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Why Gambling Merchants Are Often Running Crypto Businesses

April 23, 2025

Introduction

As cryptocurrency adoption continues to rise, one industry where it has gained particular traction is online gambling. A growing number of gambling merchants are running parallel or hybrid crypto businesses — not by accident, but by strategic design. This article explores the reasons behind this trend and the compliance and business implications it brings.

1. Circumventing Payment Processing Restrictions

Gambling is categorized as a high-risk industry by major card schemes like Visa and Mastercard. As a result, many acquiring banks either charge high fees, delay onboarding, or outright reject gambling-related merchants. Crypto offers a decentralized alternative that eliminates reliance on traditional financial institutions.

No Acquirer, No Problem

Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and USDT allow platforms to process payments directly, without needing to go through a payment gateway or acquire a Merchant Category Code (MCC) that flags the activity.

2. Enabling Cross-Border Transactions

Online gambling is inherently global. Cryptocurrencies simplify the challenges of cross-border payments by:

  • Bypassing local currency restrictions
  • Reducing conversion and transfer fees
  • Allowing operators to serve players in regions with limited banking infrastructure

3. Lower Costs and Faster Settlements

Crypto eliminates intermediary fees, allows near-instant settlements, and provides irreversible transactions — which also reduces chargeback exposure, a major issue in gambling-related card transactions.

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How to Become a SEPA Participant

April 21, 2025

Introduction

For fintech companies in Europe, accessing the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) is essential. Whether you’re building a lending platform, a neobank, or an investment app, SEPA connectivity ensures your product can send and receive euro payments securely and efficiently. This guide explains the steps, benefits, and technical setup to become a SEPA participant.

What is SEPA?

SEPA, or Single Euro Payments Area, enables streamlined euro payments across 36 European countries. It standardizes credit transfers, direct debits, and instant payments, making cross-border transactions within Europe as easy as domestic ones. It is backed by the European Central Bank (ECB) and national banks.

SEPA Member Countries

  • 27 EU countries
  • 4 EFTA members: Liechtenstein, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland
  • 4 microstates: Monaco, Andorra, San Marino, Vatican City
  • United Kingdom (post-Brexit)

Benefits of Becoming a SEPA Participant

1. Your Own BIC and IBANs

Fintechs can issue IBANs in their own name and country, improving trust and local customer experience. No more relying on BaaS providers or foreign IBANs.

2. Speed and Control

Gain full visibility into SEPA payment flows and enjoy faster processing through closer integration with Clearing and Settlement Mechanisms (CSMs).

3. Cost Efficiency

Indirect participants often enjoy lower fees (2x–10x less) for SEPA transfers than corporate banking clients.

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How SWIFT and SEPA quietly power the online gambling world

April 10, 2025

Why payments matter more than most people realise.

When we talk about online gambling, we often focus on flashy games, licences, or the never-ending debate around regulation. But truth is, none of it works without the financial rails underneath, especially ones like Swift and European Payments Council (EPC), the body behind #SEPA.

I’ve recently spent time digging into how these two systems underpin cross-border transactions in the gambling world. While they’re not perfect, they do a lot of heavy lifting. SEPA helps operators across Europe move euros without jumping through a million hoops. #SWIFT, on the other hand, connects the dots globally, linking over 11,000 financial institutions across 200+ countries. That’s no small feat.

In practice? This means a player in Spain can deposit funds to a Malta-based platform using SEPA Direct Debit without friction. Or an operator in Cyprus can pay out a jackpot to a German customer via a Commerzbank AG account using SWIFT without the transfer falling into a compliance black hole.

What I’ve found genuinely interesting is how these systems also support compliance efforts. A lot of operators, like @Kindred Group plc or even fintech providers like Worldline, use SEPA and SWIFT rails to help fulfil their anti-money laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) obligations.…

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My do merchants need a payment manager

December 11, 2024

We want to occasionally share our experience and views about online payments here. So, we’d like to start from a very basic question, answer to which is not so obvious for a person not related to highload ecommerce business:

Why Does Your Company Need a Payments Manager?

In today’s fast-paced digital economy, payments are more than just transactions – they’re the backbone of customer experience, revenue optimization, and business scalability. Yet, many companies overlook the importance of having a dedicated Payments Manager to oversee this often critical function.

During the early stages of a business, this role can often be covered by a Product, Finance, or Operations Manager. However, as the business scales and annual sales reach several million euros or dollars, hiring a dedicated Payments Manager becomes not only practical but also economically strategic.

Here’s why a Payments Manager is essential:

1️⃣ Optimizing Costs: Payment processing fees, chargebacks, and fraud can silently drain profits. A Payments Manager ensures that your company is leveraging the best payment solutions, negotiating competitive rates, and managing operational costs effectively.

2️⃣ Enhancing Customer Experience: From seamless checkouts to offering the right mix of payment methods (cards, wallets, BNPL, crypto, etc.), a Payments Manager ensures your customers have a frictionless payment journey tailored to their preferences.…

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