European Union

The European Union is a political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe. Its members have a combined area of 4,233,255.3 km² and an estimated total population of about 447 million.

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EU Ups Bank Supervision To Stem Money Laundering
EU Ups Bank Supervision To Stem Money Laundering
November 13, 2018  |  Regulation

European Union governments have reached a preliminary deal to bolster bank supervision in the hopes of preventing money laundering. According to Reuters, the deal, which...

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Daimler, BMW To Combine Car Sharing Biz
Daimler, BMW To Combine Car Sharing Biz
November 08, 2018  |  Ridesharing

The European Union’s (EU’s) competition authority has approved a plan by luxury carmakers Daimler and BMW to combine their car sharing businesses. “Combining our mobility...

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Beyond GDPR, Data Privacy Debate Gathers Steam in US
Beyond GDPR, Data Privacy Debate Gathers Steam in US
October 24, 2018  |  Data

When it comes to data privacy, it’s not all about General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and it’s not all about Europe. Here in the U.S.,...

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Google To Charge Hardware Companies To Use Its Apps To Comply With EU
Google To Charge Hardware Companies To Use Its Apps To Comply With EU
October 21, 2018  |  Google

Alphabet’s Google is gearing up to charge hardware companies as much as $40 per device to use its mobile apps as part of a new...

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EU Cracks Down On Passport Sales Due To Money Laundering
EU Cracks Down On Passport Sales Due To Money Laundering
October 10, 2018  |  Europe

The European Commission announced Wednesday (October 10) that it plans to provide European Union states with guidelines for handling national schemes to sell passports and...

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Google To Appeal Record EU Fine Over Android OS
Google To Appeal Record EU Fine Over Android OS
October 09, 2018  |  Google

Google is readying an appeal of the European Union’s record €4.34bn fine, which it was slapped with in July over its Android mobile operating system....

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Bureaucratic Fuel Is Pushing B2B Payments Toward Digital
Bureaucratic Fuel Is Pushing B2B Payments Toward Digital
October 03, 2018  |  B2B Payments

Unless you are a fan of paper cuts and ink smudges, take a moment to give it up for Spain. The country is the latest...

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Advocacy Group Says EU’s Tax Haven Blacklist Is Failing
Advocacy Group Says EU’s Tax Haven Blacklist Is Failing
September 25, 2018  |  B2B Payments

Tax havens are typically assumed to be islands in warm climates offering low tax rates for organizations looking for a lucrative loophole. But these “havens”...

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AR And VR Sizzle At Macy’s And Walmart, Amazon And Danske Bank Fizzle
AR And VR Sizzle At Macy’s And Walmart, Amazon And Danske Bank Fizzle
September 21, 2018  |  Sizzle/Fizzle

Sizzle Of The Week: AR/VR’s Retail Gains Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) have spent much of 2018 generating buzz as a potential tool...

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