iGaming Payment SolutionsUpdated Oct 5, 2026 · Every entry carries its primary record
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- Market rulesBR
Brazil's central bank shuts Pix, TED, boleto and card payments to betting
In Resolution BCB 590 of September 28, 2026, Brazil's central bank made banks, payment institutions and all other payment-scheme participants block sports betting and online casino transactions with effect from September 25, without waiting for scheme rule changes. On September 30, 2026, the central bank wrote the same ban into the TED, boleto and Pix rules in Resolutions BCB 595, 596 and 597, which leave room only for transactions that close an operator's book or refund bettors. Card schemes count as arrangement owners under art. 14 of Provisional Measure 1.394, so they must write the ban into rules that bind every participant, including those that need no central bank authorization, and act against any that break it, expulsion included.
AstroPay review CommerceGate review EBANX review Mercado Pago review OKTO review OneKey Payments review PagSeguro review Pay4Fun review PayRetailers review Vpag review Z.ro Global Payments review Zimpler reviewTopics: Latin America · Compliance Calendar · Compliance & KYC · Payment Methods · Payment Rails Map
Banco Central do Brasil, Resolução BCB 590 (Regulator) · Banco Central do Brasil, Resolução BCB 595 (Regulator) · Banco Central do Brasil, Resolução BCB 596 (Regulator) · Banco Central do Brasil, Resolução BCB 597 (Regulator)
- Market rulesBR
Brazil bans sports betting and online casino, closing its payment rails to bets
Brazil banned sports betting and online casino on September 25, 2026, under Provisional Measure 1.394, which covers offshore and licensed operators alike and bars new deposits to licensed operators from that day. Their sites and apps go offline on October 6, the banks and payment institutions holding their accounts refund bettors by October 14, and all 85 federal authorizations end on October 25 with none of the R$30 million authorization fees returned. Every bank, payment institution and payment scheme in Brazil, Pix included, may now process betting transactions only to close an operator's book and pay bettors back, so no Brazilian payment rail may carry a betting deposit.
Adyen review Akurateco review AstroPay review Coinflow Labs review CommerceGate review Corefy review D24 review EBANX review emerchantpay review Finera review Inpay review IXOPAY review Latpay review Mercado Pago review MiFinity review Monnet review NETELLER review Noda review Nuvei review OKTO review OneKey Payments review PagSeguro review Pay.com review Pay4Fun review Payneteasy review PayRetailers review Paysafe review Praxis Tech review Primer review ProntoPaga review PXP Financial review Skrill review TrueLayer review Volt review Vpag review Worldpay review Z.ro Global Payments review Zimpler reviewTopics: Latin America · Compliance Calendar · Compliance & KYC · Payment Methods · Payment Rails Map · iGaming Payment Processing · Payment Challenges · Gaming Payment Gateway · Payout Solutions · Open Banking · Card Processing · E-Wallets · North America · M&A Tracker
Presidência da República, Medida Provisória 1.394 (Regulator) · Congresso Nacional, MPV 1394/2026 (Regulator) · Agência Brasil (Trade press)
- LicensingBRLTIE
Vpag's e-money layer runs through a Lithuanian EMI with two AML fines
Era Finance Ltd issues Vpag's e-money and payment instruments to operators as a registered agent of Pervesk UAB, a Lithuanian institution authorized by the Bank of Lithuania under code LB000426. The regulator has taken two enforcement measures against Pervesk: a warning with a EUR 244,000 fine on September 19, 2018, and a EUR 130,000 fine on August 26, 2025, for money laundering prevention breaches. The Vpag brand is a trademark of an Irish company, Vpag Limited.
Topics: Latin America · Compliance & KYC
Bank of Lithuania register, Pervesk UAB (Register) · Vpag site disclosure (Company)
- LicensingAU
Volt's Australian payouts run on Flexewallet's license, with funds held at Cuscal
Volt Connect Pty Ltd, ACN 662 145 708, issues its Australian Payout Initiation product as authorized representative 001309428 under Flexewallet Pty Ltd, AFSL 448066, not on a license of its own. Product funds sit in segregated accounts at Cuscal Limited, and the product disclosure statement, current as at August 27, 2024, warns that a balance is not protected by the Financial Claims Scheme if Cuscal fails. The counterparty chain for Australian payouts is three deep.
Topics: Payout Solutions · Compliance & KYC
Volt Australia product disclosure statement (Company) · Volt Australia financial services guide (Company) · Volt regulatory disclosure (Company)
- Pricing
TODA Pay starts publishing per-market rate cards
TODA Pay publishes its rates market by market. Deposits cost 0% to 12% by method and withdrawals 0% to 3.8%, limits are set per method and market, and settling in USDT adds a settlement fee of 1% to 2% by solution on top of the method rates. Merchant settlement runs T+2 to T+7, with stablecoin settlement in USDT or USDC landing in T+2 to T+5 alongside a weekly T+7 cycle. USDT is also a priced deposit method for players in seven markets.
Topics: High-Risk
TODA Pay iGaming market pages (Company)
- Market rulesKECO
PayRetailers drops Kenya and M-Pesa, adds Colombia's Bre-B rail
PayRetailers no longer serves Kenya, and M-Pesa has gone with it, cutting the African footprint to eight markets. In the other direction Colombia's Bre-B instant rail is live for both pay-in and pay-out, and Costa Rica has come online, taking the LATAM front to nine markets.
Topics: Africa · Latin America
PayRetailers status board (Company)
- LicensingCA
Payper and Gigadat are still RPAA applicants, Paramount Commerce is registered
Gigadat Inc applied to the Bank of Canada for registration on November 1, 2024, and Payper Inc. applied on November 7, 2024. Neither has a registration date. Element Financial Technology Inc, trading as Paramount Commerce, was registered October 10, 2025, the same day as Interac Corp. Registration under the Retail Payment Activities Act is required of every payment service provider in scope.
