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Navigating AML obligations in the age of virtual IBANs

The Payments Association

While vIBANs offer innovation in payment systems, they introduce risks like money laundering due to insufficient oversight. Payment Service Providers must strengthen due diligence, monitoring, and collaboration with regulators to address these risks. Why is it important? What’s next?

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Payments regulation roadmap: Q3 2025​

The Payments Association

Next steps/action required: Conduct or update a fraud risk assessment, with documented outputs and regular review cycles. Critically, firms operating under Money Laundering Regulations (MLRs) must now secure Part 4A FSMA authorisation to continue operating legally once the transitional period ends.

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Understanding Risk Management Strategies as a PayFac

Stax

In this article, we’ll discuss what SaaS companies looking to become payment facilitators need to know about risk management strategies. PayFacs handle risk assessment, underwriting, settling of funds, compliance, and chargebacks which exposes them to greater potential risks.

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Deep Dive: How Gift Cards Become Grift Cards For QSRs

PYMNTS

QSRs can also lower the transaction limits for their gift cards, disincentivizing cybercriminals from targeting them. Device risk assessment programs can determine whether these value checks are coming from a small number of devices, indicating that hackers could be using botnets to further their schemes.

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Best Online Gaming Payment Gateway: Secure Payment Solutions for Gamers

Segpay

Configure Payment Settings Adjust payment preferences within your gaming platform, including supported currencies, transaction limits, subscription models, and payout options to match your business strategy. Fraud Prevention & Compliance Fraudulent transactions increase operational costs and financial risks.

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UK consumer payment trends 2025: Insights from the latest behaviour survey

The Payments Association

Building confidence through clear messaging around transaction limits, fail-safes, and offline functionality will be key to driving adoption. Biometric authentication, device-level risk, and the transmission of payment credentials via third-party ecosystems (e.g. From a compliance standpoint, wearables raise unique challenges.

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AI-powered Compliance in Fintech: Smarter, Faster, More Accurate

Fintech Review

From anti-money laundering (AML) to know-your-customer (KYC) obligations, the compliance burden is growing. In a real-time digital environment, delays in detecting fraud, money laundering, or data breaches can be catastrophic. It can flag these anomalies early, allowing fintechs to act before risks escalate.