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Month
Gambling
Payments
Jurisdiction
July 10, 2024

Iowa Regulators Fine Tipico $20,000, Assess Timeline For Potential 20th Casino

The Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission plans to hold a meeting on Friday to set a timeline for dealing with any applications for a new casino license, a process that has been on hold during the state’s two-year licensing moratorium that recently expired.
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July 10, 2024

Gaming Industry Still Vulnerable, Appealing For Cyberattacks

Following a series of high-profile cyberattacks on gaming companies in the last 12 months, industry officials have said the combination of money and data possessed by operators continues to make them an attractive target for hackers.
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July 10, 2024

Brazil's New Taxes Raise Questions With No Ready Answers

Brazil’s proposed "sin" tax on online betting and other forms of gambling is being met with confusion from within the industry. 
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July 10, 2024

UK Bans Another EA Ad For Not Adequately Disclosing Loot Boxes

The UK’s advertising watchdog has banned another Electronic Arts (EA) advert for failing to adequately disclose that its game contained the ability to purchase loot boxes. 
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July 10, 2024

Dutch And German Regulators Release DORA Compliance Guidelines And Checklist

Financial institutions in the Netherlands and Germany have access to new resources to help them prepare for the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), which comes into effect on January 17, 2025.
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July 10, 2024

Daily Dash: Canada Proposes Strengthened Regulations For Money Services Businesses

Canada’s federal government is looking to introduce criminal record checks for key personnel at domestic money service businesses, while BNP Paribas has been fined for "severe" AML failures in Luxembourg.
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July 10, 2024

Casinos Top AUSTRAC's List For Laundering Risk In Gambling

Australia’s financial transactions regulator has issued a three-year forecast for money laundering vulnerability that rates the gambling sector overall as stable and medium risk.
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July 9, 2024

Brazil Lawmakers Propose New 'Sin Tax' On Gambling

A congressional working group to implement a major Brazilian tax reform bill has proposed that all fixed-odd betting, sweepstakes, games of chance and fantasy sports should be subject to a so-called "sin" tax.
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July 9, 2024

Ohio Regulator Seeks Comment On Updated Promotions, Bonuses Rule

Ohio sports-betting operators have until Friday to submit comments on an updated amendment to promotional and bonus regulations that seek to clarify how licensees can offer inducements connected to non-gaming transactions.
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July 9, 2024

Nigeria Issues New Withholding Tax Regulations, Including Some Gambling Exemptions

Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Finance has issued new regulations for deducting taxes from a range of payments at their source, including winnings from games of chance.
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July 9, 2024

FinTech Australia Urges Regulators To Publish Clearer Data On Open Banking

A key fintech association in Australia is challenging the country’s regulators to offer more accurate open banking data, as disagreements emerge over how to quantify consumer adoption.
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July 9, 2024

EU Rejects Citizen Petition To Amend PSD2 Due To Costs

Polish citizen Krzysztof Banasiewicz’s petition urged amendments to the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) to ease the financial challenges faced by intra-EU emigrants and enhance security for payment service providers.
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July 9, 2024

EBA Sets Out Its MiCA Supervisory Priorities For 2024/2025

Internal governance and risk management and financial crime risk management will be among the European Banking Authority’s (EBA) key areas of focus for the coming year.
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July 9, 2024

Daily Dash: Visa, Mastercard Extend EU Antitrust Commitments On Interchange Fees

Visa and Mastercard have volunteered to extend a key antitrust commitment in the EU, while the first phase of a payment linkage between Russia and Iran is set to go live next month.
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July 9, 2024

Philippine Finance Minister To Recommend POGO Shutdown

The Philippine finance minister has said he will recommend to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr that foreign-facing online gambling operations be shut down amid escalating reports of criminal activity, violence and congressional anger.
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July 8, 2024

Virginia Fines Rush Street Gaming's Rivers Casino $545,000

Rivers Casino in Portsmouth, Virginia, has agreed to pay more than a half-million dollars in fines to settle several violations of state gaming regulations that occurred last year and earlier this year.
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July 8, 2024

Regulatory Influencer: FATF Updates Its 'Greylist' to Include Monaco and Venezuela

On June 28, 2024, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) published its updated list of jurisdictions under increased monitoring, commonly referred to as the "greylist".
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July 8, 2024

Daily Dash: Dutch Finance Minister Proposes Law To Restrict UBO Register Access

The Netherlands has introduced a new draft law that will restrict access to ultimate beneficial owner registers, while Hong Kong has issued an AML fine to the local subsidiary of Singapore’s largest bank.
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July 8, 2024

Open Banking In Australia Has Failed To Live Up To Its Potential, Says ABA

The head of the Australian Banking Association (ABA) has said its members are seeing little return on their investment after spending heavily on open banking implementation.
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July 8, 2024

Chile Overhauls Payment Card Regulations

The Central Bank of Chile has updated the regulations concerning the issuance and operation of payment cards to reflect changes in the country’s retail payment sector.
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July 8, 2024

UK Fintech Sector Readies Its Wishlist And Waits To Hear Labour's Priorities

Fintech players have urged the incoming Labour government in the UK to revive the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill and halt plans for authorised push payment scam reimbursements, but whether these issues will be addressed remains to be seen.
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