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Brazil Outlaws Grey Market In Surprise Strike

Operators in Brazil who have not already applied for a licence have been told they must exit the market completely by October 1, in a surprise announcement by the country’s regulator.
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Payments A Key Focal Point As EU Commission President Sets Out Her Priorities

Ursula von der Leyen, now in her second term as European Commission president, has set out her plans for the new college, with her priorities including topics such as payments, data and AI.
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Nigeria Issues New Directives To Strengthen Payment Infrastructure

In a new circular, the Central Bank of Nigeria has introduced guidelines intended to improve the country’s payment infrastructure.
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U.S. Gaming Regulators Have Few Options To Deter Illegal Sports-Betting Market

States with legal and regulated sports betting have a stake in cracking down on offshore sportsbooks, which they claim are operating illegally while evading taxes and consumer protections.
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Brazil Outlaws Grey Market In Surprise Strike

Operators in Brazil who have not already applied for a licence have been told they must exit the market completely by October 1, in a surprise announcement by the country’s regulator.
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Gambling

Payments A Key Focal Point As EU Commission President Sets Out Her Priorities

Ursula von der Leyen, now in her second term as European Commission president, has set out her plans for the new college, with her priorities including topics such as payments, data and AI.
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Payments

Nigeria Issues New Directives To Strengthen Payment Infrastructure

In a new circular, the Central Bank of Nigeria has introduced guidelines intended to improve the country’s payment infrastructure.
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Payments

U.S. Gaming Regulators Have Few Options To Deter Illegal Sports-Betting Market

States with legal and regulated sports betting have a stake in cracking down on offshore sportsbooks, which they claim are operating illegally while evading taxes and consumer protections.
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Gambling

'Chilling' Statistics Prompt UK Lawmakers To Demand Action On Fraud

The need to do better in tackling fraud has become a consensus issue across the UK political spectrum, with Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat lawmakers pushing the government to expand and improve the national approach to the issue.
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Payments

Week In Crypto: Wyoming Shares Plans To Launch Its Own Stablecoin In 2025

Wyoming pitches a potential launch date for its state-backed stablecoin, Kraken learns that it will see the SEC in court, and the wife of a detained Binance compliance executive continues to plead for his release.
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Payments

UK Blog Supplies Details Of 'Frictionless' Financial Checks Pilot

The UK’s Gambling Commission is set to launch its pilot programme to test how it will require operators to execute controversial financial risk assessments called for in the white paper.
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Gambling

Peru Awards Online Gambling Licences

Peru’s gambling regulator has finally completed its assessment of licensing applications and issued a total of 120 licences to 60 online gambling operators.
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Gambling

Regulators Failing To Act Over Illegal Loot Boxes, Says Academic

Academic and prominent anti-loot box campaigner Leon Y. Xiao has criticised gambling regulators for failing to crack down on skins gambling, as he presents a new paper that characterises video game platform Steam as a purveyor of illegal gambling.
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Gambling

Lithuania Sets Crypto-Asset Expectations Ahead Of MiCA Implementation

The Bank of Lithuania has issued a formal letter outlining its expectations for entities currently providing or intending to provide services related to crypto-assets.
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Payments

Virginia Lawmakers To Create Gaming Commission In 2025

A select group of bipartisan lawmakers will introduce a measure in next year’s legislative session that would take Virginia’s multiple state agencies that regulate gaming and consolidate most of them into a single independent authority.
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Gambling

All Hands On Deck For Brazil Regulator After Licensing Deluge

Brazil’s betting regulator has shuffled its pack to give officials more bandwidth to review all 113 licence applications that were submitted before a key deadline last week. 
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Gambling

Japanese Police To Launch Global Probe Into Online Casinos

Japan’s police force is set to begin a major investigation into the use of foreign casino websites by Japanese gamblers, ramping government efforts to disrupt the massive gambling segment.
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Gambling

