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April 14, 2025

ESMA, ECB Warn Of Crypto Risks As Industry Urges Focus On MiCA Rollout

Senior officials from the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and the European Central Bank (ECB) remain cautious of potential financial stability risks posed by the rapid growth of crypto-asset markets, calling for strong supervisory implementation of existing rules and international coordination to prevent emerging threats.
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April 14, 2025

Block Hit With $40m Fine For AML Breaches

New York鈥檚 Department for Financial Services has fined US payments firm Block $40m (拢30.6m) for "significant" failures in its Bank Secrecy Act /anti-money laundering compliance programme.
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April 14, 2025

Open Banking Limited Unveils Long Awaited Commercial VRP Proposals

Open Banking Limited has published the much-anticipated proposals for commercial variable recurring payments in the UK, marking a step forward for the potential direct debit disrupter.
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April 14, 2025

Maharashtra Floats Licensing Regime For Online Skill Games

One of India鈥檚 largest three states by population, Maharashtra, is preparing to license online skill gaming with stakes, complementing a reform drive by information technology (IT) hub Karnataka state announced last week.
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April 14, 2025

Kansas Budget Move Sets Course Toward Sports-Betting Tax Hike

Kansas lawmakers have approved a provision in the state's budget law that sets the stage for changes to the state鈥檚 sports-betting tax rate.
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April 11, 2025

Updated: Federal Judge Grants Kalshi Injunction In Nevada

Kalshi has won the first round in a multistate legal fight over sports prediction markets, after a federal judge in Nevada granted the company's request for a preliminary injunction and suggested that the permissibility of sports-event contracts was a matter for federal regulators or Congress to determine, not state gaming agencies.
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April 11, 2025

Arizona Approves Plan To Regulate Lottery Couriers

Lottery courier services have come under increased scrutiny following several controversies in Texas that have raised questions about their operational practices, while putting pressure on state legislatures and lotteries to either regulate or prohibit them.
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April 11, 2025

News In Brief: April 7-April 11, 2025

Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board accused of "regulatory overreach" after sweepstakes crackdown and Dutch regulator issues 鈧1.2m fine for illegal gambling.
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April 11, 2025

Regulatory Influencer: US Check Fraud Epidemic Triggers Trump Executive Order

A new executive order from President Trump is set to accelerate the global transition away from checks, as the declining payment method continues to be a significant source of fraud.
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April 11, 2025

Singaporean Regulator Shuns Calls For BNPL Ad Ban, But Says Finfluencers In Its Sights

In fresh correspondence with the financial hubs' lawmakers, the Monetary Authority of Singapore has continued not to bow to pressure to introduce stricter oversight of buy now, pay later (BNPL) firms, but did suggest that it is looking closely at consumer protection issues elsewhere.
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April 11, 2025

Bank Of England Considers Widening Access To RTGS Accounts

The Bank of England鈥檚 response to its February policy paper on extending direct access to its real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system suggests that expansion may be on the horizon for non-bank payment service providers and foreign banks alike.
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April 11, 2025

New EU Rules On AI Add To Gambling Compliance Complexity

The EU鈥檚 landmark legislation on artificial intelligence (AI) has already partially come into effect, raising new compliance challenges for a gambling industry that has been eagerly integrating AI into many facets of its operations.
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April 11, 2025

India's Karnataka State Moves To Regulate Online Skill Gaming

India's Karnataka state has reversed course and is preparing to regulate online skill gaming with stakes, placing the information technology hub at the vanguard of national gaming reform.
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April 10, 2025

Legislative Proposals On Sweepstakes, Online Casino Struggle For Approval

As lawmakers in state capitols across the U.S. turn their attention to passing those final few bills before they adjourn for the year, a series of measures to prohibit online sweepstakes games or legalize online gambling have fallen by the wayside.
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April 10, 2025

Key South African Province Demands Online Gambling Law Be Expedited

The South African province of Western Cape intends to lobby the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition and the national parliament to 鈥渆xpedite鈥 a bill to fully regulate online gambling.
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April 10, 2025

Revealed: The $2.95bn Scale Of US Impersonation Fraud

The Federal Trade Commission has said in a new announcement that impersonation scams cost consumers $2.95bn (拢2.30bn), marking the first year that the Impersonation Rule has been in effect in the US.
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April 10, 2025

European Central Bank Pushes Digital Euro As Divided MEPs Mull Payments Autonomy

The European Central Bank has continued to court lawmakers on the digital euro, but doubts remain over a central bank digital currency, despite broad support among lawmakers for reducing reliance on foreign providers.
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April 10, 2025

Cut GDPR Red Tape To Help Fight Online Scams, MEP Tells Commission

A member of the European Parliament (MEP) has said that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) needs to be part of the European Commission鈥檚 regulatory simplification plans, hammering home the overburdensome elements of the regulation and warning it could hinder the fight against fraud.
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April 10, 2025

Swiss Banks Rally To Tackle Rising APP Fraud With New Strategy

The Swiss Bankers Association, in partnership with several major Swiss banks, has released a new set of recommended measures aimed at strengthening collaborative fraud prevention in the country's account-to-account payments ecosystem.
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April 9, 2025

Kalshi CEO Claims Casinos Behind State Prediction-Market Pushback

A high-stakes legal battle over the expansion of sports-event prediction markets continues with more states pushing back, and Kalshi鈥檚 chief executive insists those efforts are the result of disgruntled casino operators.
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April 9, 2025

AI, Crypto Among Long List Of UK Emerging Money Laundering Risks

The UK Gambling Commission has alerted operators to a range of emerging money laundering and terrorist financing risks, including crypto-assets and artificial intelligence (AI).
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