6: How Does The Wire Act Effect Payment Providers → Mark Hichar from Greenberg Traurig
Release Date: 05/15/2019
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Topics discussed:
- The Wire Act applies to all types of betting, including sports
- The effect on payment providers, perhaps as aider and abettor
- If you are assisting in aiding and abetting then payment processors could possibly be considered as aiding
- The Wire Act was passed in 1961 to go after organized crime
- The Wire Act does not carve out for state authorized gambling
- Technology have advanced significantly since 1961 and the passing of The Wire Act
- Changes in how we communicate compared to 1961
- The ideal solution is legislative
- New Hampshire and clarifying what The Wire Act means in June 2019
- Payment providers should be watching cautiously — in regard to the possibility of aiding and abetting
- Does the Wire Act cover intermediate routing — and how do you identify where that communication goes?
- Continued expansion will continue throughout the country
NOTES
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