Hogan Lovells has recently published the January 2016 edition of its Global Payments Newsletter containing the latest updates on payment technology and policy-related developments from around the world. Key developments of interest over the last two months include:
- 1st XI: US Government sale of over 44,000 Silk Road bitcoins attracts just 11 bidders;
- Kerching!: Diebold, the US ATM manufacturer, agrees $1.8 billion takeover of German rival Wincor Nixdorf creating a company with an installed base of 1 million cash machines worldwide and combined revenues of $5.2 billion;
- Shaken, not stirred: Hogan Lovells hosted its annual Global Payments Conference at Atlantic House London, where debate and expertise were intermingled at a time of disruption in the Payments world; and
- Regulation, Regulation, Regulation: Payment Accounts Regulations 2015 and PSD2 published.
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