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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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Texas Governor Says Legislative Lottery Courier Ban Is Unconstitutional

Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott has said a legislative effort to potentially limit the use of online lottery courier services in the state is unconstitutional.
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Gambling

Grey-Market Machines Disabled As Lawsuit Determines Their Legality In Kentucky

A Kentucky judge has signed off on an agreement reached between the state attorney general and Pace-O-Matic to disable thousands of skill-based games, also known as grey-market machines, while the constitutionality of a ban passed by the legislature is challenged in court.
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Gambling

Irish Minister Vows To 'Clear Off' And 'Move On' Gambling Bill

Ireland’s Gambling Regulation Bill 2022 will go to the report stage on July 11, as the government minister overseeing it aims to “clear it off and move it on”.
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Gambling

Bankruptcy Proceedings Beckon As Lithuanian Authorities Revoke PayrNet Licence

The licence of the once Railsr subsidiary has been revoked by the Bank of Lithuania for what the regulator says are serious violations of compliance requirements.
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Payments

PSR Urges Digital Pound Not To Repeat Past Payment Failures

In its response to the UK’s digital pound consultation, the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) recommends policymakers consider the lessons learned from authorised push payment fraud, Faster Payments and the failed Paym service.
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Payments

Brazil To Proceed On Two Tracks For Sports-Betting Legislation

A forthcoming provisional measure to enact a sports-betting law in Brazil is expected to deal exclusively with taxation and penalties, while an accompanying bill will address other issues, including match-fixing, local legal experts say.
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Gambling

Manila's Valenzuela City Bans Online Gambling Operations

The city of Valenzuela in northwestern Metro Manila has banned foreign facing online gambling operators (POGOs), becoming the third Manila locality to place restrictions on the struggling industry segment.
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Gambling

ID Rules For British Columbia Casinos, New Jersey Diversion Court Bill Stalled

Beginning Monday, entering casinos in at least one Canadian province will take a bit of extra time, as the British Columbia Lottery Corporation begins checking the identification of all visitors before allowing them to enter.
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Gambling

Week In Crypto: BlackRock Bets Big On Bitcoin ETF, But Will The SEC Budge?

BlackRock bets big on bitcoin, major European banks move into crypto custody, crypto exchanges face further restrictions in Australia and the LUNA founder is sentenced to four months in prison.
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Payments

Australia Considers Mandating Card Network Choice For Merchants

The Reserve Bank of Australia has outlined new plans that would abolish the use of default network settings on dual-network debit cards, but the central bank is wary that compliance costs could be high.
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Payments

CFPB Prepares To Bring Large Payment Firms Under Its Oversight

The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is planning to define large payment firms that are subject to its supervision by next month. Big tech firms operating in the payments space and popular digital wallets are likely in scope.
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Payments

Daily Dash: US Authorities Get Tough With Amazon

The US Federal Trade Commission has sued Amazon, Google has entered the financial crime world with a new AI product, and Volt has announced a $60m funding round that will power its open banking expansion into APAC and the Americas.
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Payments

Brazil Gambling Startup Might Be Difficult Venture, Expert Says

Entering the lucrative regulated market of Brazil would be an expensive and challenging venture, making an acquisition of an existing operator a more sensible investment, a strategic advisor has said.
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Gambling

German Court Says Most Gambling Ad Restrictions Are Legal

A higher administrative court in Germany’s Saxony-Anhalt has ruled that advertising rules barring gambling infomercials, ads for social casino games, and pitches by social media influencers are legally permissible, while a total ban on ads in public spaces is probably “disproportionate”.
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Gambling

New Jersey Lawmakers Advance Ten Year Renewal Of Internet Gaming

A bipartisan bill making its way through New Jersey’s Senate would allow online casino gambling to continue for another decade in the state, ensuring hundreds of millions of dollars in state revenue, according to state fiscal analysts.
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Gambling

News In Brief: June 19-June 23, 2023

A cashless slot machine trial in Australia has been delayed, after hackers stole customer data.
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Gambling

Payments And Sustainability ‘Now Have An Overlap’

Panellists at EBAday 2023 shared their thoughts on how sustainability is becoming a bigger deal for the payments world, while warning industry about the impact of regulation.
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Payments

Pro-Russia Hackers Vow To Bring Western Financial System Down In 48 Hours

Russian hacker groups claimed responsibility for bringing down the European Investment Bank's (EIB) websites, as they vow to cripple the Western financial system in the coming days.
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Payments

PayPal Sells €40bn BNPL Loan Portfolio To Investment Firm KKR

PayPal has signed an exclusive multi-year deal that will hand over the rights to its European buy now, pay later (BNPL) loans to American investment firm KKR.
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Payments

Curaçao To Issue Licences In September

Curaçao will issue new licences directly to gambling operators starting on September 1, according to the country’s Minister of Finance, who said the long-awaited regulatory changes are “unavoidable”.
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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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