New Jersey Orders Bet365 To Reimburse Patrons $519,000

New Jersey gaming regulators have ordered bet365 to pay out more than a half-million dollars after an audit found the sports-betting operator revised odds to already concluded bets that were placed with “obvious errors”, without prior regulatory approval.
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Gambling

Thailand's Draft Casino Law Offers 30-Year Licence, 10-Year Extension

Thailand has released draft control legislation for integrated resorts that includes potential 40-year licences and a maximum fee schedule, but also promises tight Cabinet control on policy and administration and a ban on casino internet gambling.
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Gambling

Brazil Adopts Final Regulations Ahead Of Looming Licensing Deadline

Brazil’s gambling regulator has concluded the rulemaking process to implement a new national law on online betting and gaming through the publication of three ordinances establishing formal rules on responsible gaming and advertising, among other key topics.
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Gambling

Revolut (Finally) Gets A UK Banking Licence… With Restrictions

The UK’s Prudential Regulation Authority has granted Revolut a banking licence with restrictions, marking a significant milestone in the fintech’s expansion into the country’s banking sector.
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Payments

FTC Investigates Mastercard And Others Over Surveillance Pricing Practices

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched an investigation into eight companies suspected of using surveillance pricing practices.
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Payments

UK Regulator Defends Problem Gambling Stats Feared By Industry

A Gambling Commission official has firmly defended its upcoming release of statistics from the Gambling Survey for Great Britain as “open and transparent”, and prepared to set a “new baseline” for tracking gambling-related harm over time.
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Gambling

Full POGO Ban Raises Questions On Domestic Industry, Enforcement

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s landmark decision to ban foreign-facing online gambling operations (POGOs) has attracted near-unanimous political support, but leaves questions hanging on enforcement and the fate of the domestic online industry.
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Canadian Operators Push Back On National Ad Rules, Urge Fully Regulated Online Market

A senator’s efforts to establish a national framework for regulating the advertising of online gaming, including sports betting, was opposed Tuesday by the chief executive of the Canadian Gaming Association, who urged lawmakers to instead support a fully regulated industry.
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Dutch Trade Group Warns On New Affordability Deposit Limits

New affordability-linked deposit limits took effect on Tuesday in the Netherlands, and a top online gambling group is warning that successive restrictions are boosting the attractiveness of the illegal market.
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Brazil Casino Bill Unaffected By Online Gaming Drama, Insists Key Senator

The chief sponsor of a pending Senate bill to regulate land-based casinos and bingo halls insists that his proposal will be unaffected by the series of negative headlines now impeding online gaming in Brazil.
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News In Brief: September 30-October 4, 2024

Michigan bills would earmark more money for problem gambling prevention, New York adds advertising restrictions, the NCAA considers athlete betting and Kenyan politicians are urged to pass new legislation.
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Daily Dash: French Authorities Launch National Campaign To Combat Payment Fraud

France has introduced a nationwide campaign to alert the public to sophisticated fraud techniques, while the UK has outlawed targeting mainstream audiences with ads for certain types of crypto-asset products.
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EBA's Latest Q&As Offer Increased Clarity On PSD2 Implementation

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published three new Q&As covering transaction risk analysis, inactivity periods and contingency mechanism exemptions in relation to the EU’s revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2).
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Wero Says Bonjour As It Launches In France

The European Payments Initiative has officially launched its digital payment wallet, Wero, in France, following its launch in Germany during July.
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Clean Sweep For Google Pay As Dutch Banking Apps Pull Out Of Mobile Payments

To the consternation of consumer watchdogs, Google’s takeover of the Dutch mobile payments market for Android users is now complete, following ING’s decision to withdraw its own mobile payments app.
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Brazil Publishes Whitelists Ahead Of Online Betting Blockade

Brazil’s gambling regulator has published the names of nearly 200 whitelisted betting sites that will not be subject to blocking during the final months of a transition period to a national licensing regime.
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DraftKings To Pay $200,000 Penalty For SEC Violations

DraftKings has agreed to pay a $200,000 penalty to settle charges from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it selectively disclosed non-public information via social media.
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