Topics: Compliance & KYC · North America
Bank of Canada, list of applicants (Register) · Bank of Canada, registry of payment service providers (Register)
- Product
PaymentIQ launches Cashier Plus, giving payments teams no-code control of the cashier
PaymentIQ made Cashier Plus generally available on September 8, 2026, six months after Worldline closed the divestment of the platform on March 2, 2026. It bundles Builder for no-code cashier configuration, Preview for persona-based session testing and Data for drop-off analytics, so payments teams can reorder methods or change a layout without an engineering ticket. PaymentIQ designed Cashier Plus with partners across sweeps, sports betting and casino.
Topics: Payment Orchestrators · Gaming Payment Gateway
PaymentIQ Cashier Plus product page (Company) · NEXT.io, PaymentIQ unveils Cashier Plus (Trade press)
- Product
Pay.com moves iGaming to the front of its vertical list, without moving the license set
The vertical list was rebuilt from five to seven and iGaming & Sports Betting now leads it, ahead of eCommerce, digital media, SaaS, travel, crypto and wealthtech. The licenses behind it did not change: PayComCy Limited remains a Cyprus Payment Institution under CBC 115.1.2.42, and the other three group entities are disclosed as not licensed. There is still no gambling-jurisdiction license and no named operator client.
Topics: Payment Orchestrators · High-Risk
EBA PSD2 register entry for PayComCy Limited (Register) · Pay.com EEA licences and certification (Company)
- Pricing
Pay.com publishes a European card rate for the first time
Pay.com now prices by region. Europe is 1.5% plus EUR 0.20 per successful transaction, the US stays at 2.85% plus $0.27, and the UK carries no published rate at all. Push-to-card payouts cost $1.00 on Visa Direct and on Mastercard Money Send, while the ACH band and the Card Account Updater fee are gone.
Topics: Payment Orchestrators · Europe
Pay.com EU pricing (Company) · Pay.com US pricing (Company)
- OwnershipUS
Pavilion Payments has absorbed DiTRONICS
The acquisition signed in February 2026 has completed. DiTRONICS now operates as part of Pavilion Payments, and ATMs and a three-model kiosk range ship as live products.
Topics: M&A Tracker · North America
Pavilion Payments (Company)
- Pricing
NOWPayments doubles its headline fee and drops the BTC volume ladder
The standard rate is 1% on a single-currency deposit and 1.5% where a conversion is involved, against 0.5% and 1% before. The volume ladder that took high-volume merchants to 0.45% above 50 BTC a month and 0.4% above 100 is gone, replaced by partner rates negotiated down to 0.3%. The older figures still circulate in support material, so take the rate in writing.
Topics: Crypto Gateways
NOWPayments pricing (Company) · NOWPayments platform and pricing updates (Company)
- LicensingCYGB
The Noda brand no longer sits under a licensed payment institution
The counterparty for EU services is NODA HOLDING LIMITED, company number HE 428729 in Nicosia, a software technologies company that holds no payment license or PSD2 authorization. On the UK side NaudaPay Limited, FCA firm reference 832969, is in an orderly wind-down and no longer accepts or facilitates any new payment transactions or funds, including through payment initiation.
Topics: Open Banking · Europe
Noda site disclosure (Company) · NaudaPay wind-down notice (Company)
- Market rulesBRPA
Monnet swaps Panama out for Brazil and adds Pix on both sides
Monnet covers eight Latin American markets and Panama is no longer among them. Brazil has taken the Panama slot, with Pix the only bank-transfer method on both pay-ins and payouts. Monnet made the switch on September 7, 2026, with no announcement.
Topics: Latin America · Payment Methods
Monnet coverage page (English) (Company) · Monnet cobertura page (Spanish) (Company) · Monnet page sitemap (Company)
- Product
Finera pulls its iGaming and high-risk pages, keeps the gambling conference booths
Finera has taken down its high-risk payment gateway article and pulled its iGaming and high-risk blog posts from finera.com, deleting 5 of 13 and redirecting the other 8 to vertical-neutral product pages. The company now uses a gambling term in just one of its URLs, a glossary entry, yet it holds booth D323 at SBC Lisbon on September 29, 2026.
Topics: Payment Orchestrators · High-Risk
Finera sitemap (Company) · Finera, "High Risk Payment Gateway: Secure Solutions for Complex Transactions" (Company) · Finera, "iGaming Payment Solutions: The Infrastructure Powering Scalable, Compliant Platforms" (Company) · Finera payment orchestration product page (current redirect target, no vertical named) (Company) · Finera event page, SBC Summit Lisbon 2026, booth D323, 29 September to 1 October 2026 (Company)
- CorporateEE
Dream Finance accounts show revenue down 40% and margin down from 71% to 9%
Dream Finance OU, the entity behind CoinsPaid, reported 2025 revenue of EUR 19,553,633 and profit of EUR 1,744,554, an 8.9% net margin. In 2024 revenue was EUR 32,369,371 and profit EUR 23,098,654, a 71.4% margin.
Topics: Crypto Gateways
Estonian Business Register, Dream Finance OU (Register)
- Market rulesNG
Nigeria has dropped off DPO's country pages and office list
DPO Pay by Network is present in more than 20 countries and has eleven offices across Africa and the Middle East, in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zanzibar and the UAE. Nigeria is not among them, and the company no longer has a Nigeria country page. An operator taking Nigerian deposits has no DPO country page or local office to contract against.
