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Brussels hopes for a swift legislative process, questions remain over whether the European Council and Parliament will play ball and non-bank access to payments still on the agenda as VIXIO looks at the current state of play for EU instant payments regulations.

The Reserve Bank of India has confirmed that ₹2,000 banknotes are soon to be withdrawn, raising fears of cash shortages that crippled the country in 2016 during a similar "demonetisation" policy.

The UK Gambling Commission has issued a £490,000 financial penalty for Flutter-owned Paddy Power and Betfair after it sent promotional push notifications to devices linked to customers who had self-excluded.

India’s foreign transactions and money laundering enforcer has raided 25 locations across the nation suspected of housing foreign-controlled online gambling operations.

The UK Gambling Commission has outlined six areas where it intends to improve the evidence base for regulatory change over the next three years, as part of what it calls a new “aspirational” programme.

Sports wagering legislation began its path through the North Carolina Senate on Wednesday with a successful committee vote following some key changes to legislation that originally cleared the House in March.

As daunting as the challenge may be, the international gaming community needs to establish regulations governing how sports betting and the industry’s other products are marketed, two leading gambling analysts said on Wednesday in Las Vegas.

The financial vulnerability, or affordability, checks, that are part of the UK’s white paper on the future of gambling regulation should not be an imposing burden on the industry, says the head of the Gambling Commission.

Caliente powers strong Playtech results despite fees dispute, Pennsylvania hands out six-digit casino fines and a Sportradar sign-up in Brazil amid the ongoing match-fixing scandal.

As strong customer authentication (SCA) has become widely adopted in Europe and more countries are likely to follow, VIXIO is looking at what has been done in the US in terms of the regulation and what lies ahead.

A major UK auditor has resigned from working with eMerchantPay, an acquirer for “high-risk” merchant categories, due to concerns about the company’s governance practices.

European commissioner Mairead McGuinness has insisted that the EU’s latest financial crime package will deliver where prior directives have not.

Offshore operators have objected to tax and incorporation plans, as the government of Peru publishes the results of a consultation on draft regulation to implement the country's 2022 online gambling and sports betting law.

Esports has become a $1bn industry worldwide, but cannabis has become a $1bn industry in Nevada alone, and gambling analysts are predicting casinos will be serving marijuana to their customers within the next decade.

After months of debate, Massachusetts gaming regulators closed the door on Tuesday on allowing promotional play to be deducted from taxable sports-betting revenues.

Kenya’s President has defended the controversial Finance Bill 2023, which would increase the excise duty on lotteries, betting and gambling, as well as change the definition of “winning”.

This impact analysis will examine the latest version of the Japan Consumer Credit Association’s credit card security guidelines, which mandate the use of EMV 3-D Secure, in comparison with the European Union's strong customer authentication (SCA) requirements under the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2). It will first lay out the historical background of both these regulatory regimes before comparing three aspects of these regulations namely, applicability, verification requirements, and permitted verification methods. It will then examine whether these regimes are equivalent to each other and, if not, what additional measures credit card and other payment operators may need to take to comply with both regimes.

The UK and European Commission have published joint text of their draft memorandum of understanding (MoU) on regulatory cooperation in financial services, in a sign of the thawing of relations between the two jurisdictions.

Consumer credit reforms will mean that buy now, pay later (BNPL) agreements will be treated as credit products by year-end.

Canada’s government has announced a new agreement with Visa and Mastercard to reduce credit card interchange fees to 0.95 percent. The move has been cheered by some, while called a failure by others.