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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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U.S. Gaming Industry Looking To Fit Esports In Among Slots, Table Games

Esports and casinos appear to be a perfect match, but as the gaming industry seeks to attract a new generation of customers who play video games, wagering on these events remains in its early stages.
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Gambling

Brussels Dodges Responsibility For Malta’s Greylisting

The European Commission does not turn a blind eye to the interpretation of anti-money laundering rules and hopes that any more members being greylisted by the Financial Action Task Force can be avoided in the future, the EU’s financial crime chief has said when probed about Malta becoming the first EU country on the grey list.
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Payments

Hungary Fines Banks For Partner Agents’ AML Compliance Failures

The Hungarian National Bank (MNB) fined two banks for AML compliance failures at their partner currency exchanges.
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Payments

FATF Ventures Into New Territory With Fresh Crypto Guidelines

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has released new guidance on virtual assets and virtual assets service providers (VASPs), superseding those that it previously issued in 2019.
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Payments

U.S. Drops Massive Tax Reporting Proposal

House Democrats have reportedly dumped a massive tax reporting provision that would require financial institutions to report annual gross inflows and outflows in all accounts to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
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Payments

Google Ad Fine Cancelled By Italian Court

An Italian court has cleared tech giant Google of violating Italy’s ban on gambling advertising.
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Gambling

California Tribes Oppose Online Sports Betting Ballot Measure

Two powerful groups representing California Indian tribes have come out in opposition to the ballot initiative to authorize online sports betting being proposed by FanDuel, DraftKings and other major U.S. operators, despite several provisions that were designed to attract tribal support.
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Gambling

Will The Ghost Of Sheldon Adelson Haunt U.S. Internet Gaming Industry?

Sheldon Adelson may be gone but his enduring influence as an opponent of internet gambling could not be denied during last week’s East Coast Gaming Congress in Atlantic City.
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Gambling

Personnel Moves - October 2021

Pontus Lindwall survives at Betsson, the Nevada Gaming Commission fills two panel slots and a Philippine gambling exec resigns to run for mayor.
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Gambling

U.S. Working On ’Unique’ Open Banking Rules

The U.S. is looking at the United Kingdom to learn about open banking, but it is working on a solution that is tailored uniquely to the needs of U.S. consumers, the head of the open banking rulemaking agency told Congress.
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Payments

Week In Brief - October 29, 2021

A short roundup of some of the week's payments news you may have missed.
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Payments

Visa Results Soar Past Pre-COVID Levels Despite Cross-Border Lull

Visa’s 2021 annual results show a significant increase in 2020 as revenues and payment volumes bounce back to above pre-COVID levels. Full-year net revenues increased 10 percent to $24.1bn, while payments volume (on a constant dollar basis) increased 16 percent to more than $10trn.
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Payments

Is The End Nigh For 90-Day SCA?

The European Banking Authority has launched a public consultation on the amendment of its regulatory technical standards on strong customer authentication and secure communication regarding the 90-day exemption — a notorious bugbear in the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2).
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Payments

Dutch Self-Exclusion Programme Delayed Almost Three Weeks

The Dutch central self-exclusion programme, CRUKS, was not in full operation until October 20, nearly three weeks after the opening of the licensed online gambling market, according to a government minister.
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Gambling

Caesars Expects To Replicate D.C. Success In More Non-Traditional Venues

The successful development of a non-traditional sportsbook inside Capital One Arena in downtown Washington, D.C., has forever changed the relationship between sports leagues, franchises and bookmakers, according to an executive with operator Caesars Entertainment.
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Gambling

Illinois Legislature Approves Sunset Date for In-Person Registration

Illinois’ requirement for players to register in person for a mobile sports-betting account will end in time for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament in March, following a last-minute push by the state legislature Thursday.
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Gambling

Puerto Rico Preparing For Sports Betting By Super Bowl

Puerto Rico will start accepting sports-betting license applications as soon as next month with the aim of seeing operators go live by Super Bowl weekend in February, according to the island’s chief gaming regulator.
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Gambling

News In Brief: October 25-October 29, 2021

Sweden's gambling restrictions set to end for now, the Seminole Tribe ties up pre-launch sports-betting deals and Crown Resorts settles its costly China law suit.
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Gambling

Spain Rolls Out Register For Virtual Asset Service Providers

The Bank of Spain has released details of its register for virtual asset service providers, requiring all businesses that provide virtual currency services in the country to register with the central bank.
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Payments

PSR Set To Introduce New ATM Rules

The UK’s Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has launched a consultation on new rules for LINK, the free cash machine network.
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Regulatory Influencer: Modernizing US AML – The Burden of 'Simplification'

After years of industry advocacy and growing acknowledgment from regulators that the current anti-money laundering (AML) framework is not operating as effectively as it should, two significant proposals signal where the future of AML compliance may be headed in the United States.
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India Considers Measures to Fight Rising Digital Payments Fraud

A Reserve Bank of India (RBI) discussion paper has proposed a series of measures to address rising fraud levels in digital payments and ensure that consumers adopting new modes of payment are not making themselves more vulnerable to scams.
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Revised EU Payments Regulation Package Moves Closer With Release of Draft Texts

Regulated firms across Europe can start to prepare in earnest for the new payments regulation framework, as the long period of high-level speculation ends and the roadmap for implementation becomes clear.
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Finland’s Crypto-Assets Ban Faces Long-Term Challenges

Finland’s new gambling laws ban crypto-assets to curb harm, yet this restriction may inadvertently drive players toward offshore sites, potentially clashing with EU MiCA regulations regarding digital payment parity.
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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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