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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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New Swedish Government Could Soften Rules On Advertising, Bonuses

Sweden's government is set to change after a closely fought election, heralding a new approach to the gambling industry, experts predict.
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Gambling

Will Tough UK Gambling Restrictions Spread Elsewhere?

UK gambling lawyers and executives fear proposed player affordability measures and wonder whether such restrictive measures are a “sign of things to come” for the rest of the world’s gambling industry.
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Gambling

Temporary Licenses Cloud Massachusetts Sports-Betting Rollout

As the Massachusetts Gaming Commission continues the process of creating regulations to oversee legal retail and mobile sports betting, regulators will gather twice more this week to consider how to certify independent testing labs and hear from interested operators.
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Gambling

Anonymity Of Gamblers Disappears As U.S. Gaming Industry Enters Digital Era

The days when people could gamble without anyone else knowing are rapidly fading as the online industry expands and produces data crucial for tracking and preventing gambling addiction.
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Gambling

Week In Crypto: LUNA Co-Founder Issued Arrest Warrant And Guilty Plea In Coinbase Insider Trading Case

South Korea issues arrest warrants for the developers of the LUNA token, a guilty plea is entered in crypto’s first insider trading case and Celsius opens up about its "hero’s journey" to redemption.
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Payments

VIXIO Impact Index: August Offers Firms Regulatory Breathing Space

Seasonally low volume of global regulatory events provide compliance teams with some welcome respite, but change is on the way as new Prime Ministers in the UK and Australia look to shake up the payments space, particularly in the non-bank lending sector.
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Payments

Common API Standard Divides Industry And Regulatory Representatives

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has proposed that the next Payment Services Directive introduce a common API standard. However, TrueLayer’s public policy chief, speaking during a VIXIO webinar, says there are other options to improve current market problems.
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Payments

Daily Dash: EU Extends Russian Sanctions And Proposes New Cybersecurity Safeguards

The European Council announces that Russia sanctions will continue, while the European Commission proposes a new cybersecurity trustmark for software and connected products in its fight against ransomware. Elsewhere, Uruguayan policymakers propose a bill to regulate crypto.
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Payments

California Poll Points To Long Odds On Mobile Sports Betting

A new poll is showing long odds for California to legalize online sports betting this November, despite proponents led by FanDuel and DraftKings raising their stakes and now committing nearly $170m to their referendum campaign.
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Gambling

New Jersey Looks At Extending Online Gaming Market To 2033

An Assembly committee has unanimously agreed that internet gaming in New Jersey should be allowed to continue for another decade, as playing slot machines or table games online has become an integral part of the gaming experience in the Garden State.
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Gambling

Indian Government Draft Report Backs Online Gaming Regulation

A cross-ministry committee exploring the regulation of India’s online gaming industry has produced a draft report recommending national online gaming legislation and a national regulator, as well as a mechanism to block unregistered platforms.
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Gambling

Spain Approves Addiction, Fraud Safeguarding Bill

The Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill to modify the gambling regulation law in Spain by improving protections against fraud and safeguards for vulnerable gamblers, and it will now move on to the Senate for debate.
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Gambling

Kindred Threatened With Huge Fine In Norway

The Norwegian Gambling Authority is threatening to fine Kindred NOK437m (€43m) if it does not cease offering online gambling in the country within the next three weeks.
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Gambling

News In Brief: September 12-September 16, 2022

Wynn Resorts, Related Companies partner to target downstate New York casino licenses, Missouri lawmaker pushing for a special session to cover sports-betting bill and Tasmania becomes first Australian state to introduce mandatory slot loss limits in 2024.
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Gambling

Hong Kong Tests Use Of Faster Payments System In CBDC Applications

Residents of Hong Kong may soon be able to top up their e-CNY wallets and make cross-border e-CNY payments using the country’s Faster Payments System.
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Payments

Peru To Create A Pix-Like Payment Service By 2023

Following the modernisation of its payment system earlier this year, Peru’s private clearing house has now revealed plans to launch a payment solution similar to Brazil’s popular Pix.
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Payments

