#Safer Gambling Code

Banking app Revolut has decided to block credit card payments made to gambling websites in Ireland. The decision was taken after an inquiry showed that betting firms in the country are taking advantage of credit card payments made through contactless apps such as Apple Pay, Google Pay and Revolut. Currently, direct credit card betting is banned in…

Apple and Google, often blamed for their alleged complacency in facilitating gambling companies, may have been siding with consumers all along. The companies provided Irish betting apps with a reliable method to filter credit card payments for the purposes of gambling, the Irish Independent wrote, but at least one firm has opted out of this option,…

Banking app Revolut will block credit card payments to gambling sites in Ireland. The decision was taken after an inquiry showed that betting firms in the country are taking advantage of credit card payments made through contactless apps such as Apple Pay, Google Pay and Revolut. Currently, direct credit card betting is banned under Irish industry…

Banking app Revolut is to block credit card payments to gambling sites in Ireland, the Irish Independent can reveal. he move follows this newspaper's investigation showing that betting firms here are profiting from credit card payments made through contactless apps such as Apple Pay, Google Pay and Revolut. Direct credit card betting is banned in…

In Ireland, a ban on the use of credit cards in retail shops and online for Irish patrons has been agreed to by bookmakers while also accepting a pre-watershed "whistle-to-whistle" advertising ban for live sport. The pair of initiatives are a part of an amended code of practice for safe gambling brought by the representative body of the country's…