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BitcoinBitcoin Daily: UK Regulator Forbids Sale Of Crypto-Derivatives To Retail...
Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has prohibited the sale of digital currency derivatives to...
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RegulationUK Regulator Ends Half Its Money Laundering Probes Without Prosecuting
The United Kingdom’s financial regulator has closed the book on seven of 14 criminal...
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RegulationUK Tightens Rules On Payments Firms In Wake Of Wirecard...
The United Kingdom’s financial regulator has toughened rules on payment companies less than two...
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BitcoinBitcoin Daily: Travala Users Can Use Crypto Again To Pay...
Travala.com, the Binance-backed online trading agency, will be allowing travel bookings through Expedia paid...
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Security & FraudWirecard Reopens UK Banking As Regulators Remove Restrictions
Wirecard AG got the green light Tuesday (June 30) to resume its banking operations...
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Security & FraudUK Digital Banking Apps Affected By Wirecard Subsidiary Freeze
After the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) mandated that Wirecard’s British Wirecard Card Solutions...
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NewsToday In Payments: Wirecard Forces German Accounting Regs Reboot; Consumers...
In today’s top news, Germany’s deputy finance minister wants to restructure accounting firm regulations,...
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Security & FraudUK Financial Watchdog Says Wirecard Cooperative But Assets To Stay...
The United Kingdom’s regulatory authority said Wirecard AG was correcting issues raised by the...
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Bank RegulationA Merchant's How-To For Managing The Contactless Payments Surge And...
The pandemic has drastically affected how consumers are shopping and paying for even routine...
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BitcoinBitcoin Daily: New Zealand Seizes $90M In Bitcoin Fraud Case;...
New Zealand police have frozen $90 million they say belongs to alleged bitcoin scammer...
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UK Financial Regulator Proposes Extended Grace Period Amid COVID-19
A top British financial services regulator Friday proposed new regulations that could help borrowers...
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Bank RegulationFCA Fines Commerzbank London $47.5 Million For AML Failings
Germany’s Commerzbank London has agreed to pay a fine of £37,805,400 — about $47.45...
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CoronavirusIOC Mulls Plan To Delay Tokyo Olympics
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus from around the world. The International...
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CoronavirusCoronavirus Could Lead To 24.7M Unemployed; Argent Gives King's Cross...
The coronavirus could lead to tens of millions of unemployed workers and could change...
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CoronavirusEU Eases State Aid For Cos. As Banks Worldwide Pledge...
The coronavirus is spurring governments and companies to take action to help businesses and...
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BitcoinBitcoin Daily: S Korea OKs Crypto, Exchange Regulation; Malta’s Trident...
In a new digital real estate game called Upland, players can buy virtual versions...
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B2B PaymentsUK Explores Open Banking’s SMB Finance Impact
Open Banking business models continue to proliferate, and not just geographically. In the U.K.,...
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InternationalCoronavirus Cases Surpass 1,000 in Japan; Amazon Office Worker Confirmed...
The coronavirus could have wide-reaching effects on eCommerce, sporting events, travel, technology, and the...
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NewsTop News In Payments: Open Banking Could Expand In UK;...
In today's top payments news, the Financial Conduct Authority proposed new data sharing rules...
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Bank RegulationUK Banking Investigations Rise 16 Pct YOY
Probes into financial institutions in the U.K. are up for the first time since...
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Bank RegulationUK Regulators Call For Backup Plans Following Bank IT Glitches
U.K. regulators on Thursday (Dec. 5) called on banks and payment firms to set...
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Bank RegulationFCA Questions Metro Bank Managers On Misreporting Allegations
Metro Bank senior managers are being grilled by the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) about...
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RegulationFCA Agrees To 18-Month SCA Implementation Timeframe
The Financial Conduct Authority said Tuesday (Aug. 13) that it has agreed to a...
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BankingChallenger Payments Platform VibePay OK’d By UK FCA
London-based VibePay has won approval from the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to provide...
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CryptocurrencyRegulators Say Facebook's Libra Will Need Scrutiny
More financial regulators are talking about Libra and saying that Facebook’s recently announced cryptocurrency...
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RegulationFCA Tells Consumers To Be Wary Of Peer-To-Peer Loans
The U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority has issued a warning to consumers regarding certain risks...
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RegulationPan European Regulator: Key Weapon In Money Laundering War?
Among the latest headlines swirling in FinTech: Digital bank Revolut, based in the United...
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Consumer FinanceFCA Calls For Lenders To Curb ‘Unacceptable’ Fees
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the U.K.’s financial watchdog, has found that some lenders...
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Security & FraudHacks On UK Financial Services Firms Jump In 2018
Data breaches at financial services companies in the U.K. jumped fivefold last year, underscoring...
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AMLDeep Dive: How To Improve Existing AML/KYC Requirements
The following Deep Dive examines how the 2008 financial meltdown paved the way for...
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BankingLloyds Criticized For Increasing Overdraft Fees
Lloyds Banking Group is being criticized for making its overdraft fees more expensive and...
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Security & FraudUK Financial Firms Plagued By Tech Outages
Financial Services companies in the U.K. aren't doing a good job keeping their IT...
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LegalIn UK, P2P Firm Seeks Help from Regulators
In the United Kingdom, a peer-to-peer (P2P) property lender has taken what the Financial...
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RegulationFCA Rolls Out Rules To Help Consumers Make Better Financial...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced on...
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B2B PaymentsU.K. Regs To Conclude RBS Probe Next Month As Criticism...
The U.K. financial regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), announced its plans to complete...
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B2B PaymentsTSB IT Disaster Locks Entrepreneurs Out Of Accounts
The ongoing outage of TSB (Trustee Savings Bank) services in the U.K. isn’t just...
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B2B PaymentsUK, Australia Sign Stronger FinTech Innovation Pact
The U.K. and Australia are strengthening an existing collaborative agreement to promote FinTech innovation,...
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Bank RegulationUK Cracks Down On Bank Misconduct
The U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is taking a zero-tolerance stance on misconduct at...
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B2B PaymentsMPs To Publish FCA’s Confidential RBS Report
U.K. policymakers are reportedly ready to release a confidential report penned by the Financial...
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B2B PaymentsFCA Explores How To Include More SMBs In FinServ Protections
In business banking news, the U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) plans to propose an...
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BitcoinThe Beginning Of The End For Bitcoin?
Bitcoin has been riding a bit of a rollercoaster in the past few weeks...
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B2B PaymentsWEX Lands License To Issue Cards Across Europe
Corporate payments company WEX is continuing its focus on the global expansion of its...
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InternationalUK’s FCA Sees Record Complaints In Latter Half Of 2016
U.K. consumers lodged 3.04 million complaints in the second half of 2016 concerning financial...
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BrexitBrexit Tracker: VC Funding Remains Steady, SMEs Still Confident, FCA...
Though Brexit has brought about a lingering air of uncertainty, there are some parts...
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RegulationFCA Calls For International Regulatory Framework For Fintechs
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is calling for the creation of an international...
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Consumer FinanceFCA Proposes New Rules To Help Credit Card Debt Holders
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced Monday (April 3) it is proposing new rules...
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RegulationCFO Lending Told To Pay Back More Than 97,000 Customers...
CFO Lending, a U.K. payday lender, was told by the U.K.’s markets regulator that it...
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B2B PaymentsUK Lawmakers Want A New Bank Regulator — Again
The U.K. Parliament's Treasury Committee released its report on the effectiveness of the Financial...
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B2B PaymentsWhy Banks Are Ditching FinTech SMEs — Without Warning
Post-financial crisis regulations have forced banks to become more diligent and aggressive against financial...
