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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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South Korea Legalises Online Betting For Horseracing

In an effort to recover from pandemic damage to its racing industry, South Korea’s National Assembly has amended legislation to permit online betting on horseracing.
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U.S. Gaming Industry Looking To Cross-Sell Customers From Land-Based To Digital

Gaming and payment executives believe concerns over the potential cannibalization of brick-and-mortar business from internet gambling are outdated as new forms of gaming have helped New Jersey’s market rebound since the coronavirus pandemic.
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Dutch Regulator Demands Unlicensed Maltese Operator Exits Market

The Netherlands Gambling Authority has imposed a cease and desist order and a maximum fine of €717,000 on Malta-based GoldWin LTD for offering online gambling in the country without a licence.
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Peru Passes Bill To Amend Online Gambling Law

Peru’s Congress has approved a series of amendments to the 2022 law to fix loopholes and errors in the original legislation to regulate remote gaming and sports betting in the country.
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Australia’s Woolworths To Accept Instant Payments In ’Game-Changing’ Move

Australia’s largest supermarket chain is set to offer an instant payments service that will allow customers to pay for items directly from their bank accounts.
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Payments

Week In Crypto: US Treasury Sanctions Binance Wallets With Ties To North Korea

Binance helps US authorities stop North Korean sanctions buster but faces new allegations of commingling of funds, Hong Kong pulls the plug on stablecoins for retail investors, and new crypto enforcements in Malaysia and the Philippines.
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Payments

EU Data Act Access Rules Spark Concern Among Lobbyists

Industry associations in the banking and tech sector have released a joint statement regarding concerns over proposed access to data by public authorities.
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Payments

What Meta’s Historic GDPR Case Could Mean For Payments

Irish authorities have imposed a record $1.2bn fine on Meta for illegally transferring Europeans’ data to the United States and banned future transfers. Experts now tell VIXIO the decision bears wider implications for the payments industry.
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Payments

Daily Dash: Starling Boss Flies Away

Starling’s CEO and founder has said she is stepping down from the role after £453m in revenue, 365-day payments launch in New Zealand and the EU’s data protection body elects a new chair.
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Payments

Japan Flags Blocking Of Foreign Gambling Websites

Japan’s consumer affairs minister has told a parliamentary committee that the government may seek to block foreign gambling websites as part of a host of “counter-measures” against a proliferating online gambling market.
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Gambling

Malta Lawsuit Shield Bill Draws Support, Condemnation

Malta’s attempt to shield its licensed gambling companies from liability from lawsuits in Germany and Austria is drawing both backing and condemnation.
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Gambling

No Longer Resonating, The Term 'Responsible Gambling' Is Under Fire

Critics have said it is time to jettison "responsible gambling", which is not working and may be causing more harm than good to the gaming industry and its customers.
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Gambling

French Online Casino Bill Would Freeze Out Foreign Competitors

A member of France’s largest political party has submitted a legal proposal to open up the online casino game market that would give a significant head-start to the country's land-based casino sector.
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Cardroom Expansion Moratorium Reinstated In California

A bill to reinstate a moratorium on cardroom expansion in California has been signed into law by Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, prohibiting gaming regulators from issuing new cardroom licenses for the next two decades.
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Gambling

Citizens Bank Pays $9m Penalty For Credit Card Dispute Failure

Citizens Bank has settled a case with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau which alleged the bank automatically denied certain credit card fraud claims.
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Payments

Signed Off By October? EU’s Instant Payments Legislation Hopes

Brussels hopes for a swift legislative process, questions remain over whether the European Council and Parliament will play ball and non-bank access to payments still on the agenda as VIXIO looks at the current state of play for EU instant payments regulations.
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India Braces For Impact As Withdrawal Of ₹2,000 Notes Confirmed

The Reserve Bank of India has confirmed that ₹2,000 banknotes are soon to be withdrawn, raising fears of cash shortages that crippled the country in 2016 during a similar "demonetisation" policy.
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Payments

UK Gambling Commission Penalty For Paddy Power, Betfair

The UK Gambling Commission has issued a £490,000 financial penalty for Flutter-owned Paddy Power and Betfair after it sent promotional push notifications to devices linked to customers who had self-excluded.
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India Raids 25 Locations Linked To Foreign Online Gaming Operators

India’s foreign transactions and money laundering enforcer has raided 25 locations across the nation suspected of housing foreign-controlled online gambling operations.
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UK Regulator Targets Six Areas To Strengthen Evidence Base

The UK Gambling Commission has outlined six areas where it intends to improve the evidence base for regulatory change over the next three years, as part of what it calls a new “aspirational” programme.
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Romanian Gambling Ad Restrictions Incoming But Lawyers Flag Need For Clarity

Romania’s new Audiovisual Code introduces several important changes, clarifications and restrictions; however, questions raised about the definitions, such as sports personality or influencer, have not been “thoroughly defined”, according to legal experts.
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Australia’s Project Acacia Blossoming Into Six-Month Testing Phase

Project Acacia, Australia’s research program into wholesale digital currency, has reached a “significant milestone”, with participants selected to explore innovations in digital money and settlement infrastructure.
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Big Tech Joins Forces With Telcos Under Hong Kong’s Latest Anti-Scam Charter

Financial regulators in Hong Kong have announced the launch of a new anti-scam charter that will see telcos and big tech firms participate for the first time.
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U.S. Senate Fails To Roll Back Change To Gambling Tax Deductions

The effort to reverse one of the tax hikes in President Donald Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill” came up short in the Senate on Thursday due to opposition from a lone senator who sought to add an exemption of religious colleges from the federal endowment tax.
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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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