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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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BNY Mellon Offers Solution To Facilitate ISO 20022 Transition

The U.S. bank has launched a one-stop-shop online resource center to help financial institutions prepare for the adoption of the new message standard that is going to be mandated in major economies within the next couple of years.
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Payments

Eleven Bookmakers To Be Prosecuted In NSW, Sportsbet Fined

The gambling regulator in Australia’s New South Wales state is prosecuting 11 bookmakers in 15 cases, VIXIO GamblingCompliance has learned, with market leader Sportsbet the latest to be convicted.
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Gambling

Risky Financial Products Replacing Gambling Sponsorships, Researchers Warn

​​​​​​​Risky gambling-like trading and cryptocurrency products are filling the void left by gambling football sponsorships as they are outlawed by regulators, academics have warned.
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Gambling

New Jersey Governor Vetoes Bill Permitting Sports-Betting Promo Deductions

Days after being re-elected to a second term, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has vetoed legislation that would have allowed sportsbook operators to deduct bonuses from their taxable revenues.
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Gambling

Curaçao 'Licensees' Clog Gambling Blacklists, Rile Regulators

Buccaneering Curaçao-based online gambling companies crowd blacklists all over Europe and Australia, with nearly 40 percent of all blacklisted companies in 18 countries traceable to an address on the Caribbean island.
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Gambling

Nordic Payments Council Consults On Changes To Credit Transfer Rules

The Nordic Payments Council (NPC) is consulting on proposed changes to its rulebooks, including levelling up its old ISO 20022 messaging format to the latest 2019 version. The changes are aimed at ensuring the payment schemes keep up with the evolution of the payment market, and follow the SEPA payment schemes as much as possible.
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Payments

Lithuania’s FIU Uncovers 20x Increase In Suspicious Transaction Reports

Lithuania has transformed into one of the EU’s hubs for fintech, but as a result is increasing the volume of suspicious transactions — have payment institutions and the regulators got the resources they need to cope?
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Payments

U.S. Passes Historic Infrastructure Bill With Crypto Reporting Provision

Following lengthy negotiations, the U.S. Congress has passed the $1.2trn Infrastructure Bill that will update the country’s infrastructure. As passed, the act will require certain crypto transactions to be reported for tax purposes.
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Payments

Online Slot Harm Report Shocks Researchers

​​​​​​​Researchers in the UK have said they were shocked to find no significant correlation between behavioural markers of harm and the volatility, return to player or hit rate of online slot games.
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Gambling

New York State Of Nine: Gaming Commission Selects Sports-Betting Operators

The New York State Gaming Commission has selected nine operators to offer mobile sports betting in the most coveted market in the United States, with bet365 and Penn National's Barstool among those failing to secure a license.
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Gambling

Dutch Trade Groups Agree On Responsible Slogan

Gambling associations in the Netherlands have jointly backed the introduction of a new responsible gambling slogan, saying they could quickly implement it as a temporary measure.
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Gambling

Crypto Cowboys: Wyoming Wants To Be Pioneer On Virtual Currency Wagering

With an economy based largely on cattle, oil and mining, policymakers in Wyoming have grabbed the attention of gaming operators, attorneys and payment processors after becoming the first state to regulate the use of cryptocurrency for wagering on sporting events.
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Gambling

Malaysian Deputy Minister Touts Review Of Gambling Laws

Malaysia’s deputy home minister has confirmed the government is continuing to review legislation related to gambling, amid lawmaker complaints over ease of access to online products, but did not say if regulation is on the cards.
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Gambling

Competition Authority Envisages UK Open Banking Future

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has published a new update regarding its vision for the “future entity” to replace the Open Banking Implementation Entity.
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Payments

China’s New CBDC Wallet To Have No Transaction Cap, Confirms PBOC Official

Some 140m people had opened wallets for China's new digital yuan as of October and used it for transactions totalling around 62bn yuan ($9.7bn), according to a senior official at the People’s Bank of China (PBOC).
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Payments

mCBDC Could Save Global Corporates $120bn In Cross-Border Transaction Costs

A multi-central bank digital currency (mCBDC) network could disrupt cross-border payments as they exist today and save global corporates $100bn in transaction costs annually, a joint research report published by J.P. Morgan and Oliver Wyman has found.
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Payments

U.S. Lawmakers Call For Broad Interpretation Of Beneficial Ownership Law

Senior Congressional Democrats have called on the U.S. Treasury to speed up the implementation of an important law that will crack down on anonymous shell companies, and interpret the law as broadly as possible.
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Payments

Chinese Police Crack Gambler 'Network' For Tigre De Cristal

Chinese police are prosecuting 75 suspects after breaking up a finance and recruitment network for gamblers traveling to Russia’s Tigre de Cristal hotel-casino near Vladivostok.
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Gambling

DraftKings CEO Talks Entain Fallout, New York Strategy After Q3 Loss

DraftKings CEO Jason Robins on Friday discussed the company’s decision to walk away from a potential $22bn takeover of Entain, as the company reported quarterly losses of more than a half-billion dollars amid a marketing blitz for the new NFL season.
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Gambling

Racing Data Man Jailed For Bookmaker Fraud

A crooked betting specialist for a national news agency that provided information to numerous bookmakers has been jailed after altering the results of horse races.
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Gambling
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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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After Escaping CFPB Enforcement, Zelle Pitches To US Treasury Department

Zelle, the largest peer-to-peer (P2P) payments platform in the US, has offered itself to the Trump administration as the solution to its phasing out of government checks, yet continues to face scrutiny from lawmakers.
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Thai Casino Bill Withdrawn Amid Mounting Political Woes

The Thai government has indefinitely withdrawn a bill legalising casinos amid political shockwaves and a flailing legislative campaign.
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Pennsylvania Seeks To Reduce iGaming Fraud With Stricter KYC Requirements

Pennsylvania regulators have released a list of enhanced know-your-customer requirements in an effort to strengthen account security and reduce fraudulent activity, as they continue to involuntarily exclude online gaming customers for unscrupulous activities.
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News In Brief: July 7-July 11, 2025

California senators back sweepstakes ban, while Brazil's Senate scraps a planned vote on casino expansion
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