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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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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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EBA Recommends Enforcement Pause To Avoid PSD2-MiCA Compliance Duplication

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has issued a No Action letter aiming to reduce the risk of crypto-asset firms needing to obtain two separate licences for certain payment activities under overlapping European rules.
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Enforcement Overhaul At FCA Welcome News For Regulated Firms

The UK Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) attempt to increase the transparency of its enforcement investigations could also speed up investigations, which experts say would be good news for the financial services sector.
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US CFPB Open Banking Rule A Good First Step, But Needs More Work

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) open banking proposal cemented the first regulatory step in the US — but experts believe there is still a long way to go.
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Payments

Malta Regulator Selects Incoming CEO To 'Steer The Authority Forward'

The Malta Gaming Authority has announced that Charles Mizzi will replace Carl Brincat as its CEO on January 26, 2024.
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Gambling

Polish Football Federation Bans All Players, Officials From Betting On Matches

The Polish Football Federation has released its new disciplinary regulations which forbid federation and club officials, players, managers, referees, and even employees such as medical staff members, from betting on any football matches.
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Gambling

Mississippi Online Betting Report Highlights Potential Casino Protections

With mobile sports-betting legislation set to be reconsidered in Mississippi during 2024, key findings from a legislative committee report studying the issue center on protecting the state’s smaller casinos.
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Gambling

Daily Dash: New Hampshire Becomes Latest US State To Legislate Against CBDC

New Hampshire legislators have moved to block CBDC, a Russian director of a UK payments firm has resigned following a restriction order, and Yemen has adopted IrisGuard biometric payments.
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Payments

US Senators: Time For Venmo, Cash App To Reimburse Scam Losses

A trio of Democratic senators has called on Venmo and Cash App to start reimbursing customers for losses to scams and offer new tools for easier reporting of fraud.
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Payments

First Wero Transaction Marks EPI Success

The much anticipated European Payments Initiative (EPI) has successfully executed its first instant payment transactions in Europe.
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Payments

Virginia Attorney General Says Pick'Em Games Are Not Fantasy Contests

Virginia’s attorney general issued an official opinion on Friday that pick’em-style games offered by several prominent fantasy contest operators are in fact a form of sports betting, rather than fantasy sports per state law.
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Gambling

New Cybersecurity Rules In Force For U.S. Public Companies

New cybersecurity disclosure requirements mandated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are now in effect, requiring public companies including gaming operators and suppliers to disclose cybersecurity incidents, with some exceptions, within four days.
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Gambling

Argentina's Santa Fe Senate Passes Online Gambling Bill

The Senate of the Argentine province of Santa Fe has passed an online gambling bill with little fanfare and no changes from the legislation as initially approved by the Chamber of Deputies. 
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Gambling

UK Gambling Commission Outlines Updated Enforcement Approach

Licensees should expect to be fined 10-15 percent of their UK revenue for the most serious breaches of gambling regulations under proposed changes to enforcement principles that were released for consultation by the UK Gambling Commission on Friday.
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Gambling

Australian Regulator Names Operators That Breached User-Generated Code Rules

Australia’s online gambling regulator has found that Entain subsidiaries Ladbrokes and Neds, Flutter subsidiary Sportsbet, and bet365 breached the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 by offering “fast/quick code” facilitators for online in-play betting.
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Gambling

Week In Crypto: ‘Opaque’ Tether Flunks New Stablecoin Test From S&P Global

Tether performs poorly in a new stablecoin ranking system, a US senator builds support for a crypto money laundering bill, and the US Securities and Exchange Commission looks to parlay Binance’s guilty pleas into its own lawsuit.
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Payments

Daily Dash: Apple Looks To Dodge EU Antitrust Fine By Opening Up NFC Chip To Rivals

Apple has moved towards opening up its mobile payments platform to rival developers, Fnality’s blockchain-based sterling payment system goes live, and the ECB has invited banks to take part in wholesale CBDC tests.
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Payments

EU Reaches Deal On New AML Authority And Sanctions Enforcement

The European Parliament and Council teams have reached an agreement on a European Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA), and are unified on a political agreement to criminalise the violation of EU sanctions.
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Payments

UK Committee Urges Suspension For Lawmaker In Lobbying Sting

A British parliamentary standards committee has recommended that a member of parliament (MP), Scott Benton, be suspended for giving the impression he was “corrupt and 'for sale'” to a fictitious gambling company.
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Gambling

Brazil iGaming In The Balance Ahead Of Chamber of Deputies Vote

Gambling industry experts have expressed disappointment and surprise that virtual casino games were struck from the version of an online betting bill approved by Brazil’s Senate on Tuesday.
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Gambling

News In Brief: December 11-December 15, 2023

The British government sanctions nine individuals and five companies implicated in slave labour at Southeast Asian casinos and scam centres.
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Gambling

Delaware Lawmakers Set To Debate Mobile Sports Betting In 2024

As lawmakers return to Delaware’s capital in Dover early next month, among the issues on their agenda will be how to move forward with the final recommendations issued by the Internet Sports Lottery Legislative Working Group on the future of online sports betting.
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Gambling

DraftKings To Face Massachusetts Hearing For Taking Credit Card Wagers

DraftKings will face a hearing in Massachusetts after the company admitted to accepting over $83,000 in credit card wagers in violation of the state law.
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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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