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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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P27 Appoints New Chief Executive

Paula da Silva, head of transaction services at SEB, has been named as the new chief executive of the Nordics prospective payments platform (P27).
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Payments

UK Affiliates Not Linking To Safer Gambling Week

As the UK Safer Gambling Week 2021 begins, new data from an affiliate compliance monitoring company has revealed the vast majority of affiliate URLs fail to include safer gambling messaging.
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Gambling

Latin American Operators Urged To Self-Regulate On Advertising

Online gambling licensees in Latin America must quickly self-regulate their advertising practices to have any hope of avoiding harsh restrictions like in Spain, according to regulators and legal experts.
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Gambling

UK Online Boom Offsets Land-Based Tax Shortfall

Increased betting and online gaming activity has driven positive growth in year-to-date UK gambling tax receipts, despite cratering returns from machine gaming.
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Gambling

U.S. Gaming Industry Looking To Fit Esports In Among Slots, Table Games

Esports and casinos appear to be a perfect match, but as the gaming industry seeks to attract a new generation of customers who play video games, wagering on these events remains in its early stages.
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Gambling

Brussels Dodges Responsibility For Malta’s Greylisting

The European Commission does not turn a blind eye to the interpretation of anti-money laundering rules and hopes that any more members being greylisted by the Financial Action Task Force can be avoided in the future, the EU’s financial crime chief has said when probed about Malta becoming the first EU country on the grey list.
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Payments

Hungary Fines Banks For Partner Agents’ AML Compliance Failures

The Hungarian National Bank (MNB) fined two banks for AML compliance failures at their partner currency exchanges.
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Payments

FATF Ventures Into New Territory With Fresh Crypto Guidelines

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has released new guidance on virtual assets and virtual assets service providers (VASPs), superseding those that it previously issued in 2019.
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Payments

U.S. Drops Massive Tax Reporting Proposal

House Democrats have reportedly dumped a massive tax reporting provision that would require financial institutions to report annual gross inflows and outflows in all accounts to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
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Payments

Google Ad Fine Cancelled By Italian Court

An Italian court has cleared tech giant Google of violating Italy’s ban on gambling advertising.
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Gambling

California Tribes Oppose Online Sports Betting Ballot Measure

Two powerful groups representing California Indian tribes have come out in opposition to the ballot initiative to authorize online sports betting being proposed by FanDuel, DraftKings and other major U.S. operators, despite several provisions that were designed to attract tribal support.
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Gambling

Will The Ghost Of Sheldon Adelson Haunt U.S. Internet Gaming Industry?

Sheldon Adelson may be gone but his enduring influence as an opponent of internet gambling could not be denied during last week’s East Coast Gaming Congress in Atlantic City.
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Gambling

Personnel Moves - October 2021

Pontus Lindwall survives at Betsson, the Nevada Gaming Commission fills two panel slots and a Philippine gambling exec resigns to run for mayor.
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Gambling

U.S. Working On ’Unique’ Open Banking Rules

The U.S. is looking at the United Kingdom to learn about open banking, but it is working on a solution that is tailored uniquely to the needs of U.S. consumers, the head of the open banking rulemaking agency told Congress.
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Payments

Week In Brief - October 29, 2021

A short roundup of some of the week's payments news you may have missed.
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Payments

Visa Results Soar Past Pre-COVID Levels Despite Cross-Border Lull

Visa’s 2021 annual results show a significant increase in 2020 as revenues and payment volumes bounce back to above pre-COVID levels. Full-year net revenues increased 10 percent to $24.1bn, while payments volume (on a constant dollar basis) increased 16 percent to more than $10trn.
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Payments

Is The End Nigh For 90-Day SCA?

The European Banking Authority has launched a public consultation on the amendment of its regulatory technical standards on strong customer authentication and secure communication regarding the 90-day exemption — a notorious bugbear in the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2).
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Payments

Dutch Self-Exclusion Programme Delayed Almost Three Weeks

The Dutch central self-exclusion programme, CRUKS, was not in full operation until October 20, nearly three weeks after the opening of the licensed online gambling market, according to a government minister.
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Gambling

Caesars Expects To Replicate D.C. Success In More Non-Traditional Venues

The successful development of a non-traditional sportsbook inside Capital One Arena in downtown Washington, D.C., has forever changed the relationship between sports leagues, franchises and bookmakers, according to an executive with operator Caesars Entertainment.
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Gambling

Illinois Legislature Approves Sunset Date for In-Person Registration

Illinois’ requirement for players to register in person for a mobile sports-betting account will end in time for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament in March, following a last-minute push by the state legislature Thursday.
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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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