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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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HSBC Reveals Top Three Scams So Far This Year

As the UK grapples with its ongoing fraud problem, one of the country’s largest financial institutions has announced the three most common scams it observed between November and April.
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Payments

Indonesia: Wholesale CBDC Design To Be Ready By Year-End

Indonesia’s central bank governor has said he aims to reveal the design of the country’s wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) by the end of 2022, putting banks on notice for a major technical upheaval.
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Payments

Is Sports-Betting Defeat Better Than Victory For California Tribes?

With less than 15 weeks to go before the November 8 election, California gaming tribes seem more focused on beating a sports-betting referendum proposed by DraftKings, FanDuel and BetMGM than passing their own ballot initiative.
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Gambling

New Research Casts Doubt On 'Stable' UK Problem Gambling Figures

The latest Gambling Commission data has set the UK problem gambling rate at a stable 0.2 percent, but a new academic study backs claims the true rate is more than ten times higher.
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Gambling

Cambodian Unions Warn Of National Strike Over NagaWorld

A festering dispute between Phnom Penh integrated resort NagaWorld and hundreds of sacked workers is poised to devolve into a nationwide strike in Cambodia’s crucial textile and food industries.
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Gambling

Massachusetts Casinos Lobby For Legal Sports Betting

Executives from three Massachusetts casinos have sent a letter to a small group of state lawmakers imploring them to resolve their differences and pass a sports-betting bill before the legislative session ends on Sunday.
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Gambling

Six UK Banks Breach CMA Rules Over Inaccurate Promotions

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has found that six large banks breached its retail banking market investigation order.
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Payments

Ireland’s Largest Bank Scraps Plans To Go Cashless Following Public Outcry

AIB has U-turned on plans to go cashless at almost half its branches, citing “public unease” over its push towards digital-only banking.
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Payments

IBAN Discrimination BAU For EU, Say Campaigners

IBAN discrimination continues to wreak havoc for some EU consumers, yet interventions in France and Ireland show that regulators are beginning to act to bring an end to the almost decade-long problem.
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Payments

EU Bans Russian Gold And Restricts Deposit-Taking

In its seventh sanctions package, the European Union has prohibited the purchase of Russian gold and strengthened restrictions around deposit-taking from Russian-owned businesses.
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Payments

Operator Pulls Plug On Chilean Football Betting As Regulatory Pressures Mount

Chile-facing online gambling operator Latamwin has decided to remove the Chilean football league from its sports-betting offering in the country, in the latest sign of pressure on offshore sites ahead of a regulated market being established.
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Gambling

Spanish State-Owned Gambling Under Fire

​​​​​​​A Spanish gambling trade association has taken aim at state-run and charity lotteries, claiming they need to improve their responsible gambling efforts and better protect minors.
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Gambling

Canadian Gaming CEO Says Other Provinces Year Or Two Away From Ontario Online Model

Interested observers continue to wait for the first report card on the performance of Ontario’s online gaming program, and insiders say those observers include policymakers in other provinces.
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Gambling

Beyond Sweeping: VRP Expected To Revolutionise Open Banking

Variable recurring payments (VRP) is coming to the market in the next couple of months in the form of sweeping, but this is only the beginning, say experts who argue it will shake up the status quo.
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Payments

UK Regulators Set Out Critical Third-Party Approach

The Bank of England, Prudential Regulation Authority and Financial Conduct Authority have indicated what measures they will take to oversee and strengthen the resilience of services provided by critical third parties to the UK financial sector.
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Payments

EU Authorities Throw Out De-Risking Case Against EBA

The European supervisory authorities' board of appeal has dismissed a case against the European Banking Authority (EBA) for an alleged non-application of EU law regarding payment services.
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Payments

Devil In the Details' Of Hungary’s Online Reforms

​​​​​​​As Hungary progresses with plans to open up its online betting market, it is still unclear how favourable authorities will be to foreign gambling operators, according to a local legal expert.
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Gambling

As Gambling Grows, Washington State Tackles Issues Of Addiction

Washington gaming regulators and researchers have been studying whether there are enough resources to address gambling addiction and determine if those services need to be increased due to the prevalence of tribal casinos, cardrooms and other forms of gambling in the state, including sports betting.
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Gambling

Goa Joins List Of States Hostile To Online Skill Games

The leader of the Indian state of Goa has apparently promised to ban or curtail online rummy, poker and other online skill games, bringing the state in line with recent local government defiance of court rulings in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
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Gambling

Brazilian Bill Would Make Payment Intermediaries Illegal On Gambling Sites

A Brazilian lawmaker has presented a bill in the Chamber of Deputies that would outlaw payment intermediaries from functioning on sites that host illegal gambling and child pornography.
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Regulatory Influencer: The GENIUS Act - From Statute to Supervision

With the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act enacted into law last year, federal regulators are now required to implement its final rules by July 2026. Ultimately, these rules will create a legal framework for stablecoins, a unique form of cryptocurrency designed to maintain a steady value through pegs to a reserve asset.
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New Cross-Border Strategy Moves FedNow From Closed Loop to Open Rail

The notice of proposed rulemaking on plans to open the instant payments service to private-sector intermediaries is a step towards permitting its use in cross-border transactions, bringing the US into line with a global trend.
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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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