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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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Flutter Considers Additional US Listing, With Chance Of Full Move

Flutter Entertainment has said it will consult shareholders on a plan to additionally list its shares on US exchanges, with a possibility of later making a US exchange its primary listing.
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Kyrgyzstan Proposes Years In Prison For Illegal Gambling

Kyrgyzstan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs wants to introduce strict punishments for people organising illegal gambling in the country.
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Ukrainian Regulator Empowered To Sanction Russia-Backed Firms

Ukraine’s gambling regulator has been granted additional powers to punish companies with links to Russia.
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Fixed-Odds Wagering Struggling For Widespread U.S. Adoption

Fixed-odds betting on horseracing is a natural evolution of the U.S. gaming industry but something that has been lost in all the attention sports betting and internet gaming has received over the last five years, according to a betting company executive.
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U.S. Betting Operators Facing Legislative Pushback Over Advertising

The recent introduction of federal legislation to ban sports-betting advertising underscores a wider 2023 trend of U.S. lawmakers putting the industry on the defensive against proposed marketing restrictions.
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Gambling

EU Parliamentarians Back EU-Wide Digital Wallet

The new digital identity framework would provide EU citizens with digital access to key services across borders in the trading bloc.
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Payments

India Flags Dedicated Law For Online Gaming

India’s information technology minister has confirmed the government’s commitment to passing an online gaming law, which would pave the way for formal national regulation with state government assent.
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Gambling

California Referendum Re-Run Not Expected In 2024

California tribal leaders are not anticipating a further referendum on sports betting in 2024 after last November’s crushing defeat of a sportsbook-backed ballot initiative and amid a lack of full alignment among tribes on mobile wagering.
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Two U.S. States Differ On Gambling But Governors Find Common Ground

Utah and New Jersey are like night and day when it comes to casinos and sports betting, but the governors of both states were on the same page in advocating responsible gaming during the annual winter meeting of the National Governors Association in Washington, D.C.
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Flutter Expands African Presence With Morocco Deal

Flutter-owned Sisal has continued its expansion into Africa by inking a contract with Marocaine des Jeux et des Sports to provide sports betting in Morocco.
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Gambling

Chile Operators Argue Over Online Gambling Tax Rates

Negotiations about the shape of Chile’s online gambling bill continue behind the scenes of the congressional Economy Commission, with offshore operators and land-based casinos duking it out over tax rates and licence conditions.
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APP’s Enough! UK Regulator Consults On Fraud Name And Shame Plans

The Payment Systems Regulator wants to see greater transparency on how financial firms are treating victims of authorised push payment scams.
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Payments

Week In Crypto: Binance Suspends USD Withdrawals As Banking Partner Faces Lawsuit

Signature Bank, once the go-to bank of the crypto industry, finds itself in the spotlight again as it distances itself from Binance, while new allegations emerge of its collusion with FTX.
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Payments

US Government Report Says In-App Payments Are Uncompetitive

Apple and Google rules for in-app purchases are under the spotlight in the US after the Department of Commerce said the current model is harmful to consumers and developers.
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ECB Study Finds Cash Still King, As Switzerland To Vote On Keeping Cash Forever

A recent study by the European Central Bank (ECB) has found that cash is still the eurozone’s most common payment method, while Swiss voters have secured a referendum on keeping cash.
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Merchants Ask US Congress To Oust UnionPay From EMVCo, PCI

Ahead of the US congressional hearing on China, merchants ask lawmakers to boot China’s UnionPay out of global standard-setting bodies and pass the Credit Card Competition Act to close “a glaring security gap” in credit card processing.
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Daily Dash: New Data Exposes Extent Of US Romance Scams

The US Federal Trade Commission has issued new information regarding romance scams, while the Bank of Lithuania has sanctioned an e-money firm for money laundering failures.
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Super Bowl In Sports-Betting State For First Time; Las Vegas In 2024

Less than five years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled all states can legalize sports betting, the country’s premier sporting event — the Super Bowl — will be played on Sunday in a state offering lawful sports wagering for the first time.
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Professional Athletes Want Protections Added To Missouri Sports-Betting Bills

After several incidents where gamblers have directed their frustrations at athletes online after losing bets, the players’ associations from the five major U.S. sports leagues are asking state lawmakers for protections to be included in sports-betting bills or in standalone measures.
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As Sports-Betting Ads Proliferate, U.S. Congressman Seeks Federal Ban

Describing the U.S. sports-betting industry as predatory by so aggressively advertising its products, a New York congressman introduced a bill on Thursday to ban all ads for sports wagering.
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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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