Spanish auditors want state lottery operator SELAE to recover prize payments from banks that failed to supply the required paperwork. SELAE has resisted that demand. The dispute now concerns 519 payments worth €14.79 million, according to an audit approved on October 29.
Indonesia's Financial Services Authority (OJK) has asked banks to conduct enhanced due diligence (EDD) and/or block approximately 39,923 accounts suspected of links to online…
The implementation of Resolução BCB nº 569 has a two-part schedule, with the activity category covering virtual asset services having become effective on 30…
On 8 October 2026, Real Decreto 813/2026, de 7 de octubre, amending a series of financial sector decrees, was published, and it came into…
Interchange fee income, or net income generated by processing credit card transactions, fell 84.6% to $0.3 million in the third quarter due to "changes…
Nine payment providers are named in Ghana's real-time VAT system, launched on October 15. The system collects tax on purchases from foreign digital businesses,…
All federal and state authorisations for fixed-odds betting in Brazil expire 30 days after the publication of Provisional Measure 1.394. No refunds are available.…
Indonesia's central bank has warned payment service providers that they risk losing their licences if they are proven to be involved in illegal transactions,…
Players using cryptocurrency at SAHARA Las Vegas pay a 5% BurraPay service fee on their deposits. The casino added the payment option in October,…
Russia's Unified CUPIS says its wallet and digital card now account for 15% of all bookmaker payout transactions, up from around 10% a year…
Turkey's central bank has revoked 15 payment and electronic money licences in 2026, according to a review of its published decisions by 15M. The…
Two of the three companies in PAGCOR's payment gateway accreditation register had not begun commercial operations as of September 17, 2026. A separate check…
Kazakhstan's banks will operate under updated transaction-screening rules from October 16. The amendments cover payments linked to online casinos, foreign bookmakers without local licences…
Visa's October 2026 fee update covers online gambling transactions in Latin America and the Caribbean. But payment processor Fiserv has published two different fixed…
Youth bank accounts could be used for gambling at some licensed Dutch operators. Accounts belonging to minors could also be linked to adult players'…
Brazilian banks are set to return R$1.325 billion ($266.6 million) still sitting in betting accounts after the country’s licensed platforms shut down. Around 26.5…
Payment recordings from four online casinos passed through MiCA-licensed Collect & Exchange, CASP003/25, before users reached iDEAL. The same company appeared in the Viu-Viu,…
Stripe has added Open USD (OUSD) across five parts of its stablecoin stack, covering payments, fiat conversion, treasury, payouts and card issuing. OUSD on…
T+1 is the most common published settlement window in a directory of 79 iGaming payment providers. Twenty-eight companies fall into that group, compared with…
The Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam generated 5.4 million P2P crypto transfers below $10,000 from July 2025 through June 2026. Together, they accounted for 14.4%…
BTG Pactual provided banking services to 14 licensed betting operators that together represented about 70% of Brazil's regulated market. Betano, bet365, Superbet and Sportingbet…