Topics: Africa
DPO Pay by Network offices in Africa (Company) · DPO Pay by Network page sitemap (Company)
- Product
Tether is missing from CryptoProcessing's supported assets
The published supported-coins list runs to 18 distinct assets across 25 asset and chain combinations, and USDT is not one of them. Stablecoin cover is USDC on four chains, USDG, EURC and EURS. No notice explains a withdrawal, and the same list carries niche assets such as CasinoCoin and Crypto Snack, so the absence is not a space constraint.
Topics: Crypto Gateways
CryptoProcessing supported coins (Company)
- Corporate
CoinPayments is off the Formula 1 grid
The sponsorship ran for the 2025 season on the car branded Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber. That team races as Audi F1 Team in 2026 with Revolut as title partner, and CoinPayments sits on the departed list rather than the partner list. Stake and Kick left with it.
Topics: Crypto Gateways
F1 2026 team partner lists (Trade press) · Audi F1 Team title partner announcement (Trade press)
- Product
CoinGate drops its casino pages and cuts the coin list to 13 assets
The dedicated casino page now serves the general solutions index, whose twelve verticals contain no casino, gambling, betting or iGaming entry, and the surviving gaming page names no platform partners and no gambling licenses. The published asset list is down to 13 from the 70+ the brand used to lead with, and settlement moved to weekly with a 50 EUR minimum withdrawal. No restricted-merchant policy change accompanies any of it.
Topics: Crypto Gateways
CoinGate solutions index (Company) · CoinGate fees (Company)
- LicensingAE
Checkout.com wins in-principle approval for a UAE stored value license
The Central Bank of the UAE granted in-principle approval for a Stored Value Facilities license, which would let Checkout.com add card issuing to the acquiring it already runs there. It is an approval in principle rather than a license.
Topics: Card Processing
Checkout.com newsroom (Company)
- Market rulesPH
BSP draft would cut aggregators out of gambling payments, freeze new registrations
A Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas exposure draft, Circular No. __ Series of 2026, would let payment firms onboard casinos, gambling operators and gaming platforms holding player funds only under a direct merchant arrangement, with no aggregator or facilitator settling in between. It would also suspend new payment system operator registrations for 12 months, starting 15 days after publication. Philippine deposits routed through a layered aggregator would need a direct acquirer.
Topics: Asia · Compliance & KYC
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, draft Circular: Regulations to Strengthen Integrity Controls in Payment Transactions (Regulator) · Help2Pay, published Philippine payment methods (Company)
- LicensingGB
Brite holds a second license in its own name, an FCA electronic money authorization
The FCA register returns Brite Payments Limited against firm reference number 1033237, an authorized Electronic Money Institution. Until now the only license in Brite's own name was the Swedish PSD2 authorization.
Topics: Open Banking · Europe
FCA Financial Services Register (Register)
- ProductPE
OKTO switches from reselling Yape to a direct rail in Peru
Announced in Lima on September 7, 2026. OKTO now connects straight to Yape instead of exposing it as one method among many, shipping Yape One Shot for first payments and Yape On File for one-click repeats through a single API. Yape, backed by BCP, Peru's largest bank, has 16 million active users, 7 million of them previously unbanked, and is the preferred payment method at more than 5 million local businesses.
Topics: E-Wallets · Latin America
OKTO Payments newsroom (Company)
- EnforcementUS
FTC settles with Nuvei over merchant screening
The Federal Trade Commission announced a $4.85 million settlement and a stipulated order, filed in the District of Arizona, requiring Nuvei to screen and monitor merchants. The complaint says its US subsidiary processed more than $30 million for the Reimage tech support scam between 2017 and 2023 and onboarded merchants other processors had terminated. The order bars it from processing for certain tech support businesses.
Topics: Compliance & KYC · North America
FTC press release (Regulator) · FTC case timeline (Regulator)
- ProductUS
Socure puts Aeropay bank linking inside RiskOS for gaming onboarding
On 3 September Socure brought Aeropay's bank account verification and transaction risk capabilities into its RiskOS platform, letting a customer verify identity and link a bank account from a phone number and two clicks. One joint customer reaches a 50%-plus straight-through account funding rate. Both firms count gaming among their customer verticals.
Topics: Fraud Prevention · Open Banking
Socure release on Business Wire (Company) · Socure RiskOS documentation (Company) · Biometric Update (Trade press)
- Product
PXP hands European card scheme processing to RS2
Under a managed acquiring agreement, RS2 Smart Processing will run card scheme processing for PXP across more than 30 European markets. PXP keeps its principal scheme memberships and its FCA authorization, so the counterparty on an operator contract does not change, but the processing stack underneath it does.
Topics: Card Processing · Europe
PXP newsroom (Company)
- Licensing
Coinflow's new terms add a gambling clause
Terms of Service version 3.0, effective September 1, 2026, and issued by Coinflow Labs Limited and its affiliates, add a prohibited-use heading for illegal or unauthorized gambling and betting. The clause is scoped to gambling, betting, sweepstakes, lotteries and other gaming operations not legally permitted where they operate, so it is a legality gate rather than a ban.
Topics: Crypto Gateways · Compliance & KYC
Coinflow terms of service (Company)
- Market rulesBR
Pix clawback contestation window stretches from 30 to 80 days
Instrução Normativa BCB 766 updated the DICT operational manual on September 1, 2026. A receiver whose funds were pulled back under the special return mechanism now has 80 days to contest instead of 30, which extends clawback exposure on every Pix deposit an operator takes in Brazil.
Topics: Latin America · Compliance Calendar
Agência Brasil (Trade press)
- OwnershipNG
Paystack's quiet Allawee acquisition surfaces, and the brand is being wound down
Paystack acquired the card-issuing fintech Allawee in 2025 without announcing it. The deal became public on August 31, 2026, through Allawee's own customer notice, which says standalone accounts and cards stop working on December 1, 2026, and balances must be withdrawn by 30 November.
