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FlexM Gets MAS Approval to Broaden Payment License Scope

Fintech News

FlexM provides financial technology solutions to other financial institutions, covering payments, merchant acquisition, remittances, and regulatory compliance. With the MPI license, FlexM can now expand its services to include international money transfers.

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6 Asian Companies Recognized Among the World’s Most Promising in Cross-Border Payments

Fintech News

The company provides solutions such as checkout, payment links and escrow services to simplify international transactions and reduce risks for both buyers and sellers. Its platform covers payments in 173+ countries with local payment options in 70+ markets and offers global business accounts in 60+ currencies.

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Navigating the FCA’s Consumer Duty: Key insights and action steps for payments firms

The Payments Association

It represents a major regulatory shift, requiring firms to enhance governance, fair value assessments, and customer support, with significant compliance challenges. The scope of the Consumer Duty covers payments service providers (PSPs), e-money issuers, money remitters, merchant acquirers, and open banking firms, amongst others.

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Credit Card Surcharges: What Are They, and How Do They Work?

Stax

This is good news because it means you won’t have to inflate your base prices to cover payment processing fees. Non-compliance with these regulations can lead to enforcement actions from federal regulatory agencies. Track these changes and maintain thorough and up-to-date documentation of your compliance to avoid penalties.

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CFPB Proposes to Regulate Large Digital Wallet and Payment App Providers

Global Fintech & Digital Assets

General Applicability The Proposal would only apply to “larger participants” of the payments market that provide over 5 million covered consumer payment transactions per year through a digital application for consumers’ general use in making consumer payment transactions.

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Czech Banks To Invest $260M Into National Development Fund

PYMNTS

The partnership will enable Wirecard and O2 to help retailers in the Czech Republic and Slovakia to comply with upcoming changes in fiscal laws covering payment acceptance and processing.

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Slashing Ambiguity In The B2B Partnership Payments Process

PYMNTS

As a result, understanding whether a contract is in compliance, and how to compensate that payer, can be a maze of complexity and uncertainty. Rather than managing individual payments, however, Head pointed to the opportunity for automated technology to enable standardized processes that can bring efficiency to the payments process.

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