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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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Tribal Gaming Conflict In Carolinas Proves Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows

A Democratic congressman who may be the person most responsible for the election of Joe Biden as President of the United States has introduced a bill to help a South Carolina tribe build a casino-resort in North Carolina.
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Gambling

Compliance With Data Access Requests - The Challenges

A business has to overcome numerous challenges when it receives a request for access to personal data and it has a short time in which to comply. However, if it makes a genuine endeavour to do so, its data protection regulator may be lenient towards it.
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Payments

FCA Pins Hopes For Efficient Compliance On Blockchain

Regulatory reporting on the blockchain could ensure that compliance checks happen in real time, the chief executive of the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has said.
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Payments

News In Brief - September 24, 2021

The California Privacy Protection Agency has swung into action by asking the public to submit comments related to any area on which it can issue rules. It is especially keen to hear suggestions about any regulations that it might make in accordance with the California Consumer Privacy Act 2018.
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Payments

Lottoland Fined, Warned Over UK Failings

Lottoland has been fined £760,000 by the UK Gambling Commission, handed a formal warning and faces new licence conditions for failures in social responsibility and money laundering.
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Gambling

Nevada Operator Accepted Hundreds Of Improper Sports Bets, Regulator Says

Nevada gaming regulators have filed a complaint accusing Las Vegas-based Station Casinos of accepting hundreds of wagers on sports after the game’s outcome had been determined.
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Gambling

Tipico Fined In The Netherlands For Operating Without A Licence

The Netherlands Gambling Authority has fined Tipico, the Germany-focused sports betting operator, for operating in the Netherlands without a gambling licence.
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Gambling

No Future For The Risky VIP Business Model, Say Industry Leaders

Gambling industry CEOs want their businesses to be seen as entertainment providers, as they attempt to shift away from the regulatory scrutiny driven by VIP-based business models.
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Gambling

News In Brief: September 20-September 24, 2021

Sweden's regulator maintains its position on toughening advertising rules, Playtech ties up a Brazilian partnership and new gambling taxes are approved in the Philippines.
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Gambling

Coinbase Caves In...Surreptitiously

Coinbase has discontinued its Lend scheme, by which it planned to award users interest on the crypto-coins that they keep on its platform that they do not wish to trade at any particular moment. It has done so in a quiet update to a months-old blog post.
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Payments

APP Fraud Spirals Upwards In UK

Fraud losses have risen by 30 percent, with a new emphasis on authorised push payment (APP) fraud, according to trade association UK Finance.
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Payments

Treasury Ransomware Action Puts Companies On Alert

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has taken its first action ever against a crypto-company for laundering cyber-ransom money. Meanwhile, its Office of Foreign Assets Control has updated an advisory note that pertains to ransomware.
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Payments

U.S. Congress Urged To Regulate The What, Not The How, Of Open Banking

Members of the public have asked U.S. lawmakers not to over-regulate the sharing of financial data and leave it to the financial sector to develop technical standards for open banking.
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Payments

UK Gambling Commission Apologises After Damning Football Index Report

The UK Gambling Commission has apologised after an independent report slammed the regulator for not acting quickly enough to scrutinise soccer trading platform Football Index before its collapse.
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Gambling

UK Betting Industry Welcomes New Minister

The UK betting industry has reacted warmly to the appointment of Chris Philp as the new minister overseeing the gambling sector.
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Gambling

Dutch Crackdown Demolishes 'Passive' Strategy For Gambling Licence

A Dutch minister’s announcement that a passive presence in the Netherlands will no longer be allowed after licensing launches on October 1 has thrown the plans of international operators into turmoil.
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Gambling

Industry Protests Karnataka Online Gaming Ban

Technology sector heavyweights have urged the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Karnataka state to exempt skill gaming from this week's sweeping new ban on online gaming with stakes.
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Gambling

Maryland Sports Betting Could Launch By 'Late Fall' 2021

Maryland’s top gaming regulator said his agency hopes to have the state’s first legal sports bets placed before the end of the year.
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Gambling

Irish Bill Aims To Make Financial Managers More Accountable

The Irish version of the UK's Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SM&CR) is on the stocks, with finance minister Paschal Donohoe having approved the drafting of the Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill whose main purpose is to improve accountability in the financial sector.
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Payments

ISO 20022 Is More Than A Compliance Issue, It Is An Opportunity

International messaging standard ISO 20022 is more than just a compliance issue. Its adoption could open the door to new opportunities which can help to streamline compliance, experts say.
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DraftKings Pays $3m To Settle Connecticut Marketing Investigation

DraftKings has agreed to return more than $3m to players and pay a $50,000 penalty in a second high-profile settlement announced by Connecticut regulators in as many months.
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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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