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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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Anti-Fraud Framework Will Be Implemented This Year, Singapore Confirms

Singapore will finalise and implement a planned Shared Responsibility Framework to combat phishing scams by the end of the year, a minister has confirmed.
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Payments

Daily Dash: 70 Percent Of Payments In Saudi Arabia Are Now Digital, Says Central Bank

A boom in digital payments has helped Saudi Arabia to hit a non-cash transactions target two years ahead of schedule, and Revolut has secured a licence to operate in Mexico.
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Payments

UK Assesses Bet365 For AML, Social Responsibility Failures

Bet365 will pay £582,000 to settle failures in its anti-money laundering (AML) and social responsibility policies, the UK’s Gambling Commission said today.
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Gambling

Brazil Announces Gambling Domain Rules

Brazil’s Ministry of Finance has proposed that licensed betting operators in the country should all use a dot.bet domain, presumably to keep legal betting easily identifiable. 
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Gambling

Danish, Dutch Regulators Tackle Illegal Gambling

The Danish Gambling Authority has said it blocked 49 sites offering illegal gambling to Danish residents last year, with the most prominent company blocked being Stake.com.
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Gambling

CBDCs Stumble In Early Adopter Markets

Governments hoping to introduce central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) might look to two early adopters — the Bahamas and Nigeria — for an idea of why citizens have, by and large, held back from widespread adoption.
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Payments

Daily Dash: HSBC Launches First Gold-Backed Token In Hong Kong

HSBC has become the world’s first bank to launch a gold-backed token using distributed ledger technology, and Turkey’s central bank has increased its transaction limits for instant payments.
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Payments

Lights Go Out On Georgia's 2024 Sports-Betting Hopes

Sports-betting legislation failed to reach the floor of the Georgia House of Representatives before the clock struck midnight on the state’s legislative session, the latest blow to the gaming industry’s expansion hopes in 2024.
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Gambling

Massachusetts Regulators Question Wager Limits Imposed By Sportsbooks

After receiving several public inquiries, the topic of sports-betting wager limits has come to the attention of gaming regulators in Massachusetts, even as one regulator questioned if the practice was even an issue.
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Gambling

Lithuania Revokes Majestic Financial Licence Over Money Laundering Failures

Majestic Financial “grossly and systematically” violated anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing requirements, according to the Bank of Lithuania.
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Payments

Daily Dash: Australia's Financial Markets Infrastructure Bill Passes First Reading

Australia has passed a key financial markets infrastructure bill, and India’s UPI has gone live in Nepal, creating another bilateral payments linkage for the real-time payments system.
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Payments

Remittance Providers Warned To Halt False Advertising In US

International money transfer providers should be prosecuted if they make false claims about the cost and speed of remittances, the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has said.
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Payments

Bankman-Fried Sentenced To 25 Years For FTX Fraud

The former head of FTX has been sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment, bringing to an end the largest criminal fraud case in the US since the conviction of Bernie Madoff.
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Payments

Week In Crypto: KuCoin Founders Face Jail Time In Major US AML Case

KuCoin is hit with criminal charges in the US, Coinbase celebrates a small victory over the SEC, and Binance is set to be blocked in the Philippines.
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Payments

Curaçao Announces Application Submissions Deadline Extension

Curaçao’s Gaming Control Board has extended the deadline for application submissions for its new look licences by one month until April 30, 2024.
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Gambling

Thai Legislature Backs Casino Feasibility Report

Thailand’s parliament has overwhelmingly approved a committee report supportive of integrated resorts, paving the way for draft legislation amid bullish support from the Prime Minister.
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Gambling

Indiana Lawmakers Change How Regulator Funds Enforcement Actions

The Indiana Gaming Commission, which levied the most enforcement actions of any U.S. gaming regulatory agency last year, will no longer be able to use the dollars it collects to fund further enforcement investigations under a bill signed by Republican Governor Eric Holcomb.
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Gambling

Hungary Remains Unfriendly To International Operators

Despite changes to online betting rules that European courts have said were too exclusionary, one of the country’s leading gambling lawyers says there are no signs of new operators entering Hungary.
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Gambling

Denmark Legislation Would Expand Regulator's Powers, Disclosure Rules

New Danish legislation would for the first time give the Danish Gambling Authority the power to issue orders and reprimands, but the regulator would still have no direct authority to fine.
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Gambling

UK Consultation Response Will Help Track Impact Of Review Changes, Says Gambling Commission

The UK Gambling Commission's latest consultation response will require operators to report regulatory returns more consistently and will allow the regulator to see "much more quickly" the impact regulatory changes are having on the industry, a senior official from the Gambling Commission has said.
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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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