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News/regulation
Thailand's central bank has published new measures for the growing digital personal loan market that will allow lenders to use a wider range of alternative data sources when making credit decisions.
18 September 2020
News/crime
The break-up of the various international businesses of disgraced payments processing company Wirecard continues after it emerged that Australian payments firm Change Financial is set to buy its Australian and New Zealand businesses for $7.8m.
14 September 2020
News/covid-19
A German fintech once backed by PayPal investor Peter Thiel, has filed for bankruptcy after failing to recover from the economic effects of the Coronavirus pandemic.
News/crypto
Square, the US-based payment company owned by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, is urging crypto companies to join its newly-formed patent alliance in a bid to maintain an open-source community within the industry and mitigate the malicious use of patents.
11 September 2020
The president of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, has suggested that the Euro Zone's central bankers are close to making a decision on whether to press ahead with the development of a central bank digital currency (CBDC).
Having come into effect on 2nd September, the ICO’s Age Appropriate Design Code has dealt firms a new raft of cumbersome data protection requirements to implement within a 12-month transition period.
09 September 2020
Research/Legal
03 September 2020 959 downloads
News/payments
Ripple is being sued by New Payments Platform Australia for alleged infringement of its PayID copyright.
26 August 2020
News/markets
ISignthis, a provider of payment verification technology to help banks meets AML reporting obligations, is seeking A$264 million in damages from the Australian Securities Exchange over the suspension of its shares.
24 August 2020
In a recent consultation paper, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) set out its proposed approach to the supervision of both new and growing non-system UK banks.
News/retail
Colorado has reached a settlement in lawsuits with online lenders and their partner banks relating to the state's right to enforce interest rate limits.
19 August 2020
US authorities have seized millions of dollars in cryptocurrency linked to online terrorist financing campaigns involving Hamas, al-Qaeda and ISIS.
13 August 2020
Electronic trading outfit Virtu Financial is suing its insurer for refusing to cover a $6.9 million loss suffered in a hacking scam.
12 August 2020
Ireland's Central Bank has imposed a €1.66m fine on Bank of Ireland (BoI) for a regulatory breach that saw one of its subsidiaries transfer more than €100,000 to a hacker that had illegally accessed a client's email account.
29 July 2020
The Philippine central bank has become the latest national monetary authority to consider establishing its own digital currency.
News/wholesale
The European Central Bank (ECB) has formally approved a one year extension to its T2-T2S consolidation project.
28 July 2020
News/people
Australian bank Westpac has appointed former ANZ technology chief Scott Collary to lead the consolidation of its technology and operations division.
Company update/people
We’re proud to announce today that Paul Grewal is joining Coinbase as our Chief Legal Officer.
08 July 2020
Company update/retail
VTB Group has received a patent for a technology developed by the bank's IT and consumer banking specialists for selecting loan offers for clients.
18 June 2020
In a letter to the European Parliament dated 15 June 2020, Andrea Jelinek, chair, European Data Protection Board (EDPB) raises concerns over the UK’s endeavour to reach an ‘adequacy decision’ with the EU following the end of the Brexit transition period.
17 June 2020
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