Topics: Africa
Allawee customer notice (Company)
- Product
Payneteasy adds automatic level changes to its customer management system
The 31 August release lets the gateway move an end customer between levels on its own once activity crosses a threshold the merchant configures. Levels are New, Verified, VIP and Restricted plus custom labels, and each level carries its own limits, risk rules and routing, with a new routing type keyed to the customer's trust level. Auto-leveling covers deposits and withdrawals and runs only in Payneteasy's own gateway mode. Every level assignment was manual before this.
Topics: Gaming Payment Gateway · Payment Orchestrators
Payneteasy blog, CMS auto-leveling (Company)
- Market rulesBR
Brazil's 24-hour account blocking rule for illegal betting takes effect
CMN Resolution 5.320, adopted on June 25, 2026, came into force on August 28, 2026. Every bank and payment institution in the Brazilian payment system must freeze accounts belonging to identified illegal betting operators within 24 hours of a notification from the SPA, and reject transactions routed to them directly or indirectly. It binds payment institutions, not just banks, so LATAM specialists processing Pix for offshore brands carry the duty themselves.
Topics: Latin America · Compliance Calendar · Compliance & KYC
Agência Brasil (Trade press) · iGaming Business Brasil (Trade press)
- Corporate
Trustly's quarterly profit halves as Europe contracts
Adjusted EBITDA fell 50% to 42 million kronor, group gross margin dropped from 69% to 56%, and cash flow was negative for a second consecutive quarter. The Americas now make up 61% of revenue while Europe declined 9%, which inverts the Europe-first picture the brand has carried for a decade.
Topics: Open Banking
Trustly Q2 2026 bondholder update (Filing)
- EnforcementMT
FIAU fines MiFinity Malta after a compliance examination
Malta's Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit imposed an administrative penalty of 266,833 euros on MiFinity Malta Limited, settled at 160,099 euros on August 27, 2026, together with a follow-up directive. The committee described the breaches found in its examination as serious and systematic.
Topics: Compliance & KYC · E-Wallets
FIAU publication notice (Regulator)
- Corporate
IXOPAY names Ajoy Krishnamoorthy chief executive
Krishnamoorthy succeeds Nord Samuelson, who served as interim CEO. Neither founder now appears on the leadership page, the chairman is Vik Verma, and the company has repositioned around agentic payments with intelligence as a third product pillar alongside orchestration and tokenization.
Topics: Payment Orchestrators
IXOPAY newsroom (Company)
- ClientsBR
Meridianbet names Pay4Fun its payment institution for Brazil
Meridianbet named Pay4Fun the payment institution for its Brazilian fixed-odds operation on August 24, putting the fintech in front of the operator payment structure. Pay4Fun was the first payment institution active in the betting segment to win authorization from Brazil's central bank, and it runs transaction monitoring, identity validation, fraud and AML controls. Meridianbet is a licensed fixed-odds operator, so it is buying the authorization as much as the rails.
Topics: Latin America · iGaming Payment Processing
BNLData (Trade press)
- ClientsBR
OKTO goes live with Pix across A2FBR's six Brazilian betting brands
OKTO Payments has gone live with A2FBR, processing Pix for Pinnacle, Matchbook, BetEspecial, Bolsa de Aposta, Fulltbet and BetBra. The group also takes OKTO's Internet Banking product, covering statements, Pix and internal transfers, bill and tax payments and multi-user approvals. OKTO comes in as one of the group's payments partners in Brazil, not its only processor, in a market where Pix carries 96% of betting payment volume.
Topics: iGaming Payment Processing · Latin America
iGaming Business (Trade press) · Payment Expert (Trade press)
- CorporateBR
PagSeguro's founder steps down as chairman
PagSeguro founder Luis Frias resigned as director and chairman on August 21, 2026, with Maria Judith de Brito appointed in his place. The same quarter saw the company complete its third $200 million buyback program.
Topics: Latin America
PagSeguro 6-K (Filing)
- ProductBRARCLPEMX
Z.ro merges local payments, FX and digital assets into one platform
The launch covers Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Mexico, sold white label or through customized APIs, with multi-currency internet banking for tracking flows across countries. The same material names Binance, Skrill, Paysafe, Flutter, Playtech and Sportingtech as clients.
Topics: Latin America
BNLData (Trade press)
- ClientsGB
Midnite switches on TrueLayer Pay by Bank for UK deposits and withdrawals
Midnite announced on 19 August that its UK cashier now runs account-to-account deposits and withdrawals through TrueLayer, authenticated in the player's banking app and confirmed in real time in place of the card flow. Both reports describe early adoption as already under way, so the rail was live before the announcement. TrueLayer puts its network at 27 million users across the UK and Europe, and its own newsroom carries no item after 22 July.
Topics: Open Banking · Europe
iGaming Business (Trade press) · The Paypers (Trade press) · TrueLayer newsroom (Company)
- EnforcementUS
Florida names three payment companies as co-defendants in sweepstakes casino suits
The Florida Attorney General filed two civil complaints in Hillsborough County Circuit Court against VGW, which runs Chumba, Global Poker and LuckyLand, and against Stake.us, alleging their sweepstakes casinos are illegal gambling. Payment and bank-data companies are named alongside the operators for supplying the financial infrastructure: Worldpay and Trustly in the VGW complaint, Praxis Tech in the Stake.us complaint.
