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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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Regulators Do Not Know How To Monitor Platformisation, Warns EBA

The platformisation of the financial services industry has become a problem for regulators to supervise, the EU’s banking watchdog has said, because they do not understand it.
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Payments

Gambling Harm Report Offers Policymakers Huge Evidence Base

A voluminous academic report written to inform the UK’s national gambling strategy has noted the effectiveness of the whistle-to-whistle ad ban, but warned that social media is replacing TV as the most dangerous arena for underage gambling ads.
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Gambling

Brazil Gambling Expansion Back On The Agenda

A new special commission formed in Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies is the latest sign of momentum returning for long-stalled legislation to regulate casinos, bingo halls and online gambling in one of the world’s largest untapped markets.
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Gambling

DraftKings Targets Entain Takeover With $22.4bn Offer

Entain confirmed on Tuesday that DraftKings had approached the company with a $22.4bn proposal to acquire the group, but U.S. partner MGM Resorts quickly warned both companies that any deal requires its approval first.
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Gambling

Flutter Reaches $300m Settlement With Kentucky

Flutter Entertainment, parent of FanDuel and Sky Bet, said it has reached a $300m settlement with the state of Kentucky, ending an effort by the company to have the U.S. Supreme Court overturn a court order to pay $1.3bn over alleged losses incurred by Kentuckian PokerStars players before 2011.
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Gambling

UK Gives Red Light To Misleading Green Claims

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority is warning "greenwashers" that they have until the end of the year to clean up their misleading environmental marketing. It has issued guidelines to help them obey the law.
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Payments

The FCA’s ’More Robust’ Gateway

Following on from the publication of its Business Plan for 2021/22, the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has said that it will “ensure firms start with high standards and maintain them”. This involves “a more robust gateway”, which makes it tougher for firms to become authorised than previously, with more intensive assessments and a closer scrutiny of financials and business models.
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Payments

News In Brief - September 21, 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that imposes sanctions against Ethiopia.
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Payments

Diversity And Inclusion To Rise Up Priority List For Compliance Officers

Recent consultative exercises that the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority and the European Central Bank have undertaken show that diversity and inclusion are becoming more of an issue for compliance officers at financial firms in Europe.
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Payments

European Lotteries Says Ethical Brands Are The Future

The European State Lotteries and Toto Association’s members are helping one another achieve the group’s new Responsible Gaming Certification, which includes passing an independent audit of labour practices and climate change impact.
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Gambling

Unlicensed Operators Must Block Dutch Players From October, Says Minister

Operators that passively target the Dutch market without a licence after October 1 face enforcement action and possible licensing jeopardy, following new instructions from the country’s gambling minister.
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Gambling

U.S. M&A Activity Set To Continue As Sportsbooks Seek Tech, Online Casino Assets

The splurge of merger and acquisition activity in the U.S. sports betting and online gaming market is likely to continue into 2022, according to the chief executive of Bragg Gaming and former CEO of SBTech.
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Gambling

AML Control – An Expert Speaks

In this article we speak to Rachel Woolley, the director of financial crime at know your customer (KYC) technology firm Fenergo, about a wide range of topics on the subject of money laundering control.
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Payments

Prepare For CBDCs To Shake Up Financial System, Says German Banking Supervisor

Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) could change the banking industry radically, but this does not entitle them to special treatment, according to the president of Germany’s central bank.
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Payments

Fight Over U.S. Financial Account Flow Reporting Proposal Heats Up

Tensions surrounding a new proposal, aimed at closing the tax gap by creating a massive reporting obligation for financial account flows, are intensifying. The U.S. Treasury Secretary wants President Biden to include the proposal in his spending bill, but a group of Republican senators have introduced a bill to stop that from happening.
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Payments

News In Brief - September 20, 2021

Beset by regulatory troubles, Coinbase has applied to the U.S. National Futures Association to register as a Futures Commission Merchant.
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Payments

Lawmakers Give Gambling Operators Chance To Complain About UK Regulator

Gambling operators will be offered the chance to anonymously complain about the UK Gambling Commission after claims they are “scared” of lodging formal complaints because of the fear of “retribution”.
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Gambling

Online Gaming, iLottery On Different Legislative Track To U.S. Sports Betting

As sports-betting bills continue to sail through state legislatures, legal experts and industry executives remain perplexed as to why measures legalizing online casino and internet lottery games face more skepticism from lawmakers despite the significant tax revenues on offer.
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Gambling

Hong Kong Jockey Club Strips Membership From Jailed Democrats

The Hong Kong Jockey Club has revoked the memberships of three veteran pro-democracy figureheads convicted for political activity, including former Apple Daily media mogul Jimmy Lai and barrister, democracy activist and ex-legislator Martin Lee.
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Gambling

News In Brief - September 17, 2021

The Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub to test central bank digital currencies for international settlements, while the Electronic Transactions Association sets out five guiding principles for crypto. In the U.S., the Federal Trade Commission has opened the rulemaking petition process to the public, and in Estonia the finance minister warns that new crypto-licences could be suspended.
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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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