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Financial Regulators Regulatory Environment

Episode 298 - The Patchwork of Payments Regulation in the US, with Duncan Douglass, Alston & Bird LLP

Kicking off a series of regulation-related episodes, Duncan Douglass, payments attorney and Partner at Alston & Bird LLP, joins Chris Uriarte and Samantha Gordon to turn the confusing and sometimes tedious topic of US payments regulation into an entertaining and enlightening update. The conversation begins with who actually regulates payments in the US and how US payments oversight differs from the UK and EU, then flows into developments on current regulatory topics.
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Smaller UPI Apps Urge NPCI to Rethink UPI Meta Launch, Warn of Deeper Phonepe-Google Pay Dominance

Money Control

“Smaller UPI apps urge the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to rethink the launch of the UPI Meta protocol, warning it could inadvertently entrench the dominance of PhonePe and Google Pay. NPCI runs UPI, the country’s most popular digital payments platform. The industry representation follows NPCI’s push to roll out UPI Meta, a tokenisation […]
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Global

Decoded: How Offline UPI Can Keep Digital Payments Running Without Internet [India]

Business Standard

“The payments body is developing an offline UPI system that could allow users to make tap-and-pay transactions even when both the customer’s smartphone and the merchant’s point-of-sale (PoS) terminal are offline. Instead of relying on instant bank authentication, the proposed system is expected to use Near Field Communication (NFC), secure offline token storage and deferred […]
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Industry

Why South African Banks Still Charge for Instant Payments

TechCabal

Three years after the launch of PayShap, South Africa’s real-time payment system, the technology behind instant bank transfers is no longer the issue. The question is why consumers are still paying to move their own money. Brazil’s Pix, launched in 2020, became the country’s dominant payment method by allowing consumers to send money instantly at little […]
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