June 07, 2022
Consumers Warming to Biometrics, Still Worry About Fraud

Around the world, companies are rolling out innovations designed to authenticate identities, replacing cumbersome methods involving usernames, passwords and paper-based ID. Biometrics like facial recognition, fingerprint and iris scans and...

June 07, 2022
PayPal Opens Door to Outside Crypto Wallets

PayPal is an island in crypto no more. The company announced on Tuesday (June 7) that people who hold cryptocurrencies in their PayPal account wallets will now to able to...

June 07, 2022
The Future of Digital Identity Verification: Driven by Technology, Shaped...

As the world becomes more connected and the number of digital devices used to conduct business continues to grow, organizations are under more pressure than ever to know with whom...

June 06, 2022
The ACCC’s Ongoing Digital Platforms Inquiry: Online Retail Marketplaces

By Jacqueline Downes, Melissa Camp and Bella Cameron1   I. Introduction This piece builds on our previous articles2 covering the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) examination of developments in...

June 03, 2022
TechREG Weekly EMEA: EU Seeks More AML Power; Bank of...

This week in TechREG, regulators in Europe and the United Kingdom continue exploring new rules in the cryptocurrency space. The U.K. wants to the give the Bank of England (BoE)...

June 02, 2022
EU Supervisors Seek More Power to Strip Licenses for AML...

The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) published a joint report on Thursday (June 1) advocating for the introduction in all relevant EU sectoral laws of a specific legal ground to revoke...

June 02, 2022
The Dawn of a New Digital Age: Key Learnings from...

By Michael Han, Caroline Huang, Bivio Yu, Joy Wong, & Karina Zhou1   In line with global developments, China’s antitrust authority, the State Administration for Market Regulation (“SAMR”), has taken...

June 02, 2022
Today in TechREG: EU Supervisors Seek Powers to Revoke Licenses...

Today in TechREG, three European Union supervisory authorities, including the banking and financial markets authorities, advocated for amending sectoral laws to include more powers to strip companies’ authorizations for serious...

June 01, 2022
EMEA Daily: EU, UK Look to New Crypto Regulations

In today’s top stories from Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), the European Supervisory Authorities said cryptocurrency exchanges that break money laundering rules should have to forfeit their licenses....