October 13, 2022
Value of Local Expertise Underestimated in Expanding Cross-Border Commerce
With merchants and brands battling falling sales, cross-border expansion into high-growth markets is a strategy for steadying the ship, but it’s tough going if you don’t know the local payment...
September 02, 2022
Chinese eCommerce Firm Pinduoduo Launches US Offshoot
Chinese eCommerce company Pinduodo has launched an online shopping site in the U.S. in its first major overseas expansion. According to published reports Friday (Sept. 2), the site – known...
August 31, 2022
Converging Proposals for Platform Regulation in China, the EU and...
The fast expansion of the digital sector has raised regulatory attention across the world. In order to maintain a competitive market and to promote healthy and fair competition, major economies...
August 25, 2022
Digital Marketplaces Tackle 3,000 Years of Agribusiness Inertia
For more than 3,000 years, the agriculture industry has been doing business manually. It started with stone tablets and still clings to last millennium’s paper documentation. That ancient legacy makes...
July 13, 2022
A Wider-Aperture Lens for Competition Policy: Antitrust in the Context...
The growth of China and President Xi’s policies have transformed the global economy in ways that competition policy and business strategies have yet to fully grasp. The global economy is...
July 07, 2022
Flutterwave Denies Kenyan Regulator’s AML Claims
Digital payments FinTech Flutterwave has denied any wrongdoing after a court in Kenya froze its bank accounts. As Bloomberg News reported Thursday (July 7), Kenya’s High Court has locked the...
June 23, 2022
FDI and National Security: Risks FROM a Big Tech Breakup,...
Breaking up American “Big Tech” companies has in recent years been a topic of much discussion by policymakers and legislators across the political spectrum. Arguments for and against breakup offer...
June 15, 2022
Why Tech Regulators Need to Think Like Google
As many of the world’s largest companies are platform-based technology companies, there has been a growing push worldwide to regulate these companies to address issues arising from economic, political and...
June 06, 2022
Ant Group Intros ANEXT Bank in Singapore
FinTech Ant Group is introducing a new bank in Singapore after receiving approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The financial institution, dubbed ANEXT Bank, was approved by MAS...