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Online Sports Gambling Makes Bet On Faster Payments

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In a new PYMNTS interview, Tom Cregan, CEO and managing director at EML , discusses the place of instant payments in the changing gambling ecosystem. But that’s not the case for online gambling, said Cregan, who noted, “It can sometimes take two or three days” for those winnings to get into gamblers’ accounts. Supreme Court.

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Wild Cards? Gambling, Payroll, Other Models Provide Fresh Fuel For Prepaid

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Cards (as in prepaid, stored-value cards that consumers can use for gambling, payroll and a variety of other uses, many of them novel) are only half the battle. Placing A Bet On Online Gambling. The rise of online and mobile (legal) gambling is providing benefits to reloadable and store-value cards, and driving innovation.

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Accounting Professor Indicted on Fraud Charges Over Embezzlement Claims

CPA Practice

The charges identified Kroger as a professor of business and accounting, but does not specify where. According to the indictment, Kroger and a business partner identified only as “Individual A” set up a Wyoming-based company called Lone Star Municipal Finance Company LLC in October 2019.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: EY’s Paying Big For the Everest Failure; PwC UK Delays Promotions | 2.12.24

Going Concern

EY piled more than $700mn of extra debt on to its global operating business to deal with the costs of the failed plan to spin off its consulting arm, according to newly filed accounts. Between a wave of retirees and a drop in the number of people graduating with accounting degrees, the whole profession is struggling to staff up. “We

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Friday Footnotes: Anyone Wanna Work in Hollywood?; Profit-Hungry CEOs Love Gen AI; KPMG’s SF Future | 1.19.24

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Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. And take our 2024 Predictions for the Accounting Profession survey ! Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default.

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Making crypto a less taxing challenge

Accounting Insight

Whether or not you believe crypto is the next big thing (to be frank, no one can deny the huge progress the industry has made in the last few years) it’s got to the stage where accountants can’t ignore it. In its early years HMRC considered it to be gambling and therefore didn’t count any gains for tax purposes.

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Bitcoin Daily: Former Finance VP Embezzled Millions For Crypto Poker; Bitfinex, Tether Sued For Bitcoin Market Manipulation

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Dennis Blieden pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges for embezzling more than $22 million from StyleHaul and then using the stolen money to expense his lifestyle, as well as to participate in crypto-currency gambling.