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EBA Slams Fintechs Over Lax Compliance In New AML Risk Assessment

In its latest risk assessment, the European Banking Authority (EBA) has warned that poor practices and a lack of experience at fintechs, including payments and crypto firms, are undermining efforts to tackle financial crime.
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AI Joint Venture Demonstrates UAE’s Digital and Financial Ambitions

The Middle Eastern state continues to harness financial services as an asset, moving to modernise its payments infrastructure through a public-private initiative involving the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI).
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Brazil Minister Rattles Industry With Regulatory Remorse

The government minister responsible for Brazil’s federal betting regulator is considering stricter rules on advertising and online casino games and says he would even outlaw online gambling altogether if given the opportunity.
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Romanian Government Eyes Legislation To Decentralise Gambling Licensing

Romanian Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan has announced that his government plans to propose a draft legislation that will enable municipal authorities to decide on licences for local gambling outlets.
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Get Rid Of One-Size-Fits-All Regulatory Approach, UK Trade Body Urges

A major fintech trade association has told the UK government that the sector ought to have separate rules to those applied to traditional financial institutions, due to differences in knowledge, resources and expertise.
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Payments

Citing Lack Of Progress, RBA Warns Of ’Formal Regulation’ On Least-Cost Routing

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has threatened to introduce "formal regulatory requirements" on least-cost routing if it does not see progress on its implementation by acquirers.
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Payments

Australia Launches Wagering Self-Exclusion Website BetStop

The Australian government has launched the nationwide self-exclusion service BetStop and imposed a customer pre-verification regime, completing activation of all ten items of the online gambling National Consumer Protection Framework.
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Gambling

Brazil's Paquetá Brings Spot-Fixing Scandal To Premier League

Brazil appears to be exporting an escalating betting scandal internationally, with West Ham midfielder Lucas Paquetá now suspected of an intentional yellow card in a Premier League match last season.
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Gambling

Uncertainty Surrounds Federal Agency Regulating Indian Gaming

Functioning with a chairman whose term already has expired and a vacancy in one of its two other leadership positions, the National Indian Gaming Commission needs changes that may not occur until after the 2024 presidential election.
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Gambling

Digital Euro Regulation Delivers More Scepticism Than Clarity

The EU’s payments community has long accepted the inevitability of a digital euro being issued, but that does not mean people are pleased or engaged.
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Payments

UK Becomes Latest Jurisdiction To Implement Crypto Travel Rule

In line with international guidance on crypto-asset transfers, the UK is soon to become the latest jurisdiction to implement a crypto "travel rule".
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Payments

Italian Bank Ditches Card Fees For Small Payments

Banco BPM, Italy’s third-largest bank by assets, has announced that it will scrap commission fees for low-value card payments, after banks and trade groups signed an agreement to help struggling merchants.
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Payments

Doctors' Lobby Slams US Industry Funding For Sydney Gambling Clinic

Australian media and the nation’s major professional association for doctors have attacked an international deal sourced from global gambling company funds that will expand the University of Sydney’s gambling treatment and research unit.
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Gambling

Will North Carolina Go All-In On Gambling Expansion?

Three years after neighboring Virginia approved sports betting, iLottery and casinos in quick succession, North Carolina lawmakers are considering following suit and even upping the ante, with video lottery terminals and internet gaming also in play.
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Gambling

New Jersey Imposes Fines For Illegal Bet Offerings

The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement has issued several enforcement orders totaling $102,000 in penalties and a forfeiture order against four licensees for accepting prohibited wagers on in-state college sporting events and allowing a self-excluded patron to gamble.
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Gambling

Week In Crypto: Binance Accuses SEC Of ‘Fishing Expedition’

Binance US files motion to protect itself from discovery requests, PayPal puts crypto on hold in the UK, a New York couple plead guilty to laundering billions of dollars of stolen bitcoin, and Bankman-Fried back in jail.
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Payments

US Regulator Mulls Stricter Rules For Data Aggregators

The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is working on a proposal that would bring data aggregators under existing consumer reporting law.
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Payments

