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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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Aristocrat Offers £2.1bn To Buy Playtech

In a dramatic move for the global online gaming space, Australian gaming machine giant Aristocrat Leisure has made a takeover offer of more than £2.1bn ($2.9bn) for UK gaming software and platform developer Playtech, whose board fully backs the deal.
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Gambling

G7 Outlines CBDC Principles

The G7, including countries such as the United States, United Kingdom and Germany, has published Public Policy Principles for Retail Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC), with issues such as financial stability and cybersecurity taking centre stage.
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Payments

FSB Updates Cross-Border Targets, As Sibos Talks Up Prospects

Most of 2021’s targets have been met, but the success of the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) roadmap for cross-border payments will depend heavily on the commitment of public authorities and the private sector working together, the standard-setting body has cautioned in its latest progress report.
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Payments

Week In Brief - October 15, 2021

A short roundup of some of the week's payments news you may have missed.
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Payments

Pandora Papers Reveal Further Gaps In U.S. AML Rules

Just one year after the massive suspicious activity reports leak that became known as the FinCEN Files, the U.S. is shaken again by the disclosure of millions of confidential files that sheds light on further deficiencies in the U.S. AML framework.
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Payments

Only Two Governors To Be Elected In 2021, Both In Gaming States

Two states — one where gaming is just getting started and another almost synonymous with brick-and-mortar and online casinos — will elect governors on November 2.
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Gambling

U.S. Executives Say Leagues, Media Lead Sports-Betting Boom

Two top gaming executives have said professional sports leagues and media companies are among the biggest winners after more than three years of the U.S. sports-betting boom.
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Gambling

London's Aspinalls Denies Culture Of Racism As Croupier Sues

Lawyers for exclusive Mayfair casino Aspinalls have denied the company has an “institutional culture of racism or sexism" after being sued by a black croupier who says she was subjected to "violating" racism and sexism.
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Gambling

BGC Replaces 'When The Fun Stops, Stop' Campaign

The Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) has announced the long-awaited replacement of the "When the fun stops, stop" safer gambling campaign in the UK.
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Gambling

Finland Police Fine Eurosport €800,000 Over Gambling Ads

Finland's National Police Board has fined television network Eurosport €800,000 ($929,000) over gambling advertisements in violation of rules protecting gambling monopoly Veikkaus, even though the broadcasts originated from outside Finland.
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Gambling

News In Brief: October 11-October 15, 2021

Michigan reports record monthly gross revenue for online gambling, abolition of Lithuania's flat tax for lotteries and gambling looms larger, and the European Lotteries boss weighs in on the EU's Digital Services Act.
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Gambling

Banks Find Agile Tools To Fight Agile Fraudsters During Pandemic - Sibos

As financial crime has skyrocketed during the pandemic, financial institutions have had to change the way they chase fraudsters. While machine learning can increase their agility in fraud detection, there is more to do in terms of cooperation, panelists at a Sibos session said.
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Payments

Fed Payments Modernization Moves Forward With E-invoice, Remittance Initiatives

The U.S. Federal Reserve and Business Payments Coalition (BPC) has announced plans to launch a pilot exchange framework for electronic invoices (e-invoices) and an initiative to improve electronic delivery of remittance information.
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Payments

Bankers Split On Implications Of CBDCs

The rise of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) has left commercial and public sector banking officials dwelling on what the best move forward is and potential risks. Meanwhile, China continues to emerge as the most likely first mover. <br />
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Payments

UK Casino Docked £450,000 For AML, Responsibility Failures

The UK Gambling Commission has fined a Leeds casino £450,000 ($615,000) after a probe revealed social responsibility and anti-money laundering (AML) failures.
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Gambling

Australian Online Problem Gambling Rate Doubles In A Decade

A landmark Australian study on the prevalence and impacts of interactive gambling has given ammunition to governments to impose heavier restrictions on online gaming, with the rate of problem gambling doubling to 1.2 percent in ten years.
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Gambling

