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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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SCA Win, But Identity Fraud Warning For France

France joins other European regulators in warning that internet payment fraud reductions are outweighed by a rise in new forms of cybercrimes that legislation has yet to protect against.
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Payments

US Bill Ventures To Address Discrimination At Banks

A new bill introduced by top members of Congress would ban financial institutions from discriminating against customers based on their race, gender or sexual orientation, in line with the Biden administration’s wider efforts to fight discrimination.
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Payments

U.S. Sports-Betting Company Leaderboard Still In Flux

Gaming executives and investors believe there is still a significant amount of turnover coming in the years ahead for those not currently leading the pack in U.S. sports betting.
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Gambling

Polish Illegal Slot Operators Dodging Thousands Of Fines

Data from the country’s Ministry of Finance shows Poland’s fight against illegal slots is inefficient and has done little to curtail the country’s sizable gaming machine black market.
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Gambling

California, Tribes Consider Next Steps After Compacts Rejected Again

For the second time in less than a year, the U.S. Department of the Interior has not approved gaming compacts with two California tribes claiming that they violated portions of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, leaving all sides wondering if a third time will be the charm.
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Gambling

Northern Cyprus State Lottery Blunder Forces President To Intervene

​​​​​​​The President of Northern Cyprus has fired the head of the lottery regulator after “a huge and unforgivable blunder” meant National Lottery tickets were printed with an image of a rival Greek nationalist paramilitary group.
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Gambling

Back On Track As ECB Reveals Post-Pandemic Payments Spike

Card payments are one of the big winners of a post-pandemic bump in transaction volumes across the EU, increasing 17 percent in 2021, according to the latest annual payments statistics released by the European Central Bank (ECB).
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Payments

US Judge Approves Plaid Privacy Suit Settlement

The California district court has ordered data aggregator Plaid to delete a vast amount of consumer data and pay $58m to those whose data was sold without consent.
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Payments

HSBC Reveals Top Three Scams So Far This Year

As the UK grapples with its ongoing fraud problem, one of the country’s largest financial institutions has announced the three most common scams it observed between November and April.
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Payments

Indonesia: Wholesale CBDC Design To Be Ready By Year-End

Indonesia’s central bank governor has said he aims to reveal the design of the country’s wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) by the end of 2022, putting banks on notice for a major technical upheaval.
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Payments

Is Sports-Betting Defeat Better Than Victory For California Tribes?

With less than 15 weeks to go before the November 8 election, California gaming tribes seem more focused on beating a sports-betting referendum proposed by DraftKings, FanDuel and BetMGM than passing their own ballot initiative.
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Gambling

New Research Casts Doubt On 'Stable' UK Problem Gambling Figures

The latest Gambling Commission data has set the UK problem gambling rate at a stable 0.2 percent, but a new academic study backs claims the true rate is more than ten times higher.
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Gambling

Cambodian Unions Warn Of National Strike Over NagaWorld

A festering dispute between Phnom Penh integrated resort NagaWorld and hundreds of sacked workers is poised to devolve into a nationwide strike in Cambodia’s crucial textile and food industries.
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Gambling

Massachusetts Casinos Lobby For Legal Sports Betting

Executives from three Massachusetts casinos have sent a letter to a small group of state lawmakers imploring them to resolve their differences and pass a sports-betting bill before the legislative session ends on Sunday.
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Gambling

Six UK Banks Breach CMA Rules Over Inaccurate Promotions

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has found that six large banks breached its retail banking market investigation order.
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Payments

Ireland’s Largest Bank Scraps Plans To Go Cashless Following Public Outcry

AIB has U-turned on plans to go cashless at almost half its branches, citing “public unease” over its push towards digital-only banking.
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Payments

IBAN Discrimination BAU For EU, Say Campaigners

IBAN discrimination continues to wreak havoc for some EU consumers, yet interventions in France and Ireland show that regulators are beginning to act to bring an end to the almost decade-long problem.
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Payments

EU Bans Russian Gold And Restricts Deposit-Taking

In its seventh sanctions package, the European Union has prohibited the purchase of Russian gold and strengthened restrictions around deposit-taking from Russian-owned businesses.
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Payments

Operator Pulls Plug On Chilean Football Betting As Regulatory Pressures Mount

Chile-facing online gambling operator Latamwin has decided to remove the Chilean football league from its sports-betting offering in the country, in the latest sign of pressure on offshore sites ahead of a regulated market being established.
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Gambling

Spanish State-Owned Gambling Under Fire

​​​​​​​A Spanish gambling trade association has taken aim at state-run and charity lotteries, claiming they need to improve their responsible gambling efforts and better protect minors.
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DraftKings Pays $3m To Settle Connecticut Marketing Investigation

DraftKings has agreed to return more than $3m to players and pay a $50,000 penalty in a second high-profile settlement announced by Connecticut regulators in as many months.
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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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