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Europe Advances Plans For Real-Time Payments Connectivity With Asia

By linking its TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) system with India and Southeast Asia, the European Central Bank (ECB) is accelerating real-time payments globally and challenging European payment service providers (PSPs) to prepare for faster flows and competitive pressures.
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Prolonged Limbo On Open Banking Leaves US Financial Sector Navigating Uncertainty

A renewed push from Democratic senators highlights how the stalled Personal Financial Data Rights (PFDR) rule is forcing banks and fintechs to rethink strategy, as shifting political priorities threaten a stable data-access framework for the long term.
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US Open Banking Rule Highlights Industry Divisions Over Data And Fees

By defining who can access consumer data, whether fees are allowed and compliance timelines, the Personal Financial Data Rights final rule (PFDR Rule) underscores continuing legal and market tensions between banks and fintech innovators.
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EBA Slams Fintechs Over Lax Compliance In New AML Risk Assessment

In its latest risk assessment, the European Banking Authority (EBA) has warned that poor practices and a lack of experience at fintechs, including payments and crypto firms, are undermining efforts to tackle financial crime.
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Daily Dash: Utah Senator Wants To Take Trump's CBDC Ban One Step Further

Following a Trump executive order that prohibits the US government from issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC), a Utah senator wants the ban to go one step further.
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Regulatory Influencer: Papua New Guinea Edges Towards CBDC As US Runs In Opposite Direction

At the end of January 2025, Papua New Guinea became the latest Asian country to move towards implementing a central bank digital currency (CBDC), less than a week after new US President Donald Trump issued an executive order prohibiting the US government from issuing a CBDC.
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FiDA Lives To See Another Day As European Commission Backs Away

The Framework for Financial Data Access (FiDA), which should enable open finance in the EU, has not been withdrawn by the European Commission as earlier leaked documents suggested.
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PSR To Launch Consultation On APP Scam Reimbursement System In April

The UK’s Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has announced the next step in its fight against authorised push payment (APP) scams: a consultation on the regulatory requirements for a centralised reimbursement claims management system.
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Daily Dash: Russia's Central Bank Issues QR Code Payment Security Rules

The Central Bank of Russia has introduced a new set of guidelines to enhance the security of QR code-based payments and transfers.
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Singapore To Create New Entity To Manage Payments Ecosystem

The Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Association of Banks in Singapore have announced the creation of a new entity to oversee and govern the country’s national payment schemes.
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Trump's CBDC Ban A Victory For Private Sector, Not For Privacy

Recent moves in the US to ban central bank digital currencies represent a win for the private sector, but have significant implications for the US payments sector and beyond.
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Denmark's Changing Payment Habits Bring Dankort's Future Into Question

Recent shifts in consumer behaviour and market dynamics have challenged the dominance of Denmark’s domestic payment option, with consumers looking elsewhere and the government considering other options.
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Daily Dash: EBA Narrows ICT Risk Management Guidelines As DORA Takes Effect

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has amended its guidelines on ICT and security risk management measures to align with the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), which came into force on January 17.
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MPs Demand Answers From CMA9 Banks Following Barclays IT Outage

Barclays and its competitors are under scrutiny from UK lawmakers following a damaging outage at the financial institution that lasted for several days.
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European Commission Contemplating Dropping FiDA

The Framework for Financial Data Access (FiDA) regulation, intended to extend provisions in open banking to a wider financial services context, has been tipped to be withdrawn by the European Commission.
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Australia Consults On New BNPL Oversight

The Australian government has launched a public consultation on proposed amendments to the National Consumer Credit Protection Regulations.
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Canada's RTR, Which Should Have Launched In 2019, Is Now 'Halfway There'

Canada is moving closer to launching an instant payments system, but its Real-Time Rail (RTR) remains at least seven years behind schedule, thanks to repeated delays and changes in delivery partners.
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President Trump Urged To Reopen CFPB To Fight Debanking Epidemic

Senate Democrats have called on President Trump to reopen the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) immediately if his administration is to have any hope of resolving the debanking epidemic that it claims to oppose.
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EU Lawmaker Raises Concerns Over Rising Card Fees

