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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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Worst Gambling Act Fears Unlikely To Be Realised, Says Rank CEO

As the UK gambling industry frets over how to improve its woeful public perception, one of the sector’s leading chief executives has sought to dampen fears over the outcome of the pending Gambling Act review.
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Gambling

U.S. Gaming Industry Leaders Concerned About Prevalence Of Advertising

The proliferation of sports-betting advertising in the U.S. remains a key area of concern for industry leaders, with both the volume of ads and prevalence of bonus offerings facing scrutiny.
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Gambling

Line Between Gambling, Gaming, Financial Products More Blurred Than Ever

An increasing number of volatile financial trading products and video games available to children closely resemble gambling, a panel of experts that includes UK Gambling Commission officials has warned.
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Gambling

Belgium Latest Country To Introduce Confirmation Of Payee In Fight Against Fraud

Learning from successful introduction of account verification services in UK and Netherlands, Belgium introduces bill to mandate a similar anti-fraud tool. Meanwhile, Bank of America launches Account Validation in the U.S.
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Payments

News In Brief - November 2, 2021

The UK Financial Conduct Authority and the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority confirm investigation into Barclays CEO Jes Staley without revealing further details.
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Payments

UK Financial Regulators Rally For Climate Change

The Financial Conduct Authority, the Prudential Regulation Authority, The Pensions Regulator and the Financial Reporting Council have issued their latest reports on climate change adaptation, and how they plan to put pressure on financial institutions to take the issue seriously.
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Payments

P27 Appoints New Chief Executive

Paula da Silva, head of transaction services at SEB, has been named as the new chief executive of the Nordics prospective payments platform (P27).
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Payments

UK Affiliates Not Linking To Safer Gambling Week

As the UK Safer Gambling Week 2021 begins, new data from an affiliate compliance monitoring company has revealed the vast majority of affiliate URLs fail to include safer gambling messaging.
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Gambling

Latin American Operators Urged To Self-Regulate On Advertising

Online gambling licensees in Latin America must quickly self-regulate their advertising practices to have any hope of avoiding harsh restrictions like in Spain, according to regulators and legal experts.
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Gambling

UK Online Boom Offsets Land-Based Tax Shortfall

Increased betting and online gaming activity has driven positive growth in year-to-date UK gambling tax receipts, despite cratering returns from machine gaming.
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Gambling

U.S. Gaming Industry Looking To Fit Esports In Among Slots, Table Games

Esports and casinos appear to be a perfect match, but as the gaming industry seeks to attract a new generation of customers who play video games, wagering on these events remains in its early stages.
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Gambling

Brussels Dodges Responsibility For Malta’s Greylisting

The European Commission does not turn a blind eye to the interpretation of anti-money laundering rules and hopes that any more members being greylisted by the Financial Action Task Force can be avoided in the future, the EU’s financial crime chief has said when probed about Malta becoming the first EU country on the grey list.
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Payments

Hungary Fines Banks For Partner Agents’ AML Compliance Failures

The Hungarian National Bank (MNB) fined two banks for AML compliance failures at their partner currency exchanges.
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Payments

FATF Ventures Into New Territory With Fresh Crypto Guidelines

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has released new guidance on virtual assets and virtual assets service providers (VASPs), superseding those that it previously issued in 2019.
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Payments

U.S. Drops Massive Tax Reporting Proposal

House Democrats have reportedly dumped a massive tax reporting provision that would require financial institutions to report annual gross inflows and outflows in all accounts to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
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Payments

Google Ad Fine Cancelled By Italian Court

An Italian court has cleared tech giant Google of violating Italy’s ban on gambling advertising.
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Gambling

California Tribes Oppose Online Sports Betting Ballot Measure

Two powerful groups representing California Indian tribes have come out in opposition to the ballot initiative to authorize online sports betting being proposed by FanDuel, DraftKings and other major U.S. operators, despite several provisions that were designed to attract tribal support.
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Gambling

Will The Ghost Of Sheldon Adelson Haunt U.S. Internet Gaming Industry?

Sheldon Adelson may be gone but his enduring influence as an opponent of internet gambling could not be denied during last week’s East Coast Gaming Congress in Atlantic City.
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Gambling

Personnel Moves - October 2021

Pontus Lindwall survives at Betsson, the Nevada Gaming Commission fills two panel slots and a Philippine gambling exec resigns to run for mayor.
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Gambling

U.S. Working On ’Unique’ Open Banking Rules

The U.S. is looking at the United Kingdom to learn about open banking, but it is working on a solution that is tailored uniquely to the needs of U.S. consumers, the head of the open banking rulemaking agency told Congress.
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Regulatory Influencer: Poland Proposes Targeted Simplification of EU Financial Services Rule

On June 2, 2025, the Polish Financial Supervisory Authority (KNF) announced that it had submitted a package of proposals intended to simplify regulatory frameworks across the EU financial services sector to the EU member states, the European Commission and other institutions within the EU Financial Services Committee. These proposals form part of a broader initiative led by the Polish Ministry of Finance, which aims to harmonise and streamline EU regulations to support the competitiveness of the European Union’s economy, including that of Poland.
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Regulatory Influencer: AML Compliance Is Key Under Hong Kong’s Stablecoins Ordinance

Under Hong Kong’s new Stablecoins Ordinance, another milestone in the global trend towards regulating digital assets in the same way as traditional financial services, any person who issues stablecoins referencing an official currency must obtain a licence from the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA).
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Norwegian Consumer Council Reports Klarna For Breaching Regulatory Requirements

In a submission to the Norwegian Consumer Authority, the consumer advocacy group has accused the Swedish fintech firm of repeatedly violating Norway’s credit marketing regulations.
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Singapore To Require Offshore Crypto Firms To Be Licensed Or Cease Operations By June 2025

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has clarified the scope of its regulatory regime for providers of digital tokens, crypto-assets used for payments.
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FCA Moves To Boost AI Use With New Sandbox

UK financial services firms will be encouraged to experiment with artificial intelligence (AI) as part of the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) strategy to support economic growth through technological innovation.
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Australia Calls For Greater Collaboration In Battle Against Fraud

Businesses should join forces and share data to advance the fight against increasingly sophisticated scams, according to the Australian National Anti-Scam Centre.
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FCA Sets Out New Transparency Rules For Enforcement Investigations

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has outlined significant changes to its enforcement rules, although it has stopped short of implementing some of the more controversial elements of its original proposal.
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Cash Mandate Moves Closer To Being Law In New York State

Retailers will not be able to refuse cash payments in New York if Governor Kathy Hochul signs off on legislation that has passed both houses of the state legislature.
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Regulatory Influencer: Canada Retail Payments Activities Act — Safeguarding of End-User Funds

This report is the third installment in a four-part series analyzing the RPAA and identifying key components of the law that PSPs should consider when doing business in Canada. This report focuses on the requirement to safeguard end-user funds.
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Regulate Smarter, Say European Players In Light Of Trump’s Deregulation

Despite the US leadership pushing for an increasingly deregulated financial services market, some payments players and politicians in Europe are adamant that standards being watered down is not the way to boost growth.
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