Financial Privacy & Payments

Cash and digital payments, digital currencies, identity checks for opening accounts and making transactions, and the rules and cases on obtaining transaction records, freezing accounts and tracing money.

10 November Tuesday, 2026

Wero payments and Play Integrity checks in the Dutch ASN Bank app

According to user reports, ASN Bank's Android app in the Netherlands has, since version 1.36.3 (updated in mid-October), intermittently blocked Wero payments on systems without Google certification such as GrapheneOS, while the app itself still opens and shows accounts. As of 8 November we could find no announcement from ASN. People planning to switch to GrapheneOS can take it as an example of a bank moving a payment feature onto Google's check.

Based on 11 sources, including GitHub, ASN Bank, Android Developers

4 November Wednesday, 2026

Risk categories and seven strategies in Article 19's digital payments handbook

Article 19 has published a digital payments handbook in Traditional Chinese and English, using transactions between Hong Kong and the UK and US as its examples. It sets out what banks, money transfer services and payment platforms collect, whom they share it with and how long they keep it, offers seven strategies for reducing the risk, and notes that similar lessons apply elsewhere.

Based on 5 sources from Article 19, Laws & Regulations Database of Taiwan, Monetary Authority of Singapore