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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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Svenska Spel To Pay SEK100m Duty Of Care Fine

State-owned Svenska Spel has been fined SEK100m (€8.7m) for responsible gambling failings relating to some of its highest spending customers.
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Gambling

888 UK Licence Review Discontinued With No Further Action

The Gambling Commission has discontinued its licence review of William Hill and Mr Green parent company 888 Holdings and will take no further action against the operator. 
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Gambling

Daily Dash: HM Treasury Issues Update On Smarter Regulatory Framework

HM Treasury has provided an update on the progress of the Smarter Regulatory Framework, while Nationwide has officially announced its offer to acquire Virgin Money.
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Payments

Apple Gatekeeping Digital Wallets, Says US Justice Department Complaint

Apple’s regulatory problems are set to continue as the US Department of Justice files a lawsuit against the big tech giant for monopolistic practices.
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Payments

Payroll Processors Propose Exemption From Illinois Money Transmission Act

Trade organisations have proposed a new law in Illinois to remove payroll processing from the definition of money transmission and recognise it as a separately licensed business activity.
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Payments

Star Entertainment's Dual Disaster: CEO Quits, Probe Made Public

Australian casino operator The Star Entertainment Group has suffered a new double blow with the resignations of its CEO and CFO and the New South Wales state gambling regulator’s decision to make public a critical review into the company.
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Gambling

U.S. Senator Raises Alarm Over Sports-Betting Companies Targeting Problem Gamblers

Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal continued to scrutinize the sports-betting industry on Thursday by challenging leading operators to end what he describes as the targeting of problem gamblers.
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Gambling

Rio De Janeiro, Paraná Begin Brazilian Betting Conflict

Jurisdictional conflicts between Brazilian states and the federal government over online betting licensing have escalated, after Paraná asked a judge to join a case to prevent local licensees in the state of Rio de Janeiro from operating throughout the country.
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Gambling

Week In Crypto: OKX Delists Tether In Europe, Shuts Down In India

OKX removes Tether trading for European users, Nigeria pursues access to Binance’s transaction data, and a survey finds that a significant number of Canadians have used crypto to pay a ransomware attacker.
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Payments

Daily Dash: Denmark Joins TIPS And TARGET2

Denmark has become the first non-euro country to join the TIPS and T2 payment systems, and the UK’s Greggs bakery chain has announced that its systems have been restored following a nationwide point of sale outage.
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Payments

Hyperledger Adds New Members, Launches Financial Services Working Group

The Hyperledger Foundation, which is developing enterprise-grade blockchain technologies, has added new members and formed a new working group to develop features for enterprise users based on open-source Ethereum blockchain software.
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Payments

News In Brief: March 18-March 22, 2024

A new president for the Swedish gambling regulator, Maryland refuses to take up online casino legislation, Rush Street is reportedly considering a sale and a study says casino cannibalization is a myth.
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Gambling

Queensland Passes Tough, Far-Reaching Casino Control Amendments

Australia's Queensland state legislature has passed a comprehensive upgrade to casino control legislation, introducing strict impositions in response to an external review into Star Entertainment Group’s compliance failures.
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Gambling

DC Lawmaker Proposes Sports-Betting Expansion

Legislation is set to be introduced in Washington, D.C this week that would open up the city's mobile sports-betting market to multiple private operators.
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Gambling

Dutch Regulator Wants To Masquerade As Real Players

The Netherlands Gambling Authority plans to conduct “mystery shopping” at licensed operators, as it warns that industry excesses are still fanning the flames of political discontent.
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Gambling

UK Gambling Commission Outlines Approach To Evaluating White Paper Changes

The UK's Gambling Commission has outlined its approach to evaluating the impacts of the Gambling Act Review, promising to assess changes as a package and some individually.
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Gambling

Swift To Develop Australia's Confirmation Of Payee

The global inter-banking system has been selected to build the Confirmation of Payee system in Australia.
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Payments

UK Government Timetable For Open Banking Rollout Imminent, Says Minister

A UK minister has suggested that a state-backed timetable for the rollout of open banking has been finalised and will be published within one or two weeks.
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Payments

Daily Dash: Sweden's Swish Launches Self-Scanning Service

A new self-scanning service in Sweden will allow shoppers to avoid waiting in line to checkout, and the UK’s Lloyds Bank has warned that impersonation scams are on the rise.
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Payments

Portuguese Antitrust Watchdog Fines SIBS Group €13.8bn For Breaking Competition Law

The Autoridade da Concorrência has fined the SIBS Group for forcing card issuers and acquirers seeking to access the SIBS Group's payment schemes to also contract its processing services.
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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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