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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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El Salvador Amends Bitcoin Law, Allowing Merchants To Refuse Bitcoin

As per the terms of a new loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund, El Salvador is rolling back its efforts to promote the use of Bitcoin as a currency.
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Payments

Barclays Asks UK Customers To Call On Friends, Family And Food Banks During Weekend Outage

Barclays is in damage-control mode following a weekend of outages that led the bank to suggest that affected customers may wish to call on their friends and family for help.
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Payments

New Consultation On cVRPs Aims To Boost Open Banking Adoption In The UK

Open Banking Limited has announced a public consultation on the multilateral agreement for commercial variable recurring payments (cVRPs), which could lead to increased use of open banking.
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Payments

PaymentsCompliance Outlook: APP Fraud

This report is part of ÌìÑĺ£½ÇÉçÇø PaymentsCompliance’s Outlook series, which provides subscribers with forward-looking insights and consolidated research on key segments of the global payments industry. This edition is designed to provide high-level intelligence on APP fraud in 2025
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Payments

US Government Will Use AI To 'Eliminate' Illicit Use Of Tether, Lutnick Tells Senate

Tether custodian and Trump Cabinet pick Howard Lutnick has told US lawmakers that illicit use of stablecoins can be "eliminated" by using AI tools to "rip through" the blockchain.
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Payments

KuCoin To Pay $300m In Penalties For Operating Illegally In US

KuCoin, a Seychelles-based crypto exchange, will face significant penalties after pleading guilty to operating as an unregistered money services business in the US.
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Payments

ECB Finalises Access To Payment Systems Policy

Payments and e-money institutions have come a step closer to gaining access to central bank payment systems in the Eurozone, after the European Central Bank (ECB) outlined its policy for the regulatory change.
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Payments

MEPs Probe Italy's Compliance With Payment Rules Over pagoPA Fees

The European Commission has been urged to investigate Italy’s compliance with EU payment regulations following concerns that fees are being charged on electronic transactions via the government-run pagoPA payment system.
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Payments

Daily Dash: BaFin Flags Virtual IBANs As Money Laundering Risk

Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) has joined the European Banking Authority and the Banca d’Italia in raising the alarm about the use of virtual IBANs for illicit financial transactions.
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Payments

Kambi Secures Nevada Gaming License

The Nevada Gaming Commission has approved final licensure for sports-betting supplier Kambi Group, clearing the way for its entry into the state’s gaming market.
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Gambling

News In Brief: January 27-January 31, 2025

Ireland's gambling regulator says it is ready to start hiring officials, Estonia to work on gambling law amendments this year, North Dakota wants to close its gambling regulator and another NBA player is under investigation over allegedly suspicious bets.
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Gambling

Colombia Proposes Emergency Online Gambling Tax

Colombia has proposed waiving gambling’s value added tax (VAT) exemption for the next 90 days to fund relief efforts for the Catatumbo region.
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Gambling

UK Government Has 'No Plans' To Mandate Cash Acceptance, Says Minister

A newly appointed minister has said the Labour government has "no plans" to mandate that retailers accept cash, but is also not planning for a "cashless society".
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Payments

Week In Crypto: Binance Hit By Tax Fraud, Money Laundering Probe In France

France opens a criminal probe into Binance, Utah and Arizona move towards investing state funds in Bitcoin, and the Czech central bank also sees a role for Bitcoin in its portfolio.
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Payments

PSR Establishes Five-Point Plan To Drive UK Economic Growth In Payments Sector

In a letter to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has set out its deliverables for growth, including action on card fees and infrastructure.
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Payments

BetMGM Fined $260,000 In Pennsylvania For Self-Exclusion Violations

BetMGM will pay a $260,905 fine after reaching an agreement with Pennsylvania gaming regulators over an investigation into allowing more than 150 self-excluded players to wager on the platform.
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Gambling

iGaming Debate Remains The Same In Maryland: Tax Revenue Versus Cannibalization

As Maryland lawmakers consider ways to close a multibillion-dollar budget deficit, two bills to raise new tax revenues through legalizing internet casino games are back on the legislative agenda for the second straight year.
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Gambling

