Insights Archive

March 5, 2025

Regulatory Influencer: India’s Payments Vision 2025: The Home Stretch

In 2022, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) set out a Payments Vision with 36 regulatory initiatives to enhance the payments landscape in the world's most populous country by 2025.

March 5, 2025

Bowing To Pressure From Banks, Russia Postpones Digital Ruble Launch

The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) has announced that it will postpone the launch of the digital ruble, citing the need for further consultation with banks and merchants.

March 5, 2025

Consumer Groups Lead Defence Of CFPB Digital Payment Regulation

US consumer protection groups are spearheading the defence of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau's (CFPB's) Digital Payment Regulation, which seeks to govern large fintech companies under the same rules as banks and other financial companies.

March 5, 2025

Singapore Reaffirms BNPL Safeguards After Fresh Parliamentary Inquiry

The Singaporean government has reinforced its stance on the regulation and oversight of buy now, pay later (BNPL) schemes as their popularity grows among young consumers in the city-state.

March 5, 2025

Australian Gambling Spend Surges To New High

Australian gambling spend, for a long time the world’s largest per capita, hit a new record of A$31.5bn ($19.7bn) in the year ending June 2023, according to a new report.

March 5, 2025

FanDuel, DraftKings Eye Potential Prediction Markets Opportunity

The chief executives of the two dominant brands in U.S. sports betting agreed Tuesday that the emerging prediction market space could present an opportunity, though they remained guarded in saying so.

March 4, 2025

New Jersey Regulator Seeks Authority To License, Ban Sweepstakes Operators

A pending bill to regulate online sweepstakes casinos would give New Jersey gaming regulators the clear legal authority over sweepstakes businesses that they do not currently have, according to a senior gaming official.

March 4, 2025

Modernising Harm Reduction Approaches Proliferating Use Of AI Monitoring Systems

The use of AI monitoring systems by operators to tackle gambling-related harms has been accelerated by a desire among regulators to modernise their approaches to reducing harms, says one of the sector's leading companies.

March 4, 2025

Trump Administration To Scrap Corporate Transparency Act For US Citizens, Companies

In the latest twist to the rollout of the Corporate Transparency Act, the Trump administration has vowed to exempt US citizens and companies from its controversial beneficial ownership reporting requirements.

March 4, 2025

UAE Debuts Domestic Payment Card

In a key milestone in the United Arab Emirates’ digital transformation strategy, the country has introduced a new domestic payments card for consumer use.

March 4, 2025

EU Lawmaker Presses Commission On Online Fraud Protection Amid Rising Threats

With online fraud increasing, a member of the European Parliament has called on the European Commission to strengthen consumer protection measures and enhance the security of digital transactions.

March 4, 2025

Latvia Adopts Interventionist Approach To De-Risking

The Bank of Latvia is taking an active role in mitigating disputes between commercial banks and their clients by encouraging the use of its mediation service.

March 4, 2025

AG Communications To Pay £1.4m For UK AML, Social Responsibility Failures

AG Communications Limited will pay £1,407,834 to the UK Gambling Commission for a raft of social responsibility and anti-money laundering (AML) failures.

March 4, 2025

Thai Ministers Cut Wealth Restriction For Locals From IR Draft

The Thai government has removed a gambler cash asset stipulation from draft integrated resort (IR) legislation that would have blocked entry to all but the wealthiest of Thais.

March 3, 2025

California Tribes Target Offshore Gaming Amid Ongoing Casino Dispute

Amid infighting between certain California tribes over two federally approved casinos, the state’s top tribal gaming advocate has stressed the importance of tribes working together to tackle illegal gambling.

March 3, 2025

Final Draft Of Delayed Gibraltar Gambling Act Due Within Weeks

Gibraltar’s new Gambling Act is “a little delayed”, according to the territory's gambling commissioner Andrew Lyman.

March 3, 2025

CFPB Drops Five Enforcement Actions As Director Nominee Answers To Senate

In what appears to be a carefully timed publicity stunt, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has halted five enforcement actions as its new director nominee spoke before the US Senate.

March 3, 2025

SEC Issues Staff Statement On Meme Coins, Describes Them As 'Collectibles'

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that meme coins, such as the one issued by President Trump, are akin to "collectibles" and will not be considered "securities".

March 3, 2025

EU's Reliance On Foreign Card Schemes Raises Sovereignty Concerns For ECB

A new report on the state of the European card payments market suggests that the EU’s continued dependence on international card schemes and foreign-owned payment processors is a threat to the bloc’s financial sovereignty.

March 3, 2025

Malta Expands Outcomes-Based Supervision To All Financial Sectors In 2025

The Malta Financial Services Authority has announced that its Compliance Outcomes-Based Supervision model, initially piloted in 2024, will be extended to all financial services sectors in 2025.

February 28, 2025

Nevada Regulators Eliminate Foreign Gaming Grandfather Clause

Nevada regulators instituted their first foreign gaming approval requirements nearly 50 years ago after New Jersey voters approved casino gaming, but they have since eased those rules considerably as more jurisdictions have legalized gaming.