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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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Finally! UK Government Unveils Crypto Plans

Stablecoins are to be recognised as a valid form of payment and the Royal Mint is making a non-fungible token, HM Treasury has announced.
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Payments

Request To Pay Innovations To Kick Off In 2022

Pay.UK is set to launch three new features for the request to pay overlay service later this year, which is expected to help give a competitive edge to payment providers, reduce fraud and aid struggling small and medium-sized enterprises.
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Payments

Footballers Banned From UK Gambling Ads Under Tougher Rules

Leading footballers will be banned from marketing gambling products under new rules designed to curb their appeal to young people, a UK advertising body has announced.
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Gambling

India Seizes $54m From Lottery Mogul Santiago Martin

India’s economic crimes agency has seized 4.1bn rupees ($54m) in bank account and mutual fund holdings controlled by notorious “Lottery King” Santiago Martin. The latest salvo in a decades-long battle between law enforcement and the gaming mogul.
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Gambling

Ontario Ends Grey-Market Status With Historic Online Gaming Launch

A new era of online gaming in Canada officially launched on Monday as 13 approved operators went live in Ontario with regulated sports betting and online casino offerings.
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Gambling

Greek Watchdog Backs Online Casino Boost

Revenues for Greece's thriving online market passed €700m for the first time in 2021, as the gambling regulator recommended to government that a hike in the maximum online casino stake would benefit the market still further.
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Gambling

Swedish Treasury Targets Black Market, Duty Of Care

​​​​​​​Sweden’s State Treasury has called for more action against unlicensed operators and for consumer protection measures to be bolstered.
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Gambling

G7 Nations Need Common Crypto Regulations, Says Bank Of Japan Official

Stablecoins are in the crosshairs as policymakers focus on sanctions busters, while Japan’s central bank digital currency study forges ahead.
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Payments

Malaysia Unveils Plans To Study CBDCs, Rejects Proposal To Make Bitcoin Legal Tender

Malaysia’s central bank has published a new report outlining plans to study both wholesale and retail central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) for a range of use cases, while debate rages over digital assets.
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Payments

Crypto Players Express Disappointment Following Brussels’ Travel Rule Vote

New transfer rules have been voted through by members of the European Parliament (MEPs), igniting frustration among the crypto industry who feel like they are being unnecessarily targeted.
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Payments

Crypto Mining Investment Shows Bitcoin’s Potential Green Future

Despite a widespread assumption that Bitcoin mining is bad for the environment, there are many factors that could one day lead it to be encouraged rather than denounced by regulators.
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Payments

UK’s Rapid Scam Response Scheme Prevents Over £200m In Attempted Fraud

UK Finance has said that its Banking Protocol rapid scam response scheme has prevented tens of thousands of people from becoming victims of fraud since 2016.
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Payments

Is Your Compliance Team Ready To Deal With ’Blitz-Scaling’?

As the UK fintech space continues to expand at lightspeed rates, compliance teams have often struggled in the background to keep up with the pace of change. With the promise of a more agile Financial Conduct Authority and the nascent digital currency space, compliance teams are facing a number of challenges.
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Payments

Louisiana Takes Spotlight For March Madness Betting Finale

If Kansas wins Monday’s National Collegiate Athletic Association men’s college basketball championship game against North Carolina, a furniture store owner in Houston, Texas, will win at least $6.27m from online wagers he made in Louisiana.
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Gambling

Camelot To Fight For Lost Lottery Licence In Court

​​​​​​​Camelot has launched a legal appeal against the Gambling Commission’s decision to award the UK National Lottery tender to Allwyn.
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Gambling

Ukraine's Regulator Makes Controversial Return

Ukraine’s gambling regulator has said it has resumed operations and will focus on supervising online operators, in part because much of the nation’s land-based industry has been literally destroyed.
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Gambling

Kansas House Approves Sports-Betting Bill, Senate Defers

Following a whirlwind day that included multiple conference committee meetings and a contentious but favorable House vote as Friday night became Saturday morning, Kansas sports-betting legislation remains unresolved following a key legislative deadline.
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Gambling

Crypto Cloud Looms For MEPs As Panetta Turns Up To Talk CBDC

While the European Central Bank’s digital euro chief was keen to talk about the project, lawmakers from Brussels’ left and right factions were more interested in knowing how a CBDC would correspond with the widespread acceleration in adoption of crypto.
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Payments

PSR Hints At Scheme And Cross-Border Card Fee Reform

In correspondence with the Treasury Select Committee, the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has said that it is in the "early stage" of its thinking with the Interchange Fee Regulation reform as it focuses on identifying harms caused by scheme and cross-border interchange fees.
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Payments

Update: Wyoming Drops State-Backed Stablecoin Plans, For Now

Governor Mark Gordon has vetoed a Wyoming bill that would have created a state-backed stablecoin, cautioning that the state’s reputation is at stake.
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Regulatory Influencer: Poland Proposes Targeted Simplification of EU Financial Services Rule

On June 2, 2025, the Polish Financial Supervisory Authority (KNF) announced that it had submitted a package of proposals intended to simplify regulatory frameworks across the EU financial services sector to the EU member states, the European Commission and other institutions within the EU Financial Services Committee. These proposals form part of a broader initiative led by the Polish Ministry of Finance, which aims to harmonise and streamline EU regulations to support the competitiveness of the European Union’s economy, including that of Poland.
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Regulatory Influencer: AML Compliance Is Key Under Hong Kong’s Stablecoins Ordinance

Under Hong Kong’s new Stablecoins Ordinance, another milestone in the global trend towards regulating digital assets in the same way as traditional financial services, any person who issues stablecoins referencing an official currency must obtain a licence from the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA).
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Norwegian Consumer Council Reports Klarna For Breaching Regulatory Requirements

In a submission to the Norwegian Consumer Authority, the consumer advocacy group has accused the Swedish fintech firm of repeatedly violating Norway’s credit marketing regulations.
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Singapore To Require Offshore Crypto Firms To Be Licensed Or Cease Operations By June 2025

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has clarified the scope of its regulatory regime for providers of digital tokens, crypto-assets used for payments.
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FCA Moves To Boost AI Use With New Sandbox

UK financial services firms will be encouraged to experiment with artificial intelligence (AI) as part of the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) strategy to support economic growth through technological innovation.
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Australia Calls For Greater Collaboration In Battle Against Fraud

Businesses should join forces and share data to advance the fight against increasingly sophisticated scams, according to the Australian National Anti-Scam Centre.
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FCA Sets Out New Transparency Rules For Enforcement Investigations

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has outlined significant changes to its enforcement rules, although it has stopped short of implementing some of the more controversial elements of its original proposal.
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Cash Mandate Moves Closer To Being Law In New York State

Retailers will not be able to refuse cash payments in New York if Governor Kathy Hochul signs off on legislation that has passed both houses of the state legislature.
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Regulatory Influencer: Canada Retail Payments Activities Act — Safeguarding of End-User Funds

This report is the third installment in a four-part series analyzing the RPAA and identifying key components of the law that PSPs should consider when doing business in Canada. This report focuses on the requirement to safeguard end-user funds.
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Regulate Smarter, Say European Players In Light Of Trump’s Deregulation

Despite the US leadership pushing for an increasingly deregulated financial services market, some payments players and politicians in Europe are adamant that standards being watered down is not the way to boost growth.
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