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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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European Mobile Wallets Address Digital Euro Elephant In The Room

Mobile wallet solutions weighed up how the EU’s digital euro could interact with their products at the Merchant Payment Ecosystem (MPE) in Berlin last week.
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Payments

Lithuania Postpones MiCA Deadline

Lithuania’s government has pushed back the date to be fully compliant with the EU’s Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regulation, having previously foregone a transition period for the regulation.
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Payments

Massachusetts Regulators Frustrated With Bally's Delayed Launch

Massachusetts regulators are growing concerned over the delayed launch timetable of Bally Bet, the only licensed sportsbook operator in the state that has yet to go live.
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Gambling

Minnesota Senate Committee Advances Amended Sports-Betting Bill

A bill to legalize sports betting in Minnesota continues to make its way through the committee process in the state Senate, but not without additional changes, including doubling the tax rate and altering how tax revenue will be distributed.
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Gambling

Week In Crypto: Former Binance CEO Must Surrender Canadian Passport

US courts move to ensure that Changpeng Zhao does not abscond before sentencing, Crypto.com is hit by a €2.85m fine in the Netherlands, and Coinbase is forced to delete an embarrassing page from its website.
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Payments

Digital Euro Could Be Europe's UPI, Merchants Say

Merchants support a fast, innovative and low-cost pan-European payment method, a group of trade bodies have said, as they look to emulate Pix in Brazil and the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) in India.
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Payments

HM Treasury To Amend Payment Service Contract Termination Rules

In its second amendment of the week to the Payment Services Regulations, the UK government has put forward changes to rules on provider-initiated terminations of payment service contracts.
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Payments

Daily Dash: MEPs Adopt 'Landmark' AI Act With Regulatory Sandbox Provisions

The European Parliament has approved a key piece of AI legislation, aiming to balance innovation with risk management, and India and Indonesia have signed an agreement to use local currencies in bilateral transactions.
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Payments

Twitter Fined In Italy For Ad Ban Breach

The Italian Communications Authority (AGCOM) has fined the social network formerly known as Twitter €1.35m for violating the country’s advertising ban.
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Gambling

Tabcorp CEO Forced To Quit Over Sexual Joke Targeting Female Regulator

The CEO of Australian retail wagering giant Tabcorp Holdings has resigned over sexually offensive language targeted at a senior female gambling regulator in Victoria state.
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Gambling

FinCEN Has Watchful Eye On U.S. Gaming Industry's Money Laundering Risks

The U.S. Department of Justice and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) continues to actively pursue enforcement activities over anti-money laundering (AML) violations involving casinos, according to federal officials and legal experts.
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Gambling

News In Brief: March 11-March 15, 2024

Maryland passes bill to legalise online gaming, Louisiana bill to ban TV gambling ads awaits committee hearing and Pennsylvania lawmaker wants the state to join the Multi-State Internet Agreement.
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Gambling

U.S. Operators, Regulators Push More Usage Of Responsible Gaming Tools

Although operators continue to offer a suite of responsible gaming tools, convincing players to use them has been an uphill battle, according to U.S. executives and regulators.
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Gambling

Romário Opens Senate Investigation On Sports Betting

Romário, the Brazilian footballing legend turned federal senator, has requested a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) on suspicious sports betting, which was approved on Tuesday.
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Gambling

Lawsuit Seeks To Prevent CFPB Cap On Credit Card Fees

A group of US associations have jointly filed a lawsuit challenging a rule introduced by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) limiting credit card late fees.
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Payments

Australia's Long Road To BNPL Regulation May Finally Be Over

Australia’s Treasury has published a draft regulation that would bring buy now, pay later (BNPL) products under similar rules to traditional credit offerings for the first time.
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Payments

Daily Dash: Klarna Hit By $700,000 Fine In Sweden For GDPR Breach

A Swedish regulator has upheld an enforcement action against Klarna for data protection failures, and Ukraine’s IT Army has taken down the Moscow Metro payment system in a large-scale cyberattack.
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Payments

Philippines Busts Another POGO Scam Compound, Torture Alleged

Philippine authorities have rescued 875 Filipino and foreign workers after breaking up another alleged violent cyber scamming operation linked to a foreign-facing online gambling licensee (POGO).
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Gambling

Georgia Sports-Betting Bills See First House Talks

With just over two weeks remaining in the state’s legislative session, sports-betting legislation received its first hearing in a Georgia House of Representatives committee on Tuesday.
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Gambling

Maryland House Subcommittee Passes Amended Online Gaming Bill

An amended bill to legalize online gaming via up to 30 licensees has been passed out of a Maryland House subcommittee.
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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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