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Europe Advances Plans For Real-Time Payments Connectivity With Asia

By linking its TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) system with India and Southeast Asia, the European Central Bank (ECB) is accelerating real-time payments globally and challenging European payment service providers (PSPs) to prepare for faster flows and competitive pressures.
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Prolonged Limbo On Open Banking Leaves US Financial Sector Navigating Uncertainty

A renewed push from Democratic senators highlights how the stalled Personal Financial Data Rights (PFDR) rule is forcing banks and fintechs to rethink strategy, as shifting political priorities threaten a stable data-access framework for the long term.
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US Open Banking Rule Highlights Industry Divisions Over Data And Fees

By defining who can access consumer data, whether fees are allowed and compliance timelines, the Personal Financial Data Rights final rule (PFDR Rule) underscores continuing legal and market tensions between banks and fintech innovators.
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EBA Slams Fintechs Over Lax Compliance In New AML Risk Assessment

In its latest risk assessment, the European Banking Authority (EBA) has warned that poor practices and a lack of experience at fintechs, including payments and crypto firms, are undermining efforts to tackle financial crime.
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France Targets Fraud, Sustainability And Payments Sovereignty With New Five-Year Plan

French authorities and payment industry leaders unveiled a new national payments strategy for 2025–30 during a key meeting of the National Committee for Means of Payment (CNMP).
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Payments

Ireland's New Gambling Law Finally Passed

Ireland’s long-awaited Gambling Regulation Bill 2022 has finally been approved by lawmakers, 68 years after Ireland’s current primary gambling law was introduced.
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Gambling

Star Entertainment Fined $10m, Avoids NSW Licence Termination

Australian casino operator The Star Entertainment Group has been fined A$15m ($10m) and ordered to implement fiscal and operational reform over compliance failures at its Sydney casino, but has dodged the bullet of licence termination.
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Gambling

Sweepstakes In The Spotlight For U.S. Gaming Industry

Regulated gaming companies, suppliers and investors are receiving conflicting advice to embrace opportunities in sweepstakes gaming, but also wake up to the regulatory risks of participating in the fast-growing sector.
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Gambling

Rhode Island Considers Expanding Sports-Betting Market

The Rhode Island Lottery plans to conduct a wide-ranging study of the state's sports-betting market to determine if allowing multiple operators would increase tax revenues.
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Gambling

Polish National Lottery Dismisses Its President Over Political Appointments

Poland’s national lottery operator and online casino monopoly Totalizator Sportowy has dismissed the president of its management board over allegations of political cronyism. 
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Gambling

Regulatory Influencer: Australia Looks To Set Example In Stopping Scams At Source

Under its new Scams Prevention Framework, Australia is hoping to become one the first jurisdictions in the world to impose statutory anti-scam controls on non-financial businesses.
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Payments

‘We Take Fraud Incredibly Seriously’ — Revolut Responds To BBC Panorama Exposé

Revolut has hit back at a BBC documentary that accuses the firm of “prioritising growth ahead of protecting customers”, saying that it takes complaints of fraud “incredibly seriously”.
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Payments

Criminalise Unlicensed Crypto Platforms To Fight Fraud, Says UN

The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has urged lawmakers in Southeast Asia to make it a criminal offence to operate a crypto or money services business without a licence.
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Payments

European Payments Council Unveils Verification Of Payee Scheme

The European Payments Council (EPC) has officially published the first version of the Verification of Payee (VOP) scheme rulebook, following a public consultation.
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Payments

Daily Dash: Santander Launches A2A Payments Partnership In UK With Token.io

Santander has partnered with account-to-account (A2A) provider Token.io to bring open banking payments to retail customers, while Brazil has begun accepting applications for the second phase of its central bank digital currency pilot.
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Payments

German Regulator Wins Ruling Against Swiss Payments Firm Over Illegal Gambling

Germany’s Joint Gambling Authority of the Federal States (GGL) has said that an administrative court confirmed its decision to bar a payments service provider based in Switzerland from facilitating transactions for illegal gambling offers.
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Gambling

Thinktank Report Behind Ongoing UK Tax Panic Released

A key report that underpins the drive to send gambling taxes skyrocketing in the UK has been officially released, as reaction to a potential government tax raid continues to mount.
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Gambling

Bonuses May Be Back On The Chopping Block In Brazil

Brazil’s chief consumer watchdog is preparing to demand that Brazil’s 96 whitelisted online betting companies submit legal justification for any bonuses they are offering to players.
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Gambling

