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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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Lawsuit Challenging Virginia's Skill-Game Ban Delayed Until Spring 2023

A state court judge has declined to dismiss a lawsuit claiming Virginia’s 2021 ban on so-called skill-game machines violates free speech, and due to a state senator’s involvement in the case, it will not go to trial until April or May.
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Gambling

Australian AML Watchdog Sues SkyCity Adelaide

Australian money laundering watchdog AUSTRAC has taken the Adelaide casino operation of Australasian listco SkyCity Entertainment Group to court in a potentially billion-dollar civil proceeding, the latest in a flurry of AUSTRAC actions against gambling companies.
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Gambling

Dutch Gambling Minister Targets Addiction Prevention

The Dutch minister overseeing gambling policy has told parliament he intends to tighten rules surrounding addiction prevention, as well as further limit advertising.
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Gambling

BNPL Targeted As EU Agrees New Credit Rules

Negotiators from the European Council and the European Parliament have reached a provisional agreement on the Consumer Credit Directive. The revised legislation repeals and replaces the current 2008 directive on consumer credit agreements.
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Payments

Dutch Queen Launches New Regulatory Knowledge-Sharing Platform

With backing from the UN, the UK government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Queen Máxima and colleagues are fashioning a global network for regulatory expertise through the University of Cambridge.
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Payments

E-Wallets: Asia’s New Current Account? CDD Triggers Across Continents

This regulatory analysis will focus on customer due diligence (CDD) timing triggers and is the first of a series that will compare the licensing regimes of e-money operators and banks. It will first lay out the role that e-money plays in three very different jurisdictions: Singapore; the United Kingdom; and the Philippines. It will then examine the CDD trigger requirements for e-money providers in each of these jurisdictions in comparison to the equivalent regulation that applies to banks.
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Payments

Italy Takes Swipe At Card Payments In New PM Budget Bill

Flying in the face of global trends, Italy’s new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni wants to raise the limits on cash payments and support merchants to refuse cards for purchases below €60.
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Payments

Dutch Online Grey Market Players Want Their Money Back

A group of Dutch gamblers have filed a lawsuit demanding their losses back from the online platforms they used to place their wagers during the country’s grey market era.
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Gambling

Cybersecurity A Key Challenge For U.S. Regulators, Online Operators

As the investigation continues into the recent cyberattack that affected an unconfirmed number of accounts with major U.S. sportsbook operators, including FanDuel and DraftKings, state gaming regulators are placing a greater emphasis on two-factor authentication and consumer protection, although the responsibility to secure accounts lies with the licensee.
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Gambling

India Flags Combined Regulation For Skill And Chance Gaming

India’s central government appears to have embraced skill and chance games with stakes as a single regulatable segment, after the Prime Minister’s office overruled an expert committee’s proposal to regulate only skill games, Reuters has reported.
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Gambling

Caesars Becomes First U.S. Sportsbook To Stream NFL In-App

The National Football League (NFL) has taken another significant step in its embrace of legalized sports betting, reaching its first domestic agreement to allow a sportsbook to stream live NFL games within its platform.
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Gambling

Singapore Clarifies BNPL Data Will Not Be Shared With Financial Institutions

Singapore’s top central banker has fielded parliamentary questions on the country’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) regulations, in an effort to assure lawmakers that users are protected from data risks and over-indebtedness.
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Payments

UK Banks Failing To Protect Customers From ’Spoofing’ Fraud, Says Study

A new study by UK consumer watchdog Which? has found that some banks are leaving customers vulnerable to "spoofing" fraud by failing to implement protections.
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Payments

Is Dual Routing The Answer To Rising Card Fee Conundrum?

Mandating dual routing is one of the many tools regulators have as they try to keep card acceptance costs at bay. With several countries pushing for dual routing, one merchant advisory firm tells VIXIO the merits of this regulatory method compared with capping interchange fees.
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Payments

Alderney Names Journalist Andrew Gellatly As Online Regulator

The Alderney Gambling Control Commission has named veteran gambling journalist, policy researcher and VIXIO GamblingCompliance co-founder Andrew Gellatly as executive director, signalling an acceleration in pandemic-era global engagement.
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Gambling

Missouri Sports-Betting Bills Are Back But VLTs Remain A Roadblock

Lawmakers in Missouri have begun filing bills ahead of the 2023 legislative session, with two sports-betting bills among the hundreds expected to be introduced by members of both chambers of the state legislature.
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Gambling

Ireland Gambling Regulation Bill Finally Published

Ireland’s justice minister, Helen McEntee, has published the country's long-awaited Gambling Regulation Bill 2022, 66 years after its current primary gambling law was introduced.
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Gambling

Italian Market Consolidated By 2022 M&A Flurry

A spate of mergers and acquisitions among Italian-facing operators has shaken up Europe’s second-largest online market, leading to a more heavily concentrated market share picture at the corporate level.
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Gambling

Week In Crypto: FTX CEO Says He ‘Did Not Try To Commit Fraud’, ECB Claims Bitcoin At Death’s Door

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried comes face to face with dispossessed customers at a New York Times event, European central bankers question bitcoin’s longevity and Kraken lays off almost a third of its staff.
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Payments

Barclays Slapped With £8.4m Fine Over Card Fee Disclosures

The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has fined Barclays for not giving retailers full information about the costs of its card services.
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Payments
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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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