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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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U.S. State Lawmakers To Promote Model Online Casino Legislation

A national coalition of state lawmakers has announced it will form a committee to prepare model gambling legislation for states to consider, with online casino topping the agenda.
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Gambling

News In Brief: January 1-January 5, 2024

Bally's will reportedly launch sports betting in Massachusetts after its Rhode Island operation is up and running, while Betway withdraws its plans for the Bay State.
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Gambling

German Regulator Criticises Proposal To Decriminalise Illegal Gambling

The German Ministry of Justice has proposed decriminalising illegal gambling and making it strictly an administrative offence, but the regulator calls the proposal “incomprehensible”.
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Gambling

Ecuador President Seeks Referendum To Legalize Casinos

Ecuador’s newly-elected President Daniel Noboa has asked the country's Constitutional Court to establish a referendum to reopen casinos and gaming halls as a part of his plan to tackle rising crime. 
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Gambling

Week In Crypto: US Judge Rules That Terraform Labs Sold Securities Illegally

A US judge issues three summary judgments against Terraform Labs, India moves to geo-block nine major crypto exchanges, and Binance reports a stellar year despite its compliance headaches.
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Payments

Lithuania Fines Two E-Money Institutions For Non-Compliance

The Bank of Lithuania has continued its streak of actions against the payments industry, with two new fines being issued over non-compliance.
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Payments

Daily Dash: Quarter Of UK BNPL Users Hit By Late Fees

New research has found that UK BNPL users are increasingly falling behind on payments, Singapore has become the first jurisdiction to accept e-CNY, and China is seeking to improve foreign card acceptance.
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Payments

UAE Regulator Suspends Most Lottery Operations

The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) new gambling regulator has suspended part of the federation’s de facto lottery market without explanation, although recent prize winners are reportedly able to collect winnings.
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Gambling

Bomb Threat Disrupts Debate On Maine Tribal iGaming

Maine’s state lawmakers are considering three bills to expand tribal gaming to include internet gaming, casinos, historic horseracing and electronic beano, amid strong opposition from commercial casinos and the state gambling regulator.
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Gambling

Mexican Operators Win Injunctions Against Presidential Decree

A district judge in Mexico has granted injunctions to three gaming operators that protect them from a November decree banning new licences for slot machines and other casino-style games.
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Gambling

Entain Appoints Hedge Fund Boss Ricky Sandler To Board

Entain has added an activist investor and critic to its board of directors.
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Gambling

China Seeks To Modernise Non-Bank Payment Sector In New Regulations

China has adopted a new set of regulations on non-bank payment institutions that will seek to modernise the sector and bring it under closer supervision of state regulators.
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Payments

Daily Dash: UPI Hits 100bn Milestone

India’s payments success story continues as the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) hits another accomplishment, while the European Central Bank has issued five new tenders for the digital euro project.
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Payments

India Mulls Shelving Self-Regulation For Online Gaming

The Indian government is considering an about-face on online gaming regulation, potentially dispensing with industry self-regulation altogether and placing operators under direct government scrutiny.
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Gambling

PrizePicks Pledges To Defend Its Fantasy-Sports Turf

PrizePicks CEO Adam Wexler has said his company is looking to protect its fantasy-sports turf despite efforts in multiple states to curtail the company’s pick’em-style games, even as it prepares to launch a peer-to-peer product.
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Gambling

Wider Adoption Of Cashless By U.S. Gambling Industry Still A Year Away

If it were up to the CEOs of Pavilion Payments or Sightline Payments, adoption of cashless wagering apps by casino patrons would be much further advanced than where it is in the early days of 2024.
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Gambling

Brazil Warns Tech Giants To Obey Advertising Regulations

Tech giants Meta, TikTok and Google have reportedly been warned by Brazil’s Ministry of Finance against breaking new sports-betting advertising regulations after failing to apply over-18 labels on their platforms.
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Gambling

Netherlands Plans Tighter Monthly Deposit, Spending Checks

Citing “worrying and undesirable developments”, the Dutch minister in charge of gambling issues is planning to tighten controls on voluntary deposit limits.
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Gambling

Daily Dash: Revolut Revenue Tops $1bn But Higher Costs Wipe Out Profit Margin

Revolut profits have flat-lined despite significant customer growth in 2022, Brits broke a single-day cash withdrawal record just before Christmas, and Affirm has gone live at Walmart self-checkouts.
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Payments

Australian PSPs Given 18 Months To Comply With New Tokenisation Standards

The Reserve Bank of Australia has confirmed that it expects the country’s payments industry to be ready to meet new standards on card tokenisation by the end of June 2025.
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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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