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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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Regulatory Influencer: BNPL Rules Come To the UK

The UK’s new Labour government has launched a public consultation on proposals to regulate buy now, pay later (BNPL) companies under the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The plan aims to apply the Consumer Credit Act to these services, ensuring that consumers receive clear information, avoid unaffordable borrowing, and have stronger rights in case of disputes.
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Payments

Italy's Online Tender Delayed By Malta Intervention

The tender for new Italian online gambling concessions is to be delayed after Malta submitted a detailed opinion to the European Commission on legislation needed to issue new licences.
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Gambling

Ecuador Lifts Ban On Sports-Betting Advertising

With little fanfare, the President of Ecuador has removed a ban on sports-betting advertising from the country’s communications law.
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Gambling

New York Congressman Campaigns For Federal Oversight Of Sports Betting

U.S. Representative Paul Tonko took his campaign to pass federal sports-betting legislation to upstate New York last week where he heard college athletes and coaches offer details of the social-media harassment they have received from gamblers.
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Gambling

Wise Becomes First Non-Bank To Gain Direct Access To Japan's Payment System

Wise has received a coveted regulatory approval in Japan, becoming the first non-bank firm to gain direct access to the country’s domestic payment system.
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Payments

Daily Dash: UK Stats Reveal APP Fraud Down, CNP Fraud Up

UK Finance has reported a surge in card-not-present (CNP) fraud, while Klarna has announced that it is now available via Apple Pay, following the demise of Apple’s own buy now, pay later service.
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Payments

FATF Overhauls Greylist Rules To Help Poorer Nations

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has announced significant changes to its criteria for greylisting countries, shifting its focus towards nations that pose greater risks to the global financial system while providing relief to the least developed countries.
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Payments

BNPL Firms Enthusiastic As UK Government Unveils Legislation

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) firms and other stakeholders have applauded the UK’s new Labour government for introducing regulation that will bring firms into the scope of supervision from the Financial Conduct Authority.
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Payments

Ireland's Next Steps After Passing Historic Gambling Law

With one final minor hurdle to clear, Ireland’s new era of gambling regulation is on the cusp of finally commencing, but a clear timeline for its next steps is still unclear. 
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Gambling

Dutch Regulator Threatens Curaçao Operator With Daily Fines

The Netherlands Gambling Authority has warned it will issue BlockDance with daily fines for offering illegal gambling, after it initially complied with an order to block Dutch players.
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Gambling

Election 2024: What's At Stake For U.S. Gaming Industry

With less than three weeks left until voters go to the polls to determine who resides in the White House for the next four years, down-ballot in several states will be initiatives that will directly impact the gaming industry.
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Gambling

Operators Left Off Brazil Whitelist Take Legal Action, Seek State Licences

Operators that did not make Brazil’s “whitelist” are not taking it quietly, and have either filed lawsuits to be included on the list or sought a state-level licence in order to remain in business at least through the end of this year. 
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Gambling

Get On With It? But Get On With What? VRPs Bring More Fatigue Than Opportunity

Variable recurring payments (VRPs) are a recurring theme for UK payments players, and although they disagree on the best way forward, they agree that the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) needs to get a move on.
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Payments

Australia Threatens To Ban Surcharging In New Payments Review

Australia’s payments industry faces a major rethink of its costs and fee structures, as the Albanese government threatens to ban the practice of surcharging.
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Payments

Week In Crypto: TD Bank AML Failures Linked To UK Crypto Exchange

A UK crypto exchange gets caught up in TD Bank’s money laundering case, a detained Binance executive is denied bail in Nigeria, and Tether’s largest customer is sued in the US.
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Payments

EU Authorities Challenge Commission’s Changes To DORA And MiCA Standards

The European Commission’s positions on aspects of implementing both the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and the Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regulation have prompted a backlash from key European regulators.
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Payments

Ireland Pushes To Address Account-To-Account Gap In New Payments Strategy

The Irish government has unveiled the country’s new National Payments Strategy (NPS), which challenges both regulators and industry to modernise and increase competitiveness in the payments ecosystem.
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Payments

Daily Dash: New US FTC ‘Click-To-Cancel’ Rule Will End Subscription Traps

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has unveiled a new rule that will penalise sellers for trapping customers in subscriptions, while the Financial Stability Board has opened a new consultation on operational incident reporting.
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Payments

News In Brief: October 14-October 18, 2024

Peru has told registered suppliers they must stop serving unlicensed operators.
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Gambling

California Tribal Leaders Take Aim At Sweepstakes, DFS

California tribal gaming leaders have reinforced their belief that daily fantasy sports (DFS) and sweepstakes companies are operating illegally in the Golden State, and say they are taking legal steps to protect their gaming exclusivity.
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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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