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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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Problem Gambling Prevention Funding Focus Of U.S. State Lawmakers

In 2023, lawmakers in several states will consider proposals to increase funding for problem gambling or prioritize treatment services as they deal with the impact of new forms of legalized gambling on their communities, including sports betting and casino gaming.
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Gambling

Week In Crypto: SBF Pleads Not Guilty, Coinbase Hit By $100m Settlement, Judge Rules In Celsius’ Favour

FTX’s former CEO pins his hopes on an acquittal, Coinbase is rapped for over-stretching its compliance muscle and a federal judge confirms that Celsius owns its customers’ crypto.
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Payments

First EMI Joins Spanish Payment System

Iberpay, which oversees Spain’s national payments system, has hit a milestone after it incorporated its first electronic money institution (EMI).
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Payments

Daily Dash: Saudi Arabia Launches Open Banking Lab

Saudi Arabia has launched its Open Banking Lab following last year’s framework announcement, and Denmark has recorded its first year without a bank robbery.
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Payments

Mastercard Breached US Debit Card Rules, FTC Says

The US Federal Trade Commission alleges that Mastercard has been blocking the use of competing networks for online debit card payments in breach of federal regulations.
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Payments

UK Lawmakers Lobby As White Paper Nowhere In Sight

As Christmas and New Year in the UK passed without a Gambling Act review update, some politicians are still publicly trying to influence the contents of the long-awaited white paper.
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Gambling

Finnish Government Mulls End Of Online Gambling Monopoly

After months of pressure and speculation Finnish authorities announced on Thursday they are officially considering the possibility of scrapping the country’s gambling monopoly and launching a licence-based online gambling system.
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Gambling

Ohio Becoming Biggest, Baddest Sheriff In U.S. Sports-Betting Regulation

Ohio did not accept its first legal sports wager until New Year’s Day, but after levying hefty fines on Thursday against three prominent operators, the Buckeye State is swiftly establishing itself as perhaps the most relentless enforcer of regulations among sports-betting states.
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Gambling

Fanatics Presents Sports-Betting Plan To Massachusetts Regulators

Details about the forthcoming sportsbook operation of sports retailer Fanatics have been sparse to date, but some information has finally trickled out this week through public presentations in Massachusetts.
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Gambling

News In Brief: January 3-January 6, 2023

Ukraine's gambling tax income is nearing pre-war levels, the country's regulator has said.
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Gambling

US Consumer Watchdog Wants New Rules For Credit Reference Agencies

Although improvements have been made, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has warned that new compliance requirements may be necessary to bring down credit reporting firms' complaints.
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Payments

India Migrates Payments Fraud Reporting To New Suptech System

A new supervisory technology (suptech) system is now live in India, and has taken over as the main channel for banks and other financial institutions to report suspected payments fraud.
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Payments

Turkey Completes First CBDC Transactions

The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey has run its first test transactions on the digital lira network, promising a report on progress so far.
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Payments

Massachusetts Grants Barstool Preliminary Mobile Sports-Betting License

After several weeks of expressing concerns about its Barstool Sports affiliation, Massachusetts regulators ultimately gave Penn Sports Interactive a conditional green light Wednesday to move forward with its online sports-betting platform in the state.
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Gambling

Albania Targets Q1 For Sports-Betting Law

Albania’s government is aiming to have a legal framework to un-ban sports betting again within the first three months of 2023.
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Gambling

New Year Brings New Nevada Cybersecurity Regulations

Nevada’s casinos have until the end of the year to perform a risk assessment of the vulnerability of their computer systems to cyberattacks that could potentially compromise customer data and negatively affect the state’s lucrative gaming industry.
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Gambling

Licence Renewals Bring German Betting Relief

Betway, Bet-at-Home and Happybet are among online gambling companies getting their German sports-betting licences refreshed for 2023, alleviating concerns that a committee of gambling regulators would block a significant number of renewals.
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Gambling

China To Launch State-Backed NFT Marketplace, But ’Cryptocurrency’ Still Illegal

After making cryptocurrency trading and mining illegal in 2021, China has unveiled its first "national-level compliant" exchange for the secondary trading of non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
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Payments

ECB Seeks Digital Euro Scheme Rulebook Support

The European Central Bank (ECB) is inviting payments and financial services experts to express their interest in contributing to the drafting of a rulebook for a digital euro scheme.
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Payments

Back To Work: A Recap Of Payment News While You Were Away

Following the festive break, VIXIO PaymentsCompliance provides a short round up of some of the key events over the past few weeks that you may have missed, including Croatia becoming the latest eurozone member, the completion of the US CBDC project, new Malaysian electronic money rules and Russia to allow transfers with "unfriendly states".
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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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