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Automatic Pix Goes Live, Enabling Recurring Payments in Brazil

Pix, Brazil’s instant payments system, has introduced a recurring payments mechanism, aiming to simplify bill payments for consumers.
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Sweepstakes Ban Under Consideration in New York, Vetoed In Louisiana

As one state legislature looks to reinforce regulatory actions against sweepstakes gaming operations, another has seen the governor veto a legislative ban, calling it unnecessary.
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Pay.UK Sets Out Ideas For Reforming UK’s Payments Infrastructure

Payment system operator Pay.UK has unveiled a package of proposed reforms to the organisational framework for interbank payments, urging “radical” change to prevent the UK falling behind on infrastructure and innovation.
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Presidential Decree Confirms Brazil Betting Tax Hike

A sharp increase in the main tax applied to online betting in Brazil became reality late Wednesday when an emergency decree was published in the Brazilian government’s official gazette.
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Romário Releases Report On Brazil's Online Gambling Bill

Former football star turned federal senator Romário has presented his formal report on Brazil's sports-betting and online casino bill, although the sports committee that he chairs has delayed voting on an amended version of the closely watched legislation.
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UK Commission Claims Offshore Enforcement Blitz

The UK gambling regulator says it has radically stepped up its enforcement against the black market, as its chief executive tells fellow regulators it is seeking a middle way between highly polarised pressure groups.
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Gambling

UAE Teams Up With India To Create Domestic Payment Card

The Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates has partnered with the National Payments Corporation of India to launch the UAE's first domestic card scheme.
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Payments

Digital Euro Preparations Go Ahead Despite Concerns

The Governing Council of the European Central Bank has announced that it will soon move to the next phase — the preparation phase — of the digital euro project.
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Payments

Daily Dash: Lloyd's Warns Major Cyberattack Could Cost Global Economy $3.5trn

Lloyd's of London has counted the costs of a doomsday cyberattack on the financial sector, the G20 has been issued new considerations for the interlinking of faster payment systems, and the US Treasury has praised India’s UPI.
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Payments

Malaysia Appeals Court Says Aging Law Bans Online Gambling

A Malaysian appeals court has confirmed that online gambling is illegal under the nation’s 70-year-old gambling law, amid cautious legislative action to regulate the industry.
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Gambling

U.S. Solicitor General Urges Supreme Court To Deny Stay On Florida Sports Betting

Responding to an order last week from U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar on Wednesday argued a stay, or delay, in allowing mobile sports betting in Florida should be rejected.
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Gambling

North Carolina Sports-Betting Rules Take Aim At Fantasy Pick'em Games

North Carolina regulators have released their first set of proposed rules governing mobile sports betting, which include an attempt to limit the “pick’em” style fantasy games that have been under fire in recent months.
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Gambling

Virginia Sees Sports-Betting Enforcement Jump In 2023

Despite a recent uptick in enforcement compared with previous years, Virginia regulators have said that nothing has changed in the way the state has issued sanctions for sports-betting violations.
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Gambling

UK Kicks Off Consultation On Statutory Levy

The UK government has opened its consultation on a new statutory levy to fund problem gambling research and treatment, as announced in April's white paper on gambling reforms, with online operators expected to fund the levy at more than double the rate of land-based licensees.
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Gambling

New Bill Could See 'Biggest Overhaul' Of Australia's Payment System In 35 Years

Australia’s Treasury has opened a consultation on amendments to the Payment Systems (Regulation) Act 1988, in what some have called the "biggest overhaul" of the country’s payment rules in 35 years.
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Payments

Wirex To Change E-Money Contract After UK Regulator Intervention

The Financial Conduct Authority has said that Wirex has committed to making changes to comply with consumer rights laws in the UK.
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Payments

Daily Dash: Fed Governor Shuns Digital Dollar Plans

A Fed governor has said the US payment system does not need a central bank digital currency, the Bank for International Settlements has published its final report on "harmonised" ISO 20022 data requirements, and a US regulator has warned that AI could cause financial havoc.
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Payments

35 Years And $41bn Later, Indian Gaming Regulatory Act Still Standing

When U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act on October 17, 1988, the federal government once again violated the sovereignty of Native American tribes even as it set tribal gaming on the path to a $40bn market.
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Gambling

