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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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NSW Moves To Ban Political Donations From Gaming-Linked Clubs

Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) state government has moved to ban political donations from clubs that operate slot machines or other gambling services.
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Gambling

Aristocrat To Buy NeoGames, Fanatics To Buy PointsBet US Operations

As the sun came up in Melbourne on Monday, two Australian-based companies announced major transactions that significantly alter the global online gaming landscape, one as a buyer and one as a seller.
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Gambling

Casino Bill Collapses But Gaming Finally Gets Foot In The Door In Texas

Casinos will have to wait at least two more years in Texas and a sports-betting bill appears doomed in the Senate, but 2023 may well be remembered as the year when the gaming industry, at long last, penetrated the forbidden frontier of the Lone Star State.
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Gambling

Latvia May Allow Gambling Ads Again

Latvia is evaluating the impact that un-banning gambling advertising could have, as it has become “almost impossible” to prevent illegal marketing, according to the regulator.
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Gambling

The U.S. Sports Betting Industry At Five: What Does The Future Hold?

Almost five years later to the day, the overturning of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) by the U.S. Supreme Court has proven to be a seminal moment in the global gaming industry. In this forensic explainer, VIXIO GamblingCompliance examines the key themes of the U.S. sports-betting industry, their impact to date, and how they are likely to impact the industry’s growth going forward.
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Gambling

Lithuania Fines Two More E-Money Firms

The Baltic country’s increasingly strict oversight of the payments industry has continued with more firms being publicly censured by the regulator.
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Payments

Green Shoots As UK Payments Fraud Starts To Fall

UK Finance’s annual fraud report finds that overall fraud shrank by 8 percent in 2022 as the end of the pandemic reshaped the fraud landscape, again.
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Payments

Week In Crypto: Another Exchange Files For Bankruptcy Following SEC Lawsuit

A major crypto exchange files for bankruptcy in the US, an Irish central banker vows to protect the public from crypto “Ponzi schemes” and Argentina bans all crypto services.
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Payments

Daily Dash: Revolut’s Drama Era Continues

Revolut’s chief financial officer has quit, the EU’s artificial intelligence act has passed committee stage in the European Parliament and Singapore’s DBS Bank has been served a capital requirement order following another major outage.
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Payments

Karnataka High Court Blocks 'Gambling' GST For Online Skill Gaming

Industry heavyweights are jubilant after the high court in India’s Karnataka state rejected a goods and services tax (GST) gambling classification for online companies offering skill gaming with stakes, annulling Gameskraft Technology's liability for $2.6bn in unpaid GST.
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Gambling

Brazil Betting Decree To Map Out Enforcement Powers, Restrict State Lotteries

Under the cloud of an escalating match-fixing scandal, Brazil’s government is set to finally publish implementing legislation to establish a regulatory regime for sports betting that will be reinforced by payments and website blocking of unlicensed sites.
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Gambling

Malta Defends Foreign Judgment Bill

Malta’s government ministry responsible for a bill that aims to prohibit foreign judgments from being enforced against gambling providers licensed in the country has defended its plans.
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Gambling

Fifth Birthday Of Historic U.S. Supreme Court Decision On Sports Betting

It seems appropriate for Mother’s Day to fall this year on the same day as the fifth anniversary of the United States Supreme Court decision which gave birth to what has quickly become the world’s largest sports-betting market.
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Gambling

Texas Sports-Betting Bill Passes House, But Senate Approval Unlikely

Texas took a giant step toward eventually legalizing sports betting on Thursday when the state’s House of Representatives narrowly approved a constitutional resolution to allow online wagering.
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Gambling

Ecuador's Road To Regulation: In Conversation With Francisco Briones

VIXIO GamblingCompliance sat down with Francisco Briones, the director general of Ecuador's Internal Revenue Service, to discuss the country’s road to gambling regulation.
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Gambling

Swedish Ruling Could Reduce Past And Future Fines

The Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden has ruled that penalty fees issued by the Swedish Gambling Authority should be based on gross gaming revenue (GGR), not annual turnover.
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Gambling

Singapore Proposes Broad Reform Of Payments Regulation

The Monetary Authority of Singapore has proposed new amendments to the Payment Services Regulations 2019 in a bid to streamline the country’s rules for payment firms.
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Payments

Latest EU Sanction Proposals Target Third-Country Circumvention

The European Commission marked Europe Day with a visit to Kyiv and an 11th package of sanctions against Russia.
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Payments

Capital One Accuses Walmart Of Scrapping Credit Card Deal To Fly Solo

The US retail giant is seeking to end a deal with Capital One citing bad customer service on the bank’s side, but Capital One argues the real motive is linked to Walmart’s strategy to build its own financial super app.
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Payments

Brazil Betting Operators Announce Advertising Code

An association of Brazil-facing operators has announced a new self-regulatory code for betting advertising, including a ban on any televised ads until after 9pm.
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Bailey Cool On UK CBDC Suggestions

Hopes of a British central bank digital currency (CBDC) were dealt a blow by the governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, who said he “remained to be convinced” of the need for one.
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EU Lawmakers Insist Digital Euro Must Safeguard Privacy And Preserve Cash Access

The European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE) has called for stronger guardrails for privacy and guaranteed access to physical cash in its opinion on the EU's proposed legislation to establish a digital euro.
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Regulatory Influencer: Malta’s Key Observations on Website Practices of Crypto-Asset Service Providers

Earlier in the year, the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) conducted a thematic review of websites belonging to all the crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) authorised by the MFSA in relation to Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 on Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA). This was part of the MFSA’s commitment to consumer protection, ensuring that the information provided was fair, transparent and not misleading. Following its review of websites, the MFSA sent out a Dear CEO letter to CASPs laying out its findings.
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Regulatory Influencer: The Philippine Central Bank As Payments Policeman And… Online Gambling Saviour?

The Philippine online gambling industry’s rapid transition from a disgraced foreign-facing segment to flourishing domestic sector is approaching a crunch moment as payments channels come under unprecedented scrutiny.
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Peru President Vetoes Consumption Tax Bill

Peru’s president has partly vetoed a bill that would reduce the impact of a controversial consumption tax applied to online gambling.
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Ukraine Releases Flurry Of Consultations As It Seeks To Update Gambling Rules

Ukrainian licence holders will only have two months to comply with a long list of updated regulations under a key new proposal, as the country unleashes a flurry of consultations aimed at updating and aligning rules as well as improving industry oversight.
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California Tribes Seeking Second Win With Anti-Sweepstakes Legislation

In the wake of an opinion from California’s attorney general that threatens the future of daily fantasy sports in the state, Indian gaming tribes are looking to score a second major policy victory that could threaten sweepstakes operations as well.
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Pennsylvania Issues New Guidance For Virtual Dealers, Promo Bets

Pennsylvania regulators have issued a deadline for online gaming operators and suppliers to come into compliance with a series of new requirements for virtual dealer table games and a specific version of online blackjack.
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ECB Marches On With Digital Currency Plans

The European Central Bank (ECB) is drafting a new digital asset scheme rulebook as it lays the groundwork for the introduction of a digital euro.
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UK Strategy Targets Growth Via Payments And SM&CR Changes

Finance minister Rachel Reeves has unveiled reforms intended to inject momentum into the economy, promising to slash red tape and accelerate upgrades to the country’s payments infrastructure.
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