Topics: Compliance & KYC · High-Risk · North America
Florida Attorney General (Regulator) · VGW complaint as filed (Court record) · Stake.us complaint as filed (Court record)
- EnforcementDK
Danish FSA bars Inpay from taking on new online gambling clients
Finanstilsynet issued an order under section 51 b of the Danish anti-money-laundering act requiring Inpay A/S to stop establishing new business relationships in online gambling until it documents to the regulator that the serious breaches found in its inspection have been remedied. Existing gambling relationships are not covered by the stop.
Topics: Compliance & KYC · Payout Solutions · Europe
Finanstilsynet decision (Regulator)
- Corporate
Paysafe's growth halves while its iGaming volume accelerates
Second-quarter revenue rose 4% to $447.4 million against a net loss of $58.9 million, down from 10% growth a quarter earlier. iGaming ran the other way: Merchant Solutions iGaming was up 17%, with processing volumes above 25% year on year in June and above 30% in July. Digital Wallets revenue grew 3% but wallet EBITDA fell 9%.
Topics: E-Wallets · Vouchers & Prepaid
Paysafe Q2 2026 results (Company) · Paysafe investor relations (Filing)
- Market rulesIN
India repeals the statutory zero-MDR bar on UPI
The Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill 2026 amends section 10A of the Payment and Settlement Systems Act so that the no-charge rule covers only the electronic payment modes the central government names by notification. UPI is no longer barred by statute from carrying a merchant discount rate, which changes how a UPI-heavy cashier should be priced.
Topics: Asia · iGaming Payment Processing
Bill text (PRS India) (Filing)
- CorporatePE
ProntoPaga projects $4bn of 2026 volume, 80% of revenue from gaming
ProntoPaga, profitable since October 2023, projects $4 billion of regional payment volume for 2026 against a $10 billion target for 2027. Gaming is roughly 70% of its transactions and 80% of its revenue. Peru, at 33% of processed volume, handled about US$650 million in 2025 and is projected to reach US$1.2 billion in 2026.
Topics: Latin America · iGaming Payment Processing
G3 Newswire (Trade press) · Fintechile (Trade press)
- Pricing
B2BinPay starts charging for fiat settlement
Bank deposits moved from 0.00% to 0.80% plus a fixed fee, SEPA withdrawals to 0.50% plus 5 euros and SWIFT withdrawals to 0.60% plus 35 euros or dollars, with a 5,000 minimum on both legs. Zero-fee outgoing now survives only for on-chain crypto, so the free-payouts pitch no longer covers the fiat leg.
Topics: Crypto Gateways
B2BinPay fee schedule (Company)
- CorporateBRARMX
Mercado Pago passes $100bn of quarterly payment volume
MercadoLibre's second-quarter results put Mercado Pago total payment volume at $101 billion for the quarter alone, up 56% year on year in dollars, with fintech monthly active users at 88 million and the credit book above $16 billion.
Topics: Latin America
MercadoLibre investor relations (Filing)
- OwnershipIN
Worldline exits India, selling its payment activities to BillDesk
Worldline completed the divestment of its Indian payment business to BillDesk at an enterprise value of about 37 million euros, on a unit carrying roughly 90 million euros of revenue. BillDesk continues to license Worldline software under a long-term agreement.
Topics: Asia · M&A Tracker
Worldline press release (Company)
- Ownership
Mastercard closes its BVNK acquisition, the rail behind Volt's stablecoin checkout
Mastercard completed its acquisition of BVNK on August 3, 2026, closing a deal it announced on March 17, 2026. BVNK supplies the stablecoin leg of Volt's checkout, live for USDC and EURC pay-ins since February 11, 2026, and it names Entain, Stake, Rapyd and Trust Payments as gaming clients on its own gaming page. Operators taking stablecoin deposits through Volt now have a Mastercard-owned counterparty on that rail, one Volt's February release never named.
Topics: Crypto Gateways · Open Banking
BVNK newsroom (Company) · Volt newsroom (Company)
- OwnershipAU
Worldline completes the sale of its ANZ joint venture stake
Worldline finalized the divestment of its 51% holding in the ANZ Worldline Payment Solutions joint venture to ANZ, at an enterprise value of about 107 million euros on a 100% basis. Worldline keeps only a transitional technology role, so the Australian footprint that ran through the JV is no longer its own.
Topics: M&A Tracker
Worldline press release (Company)
- CorporateGB
Latpay's UK entity files accounts showing seven staff and £1.7m of net assets
Lateral Payment Solutions Limited, the FCA-authorized payment institution behind Latpay (FRN 912498), filed accounts to October 31, 2025, at Companies House on July 31, 2026. Net assets rose to £1,705,675 from £1,517,471 and the average headcount held at seven for a second year. The company is exempt from audit, so no turnover or profit figure is on the public record.
Topics: High-Risk · Merchant Account
Companies House, Lateral Payment Solutions Limited (04306951) filing history (Filing) · FCA Financial Services Register, FRN 912498 (Regulator)
- Pricing
Request Network raises its protocol fee to 0.9%
The published protocol fee moved from 0.05% capped at about $25 to 0.9% capped at $500 per transaction, an eighteenfold rate increase with a twentyfold cap increase. Gas on EVM chains is now included in the fee, and payers on Tron pay a flat $3.99 per transaction instead.
Topics: Crypto Gateways · Payout Solutions
Request Network pricing (Company)
- Product
MiFinity launches stablecoin payouts on BVNK infrastructure
PayAnyCoin gives MiFinity merchants enterprise stablecoin payouts running on BVNK rails. The launch landed four days before Mastercard closed its acquisition of BVNK, so the infrastructure behind it now sits inside a card network.
