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'Bespoke Framework' Not Right For Crypto, Say Australian Senators

A report by an Australian Senate committee has recommended against proceeding with a bill that seeks to introduce a "bespoke framework" for the regulation of digital assets.
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Ontario Operators Eager For Guidance On Advertising Changes

Companies offering online gaming and sports betting in Ontario have to be ready to pivot their marketing strategies to proactively comply with recently introduced regulations prohibiting the use of current or retired athletes in advertisements for their products.
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Indiana Fines FanDuel $110,000 For Fraudulent Account Funding

Flutter-owned FanDuel will pay $110,000 to settle five of six counts of violating Indiana sports-betting regulations, according to an agreement approved by the Indiana Gaming Commission.
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Working Group To Trial Affordability, Says UK Commission

The UK Gambling Commission expects to form a working group to trial financial risk checks and is questioning plans to require gamblers to provide their job title for affordability assessments.
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'Bespoke Framework' Not Right For Crypto, Say Australian Senators

A report by an Australian Senate committee has recommended against proceeding with a bill that seeks to introduce a "bespoke framework" for the regulation of digital assets.
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Payments

Ontario Operators Eager For Guidance On Advertising Changes

Companies offering online gaming and sports betting in Ontario have to be ready to pivot their marketing strategies to proactively comply with recently introduced regulations prohibiting the use of current or retired athletes in advertisements for their products.
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Gambling

Indiana Fines FanDuel $110,000 For Fraudulent Account Funding

Flutter-owned FanDuel will pay $110,000 to settle five of six counts of violating Indiana sports-betting regulations, according to an agreement approved by the Indiana Gaming Commission.
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Gambling

Working Group To Trial Affordability, Says UK Commission

The UK Gambling Commission expects to form a working group to trial financial risk checks and is questioning plans to require gamblers to provide their job title for affordability assessments.
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Gambling

Impact Index August 2023

VIXIO’s impact index dropped 10 points in August, below the 2022 average but 30 points higher than August 2022.
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Payments

Has The Metaverse Run Out Of Gas? Not For Banks And Payment Firms, Sources Say

Despite media reports that interest in the metaverse is waning, banks and payments firms are still engaged as the nascent sector moves on from its "hype phase".
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Payments

Brazil Takes Critical Step Toward Full Online Gambling Regulation

Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies has passed a bill to regulate sports betting and online casino games, but only after amending the legislation to limit the duration of licences costing more than $6m to a term of just three years.
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Gambling

Instant Payment Battle Heats Up In The US, As RTP Surpasses 1m Daily Transactions

The Clearing House’s (TCH) real-time payment network (RTP) has hit a major daily transactions milestone, as TCH seeks to highlight the success of its own infrastructure following the launch of FedNow.
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Payments

Too Much Too Soon? UK Crypto Firms Overwhelmed By New FCA Rules

UK crypto firms are struggling to meet new compliance demands set out by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), following its decision to put two major deadlines in two consecutive months.
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Payments

Apple Pay Later Passes On Australia, Citing ’Regulatory Challenges’

One of Apple’s top executives has confirmed that the company has no immediate plans to launch its buy now, pay later product in Australia, despite an ongoing wipeout of local firms from the market.
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Payments

Summer Surge As UK Open Banking Surpasses 11m Milestone

More than 11m payments were made using open banking technology last month, Open Banking Limited has announced, more than double the same time last year.
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Payments

Beyond Brussels: Reaction To The Digital Euro

As the dust settles on the European Commission’s Single Currency Package, there are questions as to how easily the key payments legislation will pass and how the industry will react.
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Payments

Amid Rising Regulatory Tension, U.S. Fantasy Sports Landscape Shifting

Mounting regulatory scrutiny of new variants of daily fantasy sports contests comes amid a significant shake-up of the national leaderboard in a segment formerly synonymous with DraftKings and FanDuel.
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Gambling

