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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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ESG Taxomania! But Convergence On The Horizon

Sustainability experts, including a senior leader at Mastercard, have stressed the need for corporations and governments to solve the data gap that currently exists, yet warned that a common taxonomy is a long way off.
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Payments

EU Payments Regulation Gets Thumbs Up From Start-Ups, But Compliance Burden Is Causing Problems

A new survey by Stripe has revealed that a majority of start-up companies are satisfied with the opportunities that the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) has provided them, believing that it has enhanced competition opportunities in the trading bloc.
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Payments

India Mulls Bringing Domestic SWIFT-Alternative Across Border

As Western sanctions on Russia continue to bite and affect trade around the world, India has been the latest country to look at a potential alternative to the SWIFT messaging network.
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Payments

US Lawmaker Seeks To Level Up Financial Data Privacy

A discussion draft released by a Republican Congressman would give consumers GDPR-like rights over their financial data and update a 23-year-old federal law.
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Payments

Fanatics, ESPN Beginning To Make Sports-Betting Moves

Sports retail giant Fanatics and premier American sports media brand ESPN have long been regarded as sleeping giants in the U.S. sports-betting landscape but recent moves and public statements indicate the two are beginning to wake from their slumber.
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Gambling

Dutch Politicians Push For Loot Box Ban

​​​​​​​A motion to ban loot boxes in the Netherlands has support from politicians across six different major parties.
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Gambling

Potentially Disastrous Casino Strikes Averted On Holiday Weekend

Faced with costly strikes at the peak of the tourist season, brick-and-mortar casinos in New Jersey and Rhode Island reached tentative agreements with labor unions to prevent a walkout of workers during the Independence Day weekend.
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Gambling

Fed Delays ISO 20022 Migration To 2025

The US Federal Reserve has postponed the date of adoption of the ISO 20022 message format on Fedwire to help banks prepare for the launch of its new FedNow instant payment service.
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Payments

European Parliament Agrees First EU Rules For Tracing Crypto-Asset Transfers

The European Parliament has provisionally agreed a landmark bill that will see most transfers of crypto-assets regulated in the same way as traditional money transfers.
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Payments

Fraud, API Standards Central To EU’s Future Payments Vision

As preparations continue for a potential revision to the Payment Services Directive, payments chiefs in Brussels and Paris have warned that evolving fraud and technology standards must be front and centre.
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Payments

EU Reaches Provisional Agreement On Markets In Crypto-Assets Regulation

After almost two years of consultations, the European Council presidency and the European Parliament have reached a provisional agreement on the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA).
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Payments

ESG Accountability Offers Strategic Advantage, Say Executives

​​​​​​​Environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards are the next big thing in the gambling business, according to a panel of industry experts, who see it as a means to create a more sustainable product.
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Gambling

Personnel Moves - June 2022

The newly-active German regulator makes a key appointment, Nevada authority appoints new officials, Star Entertainment gets new CEO amid hearings fallout and Chilean trade group appoints an interim boss.
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Gambling

EU Leaders Reach Partial Position On New AML Watchdog

The European Council wants to expand the powers of the EU’s planned new anti-money laundering authority, but a row over where it should be based has prevented the Council from agreeing fully with the European Commission’s proposals.
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Payments

Week In Crypto: SEC Says No To Bitcoin ETF, 3AC Ordered To Liquidate

US regulators have rejected an application for a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), while crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC) has received a court order to liquidate.
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Payments

Europe’s Environmental Crime Problem

Crimes against the environment are increasingly drawing attention, as climate change has become crucial on the agenda of policymakers, yet Europol suggests the outlook remains bleak when tackling issues such as waste management and wildlife trafficking.
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Payments

US Immigrants Struggling To Get Fair Financial Services

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is looking at a number of issues that more than 44m US immigrants face when they try to access financial services.
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Payments

Crypto A Go In Two U.S. Sports-Betting States, But Others Staying On Sidelines

While deposits converted from cryptocurrencies were recently approved for online sports betting in Colorado and Virginia, New Jersey’s chief regulator has no plans to follow suit and continues to advise caution on the intersection between crypto and gaming in the U.S. market.
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Gambling

UK White Paper Contents 'Only Rumours', Say Industry Figures

​​​​​​​Gambling industry executives are sceptical of news reports claiming the contents of the much-anticipated UK Gambling Act review white paper have already been finalised.
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Gambling

Peruvian Officials Meet With Mental Health Experts As Legislation Advances

Plans to legislate sports betting and online gambling in Peru have edged forward with a government meeting to discuss protecting minors and gambling addicts, but the industry remains frustrated with elements of the planned consensus bill.
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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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