EU Approves Instant Euro Payments To Compete With Visa, Mastercard LeapRate

February 26, 2024 BY Simon Mugo

EU Approves Instant Euro Payments To Compete With Visa, Mastercard

The groundbreaking regulation enables the swift transfer of funds denominated in euros, allowing transactions to be completed within a mere 10 seconds, irrespective of the time or whether it involves transfers within a single country or across EU member states. Traditionally, transaction processes through conventional card payments and banking deposits have been slow, often extending…

February 20, 2024 BY Elizabeth Anderson

Apple faces €500m fine over Spotify access

Apple also allegedly blocked firms such as Spotify from informing customers that they can get the service cheaper if they subscribe directly via the website. Apple faces a €500m fine should the EU find it guilty of infringing competition laws. The Guardian reported that Apple finds these fees reasonable as it provides apps with a…

September 07, 2023 BY Elizabeth Anderson

European Commission lists tech giants as Digital Markets Act gatekeepers

As smaller businesses complained about being trampled in virtual space by the big names in tech, the DMA aims to level the playing ground to an extent. For instance, the Google and Apple operating systems are the top drivers in the mobile industry and charge a 30% fee for in-app purchases, which companies such as…

June 29, 2023 BY Steffy Bogdanova

EU announces modernisation of payment services

The commission is additionally considering granting non-bank payment service providers full access to all payment systems within the EU. This approach aims to establish equal opportunities for both banks and non-banks by implementing a new set of regulations. Furthermore, this measure is anticipated to offer adequate protections for non-bank providers and ensure their entitlement to…

July 23, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

European Union approves CME Group and IHS Markit’s joint venture

The statement said: The proposed transaction is largely complementary, and results in a few technically overlapping areas between the companies’ activities relating to trade processing products. The new joint venture will provide trade processing and risk mitigation services for global OTC markets across interest rate, FX, equity and credit asset classes. Business information provider S&P…

January 14, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

LSEG gets regulatory approval for $27 billion Refinitiv deal

The approval of the acquisition brings a lengthy regulatory review of the deal, which will see Refinitiv owner Blackstone take a stake in LSE and will clear the way for a major new rival to Bloomberg. The authorities have been concerned that the acquisition would give the London bourse too much market data control, enabling…

May 15, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Forex Weekly Look Back: IG Group announces its first ESG Manager, UK economy sinks

The Bitcoin third block halving event took place this Monday. Every four years the amount a bitcoin minor receives is cut in half as a deflationary measure. The Bitcoin reward has gone down to 6.25 BTC from 12.5BTC. The algorithm behind the halving is designed to limit the total number of Bitcoins issued to 21 million…

May 13, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

European Commission announces a plan to fix flaws in AML and CTF rules

The new plan will disrupt the current model of supervision, where member state monitors the implementation of EU rules individually. During the first quarter of next year, the EC will propose setting up an EU-level supervisor fix the weaknesses in a loopholes in the current model. The EC calls for the European Banking Authority (EBA)…

December 13, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

European Commission adopts new rules to increase transparency in securities financing markets

In an important step towards increasing the transparency of securities financing markets, the European Commission announced earlier today that it has adopted a package new measures under the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR). The SFTR requires all securities financing transactions to be reported to a central database called "trade repository". The delegated and implementing acts…

March 08, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

European Commission with an Action Plan for more competitive financial market

The European Commission informed that it has just unveiled its Action Plan on how to harness the opportunities presented by technology-enabled innovation in financial services (FinTech). Europe should become a global hub for FinTech, with EU businesses and investors able to make most of the advantages offered by the Single Market in this fast-moving sector.…

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