Turkey Has Struck Off 24 Payment Licences. 75 Are Left.
Sep 29th, 2026, 10:20
Turkey's central bank cancelled Papel's e-money licence on 23 September. HaiPay counted the registers: 24 of 102 licences have been taken away.
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Seven UK Banks, Three Transactions, One Tokenised Pound
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Australia Kills $1.8bn of Card Surcharges From 1 October
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FedNow Has 1,909 Banks. Only 16 Vendors Move Liquidity.
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The Phishing Kit Cost $2,000. The Average Loss: $123,005.
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The Stablecoin Law Starts in 116 Days. No Rule Is Final.
Sep 24th, 2026, 11:30
The GENIUS Act takes effect on 18 January 2027 whether or not the rulebook is ready. Since it was enacted, US agencies have published 19 proposed rules using the statutory term "payment stablecoin", 16 of those comment periods have closed, and the number of final rules implementing the Act is zero.
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Firms Closed 238,396 Mule Accounts. Only 15% Were Shared.
Sep 24th, 2026, 11:00
UK firms closed 238,396 accounts they suspected of money muling last year and 656,600 over three years, an FCA survey of 35 firms shows. They filed 36,502 of those closures to the national fraud database. Payment and e-money institutions, whose closures rose 164.6%, filed 320 in total.
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Who Owns a Swipe-Fee Claim? Not the Facilitator.
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Priority's CEO Opened at $6. The Committee Got $8.05.
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Payment Firms Passport Into 29 Countries, or None
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The FTC Will Now Have to Show Payment Processors Knew
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Pontes' First 13 Users: Six German, None Italian
Sep 22nd, 2026, 11:30
The ECB's Pontes service for settling tokenised assets in central bank money launched on 21 September with 13 institutions, six of them German and none Italian. HaiPay checked the day-one roster against the 64 organisations in the 2024 trials: 12 of 18 names return and six are new.
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Stripe Now Takes 93% of Payment SDK Downloads on npm
Sep 22nd, 2026, 10:50
Stripe's Node.js library accounted for 92.9% of npm downloads of nine official payment gateway server SDKs in the four weeks to 20 September, up from 87.6% a year earlier. Measured against how fast npm grew overall, Adyen, Braintree and Checkout.com lost ground, and an agent payments library overtook two of them.
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Hong Kong E-Wallet Value Fell 7.4%. Spending Rose 12.8%.
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Past Its Closing Date, MonieWorld's Site Has Not Changed
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The SEC's Onchain Stock Limits: 75 Symbols, 0.25% of Volume
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Circle Is Buying Payout Rails, Not Stablecoin Adoption.
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The CFPB Proposed 18 Rules by September. This Year: 2.
Sep 9th, 2026, 11:00
Between 1 January and 9 September 2025 the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau published 18 proposed rules. In the same window this year it published two, and total output fell from 50 documents to 26. Every peer financial regulator HaiPay checked held steady or published more.
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131 Days Out, No Issuer Publishes What the Law Asks
Sep 9th, 2026, 11:00
The GENIUS Act takes effect no later than 18 January 2027 and tells stablecoin issuers to publish, every month, the average tenor and geographic location of custody of each reserve category. HaiPay read the transparency pages of Circle, Paxos and Tether. All three publish categories and percentages. None publishes either field.
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30 Fake Domains Impersonating Hong Kong's Payment Rail
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Everyone Says October 2027. The First Date Is 7 December.
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Equities Want 24 Hours. Fedwire Gives 22, Five Days.
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FinCEN Says Nearly 25%. Its Own Numbers Give 29.7%.
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Three of India's Four Credit Bureaus, Fined the Same Day
Sep 7th, 2026, 11:00
On 4 September the Reserve Bank of India published penalty orders against TransUnion CIBIL, CRIF High Mark and Equifax. All three carried the same charge: failing to pay, on time, the compensation their customers were already owed for credit report corrections that had run late.
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