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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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Influencers Risk Jail Time For Bad Financial Promotions, FCA Warns

Social media influencers risk being prosecuted if they promote financial products without due regard to consumer protection, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has said, even if they are based overseas.
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Payments

Daily Dash: UK's Payment Systems Regulator Consults On New ATM Rules

A UK regulator is seeking views on new rules that will affect the country’s ATM network, and Hong Kong has issued a warning against fraudsters falsely claiming to be part of the island’s CBDC pilot.
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Maltese Regulator Calls For 'More Concrete Measures' On DORA

Financial firms in Malta need to do more work to become compliant with the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) before it comes into effect on January 17 next year, the Maltese Financial Services Authority has said.
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Declines To Consider Skill-Games Appeal

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has decided not to hear an appeal from state officials contesting the legality of so-called skill-game devices, leaving in place one of several lower court rulings that have found the controversial machines are not illegal gambling.
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Gambling

Brazilian Municipality Opens Country's First Video Lottery Facility

The São Paulo municipality of Poá has opened a video lottery facility, the first of its kind in Brazil since a landmark Supreme Court ruling allowing states and cities to conduct a wide range of lottery activities.
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Gambling

Georgia Sports-Betting Bill Set For One Last Stand

Supporters of legalizing sports betting in Georgia are making one final push to try to get legislation through both chambers of the state's General Assembly before this year's legislative session ends on Thursday.
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Gambling

French Regulator Says Review Forced Licensees To Fix Dubious T&Cs

French gambling licensees have corrected ambiguous and sometimes illegal clauses found in terms and conditions, following a National Gambling Authority (ANJ) review, the authority has said.
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Gambling

Visa, Mastercard Reduce Card Payment Fees In Bid To Settle Long-Running US Merchant Lawsuit

Visa, Mastercard and their associated bank issuers have settled a 20-year antitrust class action lawsuit with US merchants to reduce credit card processing fees and constraints on charging consumers different fees for various payment cards.
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Daily Dash: Mastercard, Worldpay Launch Global Partnership To Tackle Payments Fraud

Worldpay has adopted Mastercard’s Ethoca Alerts system to combat erroneous chargeback attempts, and the UK’s BT Group has partnered with Adyen to launch its own tap-to-pay iPhone app.
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Payments

Czech Industry Satisfied After Dust Settles On Reforms

Czech gambling stakeholders have said they are tentatively satisfied with a series of sweeping changes to gambling regulations that unlocked live dealer games and offshore enforcement.
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Gambling

Brazil Authorises First Certification Lab

Gaming Laboratories International (GLI) has become the first independent testing lab granted permission to certify betting systems and games in Brazil's forthcoming regulated market.
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Gambling

Yggdrasil Receives Sweden's First Fine For Supplying A Banned Operator

The Swedish Gambling Authority has issued its first fine for supplying an unlicensed operator on the country’s prohibition list to Yggdrasil Gaming.
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Gambling

Expect No Sympathy From FCA On Wind-Down Plans

Wind-down requirements are front and centre of expectations for payments firms and e-money institutions operating in the UK, as the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) raises the regulatory bar and treats them increasingly like banks and other financial services companies.
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UK's Mandatory Reimbursement Model 'Incentivises Crime', Says AusPayNet CEO

The UK is taking a dangerous gamble in its latest measures to combat authorised push payment (APP) fraud, the CEO of Australia’s largest payments association has said.
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Daily Dash: Big Tech Under Pressure As EU Opens First DMA Investigations

The European Commission has opened new investigations into several big tech “gatekeeper” platforms under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), and open banking platform Trustly has launched a new cross-border partnership with MoneyGram.
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888 To Change Name To Evoke, Focus On Core Markets

888 Holdings has proposed changing its name to evoke Plc amid plans to focus on key markets of the UK, Denmark, Italy and Spain, as it reviews its US online gambling operations.
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Gambling

Victoria Regulator Rules Crown Resorts Can Keep Melbourne Casino

Australian casino operator Crown Resorts will retain its casino licence in Melbourne after being found suitable by its external special manager and the Victoria state gambling regulator.
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Gambling

MLB Star Ohtani Denies Betting, NBA Player Under Investigation

Potential gambling scandals bubbled to the surface in multiple U.S. sports on Monday, with one of Major League Baseball’s (MLB) top stars denying betting on games, while an NBA player is reportedly under investigation by the league regarding suspicious activity on player proposition bets.
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Gambling

News In Brief: March 25-March 29, 2024

A New jersey lawmaker wants to double online gambling taxes and Philadelphia moves to ban skill gaming machines from the city.
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Gambling

Illegal Betting Still Thriving Despite U.S. Regulation, Report Suggests

As the legalization of sports betting and online casino gaming is sold to state lawmakers as an antidote to combat the offshore market, illegal online operators are continuing to thrive in the United States, according to the findings of a new report.
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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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