Navigate Global Marketplace Regulatory Compliance with Confidence

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Data Privacy and Cross‑Border Data Flows

Beyond GDPR’s lawful bases, buyers increasingly expect choice and clarity. Offer layered notices, honest consent prompts, and purpose limitation. Build preference centers that travel with the user, not with the device, across apps and storefronts.

Risk-based onboarding aligned with FATF

Calibrate seller KYC and ongoing due diligence using a risk-based approach: higher scrutiny for high-risk geographies, categories, or volumes. Verify beneficial owners, match documents, and monitor unusual activity without degrading seller experience.

Sanctions, PEP, and adverse media checks

Screen against OFAC, UN, EU, and UK lists, and refresh frequently. Layer PEP and adverse media signals for context. Document decisions and create escalation paths so edge cases are handled consistently and defensibly under audit.

Strong Customer Authentication and fraud controls

PSD2 SCA, 3DS2 exemptions, velocity checks, and device intelligence reduce chargebacks while preserving conversions. Test issuer routing and exemption strategies, and keep transparent refund policies to lower disputes and keep regulators off your back.

Product Compliance and Safety Across Borders

CE and UKCA for the European Union and United Kingdom, CCC for China, FCC for the United States—know which marks apply. Maintain technical files, user instructions in local languages, and traceability for components and suppliers.

Product Compliance and Safety Across Borders

From dual‑use items to lithium batteries and cosmetics, categories carry unique rules. Use rule engines to block noncompliant listings by destination, and pre-clear product attributes such as ingredients, wattage, or intended use.

Taxation: VAT, GST, and Marketplace Facilitator Laws

Use OSS for intra‑EU B2C sales and IOSS for low‑value imports. Track thresholds, store evidence of customer location, and issue compliant invoices. Automate rate selection and reconciliation to reduce month‑end fire drills.

Advertising, Consumer Protection, and Fair Design

Substantiate performance, price comparisons, and sustainability assertions. Keep records of tests and sourcing. Avoid bait‑and‑switch tactics, clearly show total costs, and disclose sponsored placement so shoppers never feel misled.

Advertising, Consumer Protection, and Fair Design

EU consumer rights, UK CMA guidance, and local rules require clear cancellation windows and fair return terms. Standardize templates, highlight key rights at checkout, and measure complaint types to fix friction fast.

Build a Living Compliance Program

Governance that actually works

Create a cross‑functional forum with clear RACI: legal sets policy, product operationalizes, engineering codifies, support detects, and security verifies. Tie goals to business outcomes so compliance fuels growth, not paperwork.

Automate the boring, escalate the ambiguous

Use RegTech for sanctions checks, tax determination, document validation, and policy‑as‑code. Instrument dashboards with leading indicators, not just lagging incidents. Reserve human judgment for nuanced edge cases and fast-changing rules.

Culture, training, and a small triumph

A team ran ten‑minute weekly micro‑trainings tied to real tickets. Within two months, listing takedowns dropped, appeal times halved, and regulators praised their transparency. Small, steady rituals built a durable safety net.

Navigate Global Marketplace Regulatory Compliance with Confidence

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Data Privacy and Cross‑Border Data Flows

Risk-based onboarding aligned with FATF

Sanctions, PEP, and adverse media checks

Strong Customer Authentication and fraud controls

Product Compliance and Safety Across Borders

Product Compliance and Safety Across Borders

Taxation: VAT, GST, and Marketplace Facilitator Laws

Advertising, Consumer Protection, and Fair Design

Advertising, Consumer Protection, and Fair Design

Build a Living Compliance Program

Governance that actually works

Automate the boring, escalate the ambiguous

Culture, training, and a small triumph