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Philippines Closes 8,000 Merchant Accounts Linked to Illegal Online Casinos
By Carla Calderon•September 18, 2026
The brief
More than 8,000 merchant accounts in the Philippines have been shut down after authorities found they were allegedly being used to channel payments to unregistered and unlicensed online casino operators. According to Bloomberg, the findings came from Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, or BSP, the country’s central bank. Aut…
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