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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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Paraguay On Path To Adopt Crypto Law

Last week, Paraguay’s Congress passed a bill that would regulate crypto-related activities in the country.
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Payments

BNPL Complaints Begin To Emerge, But Fraud Comes Out On Top For Italian Consumers

Banca d'Italia has hinted at new buy now, pay later (BNPL) regulation, despite only receiving five complaints regarding the deferred payment method in 2021. Meanwhile, fraud continues to be the biggest issue faced by consumers.
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Payments

Massachusetts Running Out Of Time To Legalize Sports Betting

With less than two weeks left in the legislative session, lawmakers in Massachusetts are running out of time to resolve their differences on tax rates and whether to allow wagering on college sports.
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Gambling

Belgium Sets New Weekly Deposit Limit

A Belgian royal decree has set a new €200-a-week deposit cap for online gambling accounts, with regulator and bank checks needed for players to lift the limit.
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Gambling

Illegal Online Betting Rampant, Warns Racing Federation

The Asian Racing Federation is warning that growth in illegal online betting is much faster than growth in legal markets, with poor regulation, new technology and the pandemic posing threats to racing integrity.
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Gambling

Meta Targets Small Businesses With New In-Chat Instagram Payments

Meta has launched a major new update to its Instagram social network app that allows users to message and pay for goods and services directly within the app's chat function.
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Payments

Lithuania’s Central Bank Slaps Down Payments Institution Over High-Risk Activities

UAB Best Finance has been temporarily prohibited from providing services to customers from outside the European Economic Area (EEA), according to the Baltic financial supervisor.
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Payments

Google Quietly Resurrects Google Wallet While Axing Google Pay

This week Google has relaunched Google Wallet — the app it once replaced with Google Pay — but this time round the wallet is much more than just a payments app.
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Payments

Apple Hit With US Class Action Suit Over Tap And Pay

An Iowa card issuer has accused Apple of unlawfully restricting rivals’ access to tap and pay contactless technology and charging issuers “supracompetitive” fees.
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Payments

Boyd To Launch Nevada Esports Platform As Regulatory Realignment Nears

As a policy advisory committee moves closer to defining how esports should be regulated in Nevada, a senior executive for Boyd Gaming has said the company is strongly exploring offering esports along with its other race and sports-betting options in the largest U.S. gaming market.
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Gambling

Peru's Online Gambling Law Faces Harsh Criticism For Perceived Loopholes

Peru is on the cusp of legalising online gambling after the approval of Bill 2070/2021 in the dead of night on Friday, but criticism of the new law has already begun.
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Gambling

Ukrainian Petition Calls For Expulsion Of Russia-Linked Gambling Operator

​​​​​​​A petition to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky is demanding the national gambling regulator review and ultimately rescind the licence of a company that it says is linked to 1xBet in violation of rules barring Russian influence.
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Gambling

PayID Bringing Down Scams And Mistaken Payments, Aussie NPP Announces

One in four payments that have used the Australian PayID look-up service have been stopped and/or amended, helping prevent mistaken payments and reducing the likelihood of being tricked by a scammer, the country’s national payments infrastructure has said.
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Payments

Only A Digital Euro Offers Trust Required For Digital Age, Says ECB

The European Central Bank (ECB) has said that only a digital euro can provide the trust and reliability of central bank money to support payments in the digital age, while at the same time dismissing crypto-assets as “inefficient”.
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Payments

Dutch Central Bank Slaps Binance With €3.3m Fine

De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) has found that Binance offered crypto-services in the country without registering. Binance has said it is now close to meeting Dutch regulatory requirements.
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Payments

India And Indonesia To Expand Central Bank Cooperation On Payment Systems, Regulations

Bank Indonesia and the Reserve Bank of India have signed a memorandum of understanding that will lead to greater information sharing and other ties between the two central banks.
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Payments

’Heavy Tech’ Investing Key To Harm Prevention, Says FCA

The UK’s financial watchdog has increasingly been investing in data and technology to reduce consumer harm and intervene more effectively, said its chief executive in a US speech.
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Payments

U.S. Sports-Betting Operators Struggling With Double-Digit Tax Rates

New York’s sky-high tax rate has forced mobile sports-betting operators to lobby lawmakers for some relief and scale back their marketing spend to reduce ongoing financial losses, as industry executives urge other states not to replicate the model.
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Gambling

UK Loot Box Plan Is A Gamble, Says Expert

​​​​​​​The UK is “gullible” for relying on self-regulation to tackle loot boxes and their associations with gambling harms, according to an expert on the in-game purchase items, who also warns that banning them is difficult to implement and enforce.
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Gambling

Genting Snaps Up Casino 36

Genting UK, the Malaysian-owned operator of more than 30 of the UK's 120 active casinos, has confirmed that it is poised to acquire Casino 36, which runs three casinos in the Midlands and Greater Manchester.
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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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