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Automatic Pix Goes Live, Enabling Recurring Payments in Brazil

Pix, Brazil’s instant payments system, has introduced a recurring payments mechanism, aiming to simplify bill payments for consumers.
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Pay.UK Sets Out Ideas For Reforming UK’s Payments Infrastructure

Payment system operator Pay.UK has unveiled a package of proposed reforms to the organisational framework for interbank payments, urging “radical” change to prevent the UK falling behind on infrastructure and innovation.
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EBA Recommends Enforcement Pause To Avoid PSD2-MiCA Compliance Duplication

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has issued a No Action letter aiming to reduce the risk of crypto-asset firms needing to obtain two separate licences for certain payment activities under overlapping European rules.
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Enforcement Overhaul At FCA Welcome News For Regulated Firms

The UK Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) attempt to increase the transparency of its enforcement investigations could also speed up investigations, which experts say would be good news for the financial services sector.
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Brazil Bettors To Pay Taxes On Every Winning Wager

Brazil's tax authority has published a new rule to clarify how a winnings tax for sports betting and online gaming will be applied, and operators are unhappy with the outcome.
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U.S. Sports Leagues Keep Focus On Prop Bets

NBA commissioner Adam Silver and his Major League Baseball counterpart have said that leagues are closely monitoring the types of available proposition bets across the U.S. market in the wake of recent integrity concerns.
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Gambling

Paraguay: From Corruption Scandal To The End Of A Monopoly

In 2022, multiple employees of Paraguay’s gambling regulatory body were under investigation for corruption. Fast forward 18 months, and with radical changes underway, has Paraguay’s gaming industry recovered its reputation? 
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Australia Seeks Feedback On 'Streamlined' AML Framework

Proposals for an updated anti-money laundering (AML) framework are taking shape in Australia, as regulators look to avert a potential grey-listing by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
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Payments

FCA 'Name And Shame' Plans Concern UK Financial Sector

Plans by the UK financial regulator to "name and shame" companies under investigation could cause reputational damage and a loss of business for companies that are later found to be innocent, people in the industry have warned.
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Daily Dash: Hong Kong Launches New Wholesale CBDC Project

Hong Kong has enlisted the support of Ant Financial, Microsoft and HSBC in a new wholesale CBDC forum, while Argentina has published its first API that allows businesses to automate access to central bank information.
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Payments

Maltese Law Firm Pitches Licensing To Taiwan's Online Gaming Sector

A leading Maltese law firm has pitched gambling licensing, fintech investment and immigration options to Taiwanese online gambling companies amid a troubled legal environment for the Taiwanese B2B sector.
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Gambling

U.S. Operators Seek To Expand DC's Sports-Betting Market

A D.C. lawmaker’s effort to increase tax revenue from the city’s struggling sports-betting operation by opening mobile wagering to multiple operators has garnered wide-spread support from professional sports franchises and gaming operators.
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Gambling

Daily Dash: Fed Consults On Fedwire Hours

The US Federal Reserve has begun a consultation on extending Fedwire service hours, while the EU’s banking watchdog begins accepting the names of people linked to financial crime.
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Payments

Nium Notches Up Licences In Over 40 Countries, As APAC Revenue Doubles

Cross-border payments firm Nium is seeing rapid growth in Asia-Pacific, a trend that its regional manager puts down to being "hyper licensed" and to working closely with local regulators.
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Payments

Argentina's QR Code For Credit Cards Still Not Ready, Industry Says

Argentina’s payments industry has said that a system to make credit card payments via a QR code provider is not yet ready, despite the country’s central bank saying that consumers should now be able to use it.
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UK's Open Banking Consultation Offers Path Out Of Regulatory Quagmire

The UK’s progress on open banking has been hampered by endless consultations and a lack of decision-making, payments experts warned during Âé¶ą´«Ă˝â€™s latest webinar, "Open Banking: Unlocking the Next Chapter".
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Labour Checks, UN Concerns, Probes Heap New Pressure On POGOs

Pressure is continuing to build on the Philippines’ foreign-facing online gambling segment, with new hiring checks, UN scrutiny and community unease over foreign workers triggering another wave of media gloom and political attacks.
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Gambling