Canadian Fintechs Push Government For Renewed Commitment As Open Banking Development Wanes

As open banking struggles are becoming more apparent in Canada, the fintech industry is calling on the government to renew its commitment to open banking.
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Payments

Digital Euro Regulation Delivers More Scepticism Than Clarity

The EU’s payments community has long accepted the inevitability of a digital euro being issued, but that does not mean people are pleased or engaged.
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Payments

BetMGM Launches In UK Using LeoVegas

MGM Resorts International has launched BetMGM in the UK via its subsidiary LeoVegas, but not with Entain, which is joint owner of the same sports-betting and online casino brand in North America.
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Gambling

Early Mover: Singapore Finalises Regulatory Framework For Stablecoins

Singapore is moving towards becoming one of the first jurisdictions to regulate stablecoins, after the central bank finalised a regulatory framework that could soon become law.
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Payments

Brazil’s Sports-Betting Lobbying Battle May Accelerate Broader Gambling Expansion

Sports betting still faces an uncertain path to implementation in Brazil, with one plausible scenario involving the combination of legal amendments with separate legislation to regulate casinos, video-bingo and all forms of online gaming.
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Gambling

Brazil Sports-Betting Regulation Misses Yet Another Deadline

Another promised deadline for the introduction of a so-called provisional measure to regulate sports betting in Brazil has now come and gone, with the congressional recess meaning that the industry is unlikely to see legislation until at least mid-August.
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Gambling

News In Brief: September 19-September 23, 2022

New lotteries created in Brazil, William Hill fined $100,000 in Nevada and PlayUp to complete SPAC listing.
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Nevada Streamlines Regulations, Esports Betting Back On Agenda

The Nevada Gaming Commission has granted final approval to eliminate more than a dozen regulations that the agency’s staff deemed obsolete earlier this year, paving the way for commissioners to consider finalizing new esports betting regulations next month.
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Curaçao Advisor Keen To Address 'Mistruths'

As Curaçao prepares to announce its new licensing fees next week, a key advisor to the minister of finance has addressed a host of “mistruths” about incoming regulatory changes.
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Latin American Regulators May Lack Industry Knowledge, Executives Fear

Several betting operator chief executives lamented the lack of industry understanding among government regulators across Latin America while speaking at the SBC Summit Barcelona on Thursday. 
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Daily Dash: Amazon Prime Execs ‘Fully Aware’ Subscribers Enrolled Without Consent

Three Amazon Prime executives have been named in a complaint by the US Federal Trade Commission for non-consensually enrolling customers to the subscription programme, and SumUp launches 7am next morning payouts to merchant customers in the UK.
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Colombian Agency Charges Visa, Mastercard With Anti-Competitive Cross-Border Payment Restrictions

Colombia’s antitrust watchdog has accused Visa and Mastercard of hindering domestic payment aggregators from offering alternative cross-border payment services.
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Week In Crypto: FTX Sues Former CEO's Parents In Effort To Recover Funds

The Bankman family are asked to give back millions of dollars to FTX, Binance raises doubts over the EU’s incoming stablecoin laws, and a US regulator warns that more crypto enforcement actions are coming.
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News In Brief: September 18-September 22, 2023

Thousands of people in Kentucky are pre-registered already in anticipation of the launch of online sports betting next week. 
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Holding Upper Hand In Court, Seminoles In No Rush To Resume Bets In Florida

All the buzz about the potential return of sports betting in Florida as early as this week appears to be fading, and the Seminole Tribe seems content to let the legal process play out before rebooting online wagering operations.
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Match-Fixing, Sponsorship Bans Affecting Latin American Betting Landscape

Match-fixing investigations and sports-betting sponsorship bans are taking their toll on marketing plans across the Latin American region, say local sports executives.
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Sweden To Hike Gambling Taxes

Sweden plans to increase its gambling tax to 22 percent of revenue from Summer 2024, arguing the market is stable and highly channelled and can bear the brunt of extra costs.
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