Greek Operators Demand More Black Market Action

A Greek gambling industry trade group is calling on authorities to do more to combat the country’s black market, claiming that as much as 40 percent of the market takes place offshore.
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Gambling

MoneyGram Hack An Open Goal Due To Lack Of Encryption, Sources Say

As US payment platform MoneyGram assesses the damage from a major hack of customer information, Vixio hears from sources that lack of encryption was to blame.
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Payments

MEP Pushes For MiCA-Style Disclosure Rules For AI Technology

Concerns over the environmental impact of artificial intelligence (AI) development have surfaced in the European Parliament, as tech giants face criticism for limited transparency in their reporting on energy consumption and CO2 emissions.
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Payments

No Surprises But More Complications In UK’s New Safeguarding Proposals

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) long-anticipated proposals for overhauling the payment and e-money sector’s safeguarding requirements offer no shocks, yet experts warn that adapting to the changes will not be easy.
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Payments

To Be In Scope Or Not To Be In Scope: EBA Publishes New Q&As

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has shared a new set of Q&As related to the payments and e-money sector, resolving queries put to it by various stakeholders.
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Payments

Daily Dash: Contactless Payments Surge In Ireland, With Mobile Wallets Taking The Lead

Mobile wallet transaction volume has overtaken card volume for the first time in Ireland, while regulators in Hong Kong have decided to retire the term “virtual bank”.
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Is the Digital Banking Licence the Answer to Nigeria’s Lending Struggles?

The Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) fintech report outlines the country’s readiness to align financial innovation with market-friendly regulations, aiming to create long-term opportunities for digital lenders.
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Vixio’s Verdict: The UK Financial Conduct Authority’s Case Against HTX — Setting the Precedent for Extraterritorial Regulatory Action

On February 10, 2026, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its legal proceedings, which it had filed on October 21, 2025, against Panama-incorporated crypto exchange HTX (formerly Huobi Global) for illegal, continued promotion of services to UK consumers.
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Regulatory Influencer: The EU AI Act - From Principles-Based Guidance to Sector-Specific Supervision

The European Union’s AI Act, Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, represents the first comprehensive, binding framework for the development, deployment and use of artificial intelligence across the European Union. Having entered into force on August 1, 2024, the regulation is subject to a phased implementation timetable. While certain provisions are already applicable, the majority of obligations most relevant to the financial services sector are scheduled to apply from 2026. As a result, financial services firms have a narrowing window to assess their AI use cases, align governance frameworks and prepare for supervisory scrutiny.
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Vixio's Verdict: Unpacking the EU Anti-Money Laundering Authority's Future Plans

On February 4, 2026, the EU’s Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) published its single programming document (SPD) for 2026-2028, its first multi-year plan. Published at a critical juncture in AMLA’s operation, with the institution seeking to deliver upon its core mandates, this analysis will examine the SPD and look at its implications for impacted firms, as well as provide Vixio’s initial response to AMLA’s plans.
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Guarding the Rails: Payments Infrastructure Sovereignty In A Fragmenting World

Growing geopolitical tensions are forcing countries to reassess their critical national infrastructure, with growing political focus on the sovereignty of domestic payment rails.
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BRICS’ Digital Currency Plans Aim to Reshape Cross-Border Payments

In considering linking their central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), the BRICS economies are seeking to redesign global financial plumbing to reflect the bloc’s growing weight in the world economy.
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Regulatory Influencer: Earned Wage Access in Flux in the US - Navigating CFPB Guidance and State Divergence

On December 23, 2025, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued an advisory opinion to resolve regulatory uncertainty surrounding the applicability of the definition of “credit” under the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) and its implementing regulation, Regulation Z, to Earned Wage Access (EWA) products.
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India's New Data Protection Regime To Transform Compliance Landscape

In November 2025, India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology operationalised the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules 2025 (DPDP), bringing the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 into a unified, citizen-centred framework.
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Australia Set To Bring Digital Asset Platforms Under Full Financial Services Regulation

Australia is poised for a significant regulatory shift in 2026 as the government moves to integrate digital asset and tokenised custody platforms into the existing financial services framework.
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Singapore And Malaysia Lead The Charge On AI Regulation in Asia-Pacific

Artificial intelligence (AI) regulation is accelerating across Asia-Pacific, as supervisors respond to rapid uptake of machine-learning models in credit, fraud detection and customer engagement.
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