that could be sizable in scope and which comes in the wake of privacy violations. The government shutdown currently underway has meant that regulators have not as of yet responded to the Friday reports.

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DECEMBER 16, 2018

Facebook , the beleaguered social media giant that is facing intense scrutiny into its business practices, could be on the hook for a multibillion dollar fine, reported CNN. It confirmed to CNN late last week that it started a “statutory” inquiry into the social media giant after it received several reports of data breaches.

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MARCH 3, 2020

The wisdom of crowds, gleaned from social media, can paint a gestalt picture of how a government agency’s, bank’s or retailer’s efforts are being received on the ground, so to speak. And it can also (perhaps), fed through models and analytics, can bolster decision-making for the greater, common good. Ethical AI.

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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

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

4) that she sees the need for more global regulation of social media and at the same time is concerned free speech is at risk. “If If regulation gets too heavy, it actually will impact freedom of speech very heavily,” former Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe.”. “I

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JANUARY 18, 2022

18) that it plans to regulate cryptocurrency advertising like other financial products and ensure that promotions are “fair, clear and not misleading,” according to a Bloomberg report. 17), Spain’s market regulator enhanced controls on crypto-related ads, saying they must include a warning that investors risk losing all their money.

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

Federal banking regulators support using alternative methods to assess creditworthiness to help high-risk people get loans, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Tuesday (Dec. The regulators added that agencies choosing to tap into alternative data should do so judiciously.

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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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Chris Skinner

MAY 20, 2016

I just received a white paper about Social KYC from Fintech startup Veridu. The idea is to use our social media profiles to authenticate and onboard as a new 21st century KYC process.

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JUNE 19, 2019

In an appearance at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said the social media platform didn’t anticipate the foreign interference that sought to disrupt the U.S. presidential election in 2016, but has since put up safeguards against misinformation.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

Social media fraud has been on the rise during the past year. Such schemes entail fraudsters falsely advertising offers from restaurants on social media, then duping victims into paying for them and absconding with the funds. Developments From The Mobile Order-Ahead World.

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JUNE 24, 2019

This means Libra is likely to see more scrutiny from regulators as the project takes shape and eventually launches. That sentiment was reflected in part by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), which said this past weekend that there should be coordinated regulations on cryptocurrencies. Beyond Cryptocurrencies.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

You can be sure that one area of regression involves social media. New research, in fact, supports that idea — specifically, the high value that consumers attach to Facebook , and the high cost it would take to make them leave the social media platform. But that doesn’t mean consumers plan to leave Facebook anytime soon.

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JUNE 24, 2020

The Central Bank’s decision is a setback for the social media giant. Tiago Severo Gomes , a partner at Caputo, Bastos and Serra and a specialist in FinTechs and banking regulation, said the Central Bank’s order, since there was no further argument, was an unusual move in the field of payments.

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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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American Banker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The American Bankers Association found that 89% of the banks it surveyed feel that social media is important. But there is room for improvement in their practices.

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JUNE 23, 2020

The German Federal Court has ordered Facebook to comply with an order from the country’s antitrust regulator and stop data collection of users in the country, Reuters reported Tuesday (June 23). At that time, Mundt said that the Federal Cartel was confident it had the power to impose regulation.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Japanese social media network Line can begin trading its own digital currency among its 700 million users beginning in April 2020. Available since 2018, Line’s currency is called Link and has not been available in the Japanese or United States markets due to government regulation in its country of origin.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The regulator is stepping up an investigation after the report showed the apps sent data like body weight and menstrual cycles. The letters to app developers ask for contracts with Facebook, and a list of the fees and commissions it got from the social media giant. There are at least 11 apps involved in the investigation.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

The paper said that prior to the approval of vaccines by regulators in the United States and the European Union, authorities had warned that fraudsters would use the opportunity to launch scams or sell stolen doses.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

CUs are facing pressure on the regulatory side as well, with banking advocacy organizations like the American Bankers Association (ABA) pressuring federal regulators to block rule changes that would help CUs compete with large banks. Deep Dive: How CUs Leverage Social Media. percent and total deposits by 6.9 About the Tracker.

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TheGuardian

MARCH 15, 2023

The speed at which Silicon Valley Bank collapsed has left experts questioning whether social media has opened up entirely new risks in the world of finance Shares in banks all over the world have plummeted in recent days as fears that the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) could precipitate a wider crisis in the sector.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The DPC — which acts as the regulator for all of Europe — searched the social media giant’s offices in Dublin. Privacy regulators raised concerns that the new feature wasn’t compliant with the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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TheGuardian

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Watchdog ruled social media post failed to provide balanced information over banks ongoing financing of polluting industries A Lloyds Banking Group advert has been banned for making false environmental claims, making it the second major lender to break the UK advertising watchdogs rules against greenwashing.

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Chinese insurance company ZhongAn Online Property and Casualty Insurance, which boasts a customer base of 500 million people, has obtained approval to open an initial public offering (IPO) on the Hong Kong stock exchange. China’s first online-only insurance company hopes that the IPO will raise as much as $1.5 billion USD.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Everyone who is doing prepaid processing today claims that they can do credit,” he said — but when you dig deeper into the requirements of a credit-processing system and associated regulations, it’s a very different product than prepaid or debit. All About Mobile. But while some might think the mobile banking innovation trend is a U.S.-dominated

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JANUARY 11, 2019

banking regulators asked lenders to help workers who couldn’t pay their bills or needed credit in the meantime, according to a report from Reuters. Some have turned to social media for help, using online fundraising sites or even selling possessions. As Friday (Jan.

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