Topics: Crypto Gateways · Payout Solutions · E-Wallets
MiFinity product update (Company) · BVNK press (Company)
- Corporate
HiPay revenue falls 2.1% in H1 2026 as payment volume rises 6%
HiPay reported first-half revenue of EUR 36.6 million on July 29, 2026, down 2.1% from EUR 37.4 million, while payment volume rose 6.0% to EUR 4.9 billion. Blended revenue against volume is now 0.75%, down from 0.78% for full-year 2025, and regulated iGaming is among the activities where HiPay is still growing. The group kept its 5% to 8% annual revenue growth target and scheduled full results with EBITDA for 16 September.
Topics: iGaming Payment Processing · Europe
HiPay first-half 2026 revenue release (Company) · HiPay investor relations (Company) · BFM Bourse (Trade press)
- CorporateUS
Sightline drops both commercial SVPs, leadership page down to four names
Sightline's named leadership is down to four, from six in May 2026 and seven in December 2025. The two dropped since May are SVP Client Solutions Angela Kritz and SVP Business Development Rose Zwirn, both covering operator accounts and new state launches. The cut is dated July 16, 2026. Sightline has issued no press release since January 6, 2026, and no blog post since June 24.
Topics: E-Wallets · North America
Sightline Payments leadership page (Company) · Sightline Payments sitemap (Company) · Internet Archive capture of Sightline leadership page, 21 May 2026 (Company) · Internet Archive capture of Sightline leadership page, 12 December 2025 (Company) · Sightline Payments newsroom index (Company) · Sightline Payments blog index (Company)
- LicensingEEA
BitPay's Dutch entity is authorized under MiCA and passported across the EEA
The AFM authorized BitPay B.V. as a crypto-asset service provider for exchange of crypto-assets for funds and for transfer services. The ESMA register shows the authorization passported into all 30 EEA states, which replaces the Dutch AML registration that lapsed in June 2025.
Topics: Crypto Gateways · Compliance & KYC · Europe
ESMA CASP register (Register)
- EnforcementAU
Federal Court backs Banking Circle's Australian bank in an AML de-risking fight
The Federal Court of Australia dismissed Bano Pty Ltd's application to stop Australian Settlements Limited, the ADI trading as Banking Circle in Australia, from cutting off its accounts on anti-money-laundering grounds, with costs. The judgment quotes the contract clause requiring crypto, gaming and gambling customers to be disclosed and approved in writing before any transaction is processed through the bank.
Topics: Banking & Treasury
Bano Pty Ltd v Australian Settlements Limited [2026] FCA 932 (Court record)
- Corporate
CoinsPaid splits into three companies
The group reorganized into CryptoProcessing by Coinspaid for merchant payments under Max Krupyshev, Coinspaid Solutions for enterprise blockchain infrastructure under Pavel Kashuba, and Coinspaid Dev for engineering under Alexey Tulia. Merchant payments now run at cryptoprocessing.com, while coinspaid.com belongs to Coinspaid Solutions. Stablecoins make up 86% of CryptoProcessing volume.
Topics: Crypto Gateways
CryptoProcessing company update (Company)
- ProductCA
Paramount Commerce drops iDebit, leaving two pay-by-bank rails
Paramount Commerce has retired iDebit. The vendor now sells Interac e-Transfer and Instant Bank Transfer plus online bank verification, so a Canadian cashier built on three rails is now built on two.
Topics: Payment Methods · North America
Paramount Commerce gaming page (Company)
- Corporate
Circle Ventures takes a stake in Flutterwave to put USDC on its rails
Circle Ventures made a strategic investment of undisclosed size in Flutterwave to add USDC settlement to the platform. RLUSD stays the default stablecoin under the existing Ripple arrangement, so the African PSP now runs two stablecoin rails rather than one.
Topics: Africa · Crypto Gateways
Finextra (Trade press)
- ClientsGB
BetGoodwin signs an eight-year renewal with Trust Payments
The operator extended for eight years, and Trust Payments' other gaming clients include Betsson and Wildz. Trust Payments also put Les Ambassadeurs Casino in Mayfair live on its point-of-sale estate in July, and announced WINBET, EGT Digital and Viva Games through the same channel.
Topics: Europe
Trust Payments newsroom (Company)
- LicensingEEA
CoinPayments stops serving EU and EEA clients over MiCA
CoinPayments stopped serving clients based in the EU or EEA after July 1, 2026, because of MiCA requirements. Account access for those clients is paused, with balances held separately until claimed. The company has not committed to a return, since the timing depends on completing the regulatory steps. Malta sits inside the EEA, so the gateway can no longer onboard an MGA licensee.
Topics: Crypto Gateways · Compliance & KYC · Europe
CoinPayments FAQ (Company)
- Ownership
Adyen closes its first two acquisitions on the same day
Adyen completed the acquisitions of Talon.One, a loyalty platform, and Orb, a US usage-based billing platform bought for $335 million from available cash. Both closed on July 1, 2026, and they are the first acquisitions Adyen has made since its founding in 2006.
Topics: M&A Tracker · Card Processing
Adyen press release (Company)
- Corporate
BR-DGE raises £10m and adds Bettor Capital as a new investor
BR-DGE announced a £10m raise on June 30, with US gaming investor Bettor Capital joining alongside the Scotland-based family office that has backed the company since its inception. The same announcement named Perry Blacher chairman and put platform volumes up 15-fold in under two years, with transactions expected to top 100 million a month by year end. The money funds new market and product launches in the second half of 2026.
Topics: Payment Orchestrators · M&A Tracker
BR-DGE press release (Company) · NEXT.io (Trade press)
- Product
Paysafe goes live on Primer for card processing, wallets to follow
Paysafe announced on June 29, 2026, that it is live on Primer for card processing, integrated through Primer for Partners, the no-code route Primer opened in December 2025. It is already processing for merchants across North America, Europe and Australasia, and names iGaming first among the target verticals. Skrill, Neteller, paysafecard and Paysafecash are queued behind the card rail with no date attached.
