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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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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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Payments

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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Gambling

Sprawling Czech Amendments Target Black Market

Newly-published amendments to Czech gambling law would give authorities powers to go after the black market, require licensed operators to display an emergency “panic button” at all times and ban many forms of bonuses.
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Gambling

Chilean Authority Warns Online Gambling Winnings Are Taxable

After denying allegedly illegal offshore operators the ability to pay digital VAT, Chile’s tax authority has reminded Chileans that they must still declare additional income from online gambling winnings.
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Illinois VGT Czar Says Don't Hold Your Breath On Internet Gaming

The leader of the industry dominating the Illinois gaming market on Wednesday reiterated his firm opposition to bills in the state legislature seeking to legalize online casino games.
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Gambling

Chhattisgarh State Legalises Online Skill Gaming With Stakes

The Indian state of Chhattisgarh has legalised land-based and online skill gaming with stakes, becoming the third jurisdiction in the nation to codify online gambling after the state of Meghalaya withdrew its gaming law.
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Gambling

Long Road To Least-Cost Routing: RBA Publishes First Progress Report

As promised, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has begun publishing reports on the availability of least-cost routing for in-person debit card payments, in an effort to help merchants reduce costs.
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Payments

Progress For EU AML Package After Committee Approval

Parliamentary committees leading on the EU’s new anti-money laundering (AML) package have adopted a position that can be voted on by their colleagues next month.
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Payments

Atlantic Money Takes Wise Complaint To Brussels

Money transfer firm Atlantic Money has confirmed it has escalated its antitrust claim against Wise to the European Commission’s competition department.
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Payments

Start Of A New Paze - US Banks Unveil New Digital Wallet Solution

US banks are planning to introduce a new digital wallet solution called Paze to compete with rivals such as Apple Pay, Google Pay and PayPal.
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Payments

Opposition Grows To Belgian Advertising Ban

Opposition to a planned Belgian ban on gambling advertising is rising, with media groups joining the country’s major sports organisations in speaking out against the ban due to take effect on July 1.
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Gambling

Kansas Lawmakers Warned Of IGRA Violation With Tribal Sports-Betting Bill

A bill that would allow federally-recognized tribes in Kansas to negotiate gaming compacts with the governor for mobile sports betting “outside the boundaries of Indian land” is being opposed by commercial casino operators who believe it would violate both state and federal law.
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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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