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District of Columbia lawmakers continued to express concerns about the city's much-maligned sports betting model at a hearing this week, while stakeholders lined up to defend the existing model against new legislation.

Colorado gaming regulators have adopted rules to drastically reduce tax deductions for free bets over the next three years, while approving a redesigned self-exclusion program and new responsible gaming requirements for casinos and online sportsbook operators.

Less than a month after the debut of mobile sports betting, Maryland gaming regulators have approved the state’s largest ever fine through a $146,000 settlement with BetMGM over the acceptance of wagers prior to the market’s official launch.

The European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA) has asked the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) to create a standardised list of markers of harm in gambling.

Ukraine readies new gambling laws to enhance regulator powers and a grenade inside a cake explodes outside Cambodia's Nagaworld Casino.

In a new push to promote least-cost routing (LCR), the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has said it will soon begin publishing “institution-level data” on its uptake and availability.

The Bank of England (BoE) has posted a request for applicants for a contracted service to create a proof of concept (PoC) digital wallet for a central bank digital currency (CBDC).

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has filed a civil penalty action against American Express (Amex) accusing the card giant of knowingly violating Australia’s "design and distribution" rules.

The Ohio Casino Control Commission has issued a notice of intent to deny a mobile sports wagering license to PlayUp and proposed fining Penn Entertainment $250,000 for advertising violations by Barstool Sportsbook, executive director Matthew Schuler said.

Instead of deciding whether the Seminole gambling compact in Florida is legal, three federal appeals judges on Wednesday seemed more interested in determining whether U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland acted within her authority by allowing the compact to become law without doing anything.

On Tuesday (December 13) the Bulgarian Gaming Association (BGA) proposed stricter regulations for itself to curb underage gambling and protect the vulnerable.  The proposal was announced at the “Gambling Commerce in Media Services and Video Sharing Platform Services” roundtable organised by the Council for Electronic Media (CEM), the National Revenue Agency (NRA) and gambling industry trade groups.    The proposals include limiting advertising from gambling operators during broadcasts between 5am and 6pm and would come into effect on January 1.

The Ukrainian Commission for the Regulation of Gambling and Lotteries (KRAIL) has announced it has removed the licences of a number of gambling operators who are active in the country but are “controlled by residents of the Russian Federation”.

The Dutch online gambling industry can expect a spending cap on online gambling, with opportunities for loosening it with something like affordability or addiction-prevention checks, officials seem to agree. Proposed loss limits were a big topic at a Gaming in Holland gambling update in The Hague on Wednesday (December 14), with details yet to come.

The ENABLERS Act, a major piece of legislation that seeks to end a legal loophole in the US anti-money laundering (AML) framework, has been blocked by Republican senators.

Danske Bank has agreed to pay a total of $2.4bn in two US investigations to settle charges by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in what has been described as Europe’s largest anti-money laundering (AML) scandal. Its Danish case is also set to end today with a $0.54bn fine, VIXIO has learned.

Some 90 percent of retail spending and 82 percent of transactions were carried out on debit or credit cards in 2021 in the UK, according to the British Retail Consortium’s latest Payments Survey.

The sports-betting industry is hoping for a major breakthrough when a landmark Florida case goes before a three-judge panel on Wednesday in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C.

Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are addressing concerns associated with gambling harms as they impatiently await the release of the UK government's Gambling Act review white paper.

The European Council has adopted its position on the proposed legislation for a European digital identity (eID) framework, making a fair amount of amendments in the process.

Brazil is on the verge of becoming the first Latin American country to adopt a framework for crypto-assets, setting the bar for other countries in the region to follow.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt has laid out the "Edinburgh Reforms", a list of more than 30 regulatory reforms aimed to "unlock investment" and "turbocharge" growth in the UK.