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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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Update: Lead Crypto Prosecutor Joins U.S. National Crypto Enforcement Team

The U.S. Department of Justice has appointed Eun Young Choi to serve as the first director of the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team.
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Payments

Swedbank Off The Hook Over PSD2 Compliance

Sweden’s financial watchdog has told the retail banking giant that it has closed its investigation; however, it warned that there are some areas where strong customer authentication compliance is not up to scratch.
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Payments

Report Shows 'Shocking Scale' Of UK Black Market, Says BGC

UK trade group the Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) is urging the government to “consider targeted measures” to protect vulnerable players in the long-awaited Gambling Act white paper.
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Gambling

Philippine Senate To Probe Missing Cockfighting Gamblers

The Philippine Senate is set to launch an investigation into rising missing person cases linked to cockfighting and associated online gambling activity.
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Gambling

Denmark Reprimands Kindred Again Over AML Policies

The Danish Gambling Authority (Spillemyndigheden) has given Kindred Group’s Unibet brand four reprimands over lax anti-money laundering and due diligence policies and ordered it to fix its risk-assessment policies.
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Gambling

DraftKings Shares Plummet After Loss Widens, Revenues Beat Expectations

DraftKings stock tumbled more than 20 percent Friday despite the company meeting its revenue projections, a potential sign of investor impatience with the company’s high customer acquisition spending.
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Gambling

Baltic Online Markets Soar Past €400m In 2021

Overall regulated online gambling revenue in the Baltic region jumped by 84 percent year-on-year to €409m in 2021, with exaggerated channel shift helping Latvia and Lithuania to become the latest European markets to pass €100m in annual market size.
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Gambling

Week In Brief - February 18, 2022

A short roundup of some of the week's payments news you may have missed. This week we look at UK Finance's response to FCA Consumer Duty proposals, the threat of crypto to global financial stability, new fintech laws in Egypt, BlockFi's settlement with the SEC and the huge rise in dating fraud in the U.S.
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Payments

EPC Launch QR Standardisation Consultation

Hot off the heels of Ant Group’s report on QR codes in the EU, the European Payments Council (EPC) has published a new consultation regarding standardisation in the trading bloc.
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Payments

Ceasefire! Amazon And Visa Reach Global Agreement

After months of negotiations, a clash of the titans row that has engulfed the payments industry and caused wider debate appears to be over, as the companies announced a new arrangement regarding payment fees. However, could further fee regulation be on the cards?
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Payments

New AML Platform To Build TRUST In Crypto Trading

Leading U.S. crypto firms have joined forces to build a platform called TRUST to comply with travel rule requirements and anti-money laundering (AML) rules.
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Payments

Arkansas Mobile Sports-Betting Rules Clear First Legislative Hurdle

Controversial rules that will allow for mobile sports betting in Arkansas but could also keep major national operators on the sidelines cleared the first of two legislative hurdles on Thursday.
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Gambling

Swedish Relief As Harsh Measures Left Out Of Government Proposals

Recent government proposals to update Swedish gambling law are a relief because none of the online gambling-unfriendly measures floated over the past few months were implemented, an online gambling trade lobbyist has said.
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Gambling

Nevada Regulators Approve Apollo To Buy Las Vegas Sands Strip Casinos

Apollo Global Management received final approval from Nevada gaming regulators on Thursday for its portion of the $6.25bn deal to acquire the operations of the Strip properties owned by Las Vegas Sands.
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Gambling

Nigeria Regulator Urges Lawmakers To 'Speed Up' Legal Amendments

The head of Nigeria’s federal gambling regulator wants the National Assembly to speed up the introduction of an amendment to the National Lottery Act that would improve taxation and clamp down on unlicensed operators.
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Gambling

News In Brief: February 14-February 18, 2022

More French teenagers are gambling, according to a survey by the national regulator, with very high exposure to advertising a key motivating factor.
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Gambling

CFPB‌ ‌Takes‌ ‌Aim‌ ‌At‌ ‌Prepaid‌ ‌Card‌s Used For Welfare Benefits

Latest in the line of recent regulatory announcements, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is now looking at fees and conditions of prepaid cards used to distribute U.S. government payments.
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Payments

China To Allow Fee To Prevent CBDC Bank Runs

Mu Changchun, the People’s Bank of China’s digital currency lead, has given more hints to the world about how the most significant central bank digital currency (CBDC) project in a major economy is evolving.
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Payments

Which? Gives Food For Thought To Using BNPL

The UK consumer association warns that using buy now, pay later (BNPL) to pay for basic food shopping could be a sign of problem debt.
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Payments

Russian Banks Complete First Digital Ruble Test

State-backed financial institutions VTB Bank and Promsvyazbank have conducted the first successful transactions with a digital ruble issued on the test version of the Bank of Russia’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) platform.
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Australia’s Card Fraud Hits A$913m As Overseas Online Fraud Continues To Rise

Overseas card-not-present (CNP) fraud now accounts for the largest share of the country’s card fraud losses, according to new figures from the Australian Payments Network (AusPayNet).
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Zelle Slams New York Attorney General’s Lawsuit As “Political Stunt”

US payments company Early Warning Systems has rejected allegations, made in a lawsuit filed by the state’s attorney general, Leticia James, that it allowed fraud on its Zelle platform.
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PSR Announces Plans To Revoke Two Specific Directions

The UK’s Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has opted to revoke Specific Direction 2 (SD2) and Specific Direction 4 (SD4), with the changes due to come into force in late August 2025.
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EBA Calls For Increased Use Of Suptech, But Warns That Challenges Remain

The authority believes that supervisory technology (suptech) tools can make anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) supervision more effective, but warns that legal, operational and resource hurdles could slow adoption.
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Polymarket Blocked In Australia After Regulator Probe

Australia’s national online gambling regulator has declared Polymarket to be a prohibited service after completing a probe into the prediction market platform that included a formal warning to its U.S.-based owners.
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Pennsylvania Senators Propose Bipartisan Deal To Regulate Skill Games

A bipartisan bill is being proposed by two Pennsylvania senators regarding the regulation of skill games, a contentious issue that has divided lawmakers, skill game suppliers and the state’s regulated gaming industry.
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Regulatory Influencer: Isle of Man Signals Major Crackdown on AML Failures in Gambling Sector

The Isle of Man is entering a new era of regulatory enforcement, with recent actions and legislative reforms from the Gambling Supervision Commission (GSC) focusing on money laundering risks in the gambling sector. Driven by rising concerns over the exploitation of global online gambling hubs by transnational crime groups, particularly out of East and Southeast Asia, the island is tightening its financial crime defences and regulatory scrutiny.
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Chile Delays Phasing-Out Of Coordinate Cards Until 2026

The Chilean Financial Market Commission (CMF) has delayed by one year the elimination of coordinate cards as an authentication method for electronic payments and transfers, moving the deadline from 2025 to August 1, 2026.
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Indian States Push For National Solution To Online Skill Gaming

India’s regional governments are intensifying pressure on New Delhi to create or block a national regulatory framework for online gaming, as the Supreme Court wraps up hearings in a case critical to the industry’s future.
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Former Regulators Say Increased Fines May Not Be Effective Enforcement Deterrent

Former state regulators say including top executives in compliance actions, including potential individual sanctions, may be a more effective deterrent for bad behavior in the U.S. market than headline-grabbing fines.
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