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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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Malta To Be Removed From FATF Greylist, Say Reports

The Maltese media is reporting that Malta has been removed from the greylist of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a move that would be a relief to the island country’s financial services and online gambling industries.
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Payments

The Policymakers And Firms Driving The Gulf’s Cashless Revolution

As cashless payments and fintech hots up across Gulf Cooperation Council countries, market participants warn of a skill shortage and some regulatory challenges.
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Payments

India’s Post Bank Launches New Platform To Grow Financial Services

A new financial inclusion platform looks to promote new innovative start-ups to develop solutions across a range of financial services, leveraging the Indian postal bank’s 430m customers.
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Payments

Malta To Be Removed From FATF Greylist, Say Reports

​​​​​​​The Maltese media is reporting that Malta has been removed from the greylist of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a move that would be a relief to the island country’s financial services and online gambling industries.
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Gambling

Brazil Senate Leader Confirms No Gambling Regulation Before Election

The fallout continues from the news that Brazilian President President Jair Bolsonaro and his evangelical support bloc will stand against approving both broader gambling legislation and sports-betting regulation before the election in October.
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Gambling

Maryland Regulator Preparing Mobile Sports-Betting Draft Applications, Rules

One day after being publicly taken to task by the state’s governor for delays in the mobile sports-betting application process, Maryland gaming regulators say that draft applications and regulations could be released by the end of June.
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Gambling

News In Brief: June 13-June 17, 2022

Worldpay has been fined in Colorado, Uruguay still wants potentially online-linked casino bids and Australia launches casino crime hunt.
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Gambling

EBA Issues New Guidelines On Role And Responsibilities Of AML/CTF Compliance Officers

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published new guidelines that aim to clarify the duties of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) compliance officers.
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Payments

FCA Strengthens Branch Closure Checks To Combat ‘Branchwashing’

Along with updated good practice, the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is toughening its stance on temporary changes to branch services made during COVID-19 that have now become permanent.
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Payments

Digital Inclusion Could Become Constitutional Right In Brazil

Brazil is proposing a constitutional change to add the right for digital inclusion to the list of fundamental rights.
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Payments

Report Seeks Sweeping Changes To Tackle Dirty Money In British Columbia

The long-awaited final report on British Columbia’s public inquiry into money laundering confirmed that for more than a decade casinos in the province accepted hundreds of millions of dollars linked to organized crime and the drug trade.
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Gambling

UK Industry Requires 'Critical' Changes, Say Public Health Bodies

​​​​​​​Gambling in the UK has become increasingly easy to access, glamorised and promoted to a wide audience that includes children, according to representative bodies of public health experts.
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Gambling

Maryland Governor Wants Accelerated Mobile Sports-Betting Licensing Process

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan has slammed the state’s mobile sports-betting application review body and called for an accelerated timeline that would allow mobile wagering to begin in time for the National Football League (NFL) season in September.
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Gambling

U.S. Supreme Court Sides With Gaming Tribe In Casino Fight With Texas

In a 5-4 decision that could boost efforts to expand gambling in Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled the Tigua Indians of El Paso can continue electronic bingo operations.
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Gambling

Dutch Minister Rejects Call To Treat Gambling Like Cigarettes

​​​​​​​The Dutch minister in charge of gambling issues has rejected calls for a general ban on gambling advertising, saying he disagrees with a Belgian minister’s view that “gambling is the new smoking”.
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Gambling

Crypto Winter: Coinbase, BlockFi To Lay Off 1 In 5 Staff As Recession Fears Bite

Coinbase founder and CEO Brian Armstrong has announced plans to lay off about 18 percent of the company’s staff, due to fears of recession and declining revenues from crypto-trading.
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Payments

Banking Circle To Support Cross-Border Mobile Payments Between Austria, Germany And Switzerland

Banking Circle, a payments bank headquartered in Luxembourg, has agreed to provide foreign exchange and settlement services to two European mobile payment providers, TWINT and Bluecode.
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Payments

New Zealand Relaxes Responsible Lending Code After Backlash

After criticism for the new code being overly onerous on both banks and borrowers, the latest version of New Zealand's responsible lending code has largely reversed to the pre-2021 edition, but complications remain.
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Payments

California Reveals Draft Data Privacy Regulations

California’s new data privacy agency has started the rulemaking process to level up data protection rules in the state and posted the first version of proposed regulations, albeit with several notable omissions.
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Payments

Philippine Online Gaming In Limbo As Marcos Prepares To Rule

Just two weeks before his inauguration, Philippine President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr has yet to reveal the fate of online gaming for the local market, even to regulator PAGCOR, according to a top executive.
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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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