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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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The Other Side Of The Crypto Coin: There Are Controls To Mitigate Risks

People are ceasing to perceive crypto-assets as risky and are taking a more balanced approach to them by looking at risks and controls together. As many banks are still struggling to understand the full spectrum of crypto-asset products, UK Finance has released a white paper to encourage the forging of trusted relationships between traditional financial institutions and the rapidly-growing new industry.
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Payments

Boris Johnson Switches Gambling Act Review Boss

The politician leading the review of the UK Gambling Act has been replaced, after falling victim to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Cabinet reshuffle.
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Gambling

Legalize Or Not: U.S. States Grapple With Grey-Market Games

The one issue a panel of gaming attorneys and industry analysts agreed upon on Thursday during a discussion on distributed gaming was the urgent need for state lawmakers to do more to address the issue of unregulated gaming machines.
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Gambling

Court Order Sought To Block November Launch of Mobile Betting In Florida

Opponents of a Florida Indian gaming compact are asking a federal court in Washington, D.C. to block the Seminole Tribe from commencing mobile sports betting as soon as November 15.
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Gambling

News In Brief: September 13-September 17, 2021

A William Hill unit is under orders from the Swedish regulator, Michigan and New Jersey continue to profit and MGM expected to be confirmed as Osaka IR choice.
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Gambling

APP Fraud - Where Are We Now?

The consumer group Which? is calling on the UK's Payment Systems Regulator to make banks do more to protect the victims of authorised push payment (APP) fraud and provide them with fair reimbursement.
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Payments

PEPwatch: Cape Verde To Send Alex Saab To Miami

The Constitutional Court of Cape Verde has entered a ruling that clears the extradition of accused Colombian money launderer Alex Nain Saab Moran to the United States, where he faces federal charges that could send him to prison for the rest of his life. Saab, a close associate of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, stands accused of money laundering on a global scale.
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Payments

U.S. To Fill Crypto Regulatory Gaps

While U.S. Senators remain divided about whether to regulate crypto markets, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has teamed up with fellow financial regulators to spot regulatory gaps and find the best ways to fill them, the SEC chair told Congress.
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Payments

Former Belgian Regulator Sentenced Over Email Theft

Peter Naessens, the former director of the Belgian Gaming Commission, has been handed a 12-month suspended sentence and fined €24,000.
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Gambling

Trade Group Claims Dutch Ad Code Tougher On Online Operators

The Netherlands Online Gambling Association is objecting to a proposed advertising code that it claims would be tougher on online operators than on lotteries and land-based casinos.
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Gambling

Tribal Casinos Rapidly Expanding Into Sports-Betting Market

After taking a cautious approach following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision three years ago to overturn the federal ban on sports wagering, Indian tribes are now rapidly expanding into the market and driving the debate over the future of sports betting in the U.S.
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Gambling

News In Brief - September 15, 2021

A new public consultation on the change requests for the 2023 Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Credit Transfer and Direct Debit scheme rulebooks has been announced, financial regulators in Singapore and India have set a deadline for a payments linkage to be implemented, while Malaysia's new banking regulations will enable non-bank payment service providers who provide remittance services to become customers of the central bank.
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Payments

Basel AML Index Reveals Global Shortcomings

The International Centre for Asset Recovery at the Basel Institute on Governance has just brought out its annual report, which does not make for comforting reading.
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Payments

New York BitLicenses - Are They Enough?

Any business that deals in virtual currencies in New York may need to register with more than one regulator, recent enforcement cases suggest.
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Payments

MGM Boss Backs Digital To Deliver, Despite BetMGM Regret

The CEO of MGM Resorts International has said the future of the casino giant is digital, even if the company does not buy BetMGM partner Entain and struggles to turn a profit on online sports betting in New York.
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Gambling

Poland's State-Owned Operator Calls For Regulatory Relaxation

A report commissioned by Poland’s national lottery operator has called on the government to relax regulations for a number of sectors, including a tax cut for the country’s many betting shop operators.
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Gambling

Proposed Amendments To Macau Casino Law Hammer Share Prices

Macau casino stocks have plunged in the US and Hong Kong over proposed changes to legislation that include insertion of public servants into casino operations, tough financial monitoring, local shareholding thresholds and a reduction in concessions.
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Gambling

U.S. iGaming Markets Shake Up Old World Order

Three U.S. states figured among the top ten regulated online gambling markets in the world during the first half of 2021, representing a likely precursor to deeper disruption of the European-centric established order by the U.S. and other emerging markets.
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Gambling

Fed Issues Paper To Help Community Banks Embrace Responsible Innovation

The U.S. Federal Reserve Board has published a paper with a view to helping community banks form compliant partnerships with fintech companies.
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Payments

Businesses Brace For New Chinese Data Law

China’s Congress passed the Personal Information Protection Law on August 20 and it will become effective as of November 1 this year. It copies the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in many ways. It will reach across borders and will therefore affect all payment companies that deal with China.
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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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