Regulation

23 Apr 20 @ 16:16

Central bank digital currency (CBDC) from the likes of the Bank of England should be issued to prevent the ‘privatisation’ of money and trust in the monetary system disappearing, according... read more

22 Apr 20 @ 15:51

Ripple filed a lawsuit on Tuesday that accuses streaming giant YouTube of turning a blind eye to scams that have defrauded consumers. In a complaint filed in San Francisco federal court,... read more

22 Apr 20 @ 12:55

The financial services industry has been dealing with the impact of Open Banking since the inaugural World FinTech Report in 2017. Fast forward to the World FinTech Report 2020 and... read more

20 Apr 20 @ 12:09

Payments Europe welcomes that the European Commission has started assessing the impact and consequences of the Interchange Fee Regulation (IFR) and has written a paper to support this. The European... read more

20 Apr 20 @ 09:34

Regulations and ongoing rollouts of contactless terminals at POS are boosting card acceptance networks, with cardholders throughout Europe increasingly using their cards for low-value payments – regulatory factors are playing... read more

08 Apr 20 @ 14:16

The European Commission has accepted requests submitted by Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the UK to assess under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of Nets A/S account-to-account... read more

03 Mar 20 @ 12:24

A love affair between consumers and their mobile phones is leading to explosive growth in new digital payments across Europe. More and more consumers are shopping across borders online and... read more

02 Mar 20 @ 17:07

A group of Europe’s largest and most important financial infrastructures, members of the Euro Cyber Resilience Board for pan-European Financial Infrastructures (ECRB), chaired by the European Central Bank (ECB), launched... read more

28 Feb 20 @ 09:24

The European Commission recently unveiled a detailed set of proposals that it hopes will establish the region as a leader in AI (artificial intelligence) by focusing on trust and transparency.... read more

20 Feb 20 @ 11:14

Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Facebook and Microsoft are facing a new wave of scrutiny over whether they stifled competition by buying up smaller rivals. The Federal Trade Commission has asked the firms... read more

18 Feb 20 @ 15:15

Financial technology has displaced the 2008 financial crisis as the main issue driving the international regulatory agenda and RegTech. As such, it is likely to have a significant influence on... read more

14 Feb 20 @ 16:14

The love affair between consumers and their mobile phones is leading to explosive growth in new digital payments across Europe. More and more consumers are shopping across borders online and... read more