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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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Time To Come Together? Why Merging EMD/PSD Makes Sense

A senior official at the European Banking Authority (EBA) has explained why the regulator backs bringing E-money and Payment Services Directives (EMD/PSD) together in Europe, as panellists at a VIXIO webinar discuss what a future PSD3 could look like.
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Payments

BNPL Code On Track To Launch This Year, Confirms Singapore Regulator

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) products' success in the region has prompted the Monetary Authority of Singapore to act faster than originally anticipated, with consumers using the payment method to be under stricter rules.
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Payments

Australian Lawmakers To Probe Online Gambling Damage

A lower house committee in the Australian parliament will probe social damage from online gambling, potentially paving the way for new of controls on the industry.
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Gambling

U.S. Tops Global Market Size Rankings As Shake-Up Continues

Four U.S. states figured among the top ten regulated online gambling markets in the world during the first half of 2022, with the U.S. as a whole soaring past the UK to become the largest market in the world at country level.
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Gambling

Massachusetts Regulators Hear Concerns About Effectiveness Of Self-Exclusion Programs

Current approaches to voluntary self-exclusion in the gaming industry need to evolve to encourage better take-up of the programs, problem gambling researchers and advocates told the Massachusetts Gaming Commission during a hearing on responsible gaming and sports betting.
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Gambling

Kindred Predicts Return To Dutch Top Spot In 2023

Kindred Group predicted it will return to number one position in the Netherlands by the end of next year, but will not break even in North America until 2026.
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Gambling

India’s Central Bank Enlisted In Crackdown On ‘Illegal Loans Apps’

India’s Ministry of Finance has declared a new multi-agency war on unregulated loan apps, which it accuses of entrapping customers, abusing licences and intimidating debtors to extort repayments.
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Payments

Republican Senators Rally Against CFPB Chopra’s Name-And-Shame Tactics

A dozen top Republican Senators have accused Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) director Rohit Chopra of abusing his authority and using tactics to unfairly damage financial institutions’ reputations.
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Payments

If You’re Tired Of Betting Restrictions, Try Wagering On Everything

Kalshi means everything in Arabic — and is the name of a global wagering network which strives to allow anyone to bet on anything.
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Gambling

Boyd Gaming Seeks Clarification Of Nevada’s Proposed Cybersecurity Requirements

Boyd Gaming, which operates 11 casinos in southern Nevada, has expressed its support for a regulatory proposal to amend state regulations creating cybersecurity requirements, but have suggested several revisions due to “certain practical limitations” of running a gaming company.
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Gambling

Finnish Politicians Open To Discuss Licensing

​​​​​​​Finnish politicians are opening up to the idea of a gambling licensing system, but the authority overseeing gambling has questioned the timing of the debate as more powers and staff are inbound.
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Gambling

IGT Drops UK Lottery Appeal

International Game Technology (IGT) has dropped the appeal that was blocking the transition of the UK National Lottery from Camelot to Allwyn, finally allowing the handover process to begin in earnest.
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Gambling

US Small Business Disbursements Driving Zelle Growth

Since its launch five years ago, the Zelle app has processed more than 5bn transactions, with disbursements and small business payments driving its most recent growth.
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Payments

APP Fraud Being Leveraged By Money Mules

Banking experts have acknowledged that the industry is struggling to solve the problem of money mules, with new fraud trends exacerbating the issue.
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Payments

Hong Kong, Thailand To Pursue Bilateral Faster Payments Linkage

As tourist footfall recovers, the central banks of Hong Kong and Thailand are looking to link faster payment systems, while nurturing new cost-reduction measures for merchants and consumers.
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Payments

Chile: The Guide To Grey Market Turmoil

Chile is currently mired in a complicated web of lawsuits and pending legislation that revolve around its grey market offshore online gambling operators.
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Gambling

Probe Finds Star Entertainment Unfit For NSW Casino Licence

The Star Entertainment Group is unfit to hold a casino licence in New South Wales (NSW) state, according to an independent regulatory review, but the state gambling regulator is yet to decide the company’s fate.
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Gambling

New Entrants Seek To Disrupt U.S. Sports Betting Market

As sports-betting brands with origins in fantasy sports or the casino industry continue to dominate the U.S. landscape, a series of new players are entering the field this football season seeking to disrupt the market.
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Gambling

Cyprus Updating Safer Gambling Regulations

​​​​​​​The National Betting Authority (NBA) of Cyprus is adding a raft of safer gambling best practices into its rules for online bookmakers.
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Gambling

The Fight Against Money Laundering Needs More Focus, Acknowledges DNB

A more risk-based approach will sharpen the focus of efforts to keep the financial sector free from financial crime, De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) has said in a new report.
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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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