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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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EU Banking Watchdog Attempts To Solve Continent’s De-Risking Problem

The European Banking Authority has issued its final guidelines on de-risking, which it hopes can stop banks in the trading bloc from using anti-money laundering controls to deny access to customers.
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Payments

New Sheriff In Nevada Governor's Mansion Seeks Regulatory Changes

Facing a deadline set for the end of the month, the Nevada Gaming Control Board will host a workshop next week to receive industry input on whether a selected group of gaming regulations should be deleted or updated before a final list is eventually submitted to the governor’s office.
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Gambling

UK Trade Group Backs Likely Statutory Levy

UK trade group the Betting and Gaming Council has said it welcomes the idea of a mandatory levy to fund research, education and treatment services as long as it “is independent and tiered to protect land-based operators”.
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Gambling

Payments Ecosystem Ponders Role In ESG World

Payments industry interest in environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues continued to bubble at the Merchant Payment Ecosystem conference this year, as panellists considered how to approach the sustainability juggernaut.
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Payments

Consumer Duty Grey Lines - FCA Discusses Acquirers And Open Banking Firms

The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has emphasised there is no one size fits all solution when it comes to Consumer Duty and firms, including merchant acquirers and open banking firms, may be in scope to the extent they influence good consumer outcomes.
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Payments

Denmark Latest Country To Highlight Social Media Concerns

The Danish gambling regulator is showing no signs of slowing its efforts to tackle illegal gambling and improper promotions on social media sites and streaming platforms, after stepping up its enforcement action in 2022.
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Gambling

Lawsuit Seeks To Block Enforcement Of Kentucky's Grey-Market Ban

As state legislatures crack down on the rapid expansion of unregulated “grey-market” games that play like slot machines, companies that manufacture or distribute the games are responding to any bans or seizures of their machines by filing lawsuits in state courts.
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Gambling

Gambling Antagonist In U.S. Congress Not Satisfied With New Ad Code

The senior U.S. senator from Connecticut, who is arguably Congress’ leading critic of the gaming industry, has said new self-regulatory restrictions adopted by the American Gaming Association do not go far enough to rein in sports-betting advertising.
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Gambling

Personnel Moves - April 2023

The UK's Health Lottery has a new boss, gambling veteran Joe Asher gets a presidential appointment, Star Entertainment appoints a new chair and Colombia finally appoints a new chief regulator.
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Gambling

Lithuania Demands Better Compliance From Bulging Payment Sectors

Lithuania joins other jurisdictions in Europe such as the UK in calling for better compliance processes at payments and electronic money firms as it reviews its activities for 2022.
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Payments

Week In Crypto: US Regulator Goes In For The Kill On Binance

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has filed a major lawsuit against Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, seeking its expulsion from the US market and the forfeiture of all its earnings to date.
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Payments

Daily Dash: Singapore Regulator Confirms Action After ’Unacceptable’ DBS Outage

Singapore’s banking regulator is to take further action against DBS Bank after new outage, Germany’s government reported to be creating a new financial crime watchdog, US senators plot to clawback earnings of failed bank executives and Sam Bankman-Fried In court over Chinese government bribe charges.
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Payments

Neymar's Twitch Gambling Stream Puts Rules To Test

Brazilian football star Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior’s recent Twitch streams promoting gambling are causing other members of the platform to question how the site enforces its content restrictions.
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Gambling

UPDATE: Kentucky Governor Signs Sports-Betting Into Law

Governor Andy Beshear signed a bill Friday to legalize sports betting in Kentucky, putting his signature on House Bill 551 less than a day after the Senate approved the measure on the final day of the 2023 legislative session.
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Gambling

New Hampshire Senate Gives Green Light To Online Casino Legislation

New Hampshire’s Senate became the first U.S. state legislative chamber in 2023 to pass legislation permitting online casino, but did so with one significant caveat.
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Gambling

Spanish Lawyers Label Royal Decree Disproportionate

Legal experts in Spain have said that the recent Royal Decree on Safer Gambling is disproportionate to the rates of problem gambling in the country.
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Gambling

News In Brief: March 27-March 31, 2023

The Greek gambling regulator will use AI to map problem gambling, a Canadian province reorganises its gambling market and a South Carolina sports-betting bill progresses.
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Gambling

All Change As Malaysia Moves To Break Up Touch ’N Go Transport Monopoly

As the Malaysian government moves towards ending Touch 'n Go's two-decade monopoly on toll booth and transport payments, how significantly will this affect the country’s wider payments market?
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Payments

EPC Releases Rulebook For Multicurrency Instant Payments

The European Payments Council (EPC) has published the first One-Leg Out Instant Credit Transfer (OCT Inst) scheme rulebook, which governs how the euro leg of cross-border instant payments should work.
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North Carolina Sports-Betting Bill Clears Chamber While Georgia Efforts Fade

One southeastern U.S. state took its biggest step yet toward sports-betting legalization, but another saw its 2023 session end with legislation dying once again.
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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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