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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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PSR Publishes New Payments Architecture Regulatory Framework

The UK Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has issued a regulatory framework for the New Payments Architecture, laying out requirements for both Pay.UK and any future central infrastructure provider to address risks, and promote competition and innovation.
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Payments

WhatsApp Payments Trial Shows Meta’s Continued Payments Shift

Meta is running a trial to provide U.S. WhatsApp users with the ability to send and receive money using the technology giant’s digital wallet vehicle, Novi.
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Payments

Request To Pay Breaks New Ground With Visa And SIX Announcements

After a relatively quiet year in the news, Request To Pay is once again making headlines as two leading payments firms announce new plans for the overlay messaging service.
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Payments

Alberta Soliciting Proposals For Retail, Mobile Sports Betting

Alberta gaming regulators are accepting bids from perspective operators that want to be licensed in the province to offer retail and online sports betting.
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Gambling

Ohio Bill On-Brand For U.S. Sports Betting In 2021

Complex legislation approved in Ohio last week completes a banner year of expansion in U.S. sports betting and underscores several policy trends that are evolving the market.
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Gambling

Curaçao Circulates Proposal To List Online Gambling Licensees

​​​​​​​The Curaçao government is circulating a proposal that would create an official registry of online gambling licensees on the Caribbean island, in what it calls the first step toward developing a long awaited re-regulation.
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Gambling

Latest CBDC Experiment Successfully Crosses The Alps

The Bank for International Settlements, Banque de France and the Swiss National Bank have concluded a successful cross-border experiment, using a wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC).
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Payments

Week In Brief - December 10, 2021

A short roundup of some of the week's payments news you may have missed. This week we look at the UK Payment Systems Regulator's consultation on Confirmation of Payee, U.S. rulemakings aimed at fixing anti-money laundering loopholes, India's new national blockchain strategy, Klarna's new BNPL browser extension and news that blockchain SETL has demonstrated it can process a remarkable 1m transactions per second.
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Payments

Latvia Wants To Become Global Fintech Hub

The Baltic country is trying to attract fintech businesses through an open regulatory approach, but there is more to be done if the country wants to become the new home to global fintech.
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Payments

Irish Payments Collaboration Comes Up Against Regulator Scrutiny

A new mobile payments platform being developed by Ireland’s top banks has come up against a barrier, with the country’s antitrust watchdog announcing a new investigation.
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Payments

Polish Gambling Industry Expects Tax Switch As Largest Bookmaker Goes Public

Poland’s bookmakers believe they are close to convincing the government to replace a 12 percent revenue tax on betting with a gross gaming revenue tax.
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Gambling

Maryland Launches Retail Sports Betting, Mobile Expected In 2022

MGM Resorts International opened a BetMGM-branded sportsbook at its National Harbor casino on Thursday, as Maryland became the 11th state to launch legal sports betting this year.
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Gambling

UK Details Compliance, Enforcement Crackdowns

The UK Gambling Commission’s Compliance and Enforcement Report details a record-breaking volume of fines and pinpointed “unacceptable” failings.
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Gambling

News In Brief: December 6-December 10, 2021

Bet-at-Home Austria enters administration, Buenos Aires launches online gambling and NagaCorp wins social award despite firings.
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Gambling

Australia Commits To Next Generation Payments Reform

By mid-2022, the government will have set out plans for payments modernisation and new crypto laws in what “will be the most significant reforms for 25 years”, the country’s finance minister has confirmed.
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Payments

Sign Of The Times: Visa Launches Crypto Consultancy

Visa has announced that it is launching a new crypto advisory service, alongside new research which has found that 41 percent of UK adults either use cryptocurrencies or view them positively.
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Payments

New Hungarian Superbank Draws Inspiration From Tesla And Asimov

As the first part in the merger of three Hungarian banks draws close, the new "superbank" will aim to shake up the financial services market in the country and throughout Eastern Europe with a focus on modernisation and digitalisation.
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Payments

DeFi Is An Illusion, BIS Says

A new report by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) says decentralised finance (DeFi) is an illusion and may impose severe vulnerabilities on financial stability.
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Payments

Ohio Legislature Approves Sports-Betting Package

Legislation to permit sports betting in Ohio is heading for the governor’s desk after a whirlwind day where the bill was amended and approved by both chambers of the state legislature.
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Gambling

Regulators Pick Developers For Illinois Casino Projects

Illinois gaming regulators voted unanimously Wednesday to grant findings of “preliminary suitability” to developers for new casinos in Waukegan and the southern suburbs of Cook County, bringing a selection process that has lasted more than two years closer to an end.
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News In Brief: July 7 - July 11, 2025

Super Group exits U.S. iGaming market, while the AGA supports bill restoring full gambling loss deduction
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Bulgarian Stakeholders Welcome Proposed Restrictions But Warn They Could Boost Black Market

A Bulgarian gambling trade group and others have warned that the government's proposal to restrict risky gambling behaviour could push players to the black market and is “not supported by established European regulatory models”.
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'Milestone' Passed As Bahrain Introduces Licensed Stablecoin Regime

The Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) has announced that providers will be able to issue single-currency stablecoins backed by the Bahraini dinar, the US dollar or any other fiat currency it deems acceptable.
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Further EPI Expansion Bolsters Europe’s Payments Sovereignty Agenda

Five new European banks have joined the European Payments Initiative (EPI) and will begin to roll out Wero to their customers.
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Worldline Scandal Reminds European PSPs Of The Importance Of AML Compliance

The exposé on French payments giant Worldline may see European payment service providers (PSPs) face increased scrutiny from both national and regional anti-money laundering (AML) authorities.
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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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