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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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Ukrainian Regulator Cancels Licences 'Controlled' By Russia’s Residents

The Ukrainian Commission for the Regulation of Gambling and Lotteries (KRAIL) has announced it has removed the licences of a number of gambling operators who are active in the country but are “controlled by residents of the Russian Federation”.
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Gambling

Dutch Gambling Loss Limits Coming, Officials Say

The Dutch online gambling industry can expect a spending cap on online gambling, with opportunities for loosening it with something like affordability or addiction-prevention checks, officials seem to agree. Proposed loss limits were a big topic at a Gaming in Holland gambling update in The Hague on Wednesday (December 14), with details yet to come.
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Gambling

US Senators Stall Key AML Bill

The ENABLERS Act, a major piece of legislation that seeks to end a legal loophole in the US anti-money laundering (AML) framework, has been blocked by Republican senators.
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Payments

Danske Bank AML Saga Ends With $3bn In Penalties

Danske Bank has agreed to pay a total of $2.4bn in two US investigations to settle charges by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in what has been described as Europe’s largest anti-money laundering (AML) scandal. Its Danish case is also set to end today with a $0.54bn fine, VIXIO has learned.
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Payments

Card Use Soars To 90 Percent In UK, Business Group Reveals

Some 90 percent of retail spending and 82 percent of transactions were carried out on debit or credit cards in 2021 in the UK, according to the British Retail Consortium’s latest Payments Survey.
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Payments

Judges In Critical Sports-Betting Case May Lean Toward Seminoles

The sports-betting industry is hoping for a major breakthrough when a landmark Florida case goes before a three-judge panel on Wednesday in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C.
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Gambling

UK Nations Targeting Gambling Harms Ahead Of White Paper

Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are addressing concerns associated with gambling harms as they impatiently await the release of the UK government's Gambling Act review white paper.
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Gambling

European Council Reaches eID Agreement

The European Council has adopted its position on the proposed legislation for a European digital identity (eID) framework, making a fair amount of amendments in the process.
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Payments

Brazil Crypto Bill ’Sets The Ball Rolling’

Brazil is on the verge of becoming the first Latin American country to adopt a framework for crypto-assets, setting the bar for other countries in the region to follow.
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Payments

Jeremy Hunt Unveils ’Next Chapter’ For UK Financial Services

Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt has laid out the "Edinburgh Reforms", a list of more than 30 regulatory reforms aimed to "unlock investment" and "turbocharge" growth in the UK.
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Payments

Maltese Bookmakers Must Pay Polish Income Tax

The Polish Supreme Administrative Court has ruled that a Malta-based bookmaker which aims to provide its services to customers in Poland via a local representative is required to pay Polish corporate income tax.
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Gambling

Brazil's Deadline For Sports-Betting Regulatory Decree Passes

The statutory deadline to regulate a 2018 law for sports betting in Brazil has come and gone, with no sign of action from President Jair Bolsonaro’s outgoing government.
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Gambling

Technology Advances Raise Cyber Threat Level For U.S. Gaming Industry

The protection of consumer data has become a critical issue for U.S. casino and online gaming operators as hackers continue to acquire the bundles of sensitive data the industry collects and stores about its customers, warn regulators and security executives.
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Gambling

Massachusetts Commission Defers Promotional Play Decision

Massachusetts regulators remained undecided Monday on whether to allow operators to deduct promotional play from taxable revenues when the state’s sports-betting program launches in 2023.
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Gambling

Australian Regulator Sues Individual Star Directors

Australia’s corporate regulator has launched civil prosecutions against 11 current and former directors and senior managers of casino operator The Star Entertainment Group, marking a new phase of legal accountability for powerful individuals in the Australian gambling industry.
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Gambling

PSR Consults On UK Fraud Reporting Model

The Payments Systems Regulator (PSR) has updated its plans to publish data on how well UK firms are protecting customers against authorised push payment (APP) scams.
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Payments

Santander Slapped With £107.7m UK Fine Over AML Failures

The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has imposed a £107.7m fine on Santander UK over "serious and persistent gaps" in the bank’s anti-money laundering (AML) controls that affected business banking customers.
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Payments

Greek Regulator To Court Suppliers

The head of the Greek gambling regulator wants to tempt suppliers to relocate from Malta and Gibraltar, and has said that he expects to collect €1bn in gambling taxes for the state budget in 2022.
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Gambling

U.S. Land-Based Casinos Need To Adjust To Growth Of Online Gaming

A senior executive with Boyd Gaming believes internet gaming is the key to the future of the casino industry and disagreed with arguments that offering online or mobile slot machines and table games will hurt brick-and-mortar business.
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Gambling

U.S. Gaming, Lottery Industries Under Threat From Unregulated Gambling

Illegal gambling in the United States has expanded to the point where unregulated slot machines and offshore sports betting and casino websites are a direct threat to the legal gaming and lottery markets, according to leading industry officials.
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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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