Insights Archive

January 22, 2025

Virginia Skill Games Bill In Doubt As Gaming Commission Garners Support

Virginia Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin remains reluctant to legalize skill-game machines, calling on lawmakers to instead pass a bill this session to create a gaming commission before any further expansion is considered.

January 22, 2025

French Gambling Leaders Set The Stakes For Online Casino Battle

French gambling interests all agree that the nation is firmly on a path to open its online casino market, but they remain divided on when and how it should happen.

January 22, 2025

Norway Regulator Blind To Online Licensing Debate, Trade Group Says

Norway is not debating whether it should follow Finland in licensing online gambling, according to the head of the Norwegian gambling regulator, but a local online trade group disagrees.

January 22, 2025

Daily Dash: Bank Of Ireland Welcomes New Suite Of Fraud Prevention Commitments

Ireland’s largest commercial bank has welcomed a new suite of fraud prevention commitments unveiled by the Irish government last week, including new data-sharing powers for financial institutions.

January 22, 2025

Daily Dash: European Payments Council Taps Swift For Verification Of Payee Scheme

The European Payments Council has announced the launch of the EPC Directory Service development project, selecting Swift as its supplier.

January 22, 2025

Fintech Buoyant As Trump Era Gets Underway In US

With President Trump’s nominees for several high-profile roles in the US government coming from the payments and fintech sectors, professionals anticipate favourable conditions and less bureaucracy.

January 22, 2025

EBA Clarifies PSD2 Rules On Safeguarding, Fraud And Transparency

The European Banking Authority has issued a variety of legal clarifications regarding the payments landscape in the EU, responding to queries from both the market and regulators.

January 21, 2025

UK Gambling Commission Takes Aim At Aggregators

The UK Gambling Commission has fired a warning shot to suppliers: stop doing business with unlicensed businesses.

January 21, 2025

Spain's Regulator Pledges To Restore Ad Ban For 'Very Unbalanced' Market

Spain’s most senior gambling regulator is promising tougher measures and the return of an advertising ban defeated in the Supreme Court, arguing that the industry makes too much profit from its highest spending players.

January 21, 2025

Esports Betting Struggles For Acceptance Among U.S. Gamblers

At the start of the 2020s, almost the entire sports-betting industry saw gambling on esports as the next big thing, but the industry has struggled to meet those lofty expectations.

January 21, 2025

EU Shift Could Help Tackle Booming Illegal Gambling Market

A shift in Europe's political landscape toward non-conventional and right-wing politics offers the gambling industry an opportunity to influence lawmakers and collaboratively tackle the rising global threat of illegal gambling, senior industry figures have said.

January 21, 2025

Daily Dash: Lithuanian Payments Firms Experience Another Surge

Revenues of e-money institutions and payment institutions soared in Q3 2024, with licensing income rising by 22 percent year-on-year to €431.4m and payment transaction volumes up 37 percent to €141bn.

January 21, 2025

Daily Dash: Estonia Looks For Solutions To Growing Fraud Problems

The country has seen a rise in fraud, particularly relating to cross-border transactions, phishing emails, scam calls and other manipulation schemes, according to the Estonian Payment Environment Forum.

January 21, 2025

EBA Makes New Clarifications On E-Money And Third Country Rules

In its latest Q&As, the European Banking Authority (EBA) has issued a series of important clarifications concerning payment services and electronic money under EU law.

January 21, 2025

Regulatory Influencer: Costa Rica's New Card Regulations

The Central Bank of Costa Rica has introduced a new legal framework, with staggered implementation dates from February 20, 2025 onwards, aimed at improving efficiency, security and affordability of Costa Rica’s payment cards. Key aspects of the framework include caps on fees for local and cross-border payment transactions.

January 20, 2025

New Dutch Regulator Expects Tough Year Ahead

The head of the Dutch gambling regulator continues to refine market regulation, promising advertising fines and collaboration on duty of care, but faces a backdrop of political vitriol so potent it threatens to eliminate the entire licensed market.

January 20, 2025

Peru Temporarily Lowers Consumption Tax

Peru’s Ministry of Economy and Finance has published a decree that modifies the controversial selective consumption tax (ISC) for online sports and gaming, lowering the rate from 1 percent to 0.3 percent for the next six months.

January 20, 2025

The Paradox Of Cross-Border Payments Development

Even as advances in technology increase the speed of cross-border payments, geopolitical challenges are blocking consumers’ ability to send money where they want.

January 20, 2025

FCA Pinpoints Payments To Accelerate Growth In Letter To PM

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has unveiled plans to accelerate innovation, streamline regulations and support the financial services sector’s competitiveness.

January 20, 2025

Daily Dash: PSR Updates Strategy With Innovation And Consumer Protection Focus

The UK’s Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has unveiled an updated strategy outlining its priorities for the UK payments ecosystem, building on its 2022 five-year plan.

January 20, 2025

New York Sets Out Consumer Protection Reforms In Banking And Payments

As part of her 2025 State of the State address, New York Governor Kathy Hochul has announced plans to target issues such as scams and the rise in unregulated buy now, pay later use.