The European Commission’s proposal to shorten payment terms will hit SME retailers

While Independent Retail Europe values the objective of the Commission proposal on combating late payments to increase SMEs’ financial resilience, we warn that it will achieve the opposite for S...

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The European Commission’s proposal to shorten payment terms will hit SME retailers

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Will low-value gift cards survive the Anti-Money Laundering Regulation?

An industry association coalition of electronic money issuers, distributors, and retailers strongly calls on the European Parliament and the Council to keep the use of popular and everyday low-value,...

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New EU competition law guidelines recognise major benefits of buying alliances across the supply chain

Independent Retail Europe welcomes the new European Commission Horizontal Guidelines (HGL), which explicitly recognise the benefits that buying alliances and groups of independent retailers brings to...

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European industry associations call for payments in the Digital Identity Regulation to be non-mandatory

The European Association of Co-operative Banks (EACB), the European Association of Payment Service Providers for Merchants (EPSM), the European Banking Federation (EBF), EuroCommerce, the European Sav...

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