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Vixio Wins “Best RegTech Solution” Designation in 8th Annual FinTech Breakthrough Awards Program

Vixio Regulatory Intelligence, the leading provider of regulatory and business intelligence to the global gambling and payments industries, today announced that it has been selected as winner of the “Best RegTech Solution” award in the 8th annual FinTech Breakthrough Awards program conducted by FinTech Breakthrough.

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Online Gambling Goldrush Expected in Multibillion-dollar Brazil Market

Forthcoming regulation of online gambling in Brazil should create a market worth almost US$5bn in annual revenue, according to a new report by Vixio Regulatory Intelligence, the leading provider of regulatory and business intelligence to the global gambling and payments industries.

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Vixio PaymentsCompliance Forms Executive Advisory Board

Vixio PaymentsCompliance, a provider of regulatory intelligence to the global payments industry, has held the first meeting of its newly formed Executive Advisory Board.

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New Vixio Annual Payments Compliance Outlook Report Reveals renewed and sustained focus on growth

Vixio Regulatory Intelligence's new report, Payments Compliance Outlook 2024: The Compliance Dilemma - Growth at What Cost? reveals a renewed and sustained focus on growth from payments firms – and that two of the top three priorities for 2024 are to acquire new product licences and expand market entry.

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Latin America online gambling market set to quadruple, according to new report

Latin America’s regulated online gambling market is set to quadruple in size and reach $6.75bn in annual revenue by 2027, according to Vixio Regulatory Intelligence’s new Latin America Online Outlook report. Although established markets in the region have plenty of headroom, the main driver of growth will be a series of new laws and regulations that are set to be adopted in the coming months in several key jurisdictions including Brazil.

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US Payments Regulation to Remain a Complex Field from Inconsistent State-Level Adoption of MTMA, Vixio Data Show

Payments regulation in the US is likely to remain complex for the foreseeable future as each state makes its own rules at its own pace, predicted using Vixio’s Horizon Scanning tool, an SaaS solution which now covers all 50 states in the US.

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Regulators Play Catch-up as Payments Providers Race to Embrace AI

While the disruptive arrival of conversation-based generative artificial intelligence (AI) sparked a global debate about whether it is a force for good, payments firms have been racing to implement it.

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Finextra: Closed loop and A2A payments set to take a bite out of card schemes

VIXIO’s 2022 Payments Compliance Outlook report is based on research conducted late last year with 113 (56 UK, 57 US) compliance professionals who work at fintech and payments firms with $10m+ in revenues. It found that 52 percent plan to launch a closed-loop payment product in 2022 and 61 percent will develop one by the end of 2023.

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Financial Times: Gambling groups hedge their bets as Brazilian market opens

“In terms of legal gambling, Brazil is absolutely a sleeping giant,” said James Kilsby, managing director of Americas at industry researcher Vixio. “[It] has the potential to become a top-five regulated market globally along with the likes of the UK, Australia and then New York, Italy and France.”

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ESPN: New York state will allow online sports betting to begin Saturday

“The New York State Gaming Commission announced Thursday that four sportsbooks – Caesars, DraftKings, FanDuel and Rush Street Interactive – have received approval to begin taking wagers Saturday (January 8th 2022).” VIXIO GamblingCompliance, an industry trade publication and regulatory intelligence service, projects the New York betting market could gross $667 million in revenue this year. By 2025, the firm estimates annual gross revenue to hit $1.1 billion, which would make it the largest betting market in the U.S. to date.

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Fortune: Can A.I. prevent gambling addiction? DraftKings target Entain thinks so

“As things stand, the U.S. market hasn’t evolved to the level of Europe where debate has moved on to incorporate more severe marketing restrictions, ‘affordability’ checks for customers, monitoring of betting patterns, and blanket stake or deposit limits, among other things,” says James Kilsby, vice president for the Americas at Vixio Gambling Compliance, a company that tracks betting regulations globally.

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Fortune: Leading Las Vegas: A British firm is upending America’s booming online sports gambling market

The U.K.-based Entain has invested heavily in online betting technology that gives it a competitive edge. It’s also made it a takeover target in a high-stakes turf war. Vixio, a company that tracks gambling and payments regulation, estimates the U.S. market, including both sports betting and digital casino games, could be worth $19 billion in annual revenue by 2025.

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