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EBA Slams Fintechs Over Lax Compliance In New AML Risk Assessment

In its latest risk assessment, the European Banking Authority (EBA) has warned that poor practices and a lack of experience at fintechs, including payments and crypto firms, are undermining efforts to tackle financial crime.
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AI Joint Venture Demonstrates UAE’s Digital and Financial Ambitions

The Middle Eastern state continues to harness financial services as an asset, moving to modernise its payments infrastructure through a public-private initiative involving the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI).
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Brazil Minister Rattles Industry With Regulatory Remorse

The government minister responsible for Brazil’s federal betting regulator is considering stricter rules on advertising and online casino games and says he would even outlaw online gambling altogether if given the opportunity.
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Romanian Government Eyes Legislation To Decentralise Gambling Licensing

Romanian Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan has announced that his government plans to propose a draft legislation that will enable municipal authorities to decide on licences for local gambling outlets.
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Week In Crypto: Binance US CEO Quits Amid SEC Discovery Battle

Binance US loses another CEO and more than 100 employees, a crypto co-founder is sentenced to 20 years in prison, and the UK’s new crypto promotion rules may have claimed their first victim.
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Payments

Bank Of America Settles ACH Payments Fee Class Action

The US big bank has agreed to pay $8m and stop charging fees for sending Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments in order to settle class action claims.
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Payments

Daily Dash: Debit Cards Now Make Up 50 Percent Of UK Payments

A new report from UK Finance has revealed that debit cards now make up half of overall UK transitions, while US financial regulators have come down hard in a second non-fungible token (NFT) case.
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Payments

News In Brief: September 11-September 15, 2023

The UK Gambling Commission to set up an industry forum and Sweden's regulator will get more money to combat match-fixing and illegal operators.
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Gambling

PAGCOR Online Rate Cuts Please Operators, Fuel Casino Growth

Local-facing online gambling interests in the Philippines are more bullish about the future, amid falling taxes and regulator sympathy over encroachment on the sector by illegal operators.
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Gambling

Kindred, Betsson Withdrawing From Norway, Regulator Says

The Norwegian Gambling Authority has said that companies it has claimed were operating illegally in Norway, including Betsson and Kindred, have begun to withdraw.
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Gambling

Chicago Becomes Largest City In North America To Open Casino

They started lining up at 6:30am for the 8am opening on September 9 of Bally’s Corporation’s temporary casino at the Medinah Temple in Chicago and gamblers will continue to patronize the historic building with Moorish Revival architecture for the next three years.
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Gambling

Missouri Sports Teams Ready To Pitch Legal Betting Directly To Voters

Missouri's professional sports teams are prepared to bypass the legislature in favor of a ballot referendum to legalize sports betting, amid a lack of optimism that a legislative logjam can be broken in 2024.
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Gambling

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

Chilean Court Orders ISP Blocking For Online Operators

The Supreme Court of Chile has ordered a leading internet service provider (ISP) to block a total of 23 online betting platforms that judges agreed were offering illegal activity in the country.
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Gambling

Financial Board Questions Curaçao Estimate Of €20.7m In Gambling Revenue

Curaçao expects the equivalent of €20.7m from gambling licensing fees from 2024, but a financial board asked for advice and questioned the estimates due to delays in passing enabling legislation.
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Gambling

Kenyan Legal Battle Against Excise Duty Continues

The Kenyan Revenue Authority and the Attorney General are in a legal battle against a local lawyer over the right to deduct a 12.5 percent excise duty on wagers. 
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Gambling

EU Consumer Credit Directive Crosses Finish Line

Buy now, pay later and credit card agreements are set for tighter EU regulation, after members of the European Parliament held their final vote on the legislation.
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Payments

PAGCOR Lowering Local Online Fees, Will Publish Licensee URLs

Philippine gambling regulator PAGCOR is lowering franchise fees for domestic online gambling and is set to publish gambling website addresses of its licensees amid ramping promises of internal reform, greater transparency and market growth.
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Gambling

