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Light & Wonder installed its RAPIDPLAY cashless slot system at Crystal Bay Casino in Nevada. The system uses open banking and QR codes to let players transfer funds from a mobile device, with payments provider Koin supporting the deployment.
The UK Gambling Commission identified 3,426 payments to illegal gambling operators made by 179 people in anonymised open-banking data. The findings suggest customers using illegal sites may continue using licensed operators, while cryptocurrency payments were not included in the dataset.
Brazil’s reported 2026 betting ban bars banks, Pix and card schemes from processing transactions linked to fixed-odds betting. The changes are prompting payment service providers to reassess merchants with significant exposure to Brazil.