September brings new regulatory challenges across the gambling, crypto-asset taxation, and financial monitoring sectors. While several important decisions and changes were adopted as early as July and August, businesses will begin to experience their practical impact in September.
Below are the key developments and regulatory changes worth paying attention to.
- United Kingdom Tightens Supplier Accountability
The UK regulator published a public statement regarding Evolution Malta Holding Limited – a licensee providing casino gaming software and hosting services that supplied online games to unlicensed gambling operators. As part of the settlement, the company will pay £4.75 million following a UK Gambling Commission investigation.
Key provisions:
- in late June 2026, a similar settlement of £900,000 was reached with Petfre (Betfred) over breaches of social responsibility and AML procedures;
- from April 2026, the Remote Gaming Duty was increased from 21% to 40%;
- the risk of players migrating to unregulated alternatives amid an increasing tax burden.
The Evolution case is an example of why operators must closely monitor to whom they supply their games, as well as how and where those games are made available in practice, and maintain effective controls to prevent their products from being used by unlicensed operators.
- Ireland Issues New Guidance on Crypto-Asset Service Provider Reporting Obligations
On 24 August 2026, Irish Revenue published eBrief No. 121/26 and a new Tax and Duty Manual Part 38-03-38 – the first official guidance on reporting obligations in Ireland under the Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF), implemented in the EU through DAC8.
Key dates:
- from 1 January 2026, RCASPs are required to collect information on reportable users and their transactions;
- 31 May 2027 is the deadline for the first report to Irish Revenue covering the reporting period 1 January – 31 December 2026.
What is reportable:
- acquisitions and disposals for fiat currency (aggregate amount, number of units, number of transactions);
- exchanges between crypto-assets;
- transfers to and from reportable users;
- retail payment transactions exceeding USD 50,000.
CARF thus introduces new reporting obligations for reporting crypto-asset service providers (RCASPs), along with the automatic exchange of this information between participating jurisdictions.
- United States Ends BOI Reporting for US Companies
On 11 August 2026, FinCEN published a final rule eliminating the requirement for US companies and US persons to file beneficial ownership information with FinCEN under the Corporate Transparency Act. The rule took effect on 14 August 2026, following publication in the Federal Register.
Key changes:
- US companies are permanently exempt from BOI reporting;
- US persons who obtained a FinCEN ID no longer need to update or correct previously filed information;
- foreign companies no longer need to report information about US company applicants;
- FinCEN will remove from its database information about individuals it reasonably believes to be US persons.
Foreign companies that meet the definition of reporting companies must still disclose information about their beneficial owners where those owners are foreign individuals. For owners of international businesses, this means US companies are effectively removed from BOI reporting, while foreign companies operating in the US remain a separate category and must assess their obligations under the new rules.
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