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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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Uruguay Examines Raising Gambling Tax

​​​​​​​Uruguayan Senator Sergio Botana has demanded that the overdue regulation of the last article of the country’s budget law include an increase of the tax on gambling from 0.75 to 1 percent.
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New Jersey Regulator Calls Out Lotteries, Racing, On Responsible Gambling

New Jersey’s top gambling regulator is challenging state lotteries, racing commissions and other agencies to join casinos and sports-betting operators in developing responsible gambling programs to avoid a devastating addiction crisis in the gaming industry.
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Bank Of America Fined $225m For Bad Fraud Detection During Pandemic

US agencies have found that Bank of America unlawfully froze unemployment benefits during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic as a result of a faulty fraud detection programme.
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Payments

STEP2 Migration To Continuous Gross Settlement Is ’Better Than Instant’

The switch to a continuous gross settlement mechanism effectively creates a new near real-time pan-European payments service with added advantages for certain payment use cases, says EBA Clearing.
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Payments

P27: Where Are We Now?

P27 has garnered interest way beyond the Nordic region that it is intended to serve, but questions still remain about how its remit will work and just how much say banks beyond the founders will have on its development.
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Payments

DC Council Questions Sports-Betting Monopoly Model

District of Columbia Council members have sharply criticized the performance of the city’s lottery-led sports-betting program and called for a pivot to a model that would permit private operators to offer mobile wagering.
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Gambling

Political Anger In Tamil Nadu, As Kerala Targets Online Rummy

Hostility to online rummy in the southern Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala is threatening to boil over, amid opposition politician anger and as governments move to defy court rulings defending skill gaming with stakes.
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Romania Approves Winnings Tax Hike

The Romanian gambling industry faces a range of tough tax increases, including fees on player winnings, after the government approved an emergency ordinance and amendments to the country’s fiscal code.
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Peru Passes Online Gambling Law

Peru’s Congress on Friday approved a bill that will regulate the operation of online gaming and sports betting, after lawmakers agreed to drop a proposed consumption tax on all online bets.
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Gambling

Crowded Field For Ohio Sports Betting

Bet365 and Fanatics are among operators bidding to enter Ohio’s coveted sports-betting market as the partner of one of the state’s major sports teams, according to a list of applications published by the Ohio Casino Control Commission on Friday.
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Gambling

Adyen Brings Apple Tap To Pay To Retailers

The Dutch payment processor will enable its retailers to use iPhones to accept contactless payments without the need to purchase a POS terminal.
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Payments

Week In Crypto: Celsius Bankruptcy, MtGox’s Hacked Bitcoin Back On The Market

After suspending all customer withdrawals for just over a month, crypto lending platform Celsius has now become the latest digital asset business to file for bankruptcy in the US.
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Payments

French Antitrust Watchdog Goes For The Clouds

The Autorité de la concurrence has published a new consultation seeking how better to regulate cloud providers as it joins fellow European regulators in scrutinising US companies’ market power on the continent.
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Payments

Mastercard, Visa Chiefs Probed By MPs About Interchange Fees

The Treasury Committee has written to Visa and Mastercard requesting a justification for recent increases in UK card transaction fees.
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Payments

UK Court Suspends National Lottery Licence Handover Again

An automatic suspension on the handing over of the National Lottery Licence was put into effect on July 14, after a UK court granted Camelot and IGT permission to appeal.
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Gambling

Argentina Implements Online Gambling Deposit Tax

​​​​​​​Argentina has enacted a new federal online gambling tax through a resolution published by the country’s national tax authority.
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Swedish Supreme Court Shuts Down Multiple Operator Appeals

​​​​​​​Sweden’s Supreme Administrative Court has rejected eight enforcement appeals by gambling companies which had received warnings and fines.
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Gambling

Gambling White Paper Reportedly Delayed Until New Prime Minister Named

​​​​​​​The UK gambling white paper has been delayed until a new Prime Minister takes office, British newspapers say, and a new UK leader is not expected until September.
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Gambling

Ontario Operators Wrestling With Lack Of Supplier Licensing

Companies active in the Ontario online market have said that the burden placed on operators holding them responsible for the actions of their partners has created a range of challenges throughout the province’s complicated licensing process and subsequent launch.
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Gambling

News In Brief: July 11-July 15, 2022

An effort to ban online gambling companies advertising via sports in Chile has made legislative progress.
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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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