Compliance

Despite being compliant, market-specific deployments leave retailers facing a new set of compliance challenges when moving into new geographies, argues Arnaud Crouzet, VP of security and consulting at FIME.

Three years ago, payments technology provider Dwolla submitted a 164-page proposal to the Federal Reserve's Faster Payments Task Force. This week, the Fed unveiled a plan for its own faster payments system, but Dwolla had already moved on to other projects.

David Marcus spent more than 15 years climbing the ranks in the mobile sector before becoming PayPal’s president and then moving onto Facebook, where he now leads the blockchain team that launched the controversial Libra cryptocurrency project.

The question of upgrading to 3D Secure 2.0 authorization will become easier for European e-commerce merchants if it proves to be a path to compliance with a provision of PSD2, the revised Payment Services Directive.

The San Francisco bank is moving two executives into new positions who will report to consumer banking head Mary Mack.

Banks submit millions of Bank Secrecy Act filings each year, yet only a fraction are valuable to law enforcement.

Facebook must have expected some backlash when unveiling its plans for Libra. But it may have underestimated just how much.

Brexit seems more likely than ever, as the U.K.'s new prime minister, Boris Johnson, has committed to meeting the October 31 deadline for a deal to leave the EU. But despite the lingering uncertainty over how that will happen, Mastercard is not abandoning its bullish stance on Europe.

Investments in open-banking fintechs have accelerated recently, as many European banks are struggling to implement PSD2-compliant open banking APIs to meet the EU’s September 2019 deadline.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development approved a settlement in favor of the California Reinvestment Coalition against CIT Group's OneWest Bank, which Steven Mnuchin ran before he became Treasury secretary.

Most agencies use electronic benefit transfer to deliver funds to prepaid cards, but recipients who need access to cash are often caught in a bind, with fewer convenient or free ATMs available in an increasingly digital payments landscape.

Regulators should proceed with removing one of the margin requirements for trading swaps.

Smart rulemaking starts with consolidating multiple agencies into one body with a clear mandate.

Gone are the Wild West days of Facebook, when the company could do whatever it wanted with little worry of regulatory or earnings repercussions. And as the social network embarks on its Libra currency project, its toughest days loom ahead.

Russia and its BRICS partners are developing cross-border alternatives to U.S.-dominated payments systems such as Swift, driven by the rise in cross-border trade and a desire to find non-dollar alternatives to international payments systems vulnerable to sanctions by the U.S. government.

The timing of the settlement serves as a warning to other companies of the risks they face in an increasingly data-focused economy.

After FASB's decision to give most credit unions and banks extra time to prepare, lobbying groups are pushing for more.

The system has made it easier for mobile wallets and other technology providers to enter India's payments market, and will push the next steps toward real-time payments and cash reduction, says Somya Patnaik, senior product manager at ACI Worldwide.

The bank has been slashing expenses, but executives acknowledged they remain high. Between having to hire thousands of compliance employees and waiting on the next CEO to be named, investments in new technology or other long-term growth are limited.

Indian consumers and businesses would be best served if New Delhi confined itself to discrete interventions to reduce structural barriers to payments competition, rather than imposing price controls, dispensing subsidies and promoting national favorites, says Eric Grover, a principal at Intrepid Ventures.