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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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Leave Crypto Unregulated At Your Peril, Execs Warns Rulemakers

Gambling regulators and financial services are leaving a path open to the black market by preventing licensed operators from offering cryptocurrency gambling, executives have warned.
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Gambling

South African Remote Gambling Bill 'Revived'

South Africa’s Democratic Alliance Party is reviving its draft bill to regulate online gambling and has invited comments on its proposal.
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Gambling

Daily Dash: Big Tech, APAC Central Banks Take Part In Cloud Disruption Simulation

Google, Microsoft and Amazon have taken part in a tabletop simulation of a "severe" outage of public cloud services, affecting the financial sectors of APAC economies.
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Payments

Still No Reason To Issue CBDC, Says Fed Governor Waller

A key payments official at the Federal Reserve has dismissed the idea of a US central bank digital currency (CBDC), arguing that CBDC remains a solution in search of a problem.
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Payments

Lithuania Introduces SEPA Request To Pay For Tax Collection

The Bank of Lithuania is rolling out an innovative SEPA Request to Pay service intended to simplify tax and contribution payments by enabling direct payment requests without the need for intermediaries.
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Payments

Regulatory Influencer: Malaysia's New Risk Management Framework

Malaysia's central bank has launched a public consultation on its plans for risk management in the financial sector, including for payments and e-money firms. Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) is seeking feedback on a new set of guidelines that aim to enhance cyber resilience and technology risk management within the nation’s financial sector.
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Payments

UK Government Focuses On Open Banking In National Payments Vision

Clarity on the future of open banking will be key to making the most of the "significant opportunity" for account-to-account payments in the UK, according to the government’s new strategy.
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Payments

Argentina Commission Proposes Blanket Ban On Online Gambling Advertising

Five legislative committees in Argentina have forwarded a proposal to ban virtually all advertising for online gambling. 
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Gambling

Missouri Regulator Eyes Summer 2025 Sports-Betting Launch

Missouri’s top gaming regulator is optimistic the state’s sports-betting market will launch in time for the 2025 NFL season.
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Gambling

Curaçao's New Gambling Bill Nears Final Vote

Curaçao’s gambling regulator is hopeful that the long-awaited National Ordinance on Gambling (LOK) will be passed before the end of the year, as it is now just one step away from being presented to parliament for a final time.
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Gambling

News In Brief: November 11-November 15, 2024

An Ohio senator wants to lower the state's tax rate, Tilman Fertitta reveals Wynn stake, a bill banning college prop bets in New Jersey advances and an Arkansas casino blocking amendment is to go ahead.
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Gambling

FinCEN Issues Urgent Warning On GenAI Fraud

The US Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has issued an alert on the use of deepfake media created with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools.
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Payments

Consumers Lack Fundamental Protections For Their Financial Privacy, CFPB Warns

A new report from the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) argues that current data laws are not sufficient to deal with financial data innovations.
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Payments

Week In Crypto: FTX Sues Binance In Effort To Recover $1.8bn

FTX’s new management attempts to settle an old score with Binance, FTX’s co-founder may be spared prison, and a Chinese national pleads guilty to laundering $73m using Tether.
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Payments

Daily Dash: FSB Says Rapid AI Adoption In Finance Could Spark Financial Stability Risks

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has released a report assessing the implications of AI in the financial sector, a new report by NatWest identifies the UK’s fastest-growing scams, and Sweden’s FI has fined Amal Express Economic Association over AML failings.
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Payments

Taiwan Scandal Weds Online Gambling With Top Cop Corruption

Once a reliable technology services base for Philippine gambling interests, Taiwan’s high-tech gaming sector is under increasing scrutiny from prosecutors and politicians amid allegations of criminal associations, money laundering, sham payments companies and police corruption.
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Gambling

Louisiana Lawmakers Shelve Sports-Betting Tax Increase

A bill that would more than triple the sports-betting tax rate in Louisiana was deferred on Wednesday, so work could continue on the proposal that is part of Republican Governor Jeff Landry’s broader tax-reform package.
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Gambling

PSR Readies Online Platforms For Fraud Data Naming And Shaming

The UK’s Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) is inviting feedback on its proposed publication of data related to authorised push payment fraud sources, which will reveal which online platforms are most vulnerable to misuse.
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Payments

Brazil Continues To Increase Supervisory Reach Over Pix Payment System

Brazil’s monetary authority has unveiled plans for tighter oversight of the Pix payments system from next year, which will see an increased regulatory burden introduced for financial institutions participating in the system.
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Payments

New Reforms Aim To 'Reset' Australian Open Banking Rollout

Australia has introduced the first of new reforms that are intended to "reset" the country’s open banking rollout, in an effort to reverse low uptake among consumers.
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Vixio View: The FCA’s Payments Priorities Offer Clarity Rather Than Novelty – Except on AI

Although the priorities mostly emphasise the importance of effective execution and positive outcomes for consumers and the market, payments firms operating in the UK should note the warning that on-paper compliance is no longer enough.
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Regulatory Influencer: United States Advances Artificial Intelligence Governance Architecture for Financial Services

Rather than introducing sweeping artificial intelligence (AI) legislation, US policymakers are constructing a sector-based governance architecture for AI in financial services, built around voluntary frameworks, supervisory coordination and existing regulatory structures.
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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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