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Global: Mastercard, Schoolvoice partner to digitize Education sector payments across MENA
Mastercard has partnered with Schoolvoice, a school-parents communication platform based in the UAE, to digitise the education experience for schools in the Middle East ...
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Global: Aware acquires Fortress Identity and expands eKYC capabilities
Risk management company Aware has announced it acquired Fortress Identity to expand its offering around identity proofing, onboarding, verification, and authentication. Representatives from Aware stated that the ...
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Global: New RBI rules for online payments from 1 January, 2022
The RBI has ordered all companies in India to purge saved credit and debit card data from their systems from January 1, 2022. ...
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Global: Bank of Russia to ban digital currencies
The Central Bank of Russian Federation has reportedly intended to impose a blanket ban on the sector soon, according to its governor, CoinGeek reports. The ...
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Global: Swift explores expansion of network into the digital asset market
Banking co-operative Swift is to explore how it can support interoperability in the development of the tokenised asset market, working in conjunction with ...
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Global: Metro Bank fined with USD 7.3 mln
The Bank of England has fined Metro Bank USD 7.13 million for failures in its regulatory reporting, after the lender revealed an accounting blunder in 2019. Metro ...
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Global: Dubai World Trade Centre to set a crypto regulatory framework
Crypto exchange Binance has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Dubai World Trade Centre authority to help it establish a crypto regulatory ...
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Global: Indonesia gets new payments system
Indonesia’s central bank has launched a retail payments system designed to cut the cost of money transfers. The BI-Fast system will enable real-time ...
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Global: Standard Chartered fined £46.5m by Bank of England over reporting failures
The Bank of England has fined Standard Chartered £46.5m for repeatedly misreporting its liquidity position and for “failing to be open and cooperative” with the ...
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Visa acquires Currencycloud, plans to extend solutions to over 180 countries
Visa announced its acquisition of Currencycloud, a global platform that enables banks and fintechs, to provide innovative foreign exchange solutions for cross-border payments. The acquisition, ...