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24 mai 2018
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Rappel sur la RGPD

Le Règlement général de protection des données personnelles (RGPD) entre en vigueur le 25 mai 2018 dans l’ensemble de l’Union européenne. Il va permettre de renforcer l’arsenal de protection des données personnelles des internautes et instaure de lourdes sanctions pour les entreprises pouvant aller jusqu’à 4% du chiffre d’affaire mondial annuel de l’entreprise. « L’idée de ce texte est de créer une souveraineté numérique pour chaque citoyen européen » précise Gérard Haas, avocat spécialiste de la technologie,...

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23 mai 2018
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Recap on GDPR

The EU's GDPR becomes enforceable May 25, 2018 and states that user’s data can be used only if that individual gives a company explicit permission. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was put in place to standardize existing laws that call for transparency in how companies collect and store personal data about EU citizens. GDPR implies all companies offering services to consumers in the EU, to be transparent on what data they collect...

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17 avril 2018
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The challenges and the opportunities of the FinTech regulation in Mexico

FinTech Regulatory Challenges in Mexico report, established by Banxico, tells us that technological advances are not only being developed on new infrastructures but offer the possibility of innovating on existing financial infrastructures. Why are Mexican authorities taking measures to incorporate FinTech regulation into a legal framework? Firstly, Mexico is incorporating this regulation in order to give some legal setting to this new industry, which covers new market segments (traditionally uncovered by banking institutions), offering an easier...

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17 avril 2018
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The trend is to fight fraud with advanced authentication technologies

As developed in the previous article entitled ‘Mexico hosts the most important online chargeback’, the Payment Service Directive in Europe mandates strong payment authentication, while we were writing that article, Banxico informed us about current market and collaborative initiatives. Cryptographic keys, digital identity or biometrics are the leading mechanisms employed by stakeholders in order to develop robust authentication technologies to fight fraud and data breaches. Multi-factor authentication requiring multiple layers of defense is the way forward...

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17 avril 2018
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Mexico hosts the most important online chargeback

Mexican banks registered almost 2.9 million cases of suspected fraud in 2014, totaling around US $480 million among which 48% with credit card. Chargeback: a chargeback is a form of customer protection provided by their issuing banks, which allows cardholders to file a complaint regarding fraudulent transactions on their statement. Once the transaction is indeed proven to be fraudulent, the bank will refund the original value to the cardholder. From the merchant's point of view, if...

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17 avril 2018
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México, el crecimiento digital incrementa el uso de pagos con tarjeta

Antes del año 2010, la revolución digital y el comercio electrónico en México presentaron una desaceleración debido a una fuerte renuencia a los pagos en línea respaldados por una baja tasa de habitantes que poseen una cuenta bancaria y sucesivamente, una tarjeta bancaria. Banxico (Banco Central de México) ha informado que, en 2012, solo el 27% de las personas mayores de 15 años contaban con una cuenta bancaria, dato incrementado a 46% para el año 2016....

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