{"id":956737,"date":"2025-08-22T08:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T02:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956737"},"modified":"2025-08-22T08:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:06:13","slug":"real-money-gaming-ban-may-hit-payment-regtech-businesses-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/22\/real-money-gaming-ban-may-hit-payment-regtech-businesses-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Real-money gaming ban may hit payment, regtech businesses hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second-order effects of a ban on real-money gaming (RMG) are set to be felt across the fintech sector, with digital payment companies and regulatory technology startups bracing for a large chunk of their business disappearing. <\/p>\n<p>The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025, which seeks to impose a countrywide ban on online games where real money is wagered, has received Parliament approval with the Rajya Sabha passing it on Thursday, a day after the Lok Sabha cleared it. This is set to impact gaming platforms like Dream11, Pokerbaazi and MyRummyCircle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second-order effects of a ban on real-money gaming (RMG) are set to be felt across the fintech sector, with digital payment companies and regulatory technology startups bracing for a large chunk of their business disappearing. The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025, which seeks to impose a countrywide ban on online games where real money is wagered, has received Parliament approval with the Rajya Sabha passing it on Thursday, a day after the Lok Sabha cleared it. This is set to impact gaming platforms like Dream11, Pokerbaazi and MyRummyCircle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}