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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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New City Minister Acknowledges 'Very Negative' Response To Digital Pound

The UK’s new City minister and Treasury secretary has told Vixio he recognises the strength of public opposition to a digital pound, but does not think that should derail the project.
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Payments

Daily Dash: Almost Nine Out Of Ten Canadians Oppose CBDC

Canadians have voiced strong opposition to a digital Canadian dollar, Westpac has enabled merchant choice routing for online transactions, and Circle has launched a new stablecoin partnership with the world’s largest neobank.
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Payments

NSW To Block Gambling Minors From Casinos After Turning 18

The New South Wales (NSW) state government has launched an unprecedented crackdown on minors who gamble in licensed premises, warning that entry bans for offenders of a year or more will be timed from their 18th birthday.
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Gambling

Georgia State Legislators Begin New Gaming Expansion Efforts

Georgia state legislators have said they will take another shot at putting a significant gaming expansion on the ballot for voters to consider in 2024, potentially including both sports betting and land-based casinos.
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Gambling

Model Money Transmission Modernization Act – The Harmonization of US Money Transmission Regulation

The Model Money Transmission Modernization Act is a model act introducing a multistate supervisory system and harmonizes money transmitter licensing requirements and prudential standards across the United States. This model has made significant strides through state legislatures during the 2023 legislative sessions, and is expected to gain even more traction in 2024. This analysis will look at what the model law is, five of its key provisions, and the current status of its state-level adoption.
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Payments

Daily Dash: Amazon Drops Venmo

Amazon has cut short its partnership with Venmo, while the UK financial watchdog has begun consulting on new access to cash rules.
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Payments

Swedish Trade Group Writes To Government Over Tax Hike

Sweden’s largest gambling trade group has made official its opposition to a planned tax increase, labelling it contradictory, as it publishes documents submitted to the government.
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Gambling

NagaCorp Founder Chen Lip Keong Dies, Son Succeeds As CEO

Malaysian billionaire Chen Lip Keong, founder and “senior CEO” of Phnom Penh casino monopoly holder NagaCorp, has died at the age of 75, with his top CEO post passing to son Chen Yiy Fon.
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Gambling

Nevada Gaming Companies Remain Attractive Private-Equity Investments

The acquisition of Nevada’s largest slot-route operator should be finalized by the end of the year, as regulators continue to welcome private-equity investments in the state’s gaming industry. as J&J Ventures Gaming is set to create a business of considerable size with its acquisition of Golden Entertainment’s distributed gaming routes.
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Gambling

Hard Rock Launches Florida Sports Betting Amid Active Court Challenges

After several weeks of limited access for Florida gamblers, the Seminole Tribe's Hard Rock International fully launched its mobile sports-betting app on Thursday, even as a pair of court challenges remain active in the state's Supreme Court and potentially in the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Gambling

News In Brief: December 4-December 8, 2023

Massive interest in Brazil licences, UK study recommends gambling treatment, a new chairman is elected at the American Gaming Association and Australia's Star Entertainment is warned it may be shut down over compliance travails.
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Gambling

Malta Flags Concerns With Ireland's Gambling Bill

Malta has submitted two separate notifications to the European Commission flagging what it considers to be a host of regulatory barriers that may be a “cause for concern” in Ireland’s Gambling Regulation Bill 2022.
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Gambling

Week In Crypto: New Binance CEO Unable To Locate Global HQ

A debut interview from Binance’s new CEO leaves more questions than answers, Coinbase continues to flatter UK regulators, and Colombia’s new President courts Bitcoin lobbyists.
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Payments

Daily Dash: US Regulator Sounds Alarm Over BNPL

A US regulator has provided new guidance for payment service providers (PSPs) who offer buy now, pay later (BNPL) loans, while the Singaporean watchdog has published a new consultation on its new information sharing platform.
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Payments

Brazil Postpones Senate Vote Again, Amid iGaming Opposition

Brazil’s Senate has again postponed voting on the sports betting and online gaming bill, raising questions if the bill will be signed by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva before the holiday recess that begins on December 22. 
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Gambling

UK Prosecutors Order Entain To Leave Latin American Markets

The Crown Prosecution Service has ordered Entain to leave Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Peru within a year or lose the protections of its £600m deferred UK prosecution agreement, but the gambling giant retains some wiggle room.
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Gambling

MEPs Propose Fraud Liability Amendments For PSR

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have made amendments to the Payment Services Regulation (PSR), which focus strongly on fraud liability.
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Payments

Daily Dash: Elon Musk Welcomes New Money Transmitter Licences At X

X has announced that it now holds payment licences in ten US states, transfer service RationalFX has entered special administration, and two Australian regulators have agreed to closer ties on enforcement and information sharing.
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Payments

Australia Bans Credit, Digital Currencies For Most Online Gambling

The Australian parliament has passed a bill that will ban the use of credit cards and digital currencies for gambling, while an exemption for lotteries has raised hackles among activists and at the corporate bookmaker lobby.
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Gambling

New York Commission Adopts Revised Lottery Courier Rules

New York regulators adopted new rules this week that may hamper lottery couriers in allowing players to automatically make deposits.
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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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