regulation

Regulation is an abstract concept of management of complex systems according to a set of rules and trends. In systems theory, these types of rules exist in various fields of biology and society, but the term has slightly different meanings according to context.

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India’s RBI Hobbles Mobile Payments
India’s RBI Hobbles Mobile Payments
December 10, 2014  |  Mobile Commerce

While India has the potential to be one of the world’s biggest markets for mobile payments, at the moment the country’s central bank is creating...

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Visa Europe: Save Us From Lower Interchange And Alt-Payments
Visa Europe: Save Us From Lower Interchange And Alt-Payments
November 26, 2014  |  B2B Payments

Visa Europe has launched a publicity campaign to derail payment-card reforms passed last year by the European Commission that include caps on interchange fees, rollbacks...

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CFPB Jumps Into The Real-Time Payments Fray
CFPB Jumps Into The Real-Time Payments Fray
November 21, 2014  |  Financial Inclusion

Bankers must make consumer safety a priority as they develop a new, real-time electronic payments system, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray told a...

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CFPB To Regulate Prepaid Cards
CFPB To Regulate Prepaid Cards
November 14, 2014  |  Alternative Finances

New debit-card regulations from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau won’t just cover reloadable plastic cards, but also payment services like PayPal, Venmo, Square Cash and...

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Argentine Bank’s Money Transfers Linked To Money-Laundering Investigation
Argentine Bank’s Money Transfers Linked To Money-Laundering Investigation
November 12, 2014  |  International

An Argentine bank whose anti-money-laundering controls got a clean bill of health from the New York Federal Reserve is now at the center of civil...

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NY Backs Off (A Bit) On Bitcoin Licensing
NY Backs Off (A Bit) On Bitcoin Licensing
October 16, 2014  |  Alternative Finances

Financial services providers in New York will need a BitLicense — but that won’t include software developers, bitcoin miners, and individual cryptocurrency users, the Wall...

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Regulators Must Set Clear Ground Rules For B2B Networks
Regulators Must Set Clear Ground Rules For B2B Networks
October 09, 2014  |  B2B Payments

Regulations for the providers of financial-transaction infrastructure aren’t going to return to pre-financial-crisis levels — in fact, they’re likely to be an ever-increasing burden for...

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PYMNTS Talks Back
PYMNTS Talks Back
May 24, 2014  |  Cool

Wow, did we get our PYMNTS peeps buzzing this week! We thought that the POV on EMV would get some folks talking and we weren’t...

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Will Interchange Fee Caps Kill  Commercial Cards?
Will Interchange Fee Caps Kill Commercial Cards?
April 10, 2014  |  B2B Payments

It had been known since the summer of 2013 that The European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) Committee would vote to introduce a cap...

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