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The Bank for International Settlements' (BIS) Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures has set out new measures to promote the adoption of harmonised ISO 20022 data standards.

Greentube Alderney Limited will pay £1m as part of its regulatory settlement with the UK Gambling Commission after an investigation revealed a raft of social responsibility and anti-money laundering failures.

Immigration officials in the Philippines have arrested around 400 foreign nationals allegedly manning a foreign-facing online gambling (POGO) and cyber-scamming operation in Metro Manila.

California tribal gaming leaders are confident their lawsuit claiming dozens of cardrooms are illegally offering house-banked table games, such as blackjack and baccarat, will be successful in protecting their exclusivity rights to offer casino games in the Golden State.

The European gambling industry enters 2025 in its most divided form, with the landscape increasingly split between large listed companies devoted to regulated markets, joining forces with regulators to pressure a reconstituting offshore market on the other side.

A new survey from Deutsche Bundesbank has found that cash remains German consumers’ preferred payment method, signalling potential challenges for the digital euro.

The Bank of Ghana has published a draft of the country's first open banking directive for regulated financial institutions, with a 30-day comment period.

The heavily sanctioned jurisdiction appears to have similar goals to its Western counterparts, with its new two-year strategy for payments pushing for digitisation and alternatives to cards.

Agency officials and technology leaders have told Vixio that regulation of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the US payments sector must be limited and allow for innovation.

The European Payments Initiative (EPI) and Germany’s Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken cooperative financial network have announced the successful completion of the first end-to-end Wero e-commerce payment transaction.

Thailand’s deputy prime minister has confirmed the government will discuss legalisation of online gambling, following comments by influential former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in support of reform.

Ecuador's President has enacted a decree to reform the country's sports-betting taxation regime and introduce a licensing framework.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday he is resigning after almost a decade in power, a decision that likely puts an end to a legislative effort to establish a national framework for regulating sports-betting advertising.

The Netherlands’ gambling regulator has imposed a fine of €1.05m on Alimaniere Sociedad De Responsabilidad Limitada for offering gambling illegally.

Lawmakers in Massachusetts have enacted a landmark bill that will bring all money transmitters, including peer-to-peer (P2P) apps such as Venmo, PayPal and Cash App, under a single licensing regime for the first time.

Digital payments continue to rise across the euro area, but cash remains a key payment method, especially for in-store transactions and small-value exchanges, according to the European Central Bank’s latest study on consumer payment attitudes.

South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) has announced proposed amendments to the country’s supervisory regulations for specialised credit financial businesses.

The Central Bank of Costa Rica has introduced a wide-ranging legal framework that aims to introduce rules similar to those set out in the EU’s Payment Services Directive and the US Durbin Amendment.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed off on a law to shut down the country’s gambling regulator and replace it with a new authority.

As state legislatures in Virginia and Maryland prepare to open their 2025 sessions on Wednesday, among the myriad of bills pre-filed in both states are measures to legalize and regulate internet casino games.

As part of our ongoing series on the European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), this readiness guide is aimed at helping affected businesses and organisations meet initial and ongoing reporting requirements prescribed by the CSRD and the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS).Under the CSRD, large companies and public-interest entities already subject to the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD) were required to produce a sustainability report by January 1, 2025 that covers the 2024 financial year. The directive is part of the larger European Green Deal, which is a set of policies that aim to make the EU climate neutral by 2050. The CSRD will replace the former NFRD.