August 20, 2018
GDPR Challenges Indian Firms While FinTechs Eye Charters With Caution
Three months in, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation still stymies some firms seeking to comply with new rules and regulations governing data protection and privacy. Consider India, where...
August 15, 2018
What’s Behind The Rise Of Behavioral Biometrics?
Behavioral biometric technology is having a moment in the spotlight, thanks to new European banking rules, the rise of machine learning and artificial intelligence, and the never-ending drive to replace...
August 13, 2018
Connected Cars Hitch A Ride On Smart City Spending
They are siblings, the concepts of connected vehicles and smart cities. Tied together by data, sensors, algorithms, software and other technology, the two ecosystems are becoming increasingly difficult to separate...
August 13, 2018
FinCEN Eyes Cryptocurrency Amid 1,500 Monthly Complaints
1,500 complaints about suspicious activity per month. That’s the tally that FinCEN Director Kenneth A. Blanco told a conference last week that FinCEN, which operates as part of the Treasury Department,...
August 13, 2018
Payments’ Stranger Things
The payments world could very well be living in the Upside Down. The Upside Down is the fictional parallel universe controlled by a hive mind and humanoid predators called Demogorgons,...
August 10, 2018
YouTube Set To Benefit From Facebook’s Recent Stumbles
YouTube has a chance to take advantage of recent Facebook problems and move past the social media platform in terms of website traffic, according to a new study. Meanwhile, Yahoo...
August 10, 2018
A Bundle Of Contradictions: The Online Privacy Landscape
At first glance, 2018 is shaping up to be a year that has brought meaningful consumer, regulatory and legislative backlash against lax online privacy. Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California’s...
August 10, 2018
146B Customer Records On Dark Web By 2023
A new report has found that over 33 billion records will be stolen by cybercriminals in 2023 alone. The new findings gathered by Juniper Research and published in its report,...
August 09, 2018
Some States Readying For A Fight Over Federal Government’s FinTech...
Some states are girding for a fight with the Trump White House over plans for the federal government to increase its role in overseeing the FinTech startup market. According to...
The Merchants Guide To Navigating Global Payments Regulations, a PYMNTS and Ekata collaboration, is the go-to monthly resource for updates on the trends and changes regarding PSD2 as well as other privacy and data protection regulations.