Legal & Regulation

Legal & Regulation
Regulators Slow H&R Block Bank Sale
October 08, 2014

It looks like the sale of H&R Block’s bank business to BoFI Holdings will be on hold for the rest of the year, as regulators have essentially bounced back the application. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

Marc Andreessen’s Rx For Financial Services
October 08, 2014

Venture Capitalist—and graphical Web browser creator—Marc Andreessen is looking at the payments space as an area that needs to—and can—be fully recrafted. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional...

Legal & Regulation
Why The House Opposes FTC Probing Payment Fraud
October 07, 2014

The House Banking Committed lended it’s voice to the growing chorus of those calling for the discontinuation of Operation Choke Point–a federal initiative that seeks to limit the reach of various suspect businesses (pornographers, fireworks dealers, Ponzie Schemes, dating sites, ammunitions dealers, etc.) by “choking...

Legal & Regulation
Payment Processor Porn Pressure
October 06, 2014

Regulation makes strange bedfellows, and possibly none stranger than pornographers and payments processors who have banded together to fight federal legislation that seeks to limit the means by which suspect industries access and use money. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...

New iPhone A Little Too Secure For The Federal Government
October 01, 2014

Anyone who has ever said that there is no such thing as too much security when it comes to data on mobile devices has clearly never worked for federal law enforcement. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder followed up the announcement of his resignation last week...

Legal & Regulation
U.K. Card Fee Controversy Could Cost MasterCard $1.6B
September 30, 2014

MasterCard’s European woes over interchange just keep on coming as WM Morrison Supermarkets Plc is leading a group of U.K. retailers that are hoping to add more than a $1 billion in damages from MasterCard Inc. in their antitrust suit over payment fees, reports Bloomberg....

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How Banks Can Survive In A Post-2020 Payment Market
September 29, 2014

What a payment represents in 2020 will be much different from it does today, as it will represent much more than just the settlement of a transaction or the movement of funds. In fact, the market transformation has already begun, new research results suggest. Get...

B2B Payments
The Fed Wants To Clean Up Token Confusion
September 29, 2014

The Federal Reserve Banks of Boston and Atlanta applaud the many efforts to standardize payment tokenization, except the part that there are in fact so many such efforts. The potential for confusion and, much worse, standards conflicts undermining token efforts—especially in mobile—is a great concern...

Cybersecurity
Fed Sets Up Tokenization Workgroup
September 26, 2014

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston has created a working group to study the implications of using digital account tokens to replace card numbers, for both in-store and E-Commerce use. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...