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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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Brazil Appoints Head Regulator Ahead Of Licensing Rollout

Lawyer Regis Dudena has been officially appointed as the secretary of Brazil's Prizes and Bets Secretariat to lead the government department responsible for introducing sports betting and online gambling regulations.
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Gambling

Main UK Gambling White Paper Proposals Implemented By Summer 2024, Says Government

The UK government will deliver the main proposals of its gambling white paper with the help of the Gambling Commission by Summer 2024.
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Gambling

Ukraine Trade Group Hits Back At Government's 'Arbitrary' Action Against Online Operators

A trade group has accused Ukrainian authorities of exerting political pressure to block bank accounts belonging to licensed online gambling operators after the government moved to introduce new restrictions.
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Gambling

Big Tech's UK Financial Datasets To Be Examined, Says FCA Chief

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will look into big tech firms’ access to large financial datasets following a market consultation last year, chief executive Nikhil Rathi has said.
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Payments

Apple's EU Commitments Don't Go Far Enough, Says ECB

Apple’s commitments on its near field communication software will not fully level the playing field for EU mobile payment services, the European Central Bank (ECB) has said.
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Payments

Daily Dash: Commerzbank To Pay €1.75m Fine In Germany

Commerzbank has been fined in its home market due to "supervisory" failures, and Hong Kong has fined a commercial bank for failing to record the names of senders and receivers of wire transfers.
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Payments

Star Entertainment Chair Relies On 'Heat Of The Moment' Defence

The chairman of The Star Entertainment Group has told the inquiry into its licence suitability in New South Wales state that internal messages undermining the regulator and its special manager for Star’s Sydney property were merely “heat of the moment comments”.
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Gambling

New York City Casinos A Threat To New Jersey, Northeast Gaming Markets

Executives with casinos in New Jersey are planning for the arrival of three new multibillion-dollar integrated resorts in New York City and their negative impact on an already crowded regional gaming market in the northeastern U.S.
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Gambling

South Africa Gambling Bills Receive Long-Awaited Updates As Elections Loom

After two years of drafting and consultations, the Remote Gambling Bill (B11-2024) was finally introduced to South Africa’s parliament by the main opposition party last week as the ruling ANC could lose its majority for the first time in 30 years in the upcoming election on May 29.
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Gambling

UK Open Banking Future Entity Takes Shape With New Consultation

The UK’s Joint Regulatory Oversight Committee has released its recommendations for the Open Banking Future Entity, including what its funding model should look like, and invited companies to submit comments by May 20.
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Payments

Daily Dash: FCA Wins Praise For Metrics On Growth, Competitiveness

A new report has found that UK regulators are leading the world on driving growth and competitiveness, while EU regulators have opened a new consultation on technical standards for the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA).
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Payments

UK Open Banking Will Move On From CMA Regime, OBL Chief Says

Updates to the UK’s open banking system are “right around the corner” and will entail a move away from the retail banking standards set out by the Competition and Markets Authority in 2016, Open Banking Limited (OBL) chief Henk Van Hulle has said.
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Payments

Industry Reacts To Biggest Betting Scandal Of Post-PASPA Era

In the wake of the most prominent sports integrity scandal in the U.S. since 2018, industry executives and regulatory officials agree that continuing to bolster integrity monitoring in the regulated market is key to preventing future scandals.
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Gambling

Operators Say Skill-Game Machines Threaten Casino Investments

As Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin considers the fate of skill games in Virginia, leading casino executives are urging Youngkin and lawmakers in other states where the terminals have proliferated to either prohibit grey-market machines or tax and regulate them on the same scale as slot machines.
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Gambling

Colorado Approves First U.S. Regulations For Betting Exchanges

Colorado regulators have approved rule changes to permit exchange wagering after more than a year of deliberation, making the state the second in the U.S. to allow the activity and the first to adopt specific regulations.
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Gambling

Ontario Regulator Bars Wagering On WBA Boxing Fights

Ontario’s gaming regulator has put a halt on wagers on boxing matches sanctioned by the World Boxing Association after suspicious betting patterns and a subsequent review.
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Gambling

Brazil Bans Crypto, Credit Card Gambling

Brazil’s Secretariat of Prizes and Bets has published an ordinance governing payments for online betting, a move that suggests it is sticking to a new timeline to introduce a regulated market.
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Gambling

Week In Crypto: FCA Seeks Quality, Not Quantity, In Crypto Registrations

The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) says it will continue to enforce a high bar for crypto registration attempts, Tether plans to expand beyond stablecoins, and a bipartisan US stablecoin bill hits Congress.
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Payments

Exclude Big Tech From Open Finance Framework, MEPs Say

Big tech “gatekeepers” such as Meta and ByteDance should not be eligible to participate in the EU’s future open finance framework, lawmakers have said.
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Payments

Daily Dash: Canada's Real-Time Payments System Not Expected Until 2026

Canada has confirmed that its long-awaited instant payments system will be delayed once again, and New Zealand has opened a new consultation on central bank digital currency.
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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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