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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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Berlin Court Penalises YouTube Influencer For Illegal Gambling

A Berlin district court has issued a penalty order of €480,000 against a well-known YouTube personality for streaming illegal gambling, according to the public prosecutor’s office, which requested the penalty.
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Gambling

Kindred Ready For £7.1m UK Fine

Kindred is preparing to pay £7.1m for a fine it expects to receive following reviews by the UK Gambling Commission, according to a statement in its Q4 2022 report.
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Gambling

Australian BNPL Openpay Collapses As Shares Frozen, Receivership Confirmed

Openpay, a Melbourne-based buy now, pay later (BNPL) firm, has become the first BNPL listed on the Australian stock exchange to collapse, after disabling new purchases on its app and entering receivership.
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Payments

BoE, Treasury Open New UK Consultation On ’Digital Pound’ CBDC

The Bank of England and HM Treasury have launched a joint consultation on a “digital pound”, a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) that would serve as a new form of money for households and businesses.
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Payments

McGuinness Outlines Central Themes For PSD2 Overhaul

The EU’s financial services commissioner has added further detail to what Brussels is looking to possibly change in its overhaul of the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2).
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Payments

Australian Treasury Asks For Feedback On Proposed Crypto Regulations

Australia’s Treasury has published a new consultation that seeks feedback on proposals to regulate the crypto industry using existing financial service frameworks, and based on a division of tokens, token systems and their associated functions.
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Payments

US Bill To Add 37 Percent Fee On Remittances To Select Countries

New legislation filed by Republican Congressman Nathaniel Moran would place a 37 percent transaction fee on remittance transfers that are sent to five specified countries.
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Payments

US Appeal Court Revives CFPB Prepaid Card Rule

PayPal’s legal battle against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has taken a new turn after an appellate court rejected the fintech’s argument that led to the partial invalidation of the agency’s prepaid card rule.
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Payments

Gambling Executives Say Industry Has Improved, Image Hasn't

Top corporate compliance officials say the gambling industry does not get enough credit for improvements in responsible gambling over the past five to ten years, but are hopeful they might be able to work better with the UK’s Gambling Commission.
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Gambling

Game Over' For Curaçao Master Licences

“The game is over” for Curaçao’s master licence holders and their unknown number of sub-licensees, according to the country’s finance minister, who has promised seismic reforms are only months away.
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Gambling

Peru Pushes To Amend Online Gambling Law Amid Turmoil

Peru’s launch of online gambling is up in the air due to political instability, but preparation continues apace as operators welcome draft legislation that would improve tax and other provisions enacted last year.
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Gambling

Vermont Begins Debate On Sports-Betting Legislation

Responsible gaming measures are the focus for Vermont legislators so far in debate on a sports-betting bill in the state’s House of Representatives, including the minimum age of bettors and marketing of “risk-free” bets.
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Gambling

Sports Betting Drives Growth In South Africa, Botswana, Malawi

The gambling industries of South Africa, Botswana and Malawi all saw sports betting become a key driver of growth and tax revenue amid impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, regulators say.
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Gambling

UK MPs Unimpressed By PSR’s APP Fraud Plans

The Payment Systems Regulator's plans (PSR) to put Pay.UK in charge of providing authorised push payment (APP) fraud reimbursement poses a conflict of interest, MPs sitting on the UK’s financial services committee have said in a new intervention.
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Payments

Texas Sports Teams, Operators Line Up Behind Sports-Betting Bills

Texas legislators on Monday (February 6) launched the latest effort to legalize sports betting in the Lone Star State through a pair of bills backed by an alliance of national sports-betting operators and more than a dozen Texas sports franchises.
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Gambling

Two Women Who Made Las Vegas History Team Up For Mayor's Race

After representing the gambling capital of the world in Congress for 14 years, Shelley Berkley wants to become mayor of Las Vegas next year.
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Gambling

UK To Crack Down On Websites Targeting Problem Gamblers

The UK’s Gambling Commission is poised to crack down on gambling companies that advertise they are “not on GAMSTOP”, the national self-exclusion service, a commission official has said.
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Gambling

Europe, US Industry Heads Say Casinos Face Major Challenges

Casinos in Europe and the United States are facing a host of significant challenges, according to representatives from the European Casino Association and the American Gaming Association.
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Gambling

US Digital Asset Firm Acquires Bank In $50m Deal

LevelField Financial, a digital asset trading platform, has agreed to acquire Illinois-based Burling Bank as part of its mission to gain regulatory approval for banking activities.
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Payments

Web3 Benefits Yet To Be Proven, Says UK Regulators

While there is little known about how Web3 might evolve, UK regulators have raised concerns over privacy and competition, as well as the challenges of enforcing compliance on decentralised apps.
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Payments
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Romanian Government Eyes Legislation To Decentralise Gambling Licensing

Romanian Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan has announced that his government plans to propose a draft legislation that will enable municipal authorities to decide on licences for local gambling outlets.
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FCA’s Guardrails For BNPL Aim To Bring Consumer Duty Requirements To The Space

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) users are set to gain new protections under proposals published today by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which has set a compliance deadline of July 2026.
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UK Industry Wrangles With Rapidly Approaching Cross-Sell Ban

When 2025 draws to a close so will the era of lucrative cross-selling promotions in the UK, with operators and affiliates facing the tall task of adapting successfully to another major shift in marketing compliance.
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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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