Topics: Payment Orchestrators · Card Processing
Paysafe newsroom, Paysafe joins Primer platform (Company) · Finextra press release (Trade press)
- Market rulesBR
Brazil's blocking rule carries a 48-hour report-back and reaches payment schemes
Resolution CMN 5.320 of June 25, 2026, runs to seven articles, and the 24-hour account freeze is only the first two. Article 3 puts the duty to reject betting-bound payments on payment arrangement institutors as well as on account-holding institutions, article 4 gives every bound institution 48 hours to report back to the SPA, and article 5 makes it close the account once a court confirms forfeiture. The notification the clocks run from is defined by Decreto 13.033.
EBANX review PayRetailers review AstroPay review PagSeguro review Mercado Pago review Pay4Fun review Vpag review Z.ro Global Payments reviewTopics: Compliance & KYC · Latin America
Banco Central do Brasil, Resolucao CMN 5.320 (Regulator) · Resolucao CMN 5.320 on LegisWeb (Regulator) · Resolucao CMN 5.320 normative text, PDF (Trade press)
- Market rulesBR
Brazil's betting block notices get a secure electronic channel within 90 days
Decree 13.033, published June 19, 2026, sets Brazil's procedure for blocking unlicensed betting accounts: the SPA draws up an irregularity finding naming the operator, its sites and the institutions holding its accounts, then issues a blocking notice. Article 2 counts payment institutions and payment scheme institutors as obligated institutions alongside banks, so a PSP is an addressee itself. Article 6 gives that notice system 90 days from publication, due in September 2026.
EBANX review PayRetailers review AstroPay review PagSeguro review Mercado Pago review Pay4Fun review Vpag review Z.ro Global Payments reviewTopics: Compliance Calendar · Latin America
Decreto 13.033 de 19 de junho de 2026, publicacao original (Register) · Banco Central do Brasil, Resolucao CMN 5.320 (Regulator)
- Market rulesBR
Brazil makes payment institutions liable for an unlicensed operator's betting tax
Portaria MF 1.766 of June 17, 2026, fills in article 6 of Complementary Law 224 of 2025. After a joint notice from the SPA and the federal revenue service, a bank, payment institution or payment scheme institutor that keeps processing for an unlicensed betting operator is jointly liable for the tax that operator owes, and it has 24 hours to cut the flow. Anyone advertising an unlicensed operator is caught with no prior notice at all.
EBANX review PayRetailers review AstroPay review PagSeguro review Mercado Pago review Pay4Fun review Vpag review Z.ro Global Payments reviewTopics: Compliance & KYC · Latin America
FAS Advogados, Portaria MF 1.766/2026 (Trade press) · iGaming Business Brasil (Trade press)
- CorporateUS
Interchecks raises $50M and takes debit account funding to general availability
Interchecks closed a $50M Series C on June 15, 2026, led by Bettor Capital, Commerce Ventures, Decades Holdings and Thayer Street Partners, and used the same announcement to put Account Funding Transactions into general availability. AFT funds an account from a debit credential with money generally available within 30 minutes, which adds a debit pay-in rail to a product line built on payouts.
Topics: Payout Solutions · North America
Interchecks Series C announcement (Company) · Interchecks API docs, AFT funding transactions (Company) · PYMNTS (Trade press)
- ProductUS
PPRO sells stablecoin acceptance built with Coinbase, US first
PPRO and Coinbase announced the tie-up on May 27, 2026, scoped to merchants and PSPs in the U.S. market. PPRO accepts USDC, USDT and USD, processes in USD, and settles in USDC, USDT or USD, with refunds supported and recurring and one-click payments not. Coverage is now global on both the consumer and merchant side. No PPRO group company holds a crypto-asset authorization.
Topics: Crypto Gateways · Payment Methods
PPRO and Coinbase announcement (Company) · PPRO stablecoins method page (Company) · PPRO group entity list (Company)
- CorporateUS
PayNearMe names ex-Twilio engineering SVP Niall Hayes chief development officer
PayNearMe appointed Niall Hayes chief development officer and EVP of engineering, reporting to founder and CEO Danny Shader. He arrives from Twilio, where he was SVP of engineering across messaging, email, voice and video. His remit covers software development, infrastructure, data, security and enterprise implementations, which is where sportsbook integration and deposit uptime work sits.
Topics: Gaming Payment Gateway · North America
PayNearMe press release, April 23, 2026 (Company)
- CorporateKE
Cellulant fills three C-level seats in ten weeks, CFO from Agoda and Binance
Cellulant named Michael Muriuki chief product and technology officer on February 5, 2026, Darren Makarem chief financial officer on 19 March and Anthony Hernandez chief operating officer on 15 April. Makarem was global CFO at Agoda and APAC and LATAM CFO at Binance. The March release puts Cellulant's own throughput at over 4.5 million transactions daily, and operators on its mobile money rails now deal with a finance and operations bench that is new since February.
Topics: Africa
Cellulant newsroom, dated press release listing (Company) · Cellulant, Cellulant Appoints Former Agoda CFO to Drive Next Phase of Pan-African Growth, 19 March 2026 (Company) · African Media Agency, syndicated Cellulant release, 19 March 2026 (Trade press)
- OwnershipSE
TrueLayer closes Zimpler purchase but the Swedish license stays put
TrueLayer closed its purchase of Zimpler on March 3, 2026, just over four months after announcing the deal on October 21, 2025. The Swedish approval covered the change of control, and Zimpler AB, company number 556887-9984, remains a payment institution in its own right, authorized by Finansinspektionen under FI number 44018, on permissions last extended in 2019. The licensed Swedish entity behind Nordic merchant contracts is unchanged.
