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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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UK Consultation on New Data Regime: Opportunities and Costs

On September 10, 2021, the UK government launched a consultation to reshape the data protection regulatory framework, looking at the country’s exit from the EU as an opportunity to enhance the current regime.
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Payments

The ECB Needs You: Experts Called Up To Join Digital Euro Talks

The European Central Bank (ECB) is inviting technology experts to take part in online technical talks to explore options for the design of a central bank digital currency, it has announced.
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Payments

Disgraceful' Crown Melbourne Leashed After Stay Of Execution

Crown Resorts has dodged a bullet after a Royal Commission into misconduct at its Melbourne casino opted against licence cancellation, but a government appointee will control the casino's operations for two years and enforce profound reform.
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Gambling

German Casino Regulation Called Cumbersome Compromise

The planned German state-by-state licensing system for online casino games is a “patchwork quilt with no chance of a functioning legal market”, an online gambling executive has said.
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Gambling

Labor Shortage Is Lingering, Atlantic City Casino Executive Says

One of the many harmful impacts of COVID-19 on casinos has been the difficulty of retaining and hiring enough workers, and the gaming industry is still struggling to find a solution, an Atlantic City casino executive has said.
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Gambling

DraftKings Will Not Bid Again For Entain

DraftKings has said it will not be making a new offer for Entain, ending for now the billion-dollar battle with MGM to acquire the UK-headquartered gambling giant.
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Gambling

Social Media Ads Appeal To Kids More Than Adults, Researchers Find

Gambling advertising on social media is significantly more appealing to children and young people than to adults, research suggests.
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Gambling

Ireland Has Gambling Advertising In Its Crosshairs

An Irish cross-party parliamentary committee wants to immediately suspend any legal standing for gambling adverts that can be seen by children online.
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Gambling

Turf War Between Online Casino And Online Lottery Persists In Pennsylvania

The relationship between online casino and online lottery remains incongruous as the two genres are forced to co-exist in several major U.S. markets, particularly in Pennsylvania.
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Gambling

UK Government Payments Plan Draws Mixed Response

The UK government’s priorities following the Payments Landscape Review are welcome, but they cannot pin hopes on authorities such as Pay.UK being able to deliver them, payments insiders have cautioned.
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Payments

CFPB Picks Up Slack With New Bigtech Inquiry

Living up to his reputation, Rohit Chopra is giving the teeth back to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) as he launches an inquiry into bigtech payment platforms.
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Payments

Confirmation Of Payee Readies For Phase Two, But It Is No Silver Bullet

Phase one of the Confirmation of Payee (CoP) implementation has had a positive impact, the UK's Payment Systems Regulator said, which is now considering the extension of the service to more payment service providers. However, CoP alone will not be enough to prevent fraud.
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Payments

ESAs Score National Authorities Well, But Hint At New Convergence Requirements

The European Banking Authority and the other supervisory authorities outline improvements needed for national competent authorities.
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Payments

California Crafts Policy To Report Non-Prosecuted Cardroom Financial Crimes

Policymakers in California are considering creating a new reporting system to make it more difficult for cardroom employees who were fired or quit their jobs for financial crimes to continue working in the gaming industry.
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Gambling

New Italian Gambling Chief Vows Action

Italy’s new gambling minister has promised action on tender extensions and said that the country’s gambling laws are not fit for a “civilised” society.
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Gambling

Top Macau Lawyer Warns Judiciary In 'Subservient' Decline

The long-time head of Macau’s lawyers association has publicly attacked creeping politicisation of the casino hub’s judiciary, warning of damage from magistrates who “tout” patriotism.
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Gambling

UK Treasury Opens BNPL Consultation

The buy now, pay later (BNPL) phenomenon comes to loggerheads with regulators as HM Treasury opens a consultation on how it should be overseen.
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Payments

Swedish Banking Watchdog Sets Danske Bank AML Deadline

Danske Bank must rectify its anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing deficiencies by June 30, 2022, the Finansinspektionen has warned.
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Payments

Week In Brief - October 22, 2021

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

FCA To Fill Gaps After Identifying Payments Firms Outside Its Reach

As innovation is changing the traditional payments landscape, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has identified areas where new market players can escape its regulatory reach. In its new Perimeter Review, the FCA advises the government on how to fill these gaps.
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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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