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Amazon Denies 'Ditching' Just Walk Out Technology

Amazon has denied reports that it plans to “ditch” Just Walk Out, saying that it will continue to deploy its autonomous checkout technology in certain US and UK stores, while transitioning to another system in large US supermarkets.
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Italy Set To Enter New Era Of Online, Lottery Licensing

A new decree in Italy that will see online licence fees skyrocket ahead of an expected concession window at the end of this year, and which prepares the ground for the country’s €7bn lottery tender, has been approved.
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World's First AML Information Sharing Platform For FIs Goes Live In Singapore

Singapore has launched a new information sharing platform for financial institutions (FIs), in an effort to transform the way that they handle money laundering and terrorist financing risks.
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Chile's Senate Hears Arguments For Online Gambling

Chile’s march towards online gambling regulation continued on Tuesday as the Senate economy committee heard from gambling lawyer and expert Cristina Romero, Heidi Berner from the Ministry of Finance and the Undersecretary of Telecommunications (Subtel) as each fought their side over enforcement and taxation.
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Amazon Denies 'Ditching' Just Walk Out Technology

Amazon has denied reports that it plans to “ditch” Just Walk Out, saying that it will continue to deploy its autonomous checkout technology in certain US and UK stores, while transitioning to another system in large US supermarkets.
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Payments

Italy Set To Enter New Era Of Online, Lottery Licensing

A new decree in Italy that will see online licence fees skyrocket ahead of an expected concession window at the end of this year, and which prepares the ground for the country’s €7bn lottery tender, has been approved.
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Gambling

World's First AML Information Sharing Platform For FIs Goes Live In Singapore

Singapore has launched a new information sharing platform for financial institutions (FIs), in an effort to transform the way that they handle money laundering and terrorist financing risks.
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Payments

Chile's Senate Hears Arguments For Online Gambling

Chile’s march towards online gambling regulation continued on Tuesday as the Senate economy committee heard from gambling lawyer and expert Cristina Romero, Heidi Berner from the Ministry of Finance and the Undersecretary of Telecommunications (Subtel) as each fought their side over enforcement and taxation.
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Gambling

Global Crypto Industry Faces Reckoning After FTX Sentencing

Sam Bankman-Fried’s 25-year jail sentence marks a milestone in crypto history. While the high-profile fraud scandal struck a major blow against the industry’s reputation, the delivery of justice sends a signal that the “Wild West” days are over.
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Payments

Lights Go Out On Georgia's 2024 Sports-Betting Hopes

Sports-betting legislation failed to reach the floor of the Georgia House of Representatives before the clock struck midnight on the state’s legislative session, the latest blow to the gaming industry’s expansion hopes in 2024.
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Gambling

Dozens Seek Peru Online Licences

A total of 80 operators can keep offering online gambling in Peru through a transitional period after submitting applications during a recent licensing window, according to a list published by Peruvian regulators.
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Gambling

U.S. Sports Betting's Future Includes Marketing Changes, Proactive Responsible Gambling

Top executives say improving brand affinity and strengthening responsible gaming actions will be keys to the near-term future of the U.S. sports-betting market.
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Gambling

Finland Authorities Pledge Quick Response In Betsson Payment Ban Saga

Finland’s National Police Board has said it is focusing its resources to quickly address Betsson’s decision to transfer brands on the country's payment blocklist to another operator.
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Gambling

Lithuania Postpones MiCA Deadline

Lithuania’s government has pushed back the date to be fully compliant with the EU’s Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regulation, having previously foregone a transition period for the regulation.
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Payments

European Mobile Wallets Address Digital Euro Elephant In The Room

Mobile wallet solutions weighed up how the EU’s digital euro could interact with their products at the Merchant Payment Ecosystem (MPE) in Berlin last week.
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Payments

Week In Crypto: Former Binance CEO Must Surrender Canadian Passport

US courts move to ensure that Changpeng Zhao does not abscond before sentencing, Crypto.com is hit by a €2.85m fine in the Netherlands, and Coinbase is forced to delete an embarrassing page from its website.
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Payments

Week In Crypto: Nigerian Parliament Calls For Arrest Of Binance CEO

A Nigerian parliamentary committee has recommended that an arrest warrant be issued for Binance CEO Richard Teng on charges of tax evasion, money laundering and terrorist financing.
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Payments