Signature Gatherers Accused In Florida Sports Betting Campaign

The DraftKings and FanDuel sports-betting campaign committee in Florida is no longer soliciting signatures at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami following reports of students being harassed on campus, a committee official said.
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Gambling

Minnesota Sports Betting Still Facing Strong Tribal Opposition

Minnesota lawmakers are expected to reconsider legislation next year that would legalize sports betting, but any bill likely needs the support of gaming tribes that oppose any form of gambling expansion.
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Gambling

Improving Cross-Border Payments As Much A Commercial Issue As Regulatory

Cross-border payment linkages are as beneficial to the private sector as they are to regulators and government, according to panelists at Sibos 2021. This comes after EBA Clearing, The Clearing House and SWIFT announced their new cross-border payments initiative.
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Payments

ISO 20022 To Move Sanctions Screening From Crime Detection To Prevention - Sibos

The rapid growth of electronic payments has increased the need for better sanctions screening. As interest in new technologies grows, the market is shifting its approach from “detecting” a suspicious payment to “preventing” it, experts said at Sibos 2021.
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Romanian Gambling Ad Restrictions Incoming But Lawyers Flag Need For Clarity

Romania’s new Audiovisual Code introduces several important changes, clarifications and restrictions; however, questions raised about the definitions, such as sports personality or influencer, have not been “thoroughly defined”, according to legal experts.
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Australia’s Project Acacia Blossoming Into Six-Month Testing Phase

Project Acacia, Australia’s research program into wholesale digital currency, has reached a “significant milestone”, with participants selected to explore innovations in digital money and settlement infrastructure.
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Big Tech Joins Forces With Telcos Under Hong Kong’s Latest Anti-Scam Charter

Financial regulators in Hong Kong have announced the launch of a new anti-scam charter that will see telcos and big tech firms participate for the first time.
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U.S. Senate Fails To Roll Back Change To Gambling Tax Deductions

The effort to reverse one of the tax hikes in President Donald Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill” came up short in the Senate on Thursday due to opposition from a lone senator who sought to add an exemption of religious colleges from the federal endowment tax.
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Regulatory Influencer: Concurrent Market Liberalisation In The Two Congos

Two of the French-speaking jurisdictions within the Congo Basin, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville), have simultaneously embarked upon devising gambling regulation. Following years of relying upon aged legislation, which monopolised the operation of gambling to state-owned entities, the Congolese market is finally liberalising.The bigger picture
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California's Daily Fantasy Sports Opinion: Key Policy Points To Watch

California Attorney General Rob Bonta's opinion last week that deemed daily fantasy sports to be a form of illegal gambling is a new policy wrinkle in a state that has consistently been a flashpoint when it comes to the gaming market.
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French Regulator Reignites Calls For Whistle-to-Whistle Ban and Loss Limits

France’s gambling regulator has once again reiterated calls to introduce a whistle-to-whistle advertising ban, as well as loss limits for players aged 18-25 years old.The president of France’s National Gambling Authority (ANJ), Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, said changes to the country's regulatory framework are “essential” for a sustainable gambling industry model during her closing remarks at a conference addressing gambling addiction on June 27, 2025.
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CFPB Suffers Double Shock As Budget Slashed And Redundancies Ruled Lawful

Opponents of the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) have experienced twin triumphs, as an injunction halting the agency's restructuring has been lifted and the federal budget bill has almost halved its funding.
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Regulatory Influencer: The Key Updates to the EU’s Payment Services Package

The EU has for some time been working on updating its regulation of the payments sector, planning to issue a revised directive and to introduce a bloc-wide payment services regulation.
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FCA’s £21m Monzo Fine Emphasises That Growth Must Be Responsible

By imposing the fine on the challenger bank, the UK financial services regulator has sent a reminder to disruptors that they must pay attention to their regulatory duties.
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