UK Commission Wants Mandatory Machine Deposit, Time Limits

Gamblers will be required to set deposit and time limits on gaming machines if new proposals from the UK Gambling Commission are approved.
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Gambling

Mexican Casinos Win Injunctions In Appeals Court

Last week, several Mexican casino operators were granted injunctions against a November 2023 decree that prohibits granting or renewing licences for slot machines and other casino-style games on the grounds of unconstitutionality.
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Gambling

Regulatory Influencer: India To Fight Fraud Using Mobile Number Blacklist

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has instructed financial institutions to begin using a real-time mobile number blacklist to tighten up their fraud monitoring and prevention programmes.
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ÌìÑĺ£½ÇÉçÇø 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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Regulatory Influencer: Are the Americas Entering a New Phase of Risk-Based Supervision? Argentina Leads the Way

Between January and March 2026, the Argentine National Securities Commission (CNV) introduced a series of targeted reforms aimed at simplifying reporting obligations, modernising administrative procedures, and reducing regulatory burdens for investment firms.
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Experimental Legal Regime Formalises Russian Crypto Trade Settlements

New legislation may help to take decentralised finance from a workaround for sanctions to a supervised payment rail, moving cross-border payments from a legal grey area, increasing stability and reducing costs.
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Latest Proposed Rules for Bank-Issued Stablecoins in the US Introduce Fresh Challenges

The new framework signals a high-barrier, high-discretion regime that could narrow the market to a handful of systemic players that can respond to shifting regulatory demands, leaving smaller banks on the sidelines.
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Kenya’s Crypto Framework Risks Squeezing Out Local Innovation

The end of a key consultation period means the modernisation of crypto and digital assets regulation continues to advance, but strict rules could inadvertently disadvantage local start-ups and lead to capital flight and consolidation.
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Twin Announcements Signal Major Overhaul of US AML/CTF Regulation

The new proposed rulemakings aim to force a shift from static policy design to real-time operational maintenance, requiring firms to prove that their compliance frameworks actually stop illicit activity rather than just documenting it.
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Regulatory Influencer: New Zealand’s AML Levy - Privatising the Cost of Effective Supervision, A One-Off or More to Come?

The New Zealand Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has released the AML levy proposal outlining its plans to impose a charge on anti-money laundering (AML) reporting entities to fund the establishment and running of a standalone AML regulator for the country. While the AML Amendment Bill and the AML Supervisor and Levy Bill, which form the legal basis for this proposal, have yet to be passed in parliament, the levy’s stated implementation date of July 2027 could mean a costly recurring bill for AML reporting entities from next year.
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UK’s Payments Association Calls For APP Fraud Regulation To Target Digital Platforms

The industry body has called for new regulations that would impose strengthened fraud prevention standards across social media, online marketplace and instant messaging platforms operating in the UK.
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Unpacking the RBA’s Ban on Card Surcharging and New Interchange Caps

Changes to the rules on merchant card fees in Australia aim to introduce greater transparency and spur competition, and will contribute to the shifting landscape as alternative payment methods expand the variety of options.
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Regulatory Influencer: A Playbook Emerges - Convergence and Divergence in State Crypto Kiosk Regulation

In March 2026, Maine became the latest in a growing number of states to adopt legislation regulating virtual currency kiosks (crypto ATMs) in the US. Maine's law builds on emergency legislation adopted by the state in June 2025, regulating virtual currency kiosks within the state’s money transmission framework and providing additional consumer protections specific to kiosks. Elsewhere, legislation to regulate crypto kiosks and implement consumer protection measures is, at the time of writing, awaiting the governor’s signature in Florida, Kansas, and Virginia. The legislation reflects a regulatory pattern emerging across the US. States are beginning to converge on a common regulatory framework for virtual currency kiosks, addressing consumer protection concerns and fraud risks through comprehensive legislation, plugging a gap left by federal supervision, which has remained primarily focused on anti-money laundering (AML) oversight.
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