The European Commission has been urged to address the issue of commercial cards, used increasingly by small businesses and the self-employed, attracting significantly higher charges than consumer cards.
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Daily Dash: Singapore Government Says No Reports Of Non-Compliance With BNPL Code of Conduct

There have been no reported breaches of Singapore's Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) Code of Conduct since its introduction in 2022, according to the government’s minister for trade and industry.
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Week In Crypto: New US Stablecoin Bill Signals Lack Of Unity On Legislative Agenda

Four US senators have introduced a new bill to regulate payment stablecoins, in a move that borrows mostly from an existing bill and clashes with legislative plans outlined in a Trump executive order on crypto and AI.
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With Japan's Help, Papua New Guinea Moves Closer To CBDC

Following Japanese investment and leadership in Cambodian and Laotian digital currency projects, Papua New Guinea has become the latest Asian country to move towards a Japan-built central bank digital currency (CBDC).
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EBA Delays Instant Payments Reporting Enforcement Until 2026

The EU’s financial watchdog has decided to press pause on an imminent payments compliance deadline, stating that it will not become actionable until next year.
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Card Payments On The Rise In The Eurozone, Latest ECB Stats Show

The European Central Bank’s (ECB) latest data on payments being made by consumers in the EU reveals growth in all areas, with card payments accounting for more than half of non-cash payments.
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US CBDC Ban and Stablecoin Compromise Point to Potential Digital Asset Framework

Following a Senate vote to prohibit the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC), an agreement on stablecoin yields has established a boundary between passive interest and activity-based rewards.
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Singapore and US Frameworks Aim to Guide the Rapid Integration of AI

The initiatives contrast in approach and intent, but together signal a transition from abstract artificial intelligence (AI) theory towards concrete regulatory implementation and sector-specific oversight.
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Regulatory Influencer: DORA Year Two - Moving from Implementation to Application

Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 on digital operational resilience for the financial sector (DORA) became applicable across EU member states on January 17, 2025. As we enter the second year of application, how has the regulation transformed the operational resilience of the financial sector in Europe?
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UK Court of Appeal Decision Means Continued Uncertainty on Interchange Fees

Permitting Visa and Mastercard to challenge the Competition Appeal Tribunal’s (CAT) previous ruling returns the UK payments sector to legal volatility, leaving the cost of card acceptance an unsettled question as regulators promote alternatives.
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New US Cyber Strategy Offers Ambition But Few Details

The Trump administration’s vision for cybersecurity signals its priorities, which include working closely with the private sector to identify fraud networks and suspicious financial flows, but stakeholders must wait to learn of any new obligations.
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Decoding the UK Regulatory Grid: Banking, Credit and Lending Analysis

The ninth edition of the UK’s Regulatory Initiatives Grid, published in December 2025, sets out the country’s financial services regulatory agenda for the next two years. In this piece, Vixio examines what the regulators have outlined in the banking, credit and lending section of the latest grid, explains the likely impact of developments on financial institutions and suggests what the regulators’ stated priorities tell us about the direction of travel in the UK.
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Deepening of Poland’s Crypto Regulation Deadlock an Existential Threat to Local Industry

The country still lacks a regulatory framework for digital assets, creating a significant challenge for Polish crypto firms, which may be forced to suspend operations or rapidly migrate to other EU jurisdictions to maintain market access.
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Regulating by Result: Converging Global Standards for Subscription Transparency and Consumer Protection

Subscription-based business models have become a defining feature of digital commerce, prompting increased regulatory scrutiny of recurring payment practices. As recurring billing has expanded across sectors, including media, fintechs, and retail memberships, regulators are increasingly focused on consumer protection issues such as transparency of pricing and renewal terms, informed consumer consent, ease of cancellation, and prevention of so-called “subscription traps”.
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UK’s New Fraud Strategy Represents Renewed Push to Combat its Fastest-Growing Crime

The plan aims to modernise the country’s response to the evolving threat via a more coordinated and technologically enabled prevention model based on improved analytical capabilities, stronger governance and deeper collaboration with industry.
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FCA Stablecoin Sprint Highlights the Need for 'Money-Like' Regulatory Treatment

Participants identified several foundational questions for the UK cryptoasset framework, including areas of regulatory treatment and infrastructure design that must be addressed for stablecoins to operate at scale as payment instruments.
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