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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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Bahamas’ Sand Dollar Offers Key Lessons For Future Of CBDC

Two years after the world’s first central bank digital currency went live in the Bahamas, the company behind the technology used for the digital fiat argues important learnings from this test case can help policymakers in other jurisdictions with their own deployment.
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Payments

Cash Use Stabilises In UK, Eurozone Following Pandemic Decline, Say Central Banks

Cash use and ATM withdrawals have stabilised in the UK and Ireland after a pandemic-induced decline, while a significant proportion of eurozone merchants continue to prefer cash.
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Payments

UK Gambling Commission Calls For Regulator Collaboration

The head of the UK Gambling Commission has called on the world’s gambling regulators to intensify cooperation to the point of “taking action” on compliance enforcement and intelligence gathering.
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Gambling

Brazil's Bolsonaro Lays Ground For Sports-Betting Decree

Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro has reiterated his opposition to legalising gambling, but admitted that the regulation of sports betting is a foregone conclusion.
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Gambling

Data Key To Minimising Harm, Say Academics

Operators in EU member states and the UK can reduce gambling harms by sharing data on consumers, according to academic experts.
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Gambling

Peru, Brazil To Join Latin America's Regulated Online Market

Two upcoming regulatory deadlines are set to serve as critical milestones in the development of Latin America’s closely watched online market.
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Gambling

Star Entertainment Fined A$100m, Licence Suspended

The New South Wales state gambling regulator has fined The Star Entertainment Group’s Sydney casino a record A$100m ($61m) and suspended its licence following an operational review, but the casino will remain open under an external manager.
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Gambling

Commercial, Tribal Casinos Embrace Cashless Gaming

Commercial and tribal casino executives believe cashless wagering will inevitably replace cash as the preferred method of betting, even as it creates another layer of anti-money laundering compliance scrutiny for operators.
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Gambling

Week In Crypto: Record-Breaking Hacks And Reg Action Highlight Another Bad Week For Crypto

As hackers wreak havoc on decentralised finance (defi) platforms, a US regulator has issued its largest crypto enforcement action to date following a multi-year investigation into suspected sanctions-busting.
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Payments

No Change There Then! UK Finance Unveils Latest Hellish Fraud Stats

Lower fraud figures are not a reason to be cheerful, UK Finance has said, as it releases its latest statistics.
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Payments

NCPI Global Expansion Continues With Worldline Partnership

The collaboration will see Worldline become the first EU acquirer to accept Unified Payments Interface and RuPay cards, two products of the National Payments Company of India (NPCI), on behalf of European merchants.
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Payments

Payments Outage Cripples Australian Banks

Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, ANZ and NAB are among the banks affected by an industry-wide outage at Australia’s payment system.
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Payments

Daily Dash: G20 TechSprint Winners Announced

The Bank for International Settlements and Bank Indonesia unveil the winners of their central bank digital currency competition, trade association reports surge in EU ATM attacks and US regulator reveals the high fees in college banking.
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Payments

Safety, Cybersecurity Remain Concerns Among Nevada's Recovery

As their Macau casinos remain open but continue to struggle financially from government-imposed coronavirus restrictions, Wynn Resorts CEO Craig Billings said he never thought he would see the day when his company's properties in Las Vegas and Boston were out-earning those casinos in the Chinese enclave.
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Gambling

Court Says Critic Can Call Curaçao Sub-Licensing System 'Illegal'

A blogger and critic of Curaçao gambling practices has won an appellate court ruling deeming her claim that the master-sublicence licensing system is “illegal” to be “plausible” and legitimate criticism.
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Gambling

News In Brief: October 10-October 14, 2022

Flutter wins billion-dollar case over FanDuel acquisition, Dutch regulator throws out "illegal" operators and Malta suspends an operating licence.
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Gambling

Sibos 2022: MAS Chief Says Cross-Border Payments ’Not Fit For the 21st Century’

A Singaporean central banker has lamented the current state of cross-border payments as "not fit for the 21st century", arguing that innovation is urgently needed to tackle speed, cost and friction issues.
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Payments

DC Fintech Week: Let Us Operate As Banks, Crypto CEO Tells US Regulators

US bank regulators are “allergic” to the idea of letting crypto intermediaries operate as banks, preventing them from providing better consumer protections and financial stability, Custodia Bank CEO Caitlin Long said as she reveals a new turn in its ongoing lawsuit against the Federal Reserve.
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Payments

Ontario iGaming Improves Revenue In Second Regulated Quarter

With more operators transitioning from the grey market into the regulated space ahead of an October 31 deadline, revenue performance improved in the second quarter of regulated online gaming in Ontario.
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Gambling

Meghalaya To 'Completely Scrap' Gaming Law

In a stunning about-face, the Indian state of Meghalaya has announced it will repeal groundbreaking land-based and online gaming legislation following intense political and social opposition to the law.
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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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After Escaping CFPB Enforcement, Zelle Pitches To US Treasury Department

Zelle, the largest peer-to-peer (P2P) payments platform in the US, has offered itself to the Trump administration as the solution to its phasing out of government checks, yet continues to face scrutiny from lawmakers.
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Thai Casino Bill Withdrawn Amid Mounting Political Woes

The Thai government has indefinitely withdrawn a bill legalising casinos amid political shockwaves and a flailing legislative campaign.
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Pennsylvania Seeks To Reduce iGaming Fraud With Stricter KYC Requirements

Pennsylvania regulators have released a list of enhanced know-your-customer requirements in an effort to strengthen account security and reduce fraudulent activity, as they continue to involuntarily exclude online gaming customers for unscrupulous activities.
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News In Brief: July 7-July 11, 2025

California senators back sweepstakes ban, while Brazil's Senate scraps a planned vote on casino expansion
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