Daily Dash: Irish Finance Minister Intervenes After Outage

Ireland’s finance minister has ordered the central bank to investigate Bank of Ireland’s outage, while Adyen shares dive after a poor H1 performance.
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Payments

Louisiana Law Requires Casinos To Train Employees For Human Trafficking Prevention

If it is not already, Louisiana is on its way to becoming the nation’s leader in the fight against human trafficking in casinos after passing a law requiring employees to be trained to detect and prevent trafficking in their facilities.
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Gambling

Shuttered Philippine Junket Denies Owner Arrested In Singapore

A junket network that announced the sudden closure of its Philippine casino VIP rooms on Tuesday has denied “rumours” that its owner was arrested in a major Singapore police operation on the same day.
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Gambling

BetMGM Launches In UK Using LeoVegas

MGM Resorts International has launched BetMGM in the UK via its subsidiary LeoVegas, but not with Entain, which is joint owner of the same sports-betting and online casino brand in North America.
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Gambling

Texas Lottery Takes No Action On Legislative Order To Ban Lottery Couriers

Texas Lottery officials elected to take no action on a legislative direction to prohibit lottery couriers that the state’s governor called unconstitutional.
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Gambling

News In Brief: August 14-August 18, 2023

Brazil's match-fixing investigation is extended, signalling another potential delay to sports-betting regulation, while Kentucky announces a timeline for the opening of its sports-betting market.
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Gambling

Splitit Proposes Voluntary Delisting And Relocation To Cayman Islands

A troubled buy now, pay later (BNPL) firm has proposed to shareholders that it delists from the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) and relocates to the Cayman Islands under private ownership, in a bid to secure much-needed capital.
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Brazil's New Payment Rules Raise Compliance Stakes For Banks And Fintechs

Tighter deadlines, stricter authorisation and higher capital thresholds are set to reshape how institutions and IT providers connect to Pix, with smaller players facing the greatest pressure.
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Unlimited Contactless Transactions Set To Transform UK Payments Market

Plans to scrap the £100 contactless limit could boost revenue and innovation, but would also require investment in security and compliance.
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Regulatory Influencer: The Impact Of The GENIUS Act So Far And The Questions It Raises

The Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act, which was signed into law in July 2025, is federal legislation that aims to create a comprehensive regulatory regime for stablecoins.
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UK Payments Regulation Shake-Up Targets Growth and Simplification

HM Treasury’s consultation sets out a streamlined model that promises efficiency, but firms will need to assess whether it truly reduces regulatory friction while supporting innovation.
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EU’s ART Clarification Offers Streamlined Route To Market For Stablecoin Issuers

The European Commission has clarified how stablecoin-like asset-referenced token (ART) issuers can operate cross-border under the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation (MiCA), confirming that a dedicated passporting framework applies.
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Irish Banks Come Together On Mobile Payment Solution To Counter Revolut

Ireland’s biggest retail banks will launch a new joint payment solution in 2026, reviving a scrapped venture and riding the momentum of EU instant payments rules and the country’s modernisation drive.
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Brussels Confirms EU Action Plan To Tackle Online And Telco Fraud

The European Commission has confirmed it will present a dedicated EU Action Plan on Online Fraud to boost collective efforts to combat scams that increasingly target vulnerable groups, including older people.
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ECB Focuses On Inclusion And Resilience In Latest Digital Euro Hearing

Central bank efforts to balance inclusion, resilience and privacy come amid ongoing debates over sovereignty, system reliability and public trust, as the October deadline for a decision on the next steps approaches.
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New Consultation Part Of UK Push To Tighten AML Rules 

The government is aiming to improve the effectiveness of the country’s anti-money laundering (AML) regulations by closing loopholes, addressing proportionality concerns and tackling the threat of illicit activity in the crypto-asset sector.
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Thailand’s Proposed Merchant Fraud Rules Signal New Era for QR Payments

The Bank of Thailand (BoT) is responding to the rapid growth of mobile and QR transactions by consulting on minimum standards for onboarding, monitoring and incident response in the digital payments sector.
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