April 18, 2024
Congress Advances Earned Wage Access Bill as Popularity Grows
When is a loan not a loan? That is, in one sense, the question at the heart of proposed new federal legislation around earned wage access (EWA) that is coming on the...
April 18, 2024
Choke Points, Competitiveness, and Competition
By Thorsten Käseberg1 Over the last 10 years, “choke points” have become a standard notion for trade and security policymakers in our conflict-driven, globalized interdependent world. Choke points may...
April 18, 2024
Revolut Invests $100 Million in Mexico as Remittances Jump
Revolut has reportedly made a $100 million-plus bet on Mexico’s remittance market. Speaking with Reuters Wednesday (April 17), Revolut Mexico CEO Juan Miguel Guerra said the bulk of that investment...
April 18, 2024
Why Europe Must End Its 30-Year Digital Winter to Ensure...
In the last 30 years, Europe — defined here as the EU plus the U.K., Norway and Switzerland — has created few leading digital businesses compared to the U.S. and...
April 17, 2024
This Week in Web3: Bitcoin Halving, Stablecoins, Bankman-Fried
The bitcoin halving is imminent, and crypto is on everyone’s mind this week. That’s because the technical event, which happens every four years and serves to create more scarcity of...
April 17, 2024
Visa Acceptance Enhancements Connect AI to Click-and-Mortar™ Shopper
Earlier this year, Visa and PYMNTS Intelligence trained a spotlight on the Click-and-Mortar™ shopper. This fast-growing segment, who seek digital features with the instant gratification of in-store shopping, offers both challenge and opportunity for...
April 16, 2024
UnitedHealth Takes $872 Million Hit From Ransomware Attack
The recent cyberattack on UnitedHealth Group’s Change Healthcare unit cost the company $872 million. Speaking during an earnings call Tuesday (April 16), CEO Andrew Witty said a bulk of that figure — around $595 million...
April 16, 2024
Is the Brussels Effect Creating a New Legal Order in...
By: Patricia Boshe & Carolina Goberna Caride (Technology & Regulation Journal) Brussels serves as the hub for the EU legislator, where influential norms like the EU Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) are...
April 16, 2024
Review Logic and Rules for Concentrations of Undertakings that Do...
The revised Antimonopoly Law, as amended in June 2022, added a new system of reviewing concentrations that do not meet the standard of notification, which is a necessary supplementary rule...
