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13 Aug 2021, 8:15 am
Legal and Regulatory Developments SPOTLIGHT: Merchants Redouble Their Efforts to Push the Fed on Debit’s Routing and Pricing RulesDigital Transactions News – August 11, 2021 With a Federal Reserve deadline hitting Wednesday for comments on decade-old debit card regulations, large merchants are firing some last-minute salvos in hopes of influencing the Fed to make major revisions to rules governing transaction routing and pricing. [read post]
17 Dec 2021, 11:17 am
Legal and Regulatory Developments SPOTLIGHT: UK Government Outlines Plans for Regulation of Buy Now Pay Later IndustryThe Spectator – December 15, 2021 The buy now pay later industry has exploded in recent years, with the industry now worth $100 billion (circa £70 billion). [read post]
10 Dec 2020, 8:56 am
Legal and Regulatory Developments SPOTLIGHT: Facebook’s Antitrust Problems Are Jeopardizing Its Plans for WhatsAppQuartz – December 9, 2020 Facebook doesn’t make much money from WhatsApp. [read post]
2 Jul 2020, 8:40 am
Legal and Regulatory Developments SPOTLIGHT: EU Says Credit-Card Fee Curbs Helped Reduce Prices for ConsumersBloomberg – June 29, 2020 European Union curbs on credit and debit-card fees helped reduce prices for consumers and aided payments across the 27-nation bloc, regulators said in a report published Monday. [read post]
22 Apr 2021, 8:58 am
Legal and Regulatory Developments SPOTLIGHT: At Congressional Hearing, Panelists Question Why Crypto and Fintech Firms Need Bank LicensesThe Block – April 15, 2021 Congress collected feedback from legal minds on how fintech firms may use or abuse banking licenses. [read post]
29 Oct 2020, 7:36 am
Legal and Regulatory Developments SPOTLIGHT: The DOJ Is Investigating Visa’s $5.3 Billion Bid for Plaid on Antitrust GroundsTech Crunch – October 28, 2020 It’s not just big tech that’s getting the antitrust treatment from the Department of Justice. [read post]
17 Dec 2020, 8:04 am
Legal and Regulatory Developments SPOTLIGHT: Will a U.K. [read post]
14 May 2021, 7:51 am
Legal and Regulatory Developments SPOTLIGHT: A Fed Report on Debit Costs Could Fuel a Movement to Reduce a Decade-Old Fee CapDigital Transactions News – May 10, 2021 Pressure may be building on the Federal Reserve to take action on a debit card interchange-fee regulation that it has left intact for 10 years despite sweeping changes in the payments business, including an onrush of e-commerce transactions over the past year. [read post]
3 Dec 2021, 9:49 am
Legal and Regulatory Developments SPOTLIGHT: 6 Ways the EU’s Digital Markets Act Will Change Big TechPYMNTS – November 29, 2021 The European Union’s Digital Markets Act is coming, and Big Tech will never be the same. [read post]
1 Apr 2021, 8:44 am
Legal and Regulatory Developments SPOTLIGHT: Retail Groups Seek to Protect Merchants in Ongoing Swipe Fee LitigationChain Store Age – March 31, 2021 The nation’s two largest retail trade are objecting to the scope of proposed class-action swipe fee litigation. [read post]
16 Jul 2020, 9:23 am
Legal and Regulatory Developments SPOTLIGHT: UK Tightens Rules on Payments Firms in Wake of Wirecard DebaclePYMNTS – July 9, 2020 The United Kingdom’s financial regulator has toughened rules on payment companies less than two weeks after Wirecard AG’s collapse locked millions of customers out of their accounts, the Financial Times reported. [read post]
30 Jul 2020, 7:14 am
Legal and Regulatory Developments SPOTLIGHT: Durbin Asks Fed Chairman for ‘Appropriate Enforcement Action’ Involving Debit Card Transaction RoutingDigital Transactions News – July 28, 2020 (click here for Sen. [read post]
1 Oct 2021, 8:47 am
Legal and Regulatory Developments SPOTLIGHT: Alibaba Apps Start Offering WeChat Pay Option After Government OrdersReuters – September 28, 2021 China’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has begun offering payment services from Tencent Holdings Ltd’s WeChat on a number of its apps, after the government ordered major tech firms to stop blocking each other’s services and links. [read post]
9 Jul 2020, 7:24 am
Legal and Regulatory Developments SPOTLIGHT: Bipartisan Senate Bill Would Punish Retailers for Refusing Cash PaymentsCNBC – July 2, 2020 Sens. [read post]
26 Aug 2021, 8:58 am
Legal and Regulatory Developments SPOTLIGHT: Outgoing NY Governor Signs Bill to Limit Overdraft Practices at State-Chartered BanksBanking Dive – August 20, 2021 New York Gov. [read post]
12 Nov 2020, 7:24 am
Legal and Regulatory Developments SPOTLIGHT: DOJ Suit Over Visa, Plaid Deal Sounds a Lot Like a Monopoly CaseBloomberg Law – November 10, 2020 The government’s lawsuit to block Visa Inc. [read post]
8 Oct 2020, 8:56 am
Legal and Regulatory Developments SPOTLIGHT: House Panel Says Big Tech Wields Monopoly PowerWall Street Journal – October 6, 2020 America’s biggest technology companies have leveraged their dominance to stamp out competition and stifle innovation, according to a Democratic-led House panel, which said Congress should consider forcing the tech giants to separate their dominant online platforms from other business lines. [read post]
3 Dec 2020, 8:40 am
Legal and Regulatory Developments SPOTLIGHT: Visa Is Doing What Big American Companies Do to ‘Protect This Business’The New York Times – December 2, 2020 (subscription required) Visa dominates the lucrative business of processing debit card transactions. [read post]
22 Oct 2020, 7:06 am
Legal and Regulatory Developments SPOTLIGHT: UK Retailers Attack Visa and Mastercard Over Card FeesFinextra – October 20, 2020 The latest payments survey from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) shows card use continuing to rise steadily from 54% of transactions in 2016 to 61% in 2019. [read post]
27 Aug 2020, 8:07 am
Legal and Regulatory Developments SPOTLIGHT: TD Bank to Pay $122 Million to Settle Overdraft Claims Brought by Consumer Financial Protection BureauUSA Today – August 21, 2020 TD Bank has agreed to pay $122 million in a settlement with Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over charges that it issued illegal overdraft fees. [read post]