News In Brief: September 11-September 15, 2023

Five sports-betting operators submit Vermont bids, ransomware group takes credit for MGM "cyberattack" and Dutch regulator hands two licensees mandatory instructions.
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Gambling

Daily Dash: Hong Kong And Israel Sign Off On CBDC Project

The central banks of Hong Kong and Israel have completed a CBDC study focused on non-bank intermediaries and cybersecurity, while the Biden administration has succeeded in persuading more firms to sign up to its AI principles.
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Payments

MGM Resorts Struck By Massive Cyberattack

Officials at MGM Resorts International continue to make progress in recovering from a cyberattack that affected credit card transactions, gaming operations and other computerized systems throughout its resorts.
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Gambling

Dutch Regulator Finds Shortcomings In Duty Of Care

The Netherlands Gambling Authority said it has found shortcomings in gambling licensees’ duty of care responsibility to prevent gambling addiction, so it will tighten its own codes, and recommends clarifying changes to legislation and Ministry of Justice regulations.
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Gambling

FIFA Bans Three Brazilian Players For Life In Match-Fixing Case

Three Brazilian footballers have been banned for life from the "beautiful game" by FIFA, as punishment for their complicity in match-fixing. 
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Gambling

Brazil Set To Place Big Bet On Online Casino

The lower house of Brazil’s Congress is poised to vote Wednesday on a heavily amended sports-betting bill that would also now authorise online casino games while maintaining high taxes and fees that have been sharply criticised by operators.
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European Council’s PSR/PSD3 Text Fails Open Banking, Warns Trade Association

With tensions over the EU’s payments legislation rising, critics warn that flaws in the Council’s position could have devastating consequences for fintech business models.
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News In Brief: August 4-August 8, 2025

Dutch government warned that gambling tax hike will benefit black market, while ban on bonuses promoted by Spain's Ministry Of Social Rights and Chinese partners terminate Star Entertainment deal.
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Irish Bookmakers Warn Against Potential Betting Duty Tax Increase

The Irish Bookmakers Association (IBA) has warned the government against including a 0.5 percent to 1 percent increase in betting duty tax in the 2026 budget, fearing it will result in job losses and betting shop closures.
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Regulatory Influencer: China’s Shift To ‘Long-Term’ Licensing Signals Payments System Maturity

The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) has issued its first batch of “long-term” licences to non-bank payment institutions, in line with its efforts to tighten supervision of the sector.
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Bank Of Ghana Warns Remittance Firms Over Persistent Regulatory Breaches

Ghana’s financial watchdog has raised the alarm over persistent compliance failures in the remittance market and stated that firms failing to address violations will face sanctions.
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GambleAware’s Demise Stokes Fears Over Future Of UK Research, Treatment

The UK’s most prominent gambling charity GambleAware has announced it will close as a result of the new mandatory responsible gambling levy, raising questions about the future of funding for addiction treatment and the potential politicisation of research.
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AUSTRAC Prosecutes Leading Operator Of Slot Machine Venues

Australian financial transactions regulator AUSTRAC is prosecuting a leading club owner and slot machine operator over “serious and systemic” violations of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) laws.
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Oregon Lottery Seeks To Ensure Integrity, Security In Regulating Couriers

Mike Wells, director of the Oregon Lottery, admitted it has maintained a neutral stance on lottery courier services over the years, a position that has changed as more of the services operate in the state, with no formal regulatory oversight.
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CFPB Hits Pause On Open Banking Rule Rewrite

The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is backing away from its earlier push to scrap a key open banking regulation, instead asking a federal court to pause litigation so it can develop a revised version of the rule.
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Ukraine Adopts EU-Style Open Banking Rules

The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has approved a comprehensive package of regulations to implement open banking in Ukraine, supporting the country's efforts to align with the EU.
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