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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Facebook faces orders from the Russian Federation to comply with an internet regulation law that orders the company to store Russians’ personal data on Russian servers. If Facebook does not comply, the Russian government will block the social media website next year. In 2018, everything will be as it should be for sure.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

1, new eCommerce rules in India began limiting what online retailers like Amazon and Flipkart can sell in the country. The eCommerce rules block companies from selling items through vendors in which they have an equity interest, which forced Amazon to remove hundreds of thousands of products from its website in India.

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Fintech News

JUNE 12, 2024

To make multilateral payment platforms work well, there need to be clear rules and ways for different systems to work together. As multilateral platforms scale, the governance framework must evolve to keep up with changes in board participation, voting rules, regional representation, and economic models.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The move helps both retailers get around laws that prevent grocers of all sizes from making employees work late-night hours or on Sunday afternoons. Grocery group Casino Guichard Perrachon, along with its rival Carrefour, have been experimenting with keeping select stores open even after their employees go home.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Digital assets are reportedly seen as commodities and ruled by securities law in the country following an order on the topic earlier in the fall. The Giving Block has reportedly locked down collaborations with more than 120 charities and 30 blockchain firms to lead the occasion.

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MAY 11, 2016

district judge ruled against Staples’ proposed acquisition of Office Depot, reports Bloomberg , effectively putting to an end the two office supply chains’ long-gestating efforts to merge into one. Late in the day yesterday (May 10), a U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The company was accused of setting rules that blocked banks in one EU country from offering lower interchange fees to a retailer in another EU country. Mastercard actually stopped the practice in December of 2015 after the European Commission (EC) adopted charge-capping rules.

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Neopay

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In the US, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau published a proposed rule that would see non-bank financial companies that handle more than five million transactions per year face the same rules as large banks and credit unions.

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MAY 5, 2016

Later this morning the CFPB will begin taking comments on proposed rules that would ban financial firms from placing mandatory arbitration clauses within consumer contracts. Many banks and financial companies avoid accountability by putting arbitration clauses in their contracts that block groups of their customers from suing them.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The Internal Revenue Service has asked a court to dismiss a motion filed by a Coinbase user who wants the court to block the IRS from accessing transaction data. In response to that ruling, a Coinbase customer, Jeffrey K. In response to that ruling, a Coinbase customer, Jeffrey K.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2018

“Common sense and the law tell us that a non-bank is not a bank,” said CSBS President and CEO John Ryan in a statement announcing the suit. But legal hurdles have caused some FinTechs to approach the charters cautiously, reports said, while they wait for greater clarity and certainty on the rules. The body of U.S.

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Neopay

MAY 7, 2024

The aim is to increase the obligation on firms to identify and block financial transactions that may breach international sanctions. This includes references to the travel rule and updates to sections on risk assessment and fraud.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2016

Spotify had sent the ‘anticompetitive’ accusation letter to Apple earlier last week, after Apple blocked an update to Spotify’s iOS app, allegedly to thwart any potential competition to its Apple Music service.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2019

got approval to move forward after a court reversed a ruling by the Competition Appeal Tribunal. Court of Appeal rejected the tribunal’s ruling from 2017, which had blocked the claimants from pursuing the case led by Walter Merricks, the former financial ombudsman. A consumer lawsuit against Mastercard in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Mitiga is working with law enforcement after uncovering a widespread business email compromise (BEC) scam that has netted more than $15 million.

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APRIL 10, 2020

There is a precedent for the request, as debt collection companies are blocked from taking Social Security payments. The National Consumer Law Center told CNBC it has lobbied the Treasury to enact new rules to protect people in debt, and is urging states to take action if the Treasury does not. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2018

Furthermore, Schrems claims “Facebook has even blocked accounts of users who have not given consent.” But, with the law, users must be given a free choice. According to Reuters, many regulators lack power because governments haven’t updated laws to include ones that are Europe-wide.

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Nanonets

MAY 10, 2023

AI and law? These prompts are designed to help with everything from drafting legal documents and contracts, finding relevant case law, and communicating with clients. Let's talk about the major challenges faced by law professionals. 7 ChatGPT prompts for law professionals #1. You might be skeptical - and rightly so.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2020

Users pay fees to miners for transactions on the blockchain, and miners also receive a fixed amount of BTC for each block mined, which halves every four years. The mining difficulty, which shows how hard it is to mine blocks, was lowered 6 percent to 15.14 The last halving was on May 11, 2020.