Northern Ireland Working On 'Next Phase' Of Gambling Law

Northern Ireland has commenced preparatory work on its next stage of reforming the country’s gambling laws and is in the process of commissioning a gambling prevalence survey.
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Gambling

U.S. Gaming Regulators Push Back Against Dave & Buster's Betting Plans

U.S. gaming regulators and lawmakers believe the move by prominent arcade chain Dave & Buster’s to incorporate peer-to-peer wagering into its loyalty app will violate state gambling laws.
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Brazil System Standards Open Door For Loyalty Bonuses

Brazil has continued to roll out regulations for online gambling by releasing detailed technical standards for betting and gaming systems via an ordinance that also implies that licensed operators will be able to offer retention bonuses for players.
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Gambling

California Restarts Rulemaking On Restrictive Gambling Advertising

Cardrooms in California could be held responsible for any advertising done on their behalf by a third-party provider or advertising agency, according to revised advertising regulations approved by state gaming regulators.
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Gambling

Slow Start For ESPN BET Causes Penn Stock Drop

Penn Entertainment's stock took an early morning tumble Thursday (May 2) after the company reported that it had missed its first-quarter earnings estimates and cited the early underperformance of ESPN BET as one of the biggest factors in doing so.
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Gambling

Chilean Lottery Files Blocklist Lawsuit As Online Bill Stalls

Chile’s state lottery operator has rallied to file another lawsuit, this time against five internet providers who have not blocked online operators. 
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Gambling

News In Brief: April 29-May 3, 2024

Two bills have been filed in North Carolina to ban prop bets on college players.
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Regulatory Influencer: Poland Proposes Targeted Simplification of EU Financial Services Rule

On June 2, 2025, the Polish Financial Supervisory Authority (KNF) announced that it had submitted a package of proposals intended to simplify regulatory frameworks across the EU financial services sector to the EU member states, the European Commission and other institutions within the EU Financial Services Committee. These proposals form part of a broader initiative led by the Polish Ministry of Finance, which aims to harmonise and streamline EU regulations to support the competitiveness of the European Union’s economy, including that of Poland.
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Regulatory Influencer: AML Compliance Is Key Under Hong Kong’s Stablecoins Ordinance

Under Hong Kong’s new Stablecoins Ordinance, another milestone in the global trend towards regulating digital assets in the same way as traditional financial services, any person who issues stablecoins referencing an official currency must obtain a licence from the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA).
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Norwegian Consumer Council Reports Klarna For Breaching Regulatory Requirements

In a submission to the Norwegian Consumer Authority, the consumer advocacy group has accused the Swedish fintech firm of repeatedly violating Norway’s credit marketing regulations.
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Singapore To Require Offshore Crypto Firms To Be Licensed Or Cease Operations By June 2025

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has clarified the scope of its regulatory regime for providers of digital tokens, crypto-assets used for payments.
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FCA Moves To Boost AI Use With New Sandbox

UK financial services firms will be encouraged to experiment with artificial intelligence (AI) as part of the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) strategy to support economic growth through technological innovation.
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Australia Calls For Greater Collaboration In Battle Against Fraud

Businesses should join forces and share data to advance the fight against increasingly sophisticated scams, according to the Australian National Anti-Scam Centre.
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FCA Sets Out New Transparency Rules For Enforcement Investigations

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has outlined significant changes to its enforcement rules, although it has stopped short of implementing some of the more controversial elements of its original proposal.
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Cash Mandate Moves Closer To Being Law In New York State

Retailers will not be able to refuse cash payments in New York if Governor Kathy Hochul signs off on legislation that has passed both houses of the state legislature.
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Regulatory Influencer: Canada Retail Payments Activities Act — Safeguarding of End-User Funds

This report is the third installment in a four-part series analyzing the RPAA and identifying key components of the law that PSPs should consider when doing business in Canada. This report focuses on the requirement to safeguard end-user funds.
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Regulate Smarter, Say European Players In Light Of Trump’s Deregulation

Despite the US leadership pushing for an increasingly deregulated financial services market, some payments players and politicians in Europe are adamant that standards being watered down is not the way to boost growth.
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