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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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Scameter: Hong Kong’s New Tool In Fight Against Fraud

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has launched a new search engine tool that allows consumers to screen payees for connections to fraud cases prior to making a transaction.
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Payments

PSR Mandates CoP For 400 More Payment Firms

The UK's Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) is directing around 400 payment service providers to implement confirmation of payee (CoP) to their customers.
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Payments

Instant Payments Surge In Australia As Legacy Payments Migrate

Australia’s fast-growing instant payments system looks set to continue its expansion, as the country migrates its legacy payments to the new platform. Meanwhile, new services such as buy now, pay later (BNPL) continue to disrupt traditional card payments.
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Payments

Chinese Envoy Denies Gambling Blacklist Includes Philippines

A communication breakdown between the president of the Philippine Senate and the Chinese ambassador has exposed a possible tourism blacklisting for the Philippines over Chinese involvement in the local gambling industry.
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Gambling

U.S. Gaming Industry Threatened By Offshore Sites, Grey-Market Machines

The U.S. gaming industry faces serious challenges from inflation, rising energy costs, higher interest rates and labor shortages but executives and lobbyists warn the biggest underlying threat to their businesses comes from illegal gambling.
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Gambling

GGPoker Parent Will Pay UK Gambling Commission Penalty

The company that operates GGPoker will pay a £673,000 penalty for failures in social responsibility and anti-money laundering (AML) policies.
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Gambling

DraftKings, FanDuel Hoist White Flag In California But Pledge To Return

They stopped just short of an outright concession, but the chief executives of DraftKings and FanDuel on Tuesday acknowledged their sports-betting referendum in California is likely to fail on November 8.
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Gambling

DraftKings Boss Silent On Potential ESPN Partnership

Speaking at the Global Gaming Expo (G2E) on Tuesday, DraftKings CEO Jason Robins remained quiet on the topic of a reported major partnership with sports media giant ESPN.
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Gambling

Netherlands Ad Limits 'Unwarranted', Says Online Trade Group

​​​​​​​The Netherlands Online Gambling Association has said a raft of proposed advertising restrictions are “unwarranted” and “not based on evidence or analyses”.
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Gambling

’Fair And Correct’: PagBrasil CEO’s Verdict On New Interchange Rules

VIXIO sat down with PagBrasil’s CEO to discuss the implications of the upcoming changes to Brazil's prepaid card interchange fee regulation. He argues new rules are down to prepaid success in the market, while also discussing potential threats to credit cards from new Pix services to be launched next year.
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Payments

Singaporean Authorities Sanction Swiss Bank Official After STR Fail

The Monetary Authority of Singapore and the country’s police force have sanctioned a senior banker for failing to file suspicious transaction reports (STRs) at BSI Bank.
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Payments

Netherlands Delaying Ad Restrictions, Addressing Deposit Limits

Dutch gambling minister Franc Weerwind has announced a several-month delay to proposed advertising restrictions, as a raft of gambling policy queries were discussed during a Standing Committee on Justice and Security debate.
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Gambling

Popularity Of U.S. Sports Betting, Internet Gaming Drives Increase In Fraud

As mobile sports betting and online gambling increase in popularity in the U.S. so too does a broad range of illicit activities from identify theft to payments fraud and proxy betting, gaming industry executives warned Monday.
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Gambling

Paraguay's Sports-Betting Concession Process Plagued With Familiar Problems

Despite accusations of corruption, on October 31 regulator Conajzar will open envelopes which contain bids for the exclusive concession to operate sports bidding in Paraguay for the next five years, a contract that is reportedly worth $500m.
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Gambling

G2E Opens With Cybersecurity As Top Agenda Item For Regulators

Chief regulators of four major gambling states emphasized the importance of cybersecurity and discussed cultural differences between Europe and the United States during Monday’s opening session of the largest gaming conference in North America.
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Gambling

Optus Data Breach Prompts Australian Legislative Reform

Australia’s government is planning to propose changes to the country’s telecom laws to enable better information sharing with banks after a massive data breach at the telco firm exposed data of nearly 10m Australians.
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Payments

PSD3: Bank-Like Prudential Requirements For PSPs Risk Innovation

The European Banking Authority has suggested bringing prudential requirements, such as capital requirements related to credit and liquidity buffers, under rules that ape EU’s banking rules. Experts mull the implications to risk, competition and innovation.
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Payments

President Biden Signs Executive Order For US-EU Data Transfers

The US President signed the data transfer agreement into law on Friday, restoring the legal basis for transatlantic data flows following the 2020 Schrems II judgment.
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Payments

Australia’s Proposed CDR Changes Open Up Payments

Australia’s Treasury is seeking comment on draft legislation that could introduce new rules for action initiation within the country’s open banking framework that will enable, among other things, payment initiation.
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Payments

Massachusetts Targets Retail Sports Betting By Super Bowl, March For Mobile

Massachusetts regulators have agreed to target a late January opening of retail sportsbooks at casinos before an early March mobile sports-betting launch.
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Gambling
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UK Competition Regulator Opens Consultation On Worldpay Sale To Global Payments, Signalling Possible Probe

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority is to investigate Global Payments’ anticipated acquisition of Worldpay, potentially signalling a deeper investigation ahead of a mid-July deadline.
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European Supplier Licensing In 2025: The New Normal

Gambling suppliers have been forced to say goodbye to the era when licensing oversight was either an afterthought or a jurisdictional idiosyncrasy. Now, firmly in an era where scrutiny on the B2B sector is at an all-time high, European jurisdictions are bedding in a new normal for the sector.
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Philippine Politicians, Treasury Move Against Domestic Online Gambling

Clouds are forming over Philippine domestic online gambling as government officials float a new tax and senators lead a charge for restrictions on e-wallets, buy-ins and even a full industry ban.
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Nevada Congresswoman Seeks To Rescind Limits On Deductible Gambling Losses

Nevada Representative Dina Titus, whose congressional district includes the Las Vegas Strip, is set to introduce legislation to repeal a controversial provision in President Trump’s “One, Big, Beautiful Bill” that would limit declarable losses for gamblers.
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Dutch Affordability A Success, Claims Regulator

The Dutch gambling regulator has said it is happy with the effects of its controversial affordability regime despite worrying revenue trends, arguing that it has reduced dangerous gambling.
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Launch Of Papsscard Marks A Step Forward For African Financial Sovereignty

A joint venture between African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (Papss) and Mercury Payment Services, Papsscard is the first Pan-African card scheme and is intended to boost the continent’s financial autonomy.
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Finland Launches AML/CTF Legal Overhaul Consultation

Finland’s government has launched a public consultation on its plans to reform the country’s Money Laundering Act and bring its financial crime regime into line with EU regulations.
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California Attorney General Says All Daily Fantasy Sports Are Illegal

California Attorney General Rob Bonta dealt a major blow to fantasy sports operators on Thursday by releasing a long-awaited opinion declaring that state law prohibits all daily fantasy sports contests.
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Regulatory Influencer: Requirements for Market Entry in Finland

Finland is currently in the process of reforming its gambling regulatory framework and partially ending Veikkaus Oy’s exclusive right to organise online and land-based gambling in the country.The Bigger PictureOn March 20, 2025, the Finnish government submitted the draft law of the new Gambling Act to parliament, with new licensees scheduled to begin their operations in the country at the start of 2027. 
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The UK’s 2025 Regulatory Grid: Key Priorities for Payments Firms

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its most recent Regulatory Initiatives Grid in April 2025, setting out the current priorities of the financial regulator, including for the payments and e-money industry. In this piece, Vixio examines what the FCA has outlined in its latest regulatory grid, and why payments firms should care.
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