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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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FATF, Interpol Launch New Forum To Intensify Global Asset Recovery

The two agencies have launched a new forum that will coordinate cross-border tracing, seizure and confiscation of criminal assets, with a focus on cyber-enabled financial crime.
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Payments

Support For POGO Ban Swells Amid Rescue Of 173 Staff

A bill that would ban all offshore-facing and local online gambling in the Philippines has attracted heavyweight support amid police raids on two operations that freed 173 captive staff from at least five countries.
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Gambling

IGT Wins Wire Act Case Against Justice Department In Rhode Island

The U.S. Wire Act of 1961 does not prevent International Game Technology (IGT) from continuing online gambling and lottery operations in Rhode Island and other states, a federal judge ruled last week.
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Gambling

German Regulator Says It Expects More Freedom Next Year

​​​​​​​The German “super regulator” may at last be freer to make independent decisions from January 1, 2023 if a representative of the regulator is correct.
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Gambling

New Swedish Government Could Soften Rules On Advertising, Bonuses

Sweden's government is set to change after a closely fought election, heralding a new approach to the gambling industry, experts predict.
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Gambling

Will Tough UK Gambling Restrictions Spread Elsewhere?

UK gambling lawyers and executives fear proposed player affordability measures and wonder whether such restrictive measures are a “sign of things to come” for the rest of the world’s gambling industry.
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Gambling

Temporary Licenses Cloud Massachusetts Sports-Betting Rollout

As the Massachusetts Gaming Commission continues the process of creating regulations to oversee legal retail and mobile sports betting, regulators will gather twice more this week to consider how to certify independent testing labs and hear from interested operators.
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Gambling

Anonymity Of Gamblers Disappears As U.S. Gaming Industry Enters Digital Era

The days when people could gamble without anyone else knowing are rapidly fading as the online industry expands and produces data crucial for tracking and preventing gambling addiction.
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Gambling

Week In Crypto: LUNA Co-Founder Issued Arrest Warrant And Guilty Plea In Coinbase Insider Trading Case

South Korea issues arrest warrants for the developers of the LUNA token, a guilty plea is entered in crypto’s first insider trading case and Celsius opens up about its "hero’s journey" to redemption.
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Payments

VIXIO Impact Index: August Offers Firms Regulatory Breathing Space

Seasonally low volume of global regulatory events provide compliance teams with some welcome respite, but change is on the way as new Prime Ministers in the UK and Australia look to shake up the payments space, particularly in the non-bank lending sector.
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Payments

Common API Standard Divides Industry And Regulatory Representatives

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has proposed that the next Payment Services Directive introduce a common API standard. However, TrueLayer’s public policy chief, speaking during a VIXIO webinar, says there are other options to improve current market problems.
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Payments

Daily Dash: EU Extends Russian Sanctions And Proposes New Cybersecurity Safeguards

The European Council announces that Russia sanctions will continue, while the European Commission proposes a new cybersecurity trustmark for software and connected products in its fight against ransomware. Elsewhere, Uruguayan policymakers propose a bill to regulate crypto.
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Payments

California Poll Points To Long Odds On Mobile Sports Betting

A new poll is showing long odds for California to legalize online sports betting this November, despite proponents led by FanDuel and DraftKings raising their stakes and now committing nearly $170m to their referendum campaign.
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Gambling

New Jersey Looks At Extending Online Gaming Market To 2033

An Assembly committee has unanimously agreed that internet gaming in New Jersey should be allowed to continue for another decade, as playing slot machines or table games online has become an integral part of the gaming experience in the Garden State.
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Gambling

Indian Government Draft Report Backs Online Gaming Regulation

A cross-ministry committee exploring the regulation of India’s online gaming industry has produced a draft report recommending national online gaming legislation and a national regulator, as well as a mechanism to block unregistered platforms.
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Gambling

Spain Approves Addiction, Fraud Safeguarding Bill

The Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill to modify the gambling regulation law in Spain by improving protections against fraud and safeguards for vulnerable gamblers, and it will now move on to the Senate for debate.
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Gambling

Kindred Threatened With Huge Fine In Norway

The Norwegian Gambling Authority is threatening to fine Kindred NOK437m (€43m) if it does not cease offering online gambling in the country within the next three weeks.
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Gambling

News In Brief: September 12-September 16, 2022

Wynn Resorts, Related Companies partner to target downstate New York casino licenses, Missouri lawmaker pushing for a special session to cover sports-betting bill and Tasmania becomes first Australian state to introduce mandatory slot loss limits in 2024.
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Gambling

Hong Kong Tests Use Of Faster Payments System In CBDC Applications

Residents of Hong Kong may soon be able to top up their e-CNY wallets and make cross-border e-CNY payments using the country’s Faster Payments System.
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Payments

Peru To Create A Pix-Like Payment Service By 2023

Following the modernisation of its payment system earlier this year, Peru’s private clearing house has now revealed plans to launch a payment solution similar to Brazil’s popular Pix.
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Payments
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News In Brief: July 7 - July 11, 2025

Super Group exits U.S. iGaming market, while the AGA supports bill restoring full gambling loss deduction
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Bulgarian Stakeholders Welcome Proposed Restrictions But Warn They Could Boost Black Market

A Bulgarian gambling trade group and others have warned that the government's proposal to restrict risky gambling behaviour could push players to the black market and is “not supported by established European regulatory models”.
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'Milestone' Passed As Bahrain Introduces Licensed Stablecoin Regime

The Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) has announced that providers will be able to issue single-currency stablecoins backed by the Bahraini dinar, the US dollar or any other fiat currency it deems acceptable.
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Further EPI Expansion Bolsters Europe’s Payments Sovereignty Agenda

Five new European banks have joined the European Payments Initiative (EPI) and will begin to roll out Wero to their customers.
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Worldline Scandal Reminds European PSPs Of The Importance Of AML Compliance

The exposé on French payments giant Worldline may see European payment service providers (PSPs) face increased scrutiny from both national and regional anti-money laundering (AML) authorities.
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UK Competition Regulator Opens Consultation On Worldpay Sale To Global Payments, Signalling Possible Probe

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority is to investigate Global Payments’ anticipated acquisition of Worldpay, potentially signalling a deeper investigation ahead of a mid-July deadline.
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European Supplier Licensing In 2025: The New Normal

Gambling suppliers have been forced to say goodbye to the era when licensing oversight was either an afterthought or a jurisdictional idiosyncrasy. Now, firmly in an era where scrutiny on the B2B sector is at an all-time high, European jurisdictions are bedding in a new normal for the sector.
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Philippine Politicians, Treasury Move Against Domestic Online Gambling

Clouds are forming over Philippine domestic online gambling as government officials float a new tax and senators lead a charge for restrictions on e-wallets, buy-ins and even a full industry ban.
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Nevada Congresswoman Seeks To Rescind Limits On Deductible Gambling Losses

Nevada Representative Dina Titus, whose congressional district includes the Las Vegas Strip, is set to introduce legislation to repeal a controversial provision in President Trump’s “One, Big, Beautiful Bill” that would limit declarable losses for gamblers.
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Dutch Affordability A Success, Claims Regulator

The Dutch gambling regulator has said it is happy with the effects of its controversial affordability regime despite worrying revenue trends, arguing that it has reduced dangerous gambling.
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