Topics: M&A Tracker · Open Banking
TrueLayer completion announcement (Company) · Zimpler press release (Company) · TrueLayer signing announcement (Company) · FI company register, Zimpler AB (id 114594) (Register)
- OwnershipSE
Worldline closes sale of PaymentIQ to Incore Invest for about 160 million euros
Worldline completed the sale of CoreOrchestration AB, the Swedish company behind the PaymentIQ orchestration platform, on March 2, 2026. Worldline put enterprise value and cash proceeds at about 160 million euros, buyer Incore Invest the price at 1.75 billion Swedish kronor. One of seven Worldline disposals raising 590 to 640 million euros, PaymentIQ now stands alone on about 50 million euros of revenue, so its roadmap answers to Incore Invest, not a listed payments group.
Topics: Payment Orchestrators · M&A Tracker
Worldline press release, finalisation of the PaymentIQ divestment (Company) · Incore Invest, completion of the CoreOrchestration acquisition (Company) · Worldline press release listing the seven divestments and 590-640M euro proceeds (Company)
- CorporateUS
PayNearMe 2025 revenue tops $200M, up 60% year over year
PayNearMe released its 2025 results on February 11. Revenue passed $200 million, up 60% year over year, and the company now moves more than $50 billion a year for clients and their customers. Businesses on its PayXM platform grew from about 16,000 in 2024 to 20,000 in 2025, with cash accepted at more than 62,000 US retail locations. PayNearMe gave no revenue split by vertical, so its gaming share is not public.
Topics: iGaming Payment Processing · North America
- ClientsBR
OneKey client Alfa loses Internacional sponsorship over three unpaid R$4.16 million installments
Internacional formally ended its master sponsorship with Alfa (alfa.bet.br) on January 11, 2026, after the operator missed the November and December 2025 installments plus the January payment due on the 10th. The deal ran to R$50 million a year in twelve installments of R$4.16 million, more than half the R$90 million the club had budgeted for 2026 sponsorship income. Gremio had already dropped its own Alfa deal during the closing rounds of the 2025 season.
Topics: Latin America · Payment Challenges
Poder360, Internacional rescinde contrato com patrocinadora Alfa por inadimplência (Trade press) · Lance, Após novos atrasos, Inter deve romper acordo de patrocínio com a Alfa (Trade press) · BNLData, Internacional rescinde contrato com casa de apostas Alfa (Trade press)
- CorporateSE
Incore registers the vehicle that now sits above PaymentIQ
Incore SPV PaymentIQ AB was registered in Sweden on January 9, 2026 under org number 559566-7071, with Incore Invest founder Nicolai Chamizo as its sole board member, weeks before the carve-out from Worldline closed. CoreOrchestration AB, the company behind PaymentIQ, is now chaired by Chamizo with Neil Dsouza as CEO, while the Swedish register still records Worldline's Bambora Group AB as its parent. It carries 26 employees and revenue of 644.1 million kronor for 2024.
Topics: Payment Orchestrators · M&A Tracker
Swedish company register record, Incore SPV PaymentIQ AB (559566-7071) (Register) · Swedish company register record, CoreOrchestration AB (556957-1168) (Register)
- EnforcementSE
Swedish regulator fines Zimpler 3 million kronor over gambling customer checks
Finansinspektionen's decision of October 14, 2025, published the next day, gave Zimpler a remark plus a 3 million kronor sanction fee for failing to risk assess 37,463 end users when they first used its rails. FI limited the customer file review to gambling flows: 30 percent of Zimpler's 258 merchants were gambling companies and 70 percent of its 424,234 end users had a gambling link over July 31, 2023, to April 30, 2024. TrueLayer signed its deal to buy Zimpler six days later.
Topics: Compliance & KYC · Europe
Finansinspektionen decision, FI dnr 24-13374 (Regulator) · Finansinspektionen sanction notice (Regulator) · FI company register, Zimpler AB (id 114594) (Register)
- EnforcementGH
Bank of Ghana suspends Cellulant and Flutterwave remittance partnerships for one month
On September 4, 2025, the Bank of Ghana ordered a 1-month suspension of the remittance partnerships of Cellulant Ghana Limited and Flutterwave Inc., effective September 18, 2025, over breaches of paragraphs 5 and 7.1 to 7.3 of its 2023 inward remittance guidelines. The suspension covered the partnerships only, not any license, and it lapsed in October 2025. Merchant collections were not the subject, but a bank or MTO wanting either PSP for remittances must reapply.
Topics: Compliance & KYC · Africa
Bank of Ghana, Suspension of Remittance Partnerships of Flutterwave Inc., Celulant Ghana Limited and Halges Financial Technologies Limited, 4 September 2025 (PDF) (Regulator) · Bank of Ghana press release, archived copy of the same PDF (Regulator) · Bank of Ghana news index entry for the press release (Regulator) · Techpoint Africa, BoG suspends remittance licences of Flutterwave, Cellulant, Tap Tap Send, others (Trade press)
- EnforcementLT
Bank of Lithuania fined Genome's license holder EUR 80,000 over AML failures
The Bank of Lithuania register records a warning and an EUR 80,000 fine dated June 11, 2024, against UAB Maneuver LT, authorization code LB000453, the license holder behind the Genome brand. The measure cites breaches of the money laundering prevention law covering customer due diligence, ongoing monitoring and reporting duties. The entity's electronic money institution license, valid from March 29, 2018, still shows non-limited activity with no restrictions listed.
Topics: Compliance & KYC · Europe
Bank of Lithuania register, UAB Maneuver LT (Register)
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