Brazil, India, Mozambique and Belarus move on gambling rules while Betano, Polymarket and Duel face fresh scrutiny

Several jurisdictions are tightening or reshaping gambling rules at the same time, and the details matter for anyone running payments in high-risk verticals. The list below is less “industry buzz” than a map of where operators, PSPs, and compliance teams may find new friction points.

1. In Brazil, Betano was suspected of boosting positive reviews by offering free bets to customers in exchange for good ratings. For payments teams, the practical issue is not the review tactic itself but the reputational and onboarding risk that tends to follow it.
2. Belarus’s Ministry of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade proposed banning advertising for gambling and lotteries on the internet. If adopted, that would remove one of the main acquisition channels for online gaming businesses targeting the market.
3. India saw raids in a case involving the illegal platforms Diamondexch, Indianexch, and World777, with assets worth more than $2,4 млн seized. For PSPs and acquirers, raids like this usually mean intensified scrutiny of payment flows connected to the same merchant clusters.
4. On Polymarket, wallets were found with suspiciously accurate predictions about US military operations, including a 97% success rate on bets. That is the kind of pattern blockchain analytics teams flag when they want to separate informed trading from something that looks a lot closer to coordinated activity.
5. Mozambique approved a special regulatory framework for online gambling. For operators and payment providers, that is the headline that matters: a market moving from informal uncertainty to defined rules usually means a clearer licensing and settlement path, even if the details still have to be read closely.
6. There was also a claim circulating on social media that funds withdrawn from the crypto casino Duel started being marked as high-risk transactions in blockchain analytics services. The source text does not say which service made that classification, but for crypto-native merchants the point is obvious: transaction labels can change fast, and so can banking tolerance.
7. The Brazilian Senate is considering four bills on betting regulation, ranging from deposit limits to a total ban. That is not a cosmetic policy tweak; it is a live fork in the road for operators, PSPs, and anyone deciding whether Brazil is a scale market or a headache with a flag on the terminal.