A little while ago, we reported on the draft bill for the implementation of the 5th EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive (AMLD5). On 31 July 2019, the Federal Cabinet decided on ...
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It is safe to say that Facebook’s announcement of Libra, the world's first stable crypto currency, has caused somewhat of a stir. While crypto-purists are generally unimpressed with Libra, as ...
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Often when talking about money laundering, people immediately think of Al Capone. And that is quite accurate, because the term money laundering can be traced back to the actions of ...
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Is it allowed to offer customers different methods of payment when they make bookings over the internet, depending on where they live? My podcast partner today, Matthäus, has recently published ...
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In today’s episode of PayTechTalk, we – that is Christian, Hugo and myself – will be looking at the draft law presented by the German Ministry of Finance regarding the ...
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 Payment by credit card is becoming a popular method of payment in Germany. Around five percent of all payments are today conducted this way. However, many people only have ...
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In our 34th episode of PayTechTalk I talked with my colleague Christian about the licence types for payment service providers. Upon hearing this podcast, Marko Wenthin, one of the co-founders ...
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After our first joint podcast with Kilian Thalhammer at the Money20/20 Europe in (back then still) Copenhagen and our joint podcast with Jochen Siegert about the Bitcoin decision, we are ...
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 The instructions for the interpretation and application (IIA) of the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) on the German Anti-Money Laundering Act are still quite new. BaFin published them ...
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 Recently I looked into the topic of licence types for payment service providers on PayTechLaw. In my blog post “May I or may I not? The licence types for ...
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From 14 September 2019, strong customer authentication will be required for certain payment transactions. The EBA has now provided some commentary on what this means for SEPA mandates that are ...
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The Payment Accounts Act is an “old” law dating from April 2016 but it is going to be once more on people’s radars from 31 October 2018. Why exactly? It ...
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Last week I gave you an update on the Bitcoin decision. Let’s recap. On 25th November 2018 the Kammergericht Berlin (Az.: (4) 161 Ss 28/18 (35/18)) ruled that the trading ...
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Since the implementation of PSD2, or most likely even before, many companies have been preoccupied with one question: How, as a payment institution, do I get a BaFin licence? In ...
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In PayTechTalk 28 haben wir uns intensiv mit dem Thema Geldwäscheprävention befasst und versucht, die wesentlichen Grundlagen zu vermitteln. In dieser Episode erläutern wir, wie ein Verpflichteter im Sinne des Geldwäschegesetzes ...
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In PayTechTalk 28 I will be discussing an issue that is of great importance for our advisory practice with my colleague Christian Walz. No, we are not talking about a song ...
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