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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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New Australian Government Keeps Up Crypto Reform Agenda

Australia’s new centre-left government has announced it is ready to start consulting on a framework for the regulation of the crypto-asset sector for industry and regulators.
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Payments

Marcos Names 'Bosom Buddy' Businessman To Helm PAGCOR

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has sworn in the new board of gambling regulator PAGCOR, with entrepreneur and Marcos ally Alejandro H. Tengco taking over as chairman and CEO.
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Gambling

U.S. iGaming Expansion Slowed By Federal Pandemic Aid, Self-Delusion

As sports betting continues to capture most of the headlines, industry executives say legalization of internet gaming has not kept pace because the gaming industry simply has not made a broad enough case to legislators and governors for legalizing iGaming.
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Gambling

UK Trade Group Challenges Public Health Recommendations

The Betting and Gaming Council has been rattled by a raft of 81 recommendations made in a study funded by Public Health England (PHE), calling their potential impacts on the gambling industry “worrying”.
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Gambling

Nevada Regulators Consider Cybersecurity Requirements For Gaming Operators

The Nevada Gaming Control Board will consider how to proceed with several proposed amendments to state gaming laws creating new cybersecurity requirements for operators at a workshop next month.
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Gambling

Brazilian Platform Lured Customers With Bitcoin Before Sudden Closure

​​​​​​​A sports-betting platform in Brazil that promised its players huge returns has mysteriously and suddenly shuttered, leaving subscribers scrambling to find out where their money has gone.
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Gambling

Why Cross-Border Payments Still Have Not Been Solved

Complex regulatory requirements, legacy systems and a long priority list at many financial institutions have resulted in improvements to cross-border payments failing to become more efficient, experts suggest.
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Payments

India’s NCPI Signs First Deal With UK Acquirer

It will soon be possible for Unified Payments Interface and RuPay customers to make in-store payments in the UK through PayXpert’s solution, the National Payments Corporation of India (NCPI) has announced.
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Payments

UK, EU Merchants Hit By PSD2 Switching Pains, Says Study

Hopes were high when the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) came into force in the EU and UK, but has the new legislation lived up to expectations?
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Payments

Polish Human Rights Commissioner Wants Less Website Blocking

Poland’s Human Rights Commissioner has sent an official letter to the Prime Minister calling for the country’s extensive, but dubiously effective, blacklisting efforts to be scaled back.
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Gambling

U.S. Sports-Betting Market Leaders Continue Parlay Wager Push

Single-game parlays have become a popular product for players despite their longer odds and some of the leading U.S. sports-betting operators are riding the popularity of high-margin parlays to higher market share.
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Gambling

Reeling Macau Set For Authoritarian Security Reforms

The Macau government is preparing a hardline, Hong Kong-style upgrade of national security legislation with extra-territorial jurisdiction that criminalises individuals in Macau and overseas with links to foreign “threats”.
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Gambling

Faster Payments Overtakes Bacs In Latest UK Payments Stats

Faster Payments and other remote banking are gaining traction among UK consumers, with UK Finance unveiling that 86 percent of all UK adults used at least one form of remote banking during 2021.
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Payments

US Senator Accuses Regulator Of Pressuring Banks To Avoid Crypto Companies

A US senator has alleged that a federal regulator is using Obama-era scare tactics to discourage banks from engaging in legitimate business with crypto companies.
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Payments

End Misleading BNPL Ads, FCA Warns

Although buy now, pay later (BNPL) products may escape regulation, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned that all BNPL products in the UK must comply with financial promotion rules.
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Payments

Will Major League Baseball Go Stag To California's Sports-Betting Party?

It has been ten days since Major League Baseball announced its support of an online sports betting referendum in California, and the silence from the National Basketball Association, National Football League and National Hockey League is growing more deafening.
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Gambling

Queensland Flags New Star Probe Into Triad 'Links'

Australian casino operator The Star Entertainment Group’s year of woe has taken another turn for the worse after a top Queensland state official flagged a fresh probity investigation over a media report linking partner company Chow Tai Fook to organised crime.
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Gambling

Chile Debates Sports-Betting Advertising

​​​​​​​While a public war of words breaks out within the industry, debate about regulating sports-betting advertising has been ongoing this past week behind closed doors, in the sports commission of Chile's Chamber of Deputies.
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Gambling

Truss Outlines Payments Policy Plans In Battle For No. 10

Liz Truss, the Conservative frontrunner to be the UK's next Prime Minister, has eyed up a financial regulatory merger, while also making commitments to ensure access to cash remains stable.
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Payments

Week In Crypto: Celsius Reveals Its Missing Billions, Coinbase Hit By New Insider Trading Claims

New court hearings shine a light on the hole in Celsius’s balance sheet, fresh allegations of insider trading are levelled against Coinbase and another algorithmic stablecoin unravels.
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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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