Outgoing New Jersey Regulator Advocates For Wider Online Expansion

In his first public comments since retiring last week, outgoing New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement director David Rebuck advocated for further legalization of online casinos and criticized other forms of gaming as being underregulated.
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Gambling

888 Reviews US B2C Operations, Citing 'Intense Competition'

888 has said that it will hold a strategic review of its US consumer-facing operations, as it considers options including a sale or “controlled exit”, citing “intense competition from well-capitalised incumbent participants”.
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Gambling

Paytm Seeks UPI Lifeline As Banking Shutdown Nears

The parent company of India’s Paytm Payments Bank is seeking a new regulatory approval to ensure that customers can still use Unified Payments Interface after the bank is shuttered later this month.
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Payments

Week In Crypto: Circle Ditches Tron Network As US Stablecoin War Escalates

Circle cuts ties with the Tron blockchain, Coinbase meets with the UK’s new city minister, and Montenegro confirms that the man behind TerraUSD will be extradited to the US.
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Payments

Frankfurt To Be Home To EU AML Watchdog

Frankfurt has been chosen by the European Parliament and Council as the seat of the Anti-Money Laundering Authority, which will serve as the EU’s new enforcer in the fight against money laundering and terrorism financing.
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Payments

UK Announces Incoming Online Slot Stake Limits 

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport has announced that the UK will introduce a maximum £2 stake for 18 to 24 year-olds for online slot games and a £5 limit for adults aged 25 and over.
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Gambling

Gambling Industry Welcomes Finnish Licensing, Dreads 'Dutch-Style' Cooling Off

The European gambling industry applauds Finnish monopoly Veikkaus’ support for an open licensing system to combat the black market but fears its support for a cooling-off period like the one that rocked would-be entrants to the Dutch market.
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New York City Casinos A Threat To New Jersey, Northeast Gaming Markets

Executives with casinos in New Jersey are planning for the arrival of three new multibillion-dollar integrated resorts in New York City and their negative impact on an already crowded regional gaming market in the northeastern U.S.
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South Africa Gambling Bills Receive Long-Awaited Updates As Elections Loom

After two years of drafting and consultations, the Remote Gambling Bill (B11-2024) was finally introduced to South Africa’s parliament by the main opposition party last week as the ruling ANC could lose its majority for the first time in 30 years in the upcoming election on May 29.
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UK Open Banking Will Move On From CMA Regime, OBL Chief Says

Updates to the UK’s open banking system are “right around the corner” and will entail a move away from the retail banking standards set out by the Competition and Markets Authority in 2016, Open Banking Limited (OBL) chief Henk Van Hulle has said.
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Daily Dash: FCA Wins Praise For Metrics On Growth, Competitiveness

A new report has found that UK regulators are leading the world on driving growth and competitiveness, while EU regulators have opened a new consultation on technical standards for the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA).
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UK Open Banking Future Entity Takes Shape With New Consultation

The UK’s Joint Regulatory Oversight Committee has released its recommendations for the Open Banking Future Entity, including what its funding model should look like, and invited companies to submit comments by May 20.
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News In Brief: April 22-April 26, 2024

Colombian regulatory body Coljuegos announces its plans to restructure.
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Industry Reacts To Biggest Betting Scandal Of Post-PASPA Era

In the wake of the most prominent sports integrity scandal in the U.S. since 2018, industry executives and regulatory officials agree that continuing to bolster integrity monitoring in the regulated market is key to preventing future scandals.
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Operators Say Skill-Game Machines Threaten Casino Investments

As Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin considers the fate of skill games in Virginia, leading casino executives are urging Youngkin and lawmakers in other states where the terminals have proliferated to either prohibit grey-market machines or tax and regulate them on the same scale as slot machines.
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Colorado Approves First U.S. Regulations For Betting Exchanges

Colorado regulators have approved rule changes to permit exchange wagering after more than a year of deliberation, making the state the second in the U.S. to allow the activity and the first to adopt specific regulations.
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Ontario Regulator Bars Wagering On WBA Boxing Fights

Ontario’s gaming regulator has put a halt on wagers on boxing matches sanctioned by the World Boxing Association after suspicious betting patterns and a subsequent review.
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