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Fintech News

JULY 24, 2024

There are no exhaustive or proper regulations of repurchase activities, hence RBI may see it as a circumvention of the FLDG rule. Operating under the FLDG rule is risky in itself because it does not allow fintechs to work with the segments that they are primarily targeting. Once it reaches this limit, it has to get a license to lend.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

22) the rules could hurt online shopping and may not boost security. Visa went on to argue that eCommerce sales could decline in Europe if the EU rules were adopted because consumers would be put off by the new hurdles to make purchases online. as a way to cut down on fraud, which is on the rise online in Europe. “All

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

That earlier ruling found both firms were required under the new legislation to reclassify their workers. In a world where AB 5 as the law of the land, he noted, and all those drivers have to be full-time or part time employees — three quarters of their current workforce would have to go. As of today, he noted, Uber employs about 1.7

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

are facing a class-action lawsuit by consumers that allege they colluded to raise the cost of ATM access fees in what they say is a violation of antitrust law. According to a report by Fortune , last week, the Supreme Court ruled the class-action lawsuit can move forward. Visa, Mastercard and banks in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Wayfair ruling paved the way for broadened U.S. tax laws, and some businesses and public sector stakeholders are now pushing back. The case ushered in a wave of state- and municipality-issued economic nexus laws that tax remote sellers based on economic activity rather than physical presence.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2018

Russia is making good on its threat to ban Telegram by blocking IP addresses owned by Google and Amazon, saying they were being used by the messaging service. On Monday (April 16), a Russian court made it easier for the government to block Telegram after its creators refused to turn over access to its users’ encrypted messages.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2017

A bipartisan bill that’s being sponsored by eight senators is making the rounds and is aimed at blocking federal banking regulators from pushing a financial institution to stop serving marijuana businesses or the businesses’ landlords or lawyers in states where the drug has been made legal for medical or recreational purposes.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2018

A Russian court has made it easier for the government to block the Telegram messaging app after its creators refused to turn over access to its users’ encrypted messages. According to The New York Times , Roskomnadzor, Russia’s state communications watchdog, requested the authority to block the app’s use in Russian territories.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Action by the FTC would probably involve an order that would force Facebook to stop enforcing its policies regarding apps, as well as blocking it from integrating apps any further, which could complicate things if the company is eventually ordered to break up.

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JUNE 29, 2016

On Tuesday (June 28) The US Supreme Court agreed to hear appeals by Visa Inc, MasterCard Inc and several US banks seeking to throw out lawsuits claiming they conspired to inflate the prices of ATM access fees in violation of antitrust law.

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MARCH 7, 2017

Turkey has opened an inquiry into whether Google’s Android software ran afoul of the antitrust rules in the country. 6) it said it would investigate the matter to see if its practices violate antitrust and competition rules. At last count it is run on more than 75 percent of the smartphones around the globe. Regulators in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2017

With a now-total ban on WhatsApp, China has finally ousted Facebook for good, and Russia is threatening to do the same if the social media platform does not abide by its government’s rules (ironic, as Russia reached at least 10 million American Facebook users with its U.S. Russian Rules. Calling The Kettle Black. presidential election.

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FICO

JUNE 18, 2018

You can analyse the European landscape by dividing the countries into 3 blocks. Block 1 — Countries with NPL ratios > 20%. This block, which includes Greece and Cyprus, has seen little movement in the past three years in average NPL ratios and coverage percentages. Block 3 — Countries at or below the EU average.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

At that time, restrictions caused some Russian banks to be temporarily blocked from using Visa and Mastercard. In July , Visa said it would comply with a Russian law mandating that international payments systems have to process transactions for the country regardless of U.S. Russian banks have issued more than 69.7

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

Promising as intelligence of things (IoT) solutions are, though, security has been a stumbling block. Last year, the state of California passed an IoT security law, SB 327 , which is set to go into effect January 1, 2020. Smart technology is what makes ordering by voice and remotely monitoring your home possible.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2018

The European Commission announced on Tuesday (July 24) that it fined, in four separate decisions, consumer electronics manufacturers Asus, Denon & Marantz, Philips and Pioneer for breaching EU competition rules. This is illegal under EU antitrust rules,” said Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, who is in charge of competition policy.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Laws and regulators sometimes create seismic shifts within industries – where new mandates and rulings on trade and competitive practices can be likened to a sledgehammer. Injunctions may hobble innovation as it is scrutinized and yet to be ruled upon.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Laws and regulators sometimes create seismic shifts within industries – where new mandates and rulings on trade and competitive practices can be likened to a sledgehammer. Injunctions may hobble innovation as it is scrutinized and yet to be ruled upon.

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