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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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FinCEN Warns US Property Market Being Exploited By Sanctioned Russians

The US Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has warned financial institutions that sanctioned Russian oligarchs may use the US commercial real-estate sector to hide their wealth.
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Payments

Get Consumer Duty Plans Sorted, FCA Warns Firms

The UK financial watchdog has listed its recommendations for firms after publishing its findings on the Consumer Duty implementation so far.
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Payments

Poland Investigates Ad Violations By Dutch, Serbian, Montenegrin Handball Federations

Poland’s Ministry of Finance is investigating potential illegal advertising of gambling operators, including the Dutch national lottery at the 2023 Men’s Handball Championship.
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Gambling

Financial Risk Checks In White Paper, Not Affordability, Says UK Gambling Minister

UK government cabinet ministers are giving their final thoughts on the much-delayed Gambling Act review white paper, according to the minister in charge of gambling policy, including the scrapping of wide-ranging affordability checks.
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Gambling

Washington Cardrooms, Racetracks Seek To Expand Sports Betting

Eric Persson, chief executive of Maverick Gaming, has unsuccessfully lobbied lawmakers for more than two years to allow cardrooms in Washington state to offer legal and regulated sports betting, but that has not stopped him from getting behind another legalization effort this year.
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Gambling

News In Brief: January 23–January 27, 2023

An online casino bill is launched in Maryland, Ontario revenues spike as licensed market comes fully online and investigations continue into exclusive betting licence tender in Paraguay.
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Gambling

Three Remittance Firms In Trouble With UK Regulator

The UK finance watchdog has issued a statement of objections to three cross-border money transfer firms over alleged fixed prices.
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Payments

CBDC Could Offer Potential Fix For Cross-Border Payments, Says MAS Chief

A top official at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has said that central bank digital currency (CBDC) could deliver low-cost and efficient cross-border payments, but it is not the only solution on the table.
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Payments

Senators Set To Launch Probe Into PAGCOR Auditor Deal

Philippine lawmakers have renewed an attack on PAGCOR, with senators preparing to launch a Senate investigation into the gambling regulator’s contract with its online gaming auditor.
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Gambling

Georgia Sports-Betting Backers Potentially Changing Legalization Strategy

Supporters of sports betting in Georgia may be changing course once again in their efforts to legalize the activity in the state.
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Gambling

Dutch Operator JOI Fined €400,000 For Young Adult Promotional Emails

An online operator owned by one of the Netherlands' biggest bricks-and-mortar casino groups has been fined €400,000 for aiming adverts at young adults.
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Gambling

German Watchdog Starts PayPal Probe

Germany’s antitrust regulator is investigating PayPal over claims of inhibiting competitors and restrictive price competition.
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Payments

In Touch Fined £6.1m In Third UK Regulatory Action Since 2019

The UK’s Gambling Commission has fined In Touch Games £6.1m for failings in social responsibility and anti-money laundering policies, its third seven-figure regulatory action since 2019.
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Gambling

ICE Conference Set To Rebound, But Brexit Clouds London Future

​​​​​​​The ICE gambling conference seems poised to rebound to full strength or better next month, but rising London costs worsened by Brexit raise questions about its future in the UK’s capital.
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Gambling

U.S. Compliance Executives Seek Inclusion In Partnership Negotiations

As the U.S. gaming industry continues to evolve with the expansion of sports betting, cashless payments and eventually the widespread adoption of internet gaming, compliance executives agree there is a need for them to be involved in negotiations with third-party skin operators and partners.
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Gambling

Fraud Prevention Is 2023 Priority For Payments Firms

Payments players have said that they anticipate that 2023 will see the challenges around tackling fraud continue to play out, as VIXIO research finds that it is a top ranking priority for compliance teams to fix.
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Payments

SEC Charges Nexo With Unregistered Securities Violations, Settles On Same Day For $45m

Nexo, a Bulgaria-based crypto lending and trading platform, has agreed to a $45m settlement after being charged with unregistered securities violations by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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Payments

US Financial Regulator Puts Subscription-Based Firms On Alert

The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau warns companies against using dark patterns to make consumers pay recurring fees.
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Payments

Peru's Finance Minister Talks Gambling Tax, Social Unrest

In a perfect world, restructuring taxes, including those that address gambling, would be part of Peru’s post-pandemic economic recovery, according to the country’s minister of finance.
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Gambling

U.S. Operators Face Escalating Enforcement Environment

Ohio has wasted little time in raising the bar in terms of enforcement activity against sports-betting operators, although U.S. states still have a long way to go before they start to resemble the more hostile enforcement environments of European markets.
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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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