Time To Come Together? Why Merging EMD/PSD Makes Sense

A senior official at the European Banking Authority (EBA) has explained why the regulator backs bringing E-money and Payment Services Directives (EMD/PSD) together in Europe, as panellists at a VIXIO webinar discuss what a future PSD3 could look like.
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Payments

BNPL Code On Track To Launch This Year, Confirms Singapore Regulator

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) products' success in the region has prompted the Monetary Authority of Singapore to act faster than originally anticipated, with consumers using the payment method to be under stricter rules.
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Payments

Australian Lawmakers To Probe Online Gambling Damage

A lower house committee in the Australian parliament will probe social damage from online gambling, potentially paving the way for new of controls on the industry.
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Gambling

U.S. Tops Global Market Size Rankings As Shake-Up Continues

Four U.S. states figured among the top ten regulated online gambling markets in the world during the first half of 2022, with the U.S. as a whole soaring past the UK to become the largest market in the world at country level.
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UK Government Seeks to Create Safe Space for Advancing Payments Technologies

The announcement of a package of measures intended to boost the UK’s competitive edge and modernise its payments services regulation offers limited novelty, but represents further evolution of the country’s regulatory environment.
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Vixio’s Verdict: Inside the UK FCA’s Open Finance Strategy

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) Open Finance Roadmap, published in April 2026, demonstrates the regulator’s commitment to open finance as part of its broader smart data strategy and signals early intent to engage with industry as it develops the relevant regulatory framework.
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CASS 15 Resolution Pack Checklist for FCA-Regulated Payment Institutions and E-Money Institutions

To help firms build and maintain a complete, accurate and readily accessible resolution pack, Vixio has created this guide, which breaks down the CASS 15 requirements into actionable workstreams that organisations can use to ensure their documentation is complete.
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Vixio View: The UK’s Crypto Perimeter Clarification – Mapping the Transition to FSMA

In Consultation Paper CP26/13, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) adds an extra level of granularity to its plans for the cryptoasset regulatory regime, aiming to avoid edge cases and provide clarity for affected entities.
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Regulatory Influencer: Are the Americas Entering a New Phase of Risk-Based Supervision? Argentina Leads the Way

Between January and March 2026, the Argentine National Securities Commission (CNV) introduced a series of targeted reforms aimed at simplifying reporting obligations, modernising administrative procedures, and reducing regulatory burdens for investment firms.
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Experimental Legal Regime Formalises Russian Crypto Trade Settlements

New legislation may help to take decentralised finance from a workaround for sanctions to a supervised payment rail, moving cross-border payments from a legal grey area, increasing stability and reducing costs.
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Latest Proposed Rules for Bank-Issued Stablecoins in the US Introduce Fresh Challenges

The new framework signals a high-barrier, high-discretion regime that could narrow the market to a handful of systemic players that can respond to shifting regulatory demands, leaving smaller banks on the sidelines.
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Kenya’s Crypto Framework Risks Squeezing Out Local Innovation

The end of a key consultation period means the modernisation of crypto and digital assets regulation continues to advance, but strict rules could inadvertently disadvantage local start-ups and lead to capital flight and consolidation.
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Twin Announcements Signal Major Overhaul of US AML/CTF Regulation

The new proposed rulemakings aim to force a shift from static policy design to real-time operational maintenance, requiring firms to prove that their compliance frameworks actually stop illicit activity rather than just documenting it.
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Regulatory Influencer: New Zealand’s AML Levy - Privatising the Cost of Effective Supervision, A One-Off or More to Come?

The New Zealand Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has released the AML levy proposal outlining its plans to impose a charge on anti-money laundering (AML) reporting entities to fund the establishment and running of a standalone AML regulator for the country. While the AML Amendment Bill and the AML Supervisor and Levy Bill, which form the legal basis for this proposal, have yet to be passed in parliament, the levy’s stated implementation date of July 2027 could mean a costly recurring bill for AML reporting entities from next year.
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