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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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Georgia Sports-Betting Backers Potentially Changing Legalization Strategy

Supporters of sports betting in Georgia may be changing course once again in their efforts to legalize the activity in the state.
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Gambling

Dutch Operator JOI Fined €400,000 For Young Adult Promotional Emails

An online operator owned by one of the Netherlands' biggest bricks-and-mortar casino groups has been fined €400,000 for aiming adverts at young adults.
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Gambling

German Watchdog Starts PayPal Probe

Germany’s antitrust regulator is investigating PayPal over claims of inhibiting competitors and restrictive price competition.
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Payments

In Touch Fined £6.1m In Third UK Regulatory Action Since 2019

The UK’s Gambling Commission has fined In Touch Games £6.1m for failings in social responsibility and anti-money laundering policies, its third seven-figure regulatory action since 2019.
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Gambling

ICE Conference Set To Rebound, But Brexit Clouds London Future

​​​​​​​The ICE gambling conference seems poised to rebound to full strength or better next month, but rising London costs worsened by Brexit raise questions about its future in the UK’s capital.
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Gambling

U.S. Compliance Executives Seek Inclusion In Partnership Negotiations

As the U.S. gaming industry continues to evolve with the expansion of sports betting, cashless payments and eventually the widespread adoption of internet gaming, compliance executives agree there is a need for them to be involved in negotiations with third-party skin operators and partners.
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Gambling

Fraud Prevention Is 2023 Priority For Payments Firms

Payments players have said that they anticipate that 2023 will see the challenges around tackling fraud continue to play out, as VIXIO research finds that it is a top ranking priority for compliance teams to fix.
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Payments

SEC Charges Nexo With Unregistered Securities Violations, Settles On Same Day For $45m

Nexo, a Bulgaria-based crypto lending and trading platform, has agreed to a $45m settlement after being charged with unregistered securities violations by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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Payments

US Financial Regulator Puts Subscription-Based Firms On Alert

The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau warns companies against using dark patterns to make consumers pay recurring fees.
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Payments

Peru's Finance Minister Talks Gambling Tax, Social Unrest

In a perfect world, restructuring taxes, including those that address gambling, would be part of Peru’s post-pandemic economic recovery, according to the country’s minister of finance.
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Gambling

U.S. Operators Face Escalating Enforcement Environment

Ohio has wasted little time in raising the bar in terms of enforcement activity against sports-betting operators, although U.S. states still have a long way to go before they start to resemble the more hostile enforcement environments of European markets.
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Gambling

Kenya Improving Tax System, Considering National Lottery

Kenya's new government is considering setting up a national lottery and will ramp up tax collection as the country looks for ways to stimulate growth.
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Gambling

Subsidies Renewed For Indian Banks On Low-Value RuPay Debit Card, UPI Payments

The Indian government has announced that it will continue a long-standing incentive scheme that allows banks to claim subsidies for processing certain types of low-value digital payments.
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Payments

Hungary Pushes For Expanding ATM Network

As digital payments have become part of everyday life, regulators are growing concerned about the decline in access to cash. Hungary has become the latest country to regulate the number of ATMs that card issuers must provide.
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Payments

US Federal Reserve Prepares Master Account Register

The US Federal Reserve is building a public database of payment system participants as the transparency of granting valuable access to the central infrastructure is becoming a more pressing issue.
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Payments

UK Parliamentarians Warn Premier League Of Sponsor Probe

The vice chair of a coalition of UK politicians has warned the Gambling Commission and the English Premier League to account for alleged ties of eight sports-betting sponsors to convicted junket supremo Alvin Chau or face a parliamentary probe.
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Gambling

New Hampshire Legislature Debates Online Gaming Bill

The chairman of the New Hampshire Senate’s Ways and Means Committee believes his state should join six others in regulating online gambling and is proposing to use a model similar to the one already being used to regulate mobile sports betting.
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Gambling

Ukraine Passes New Bill To Hike Gambling Industry Taxes

Ukraine’s parliament has passed a bill which scraps the inclusion of the gambling industry in the country’s simplified taxation system and returns rates to pre-war levels.
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Gambling

Owner Of World's Richest Sports Franchise Finds Betting A Hard Sell

Valued at $8bn by Forbes Magazine, the Dallas Cowboys are the wealthiest sports team on the planet, but the team’s owner is finding it difficult to persuade lawmakers even in his home state to support sports betting.
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Gambling

Week In Crypto: US AML Probe Leads To Arrest Of Russia-Linked Exchange Founder, MiCA Vote Postponed

The US Department of Justice has arrested and charged a Russian national as part of a major crypto AML investigation, the EU has pushed back its vote on MiCA, and Three Arrows Capital has re-emerged as a bankruptcy claims exchange.
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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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