March 19, 2026
Fraudsters Build Synthetic Identities That Fool Traditional KYC Checks

In the early days of digital banking, identity fraud largely meant stolen credentials: a breached password, a compromised Social Security number or a copied credit card. Get the Full Story...

March 19, 2026
Data-Driven Competition: Implications For Enforcement and Merger Control

This article develops an economic framework for assessing how data affects competition and merger analysis. The authors explain that data has ambiguous competitive effects because it can both intensify competition...

March 17, 2026
Visa and Mastercard Win Right to Appeal UK Ruling on...

Visa and Mastercard have been granted permission to challenge a major UK ruling that found aspects of their fee structures breached competition law, marking a significant development in a long-running...

March 17, 2026
Spain’s Antitrust and Energy Watchdog to Release Blackout Report Without...

Spain’s antitrust and energy regulator, the CNMC, is preparing to release a long-awaited report on last year’s widespread blackout across the Iberian Peninsula, but the document will stop short of...

March 17, 2026
Mastercard and Visa Secure Appeal in UK Multilateral Interchange Fee...

The London Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday (March 17) that Mastercard and Visa can challenge last year’s judgment that they breached competition law with their multilateral interchange fees, Reuters reported...

March 17, 2026
Congressional Hearing Exposes New Fault Line Over Who Owns Financial...

Financial data now circulates through banks, FinTech platforms and intermediaries in ways that stretch beyond the structure of existing privacy law, banking and FinTech executives said Tuesday (March 17), raising...

March 16, 2026
Veriff Warns Deepfakes Are Distracting Firms From the Real Identity...

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March 16, 2026
Fake Normal Is Becoming the New Fraud Threat

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March 15, 2026
Selecta and Bondholders Ask US Court to Dismiss Antitrust Lawsuit...

Selecta Group BV and a group of its bondholders are urging a federal court in New York to throw out a lawsuit accusing them of violating US antitrust law through...