September 22, 2025
European Commission Weighs Taking Down Cookie Consent Banners on Websites
The European Commission is considering rolling back parts of the EU’s 2009 e-Privacy Directive that left the internet plastered with cookie consent popups. The discussions are part of the EU’s...
September 21, 2025
EU Finance Ministers Agree on Roadmap for Digital Euro
In another step toward establishing Europe’s economic and digital sovereignty, European Union finance ministers on Friday agreed on a roadmap for launching a digital euro backed by the European Central...
September 21, 2025
US DOJ Signals Scrutiny of Antitrust Risks in AI Sector
U.S. antitrust officials are stepping up oversight of the artificial intelligence industry, warning that regulators are prepared to act against practices that could stifle competition, according to Reuters. Get the...
September 17, 2025
Draghi Calls for Pause on Implementing EU’s AI Act, ‘Radical...
Former Italian Prime Minister and European Central Bank President Mario Draghi, who touched off the EU’s current drive to untangle its web of regulations with a landmark report on European...
September 02, 2025
SAP to Invest $23 Billion in Europe Sovereign Cloud
German software giant SAP announced Tuesday (Sept. 2) that it is investing 20 billion euros ($23.3 billion) to expand its “sovereign cloud” services as it bets on Europe’s desire to...
August 26, 2025
Open Banking: What Have We Learnt?
The article considers what regulators can learn from the experience of the open banking implementations that have taken place to date and, in particular, the relative merits of market-driven versus...
August 26, 2025
The Feasibility of a Competitive AI Development Ecosystem in the...
The EU AI Continent Action Plan intends to put Europe as leading AI reference. To do so, among its many objectives, the plan recognizes the critical role that access to...
August 14, 2025
Startup Cohere Raises $500 Million for Its AI Model for...
In the artificial intelligence (AI) model race, news headlines usually congregate around the competition among OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, DeepSeek and xAI. But there are many more startups developing frontier AI...
August 10, 2025
A New Statutory “Right to Complain” Under Data Protection Law
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The Merchants Guide To Navigating Global Payments Regulations, a PYMNTS and Ekata collaboration, is the go-to monthly resource for updates on the trends and changes regarding PSD2 as well as other privacy and data protection regulations.