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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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Philippine Senate To Probe Missing Cockfighting Gamblers

The Philippine Senate is set to launch an investigation into rising missing person cases linked to cockfighting and associated online gambling activity.
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Gambling

Denmark Reprimands Kindred Again Over AML Policies

The Danish Gambling Authority (Spillemyndigheden) has given Kindred Group’s Unibet brand four reprimands over lax anti-money laundering and due diligence policies and ordered it to fix its risk-assessment policies.
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Gambling

DraftKings Shares Plummet After Loss Widens, Revenues Beat Expectations

DraftKings stock tumbled more than 20 percent Friday despite the company meeting its revenue projections, a potential sign of investor impatience with the company’s high customer acquisition spending.
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Gambling

Baltic Online Markets Soar Past €400m In 2021

Overall regulated online gambling revenue in the Baltic region jumped by 84 percent year-on-year to €409m in 2021, with exaggerated channel shift helping Latvia and Lithuania to become the latest European markets to pass €100m in annual market size.
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Gambling

Week In Brief - February 18, 2022

A short roundup of some of the week's payments news you may have missed. This week we look at UK Finance's response to FCA Consumer Duty proposals, the threat of crypto to global financial stability, new fintech laws in Egypt, BlockFi's settlement with the SEC and the huge rise in dating fraud in the U.S.
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Payments

EPC Launch QR Standardisation Consultation

Hot off the heels of Ant Group’s report on QR codes in the EU, the European Payments Council (EPC) has published a new consultation regarding standardisation in the trading bloc.
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Payments

Ceasefire! Amazon And Visa Reach Global Agreement

After months of negotiations, a clash of the titans row that has engulfed the payments industry and caused wider debate appears to be over, as the companies announced a new arrangement regarding payment fees. However, could further fee regulation be on the cards?
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Payments

New AML Platform To Build TRUST In Crypto Trading

Leading U.S. crypto firms have joined forces to build a platform called TRUST to comply with travel rule requirements and anti-money laundering (AML) rules.
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Payments

Arkansas Mobile Sports-Betting Rules Clear First Legislative Hurdle

Controversial rules that will allow for mobile sports betting in Arkansas but could also keep major national operators on the sidelines cleared the first of two legislative hurdles on Thursday.
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Gambling

Swedish Relief As Harsh Measures Left Out Of Government Proposals

Recent government proposals to update Swedish gambling law are a relief because none of the online gambling-unfriendly measures floated over the past few months were implemented, an online gambling trade lobbyist has said.
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Gambling

Nevada Regulators Approve Apollo To Buy Las Vegas Sands Strip Casinos

Apollo Global Management received final approval from Nevada gaming regulators on Thursday for its portion of the $6.25bn deal to acquire the operations of the Strip properties owned by Las Vegas Sands.
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Gambling

Nigeria Regulator Urges Lawmakers To 'Speed Up' Legal Amendments

The head of Nigeria’s federal gambling regulator wants the National Assembly to speed up the introduction of an amendment to the National Lottery Act that would improve taxation and clamp down on unlicensed operators.
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Gambling

News In Brief: February 14-February 18, 2022

More French teenagers are gambling, according to a survey by the national regulator, with very high exposure to advertising a key motivating factor.
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Gambling

CFPB‌ ‌Takes‌ ‌Aim‌ ‌At‌ ‌Prepaid‌ ‌Card‌s Used For Welfare Benefits

Latest in the line of recent regulatory announcements, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is now looking at fees and conditions of prepaid cards used to distribute U.S. government payments.
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Payments

China To Allow Fee To Prevent CBDC Bank Runs

Mu Changchun, the People’s Bank of China’s digital currency lead, has given more hints to the world about how the most significant central bank digital currency (CBDC) project in a major economy is evolving.
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Payments

Which? Gives Food For Thought To Using BNPL

The UK consumer association warns that using buy now, pay later (BNPL) to pay for basic food shopping could be a sign of problem debt.
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Payments

Russian Banks Complete First Digital Ruble Test

State-backed financial institutions VTB Bank and Promsvyazbank have conducted the first successful transactions with a digital ruble issued on the test version of the Bank of Russia’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) platform.
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Payments

New Jersey Sports-Betting Juggernaut Keeps Rolling Even As New York Soars

Like two Olympic skaters sprinting for gold, New Jersey and New York are competing for the lead in the nation’s booming sports-betting market while racing in their own lanes.
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Gambling

Norway Warns Kindred To Leave Or Else Face Daily Fines

​​​​​​​The Norwegian Gambling Authority is warning Kindred Group that it will be fined 1.2m Norwegian krone (€118,000) a day if it does not stop offering gambling to Norwegian residents.
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Gambling

Singapore Bills Unify Regulation, Prohibit Proxy Betting

Singapore has released draft legislation streamlining gambling regulation under one authority, while also criminalising proxy gambling, introducing “class licensing” for low-risk products and toughening existing penalties.
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Romanian Gambling Ad Restrictions Incoming But Lawyers Flag Need For Clarity

Romania’s new Audiovisual Code introduces several important changes, clarifications and restrictions; however, questions raised about the definitions, such as sports personality or influencer, have not been “thoroughly defined”, according to legal experts.
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Australia’s Project Acacia Blossoming Into Six-Month Testing Phase

Project Acacia, Australia’s research program into wholesale digital currency, has reached a “significant milestone”, with participants selected to explore innovations in digital money and settlement infrastructure.
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Big Tech Joins Forces With Telcos Under Hong Kong’s Latest Anti-Scam Charter

Financial regulators in Hong Kong have announced the launch of a new anti-scam charter that will see telcos and big tech firms participate for the first time.
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U.S. Senate Fails To Roll Back Change To Gambling Tax Deductions

The effort to reverse one of the tax hikes in President Donald Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill” came up short in the Senate on Thursday due to opposition from a lone senator who sought to add an exemption of religious colleges from the federal endowment tax.
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Regulatory Influencer: Concurrent Market Liberalisation In The Two Congos

Two of the French-speaking jurisdictions within the Congo Basin, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville), have simultaneously embarked upon devising gambling regulation. Following years of relying upon aged legislation, which monopolised the operation of gambling to state-owned entities, the Congolese market is finally liberalising.The bigger picture
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California's Daily Fantasy Sports Opinion: Key Policy Points To Watch

California Attorney General Rob Bonta's opinion last week that deemed daily fantasy sports to be a form of illegal gambling is a new policy wrinkle in a state that has consistently been a flashpoint when it comes to the gaming market.
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French Regulator Reignites Calls For Whistle-to-Whistle Ban and Loss Limits

France’s gambling regulator has once again reiterated calls to introduce a whistle-to-whistle advertising ban, as well as loss limits for players aged 18-25 years old.The president of France’s National Gambling Authority (ANJ), Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, said changes to the country's regulatory framework are “essential” for a sustainable gambling industry model during her closing remarks at a conference addressing gambling addiction on June 27, 2025.
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CFPB Suffers Double Shock As Budget Slashed And Redundancies Ruled Lawful

Opponents of the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) have experienced twin triumphs, as an injunction halting the agency's restructuring has been lifted and the federal budget bill has almost halved its funding.
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Regulatory Influencer: The Key Updates to the EU’s Payment Services Package

The EU has for some time been working on updating its regulation of the payments sector, planning to issue a revised directive and to introduce a bloc-wide payment services regulation.
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FCA’s £21m Monzo Fine Emphasises That Growth Must Be Responsible

By imposing the fine on the challenger bank, the UK financial services regulator has sent a reminder to disruptors that they must pay attention to their regulatory duties.
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