October 04, 2021
GDPR Fines Exceed $1.1B in Q3

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)’s 984.47 million euro fines (more than $1.14 billion) in the third quarter of 2021 was almost 20 times higher than the combined total of...

September 27, 2021
Monetary Remedies for Zero-Price Privacy Regulation: An Economic Perspective

Zero-price goods and services potentially create a problem for regulators interested in crafting monetary remedies that are deterrent, efficient, and inexpensive to implement in that they prevent the use of...

September 27, 2021
Personal Data as a Price in Market Definition: A Brief...

Services offered by Google, Facebook, and their kin are not truly free: users contribute to the monetization of the platform. The question is not whether a market can be defined...

September 26, 2021
Egypt’s Central Bank OKs Merchant Licenses for Contactless Payments

Egypt’s central bank has given the green light to licenses that will let merchants accept contactless payments from mobile phones. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...

September 24, 2021
Tackling Privacy Concerns Would Be Key to Ensuring Digital Euro...

It is possible that an electronic version of euro notes and coins may one day be widely available for use in Europe. But while the projected completion of that complex...

September 14, 2021
TikTok Faces Two EU Data Probes

The lead data privacy regulator in the European Union has opened two inquiries into the Chinese-owned short-video platform TikTok, related to the processing of children’s personal data and transfers of...

September 14, 2021
Embedded Finance: What’s Old is New Again

Adam Cohen, general manager of enterprise at Payoneer, told PYMNTS that embedded finance is nothing new: “When you think about it, embedded finance is quite an old concept, and it’s...

September 13, 2021
Antitrust Brainstorm Board with Elyse Dorsey

Below, we have provided the full transcript of the interview with Elyse Dorsey, Visiting Scholar at the University of Virginia, recorded on September 3, 2021. This interview was done as...

September 12, 2021
BIS Says Central Banks Risk Playing CBDC Catch Up Game

There’s always deep debate about how best to promote innovation in the tech space – particularly when it comes to payments. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...