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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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Genting Snaps Up Casino 36

Genting UK, the Malaysian-owned operator of more than 30 of the UK's 120 active casinos, has confirmed that it is poised to acquire Casino 36, which runs three casinos in the Midlands and Greater Manchester.
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Gambling

Uruguay Examines Raising Gambling Tax

​​​​​​​Uruguayan Senator Sergio Botana has demanded that the overdue regulation of the last article of the country’s budget law include an increase of the tax on gambling from 0.75 to 1 percent.
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Gambling

New Jersey Regulator Calls Out Lotteries, Racing, On Responsible Gambling

New Jersey’s top gambling regulator is challenging state lotteries, racing commissions and other agencies to join casinos and sports-betting operators in developing responsible gambling programs to avoid a devastating addiction crisis in the gaming industry.
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Gambling

Bank Of America Fined $225m For Bad Fraud Detection During Pandemic

US agencies have found that Bank of America unlawfully froze unemployment benefits during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic as a result of a faulty fraud detection programme.
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Payments

STEP2 Migration To Continuous Gross Settlement Is ’Better Than Instant’

The switch to a continuous gross settlement mechanism effectively creates a new near real-time pan-European payments service with added advantages for certain payment use cases, says EBA Clearing.
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Payments

P27: Where Are We Now?

P27 has garnered interest way beyond the Nordic region that it is intended to serve, but questions still remain about how its remit will work and just how much say banks beyond the founders will have on its development.
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Payments

DC Council Questions Sports-Betting Monopoly Model

District of Columbia Council members have sharply criticized the performance of the city’s lottery-led sports-betting program and called for a pivot to a model that would permit private operators to offer mobile wagering.
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Gambling

Political Anger In Tamil Nadu, As Kerala Targets Online Rummy

Hostility to online rummy in the southern Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala is threatening to boil over, amid opposition politician anger and as governments move to defy court rulings defending skill gaming with stakes.
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Gambling

Romania Approves Winnings Tax Hike

The Romanian gambling industry faces a range of tough tax increases, including fees on player winnings, after the government approved an emergency ordinance and amendments to the country’s fiscal code.
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Gambling

Peru Passes Online Gambling Law

Peru’s Congress on Friday approved a bill that will regulate the operation of online gaming and sports betting, after lawmakers agreed to drop a proposed consumption tax on all online bets.
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Gambling

Crowded Field For Ohio Sports Betting

Bet365 and Fanatics are among operators bidding to enter Ohio’s coveted sports-betting market as the partner of one of the state’s major sports teams, according to a list of applications published by the Ohio Casino Control Commission on Friday.
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Gambling

Adyen Brings Apple Tap To Pay To Retailers

The Dutch payment processor will enable its retailers to use iPhones to accept contactless payments without the need to purchase a POS terminal.
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Payments

Week In Crypto: Celsius Bankruptcy, MtGox’s Hacked Bitcoin Back On The Market

After suspending all customer withdrawals for just over a month, crypto lending platform Celsius has now become the latest digital asset business to file for bankruptcy in the US.
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Payments

French Antitrust Watchdog Goes For The Clouds

The Autorité de la concurrence has published a new consultation seeking how better to regulate cloud providers as it joins fellow European regulators in scrutinising US companies’ market power on the continent.
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Payments

Mastercard, Visa Chiefs Probed By MPs About Interchange Fees

The Treasury Committee has written to Visa and Mastercard requesting a justification for recent increases in UK card transaction fees.
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Payments

UK Court Suspends National Lottery Licence Handover Again

An automatic suspension on the handing over of the National Lottery Licence was put into effect on July 14, after a UK court granted Camelot and IGT permission to appeal.
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Gambling

Argentina Implements Online Gambling Deposit Tax

​​​​​​​Argentina has enacted a new federal online gambling tax through a resolution published by the country’s national tax authority.
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Gambling

Swedish Supreme Court Shuts Down Multiple Operator Appeals

​​​​​​​Sweden’s Supreme Administrative Court has rejected eight enforcement appeals by gambling companies which had received warnings and fines.
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Gambling

Gambling White Paper Reportedly Delayed Until New Prime Minister Named

​​​​​​​The UK gambling white paper has been delayed until a new Prime Minister takes office, British newspapers say, and a new UK leader is not expected until September.
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Gambling

Ontario Operators Wrestling With Lack Of Supplier Licensing

Companies active in the Ontario online market have said that the burden placed on operators holding them responsible for the actions of their partners has created a range of challenges throughout the province’s complicated licensing process and subsequent launch.
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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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