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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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UPDATE: Custodia Bank Sues Fed (Again) After Failed Master Account Application

Custodia Bank, a major digital asset bank based in Wyoming, has filed an amended complaint against the US Federal Reserve following the rejection of its master account application last month.
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Payments

PayPal, Zip Back Australian BNPL Regulation

Large firms in the buy now, pay later (BNPL) arena support the Australian government's plans to regulate the growing sector, but could the collapse of provider Openpay affect final policy decisions?
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Payments

Finnish Health Body Says Evidence For Licensing Lacking

The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) has warned the government that any change to the current licensing system must be based on evidence, which it claims does not show an increase in problem gambling or gambling outside the monopoly.
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Gambling

Brazil Betting Scandal Adds To Urgency For Regulatory Regime

A high-profile football match-fixing scandal in Brazil’s second division is piling pressure on the new Lula government to now swiftly implement a licensing system for sports betting, more than four years after legislation was enacted.
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Gambling

Virginia Budget Proposal Reinstates Sports-Betting Promotional Tax Deductions

As the Virginia General Assembly gets set to close out this year’s regular legislative session on Saturday, the fate of restoring promotional tax credits for sports-betting operators will be left up to lawmakers negotiating the fate of this session’s budget proposal.
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Gambling

Bally's, Gamesys Partner Acquires Fourth Japan-Facing Gaming Website

A Bally’s Corp partner online gambling company has acquired Japan-facing website CasinoSecret, expanding its Japanese exposure to four brands, amid hardening government rhetoric against the industry.
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Gambling

UK Lawmaker Says Sports Sponsorship Ban Should Be Phased In

A Conservative member of the UK parliament has called for phasing out sports sponsorships instead of banning them, saying they are key to survival for second-tier professional sports.
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Gambling

PSP Leaders Confirmed For Digital Euro Rulebook Group

The European Central Bank has nominated members for the Rulebook Development Group for a digital euro, which features representatives from the payments and electronic money sectors.
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Payments

Banks Call US Beneficial Ownership Rules ‘Fatally Flawed’

US banks have said the Treasury’s beneficial ownership rules do not facilitate combating illicit finance and should be withdrawn.
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Payments

Pragmatic Play Bets Big On Venezuela

Pragmatic Play, one of the only international gambling companies to openly acknowledge it is pursuing online operations in Venezuela, has big hopes for the struggling country’s economic future.
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Gambling

Lack Of Swedish Umbrella Supplier Licence Will Be Costly, Warns Industry

The Swedish trade association for online gambling (BOS) has written a letter to the gambling regulator to express its concern about the lack of umbrella licences for suppliers just days before applications are set to be accepted.
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Gambling

Almost A Year Since LUNA Crash Landing, SEC Charges Terraform And CEO

A US regulator has filed charges against Terraform, the company behind the TerraUSD stablecoin and its former CEO Do Kwon, accusing them of orchestrating a $40bn securities fraud.
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Payments

Week In Crypto: Stablecoin War Declared As New York Shuts Down Binance USD, While SEC Readies Lawsuit

The first shot in a regulatory crackdown on stablecoins may have been fired this week, after a New York regulator ordered Paxos to cease issuing BUSD and a federal regulator threatened that stablecoins could be securities.
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Payments

Enforcement Action Galore And There Could Be More, Reveals TransUnion

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has three ongoing probes into credit reference agency TransUnion, as the company expresses concern about increased scrutiny from regulators.
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Payments

Variable Recurring Payments And Fraud Take Centre-Stage In Key Open Banking Report

The Strategic Working Group has issued its final report on open banking in the UK, outlining short-, medium- and long-term priorities for open banking, and eventually open finance, to be a success.
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Payments

UK Industry Groups Warn Of Customer 'Rejection' Of Affordability

The Betting and Gaming Council has said there is “widespread rejection” of affordability checks after the publishing of a consumer survey conducted by Racing TV.
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Gambling

Chile Regulator Slams TV Stations for Airing Online Gambling Ads

Chile’s casino authority has sent letters to four local TV stations demanding they withdraw online gambling advertisements from their programing.
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Gambling

Proxy Sports-Betting Costs Monarch Casino $400,000 In Colorado

The Colorado Limited Gaming Control Commission has approved one of the largest enforcement penalties in the almost five years since the federal ban on sports betting was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court permitting legalization of wagering outside of Nevada.
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Gambling

Should U.S. Lotteries Be Regulating And Operating Online Casinos?

As the U.S. industry continues to wring its hands about the lingering hiatus in internet gaming expansion, an influential regulator says state lotteries should not be regulating and operating de facto online casinos.
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Gambling

Second Website Blocking Effort Fails In Germany

The German Sports Betting Association (DSWV) is urging the gambling regulator to move away from enforcement and toward strengthening legal online gambling operators, after two attempts at IP blocking failed in court.
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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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