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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: Cyber Attacks Spark Fraud Increase In Czech Republic

The Czech Republic has seen a dramatic increase in fraud, with more than 65,000 cases reported by the end of September 2024, while BNPL giant Klarna has filed an application for an IPO with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Payments

Brazil Industry Avoids Doomsday Scenario Of Supreme Court Injunction

A Brazil Supreme Court justice has ordered immediate restrictions on irresponsible advertising and to prevent use of welfare funds for online gambling, but declined to impose a full injunction on the federal law that establishes a national licensing regime.
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Gambling

Nevada Set To Approve Wagering Accounts For Non-Gaming Purchases

Nevada regulators are poised to expand the use of wagering accounts beyond the casino floor to non-gaming amenities following a regulatory change that was provisionally approved last week.
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Gambling

Malta Has Evolved Into A B2B Hub, Say Gambling Experts

Malta’s mature gambling framework has helped the country evolve into a B2B gambling hub, according to a panel of legal experts working for major gambling businesses, as the nation searches for a new identity in the modern world of local licensing.
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Gambling

Attorney General Files Latest Legal Challenge To Brazil's Betting Regime

In an anticipated but alarming move, Brazil’s prosecutor general has filed a constitutional challenge with the Brazilian Supreme Court to overturn two federal laws which regulate online betting. 
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Gambling

French Regulator Assessing Whether Crypto Betting Website Breaks Law

France’s National Gambling Authority (ANJ) is examining whether Polymarket, the cryptocurrency-based predictions site that took massive wagers on the US election, is complying with French law.
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Gambling

Lithuania Bans Gambling Advertising

Continuing a gambling regulation overhaul, Lithuania has introduced a near-total advertising ban to be phased in during the next three years.
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Gambling

UK Regulators Set Out Critical Third-Party Oversight Plans

The UK’s financial regulators have finalised their plans for critical third parties, as the country commits to aligning with international regimes including the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA).
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Payments

Regulators Caught In Arms Race With Scammers, As Global Losses Hit $1.03trn

A new report has found that consumers lost $1.03trn to scams in 2023, setting the stage for further intervention from regulators on scam prevention and reimbursement.
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Payments

Daily Dash: Singapore Police Use Robotics To Foil More Than 1,300 Scams In Two Months

The Singapore Police Force's Anti-Scam Centre foiled more than 1,300 ongoing scams during September and October, while the RTP Network has announced that it is now processing more than 1m payments per day.
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Payments

U.S. Appeals Court Sides With Xpoint In Geolocation Patent Lawsuit

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upheld the dismissal of GeoComply’s claims that competitor Xpoint infringed on a patent that the Vancouver-based company owns to perform its geolocation tracking services for the gaming industry.
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Gambling

U.S. Online Operators Seek Clarity On AML Requirements

All casinos in the United States have a number of obligations under the nation’s principal anti-money laundering (AML) law, but those regulations say little if anything about how online operators must comply.
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Gambling

Australia Opens Submissions For Wholesale CBDC Projects In 2025

The Reserve Bank of Australia has opened submissions for the second phase of Project Acacia, its ongoing study of digital money and its potential role in wholesale tokenised asset markets.
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Payments

Brazil Opens Public Consultation On New Crypto Regulations

The Central Bank of Brazil has unveiled its long-awaited proposals for regulating the crypto-asset market, including definitions and authorisation requirements.
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Payments

Malaysia Unveils New Risk Management Plans For Financial Institutions

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.
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Payments

Daily Dash: Russia Issues New Standards For Payment Acceptance Operators

Russia has published new mandatory standards for payment acceptance operators in the financial market, while Nepal Clearing House Limited has partnered with Ant International to launch a new cross-border payments bridge.
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Payments

Laos Orders Golden Triangle Zone Online Companies Into One Location

The Laotian authorities have ordered all licensed online gambling operators in the notorious Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone to relocate to a single location in the zone, marking the latest phase of a national crackdown on cyber-crime.
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Gambling

Brazil Regulator Urges Rejection Of Constitutional Challenge

Brazil’s chief gambling regulator has urged the country’s Supreme Court to reject a constitutional challenge that threatens to derail implementation of a 2023 federal law on online betting at the 11th hour.
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Gambling

Lithuania Law Changes Expected To Supercharge Fines

Lithuania’s parliament (Seimas) has approved changes to its gambling law which are expected to drastically increase the size of fines and introduce a range of new requirements.
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Gambling

Daily Dash: Vietnamese Central Bank To Launch New AML Department In 2025

The Vietnamese government has confirmed that a new Department of Anti-Money Laundering will commence operations in January 2025, while the Hong Kong Monetary Authority has imposed a HK$4m enforcement penalty on Fubon Bank for breaching AML regulations.
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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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