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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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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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EBA Recommends Enforcement Pause To Avoid PSD2-MiCA Compliance Duplication

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has issued a No Action letter aiming to reduce the risk of crypto-asset firms needing to obtain two separate licences for certain payment activities under overlapping European rules.
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Enforcement Overhaul At FCA Welcome News For Regulated Firms

The UK Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) attempt to increase the transparency of its enforcement investigations could also speed up investigations, which experts say would be good news for the financial services sector.
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Nevada Regulators Taking On Outdated Rules, But Online Gaming Off The Table

After two years in the role, Nevada Gaming Control Board chairman J. Brin Gibson is busy guiding the agency through the massive undertaking of updating the state’s archaic gaming regulations, some of which have not been touched in more than five decades.
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Gambling

Japan Warns Online Gamblers Of Criminal Prosecution

Japan’s police and Consumer Affairs Agency have released a joint warning that gambling on offshore websites is a criminal act, implying that long-standing de facto impunity for affiliate websites may be under threat.
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Gambling

Swedish Operators Sharing Problem Gambling Data

​​​​​​​Three of Sweden’s largest operators — Kindred, the Swedish Horse Racing Totalisator Board (ATG) and state-owned Svenska Spel — have agreed to share key problem gambling consumer data every six months.
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Gambling

Bigtech Could Accelerate Interbank Payment Disruption, Says FCA

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has looked at how bigtech is disrupting payments, as it seeks views on the potential competition benefits and harms from the changing market dynamic.
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Payments

JCB Launches World’s First Pilot Of Card-Based CBDC Payments

Japan will use its local card-based payments network to trial in-person merchant payments using a central bank digital currency (CBDC).
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Payments

Amex Opens Up Its Network To Fintechs

A new partnership between American Express and Cross River Bank will enable fintechs to offer Amex-branded credit cards to their customers.
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Payments

Tribal Gaming Lobbyists Brace For Power Play By Alabama Senator

Prussian politician Otto von Bismarck once said laws are like sausages because it is best not to see them being made, and Indian gaming lobbyists are worried the wisdom of Bismarck’s observation will be confirmed yet again in Congress before the end of the year.
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Gambling

NSW Crime Commission Backs Mandatory Cashless Slots

The New South Wales (NSW) Crime Commission has heaped new pressure on slot machine operators and the state government in a report recommending mandatory cashless use of slots to stem billions of dollars in laundered funds per year.
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Gambling

UK Problem Gambling Rate Stable But Data Concerns Remain

​​​​​​​The latest Gambling Commission data reports that the UK problem gambling rate has remained stable at 0.3 percent, but academics are increasingly concerned about the methodology and standardisation of recording gambling harm rates.
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Gambling

Vermont Committee Supports Mobile Sports Betting, With Retail Requiring Further Study

A Vermont committee has begun to piece together what sports betting in the state could look like as legislators prepare to consider the issue next year.
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Gambling

Pakistan Off Greylist As FATF Completes Plenary

The global money laundering and financing watchdog has removed Pakistan from its list of countries under increased monitoring after four years.
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Payments

Santander’s ’Radical Plan’ To Protect Consumers From APP Fraud

UK payment system upgrades are needed so that fraud prevention can be built into their design, says a new report by Santander, outlining what needs to be done by the industry and regulators to tackle authorised push payment (APP) fraud.
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Payments

A Revolution In Cross-Border Payments? IXB Pilot Readies For Live Service

VIXIO caught up with the pan-European payments clearing house, EBA Clearing, to talk the prospects and roadmap for its new Immediate Cross-Border Payments (IXB) as participants gear up for live testing.
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Payments

Norway Joins Germany In Questioning Twitch Gambling Streams

Norway is just as annoyed as Germany at a Twitch move to ban only some streamed online casino games from its platform, saying streamers of unlicensed slots are breaking the law, and other European countries could soon follow their lead.
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Gambling

Bill Introduced To Open D.C. Sports-Betting Market

A group of District of Columbia councilmembers have begun a push to introduce a competitive mobile sports-betting market in the nation’s capital and end the DC Lottery’s near-monopoly on mobile betting in the district.
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Gambling

Brazil's Fantasy Sports Sector Seeking Legal Clarity From Congress

Brazil’s nascent fantasy sports industry is lauding last week’s approval of a bill to establish a legal framework for electronic video games that would also formally recognise fantasy competitions as games of skill.
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Gambling

Nigerian State Clarifies Gambling Ban

​​​​​​​Nigeria’s Anambra state government has been forced to clarify that a reported state-wide ban on gambling activities only pertains to casino games in hotels, restaurants and bars, after misleading local media reports.
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Gambling

Oral Arguments Scheduled In Landmark Florida Online Sports-Betting Case

On December 14, a panel of three judges in Washington, D.C. will preside over a hearing to determine whether Florida should be allowed to resume online sports betting, and their decision is likely to have historic ramifications for both the tribal and commercial gaming industries.
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Gambling

Esports Betting Regulations Move Forward In Nevada

It took a special committee less than 20 minutes on Monday to unanimously approve Nevada’s first regulations for wagering on esports competitions, as the gaming industry looks to take advantage of the vast economic potential that competitive video games offer.
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Gambling

US Court Declares CFPB Funding Unconstitutional

A US court decision says the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) funding structure is unconstitutional, striking a potential blow to the agency’s work and calling into question all previous rules.
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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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