Virginia Supreme Court Reinstates Ban On Grey-Market Machines

The American Gaming Association has applauded the Supreme Court of Virginia’s decision to overrule a lower court injunction and reinstate the state’s ban on skill-game machines, but acknowledged the issue is not settled.
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UK Regulator Places Restrictions On Modulr

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has placed restricted activity measures on the embedded payments company regarding onboarding new customer segments.
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Payments

Chilean Regulator Expands Permissible Services Of Non-Bank Card Acquirers

Chile’s Financial Market Commission has issued a new rule that allows non-bank card acquirers to carry out complementary activities to their main business line.
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Payments

Daily Dash: Compliance Top Of Mind For FCA Whistleblowers

The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has revealed that compliance concerns were the top priority for whistleblowers in Q2, the Bank of Canada has designated Visa and Mastercard as "prominent payment systems", and Booking.com is facing a class action over payments failures.
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Payments

India's Delta Corp Suffers Additional, Massive GST Claims

India’s goods and services tax (GST) authority has demanded 63.8bn rupees ($767m) in unpaid tax from casino operator listco Delta Corp’s online gaming subsidiaries, raising the parent’s GST bill to $2.8bn and further sinking company shares.
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Gambling

German Regulator May Start Rejecting Licence Applicants

The German gambling regulator will probably soon reject licence applications in the interest of speedier processing as it tries to dig itself out of a deluge of paperwork, the agency’s co-chairman has said.
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Romanian Gambling Ad Restrictions Incoming But Lawyers Flag Need For Clarity

Romania’s new Audiovisual Code introduces several important changes, clarifications and restrictions; however, questions raised about the definitions, such as sports personality or influencer, have not been “thoroughly defined”, according to legal experts.
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Australia’s Project Acacia Blossoming Into Six-Month Testing Phase

Project Acacia, Australia’s research program into wholesale digital currency, has reached a “significant milestone”, with participants selected to explore innovations in digital money and settlement infrastructure.
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Big Tech Joins Forces With Telcos Under Hong Kong’s Latest Anti-Scam Charter

Financial regulators in Hong Kong have announced the launch of a new anti-scam charter that will see telcos and big tech firms participate for the first time.
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U.S. Senate Fails To Roll Back Change To Gambling Tax Deductions

The effort to reverse one of the tax hikes in President Donald Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill” came up short in the Senate on Thursday due to opposition from a lone senator who sought to add an exemption of religious colleges from the federal endowment tax.
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Regulatory Influencer: Concurrent Market Liberalisation In The Two Congos

Two of the French-speaking jurisdictions within the Congo Basin, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville), have simultaneously embarked upon devising gambling regulation. Following years of relying upon aged legislation, which monopolised the operation of gambling to state-owned entities, the Congolese market is finally liberalising.The bigger picture
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California's Daily Fantasy Sports Opinion: Key Policy Points To Watch

California Attorney General Rob Bonta's opinion last week that deemed daily fantasy sports to be a form of illegal gambling is a new policy wrinkle in a state that has consistently been a flashpoint when it comes to the gaming market.
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French Regulator Reignites Calls For Whistle-to-Whistle Ban and Loss Limits

France’s gambling regulator has once again reiterated calls to introduce a whistle-to-whistle advertising ban, as well as loss limits for players aged 18-25 years old.The president of France’s National Gambling Authority (ANJ), Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, said changes to the country's regulatory framework are “essential” for a sustainable gambling industry model during her closing remarks at a conference addressing gambling addiction on June 27, 2025.
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CFPB Suffers Double Shock As Budget Slashed And Redundancies Ruled Lawful

Opponents of the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) have experienced twin triumphs, as an injunction halting the agency's restructuring has been lifted and the federal budget bill has almost halved its funding.
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Regulatory Influencer: The Key Updates to the EU’s Payment Services Package

The EU has for some time been working on updating its regulation of the payments sector, planning to issue a revised directive and to introduce a bloc-wide payment services regulation.
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FCA’s £21m Monzo Fine Emphasises That Growth Must Be Responsible

By imposing the fine on the challenger bank, the UK financial services regulator has sent a reminder to disruptors that they must pay attention to their regulatory duties.
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