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Operators are facing up to the twin challenges of submitting a licence application in Brazil within a tight window of 90 days, while also reacting to a regulatory regime that is still evolving.

The European Council’s approval of the EU’s package of new anti-money-laundering (AML) regulations will benefit online gambling operators by standardising AML rules and reporting requirements, according to the European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA).

Visa and Mastercard have agreed to pay $197m to settle a “longstanding” and “hard-fought” class action alleging antitrust violations by the two card networks.

Merchants are pushing back on a European Parliament charge to fully prohibit surcharging, despite it having been largely banned in the Payment Services Directive (PSD2).

The head of a key UK payments regulator has tendered his resignation, while Swift has launched new pilots using AI to combat cross-border payments fraud.

As concern mounts among investors that states will follow the lead of Ohio and Illinois to raise headline tax rates on sports wagering, promotional play deductions remain a significant source of savings for operators that a few states have since looked to revisit.

In the latest of a series of actions cracking down on illegal online gambling, the Michigan Gaming Control Board has issued a cease-and-desist letter to offshore sportsbook Bovada and is also requiring licensed suppliers to attest that they do not provide games to illegal operators internationally.

Another FTX executive receives a custodial sentence, a Binance compliance chief falls “seriously ill” while on trial in Nigeria, and Binance announces a $3 incentive for customers to undergo "know your customer" checks.

Nordic banks have warned the European Commission of the potential exacerbation of fraud risks under new EU regulations, citing proposed changes to payment service provider liability and advocating for stricter oversight of telecom companies and intensified efforts to combat fraud on social media platforms.

Pay.UK’s fraud detection and prevention pilot, in collaboration with Visa, Synectics Solutions and Featurespace, has shown a 40 percent uplift in fraud detection.

A senior official at the Bank of Canada has expressed frustration at the repeated delays to the launch of the country’s instant payment system, while Latvia is seeing results in its fight against phone scams.

Sweden's Court of Appeal has upheld enforcement action against Mr Green, although it more than halved the penalty the operator was ordered to pay.

The UK’s general election on July 4 is widely expected to usher in a new government after 14 years of Conservative Party rule, with the Labour Party likely to take over implementing the Gambling Act Review.

A player refund case has been dismissed in the Netherlands after a judge found in favour of Entain-owned Bwin.

A new report commissioned by the Swedish Trade Association for Online Gambling says a proposed tax increase would lead to licensed gambling market share dropping between 1.2 to 2.5 percent and could create more than a thousand problem gamblers.

Two of India’s largest banks, Yes Bank and ICICI Bank, have each been fined more than $100,000 following supervisory investigations into their internal practices.

Payments companies in the UK must put in place fraud-reporting measures and inform customers of their reimbursement rights under new regulations coming into force in October this year, the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has said.

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The ongoing revision of the EU’s Payment Services Directive (PSD2) is a prime opportunity to address the challenges and ambiguity surrounding virtual IBANs, Belgian officials chairing talks among EU governments have said in documents seen by 91����ԭ��.

Bulgaria’s efforts to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing have received praise from MONEYVAL, while the Bank of Israel has launched a new developer challenge to find use cases for central bank digital currency.

The Nevada Gaming Control Board has issued a series of guidelines designed to expedite the evaluation of new gaming technology by agency staff.