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Yaspa and Paysecure Launch Advanced Payments Intelligence for Payment Providers
Paysecure, a top global payment orchestration platform, and Yaspa, a prominent fintech focused on payments and identity solutions, have announced a strategic partnership today to introduce genuine intelligence to the payments market.
Utilizing Paysecure’s AI-driven routing and comprehensive transaction analysis alongside Yaspa’s Smart Payments, operators can minimize fraud and enhance the payment experience for users through a single platform, helping to maintain and expand their customer base.
Yaspa’s Intelligent Payments represents the peak of payment processing innovation, combining immediate bank-to-bank transfers with real-time data insights. Utilizing open banking infrastructure, the solution enables companies to execute Pay by Bank transactions that settle immediately while also extracting profound insights from the user’s financial habits. Unlike conventional payment gateways that merely facilitate money transfer, Yaspa’s platform transforms each transaction into an opportunity for identity verification, assessment of financial health, and risk evaluation. By connecting real-time bank information with AI-driven analytics, the platform delivers an all-encompassing perspective on a customer’s financial status and legitimacy at the precise moment a transaction occurs.
Paysecure is an advanced payment orchestration platform that allows businesses to enhance each phase of the payment process using AI-driven smart routing, real-time insights, and worldwide connectivity. Its sophisticated data and intelligence features examine payment trends and performance, delivering actionable insights that assist merchants in customizing the payment experience, enhancing customer retention, and optimizing revenue opportunities.
This collaboration will utilize the shared data and insights from both solutions to provide more intelligent and efficient payment experiences. By becoming part of Paysecure’s ecosystem, Yaspa’s open banking and PSP solutions can be activated via a single integration, providing merchants with access to account-to-account payments and a worldwide marketplace of providers. Collectively, the solutions utilize AI-generated insights regarding spending trends, currency, offers, fraud, and performance, allowing merchants to protect the experience and optimize the potential of each transaction.
Yaspa’s Chief Revenue Officer, Justin Fraser, said: “This integration and partnership with Paysecure is a genuinely game-changing moment in the payments industry. Never before have operators had this level of intelligence and data from a third party payments solution at their fingertips. We look forward to working closely with the Paysecure team.”
Mike Peplow, Chief Operating Officer at Paysecure, said: “The intelligence data we collect drives our AI analysis enabling real time decisions on routing, payment method and fraud management. Working with Yaspa not only provides a best in class open banking, but delivers access to account information that further enhances our ability to optimise payment selection, actively lower transaction risk and personalise the end customer experience. The partnership with Yaspa unites two data driven platforms to proactively support merchants transform their customer journey, offer more payment choice and better manage the transaction workflow.”
Paysecure was recently honored as the best newcomer at the Card and Payment Awards 2026. This came after the recent declaration of Paysecure’s fivefold rise in the number of merchants utilizing its technology. Its orchestration platform currently links merchants to more than 500 PSPs/acquirers and various alternative payment methods globally.
Yaspa was recently recognized by Sifted as the fourth fastest-growing start-up in the UK and Ireland. In the past year, it won the Real-Time Payments Innovation award at the 2025 Payments Awards and was included in CB Insights’ Top 100 Fintechs, a worldwide list that highlights the most innovative and promising companies influencing the future of financial services.
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PokerStars Big Game on Tour returns May 17 with Koon, Deeb and Berkey
Season 3 runs weekly on PokerStars’ YouTube channel through June 14 and includes a $50,000 staked ‘Loose Cannon’ amateur spot.
PokerStars will launch a new run of PokerStars Big Game on Tour episodes on May 17, with Jason Koon, Shaun Deeb and Matt Berkey set to headline the line-up. The series will air on the PokerStars YouTube channel, with weekly episodes through June 14.
The cast for the new instalment also includes MMA fighter Sean O’Malley and high-stakes cash game player Randy ‘3Coin’ Sadler, according to the company. The episodes follow the Big Game format, featuring No Limit Hold’em cash game play.
PokerStars said the season’s ‘Loose Cannon’ will be Canadian operations manager Andy Taylor, who will be staked $50,000 and will keep any profit made at the table. The company described Taylor as running a property maintenance company and, with his wife, a non-for-profit organisation focused on supporting young athletes in Toronto.
A teaser for the new episodes aired during the livestream of the €100,000 High Rollers Invitational at PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Monte Carlo, which featured Koon. PokerStars noted Koon “took home €1,000,000” from the event.
Release schedule: May 17 (Episode 1), May 24 (Episode 2), May 31 (Episode 3), June 7 (Episode 4), and June 14 (Episode 5).
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Jason Koon, Shaun Deeb, and Matt Berkey Headline New Instalment of PokerStars Big Game on Tour
Poker’s most thrilling televised cash game, PokerStars Big Game on Tour, will return on May 17 with a brand-new set of episodes featuring a stellar line-up headlined by PokerStars Ambassador and number three in the all-time poker money list Jason Koon, reigning two-time World Series of Poker Player of the Year Shaun Deeb, and American high-stakes poker pro and coach Matt Berkey.
MMA Fighter and poker enthusiast Sean O’Malley, and well-known high stakes cash game player and businessman Randy ‘3Coin’ Sadler complete the line-up, who will take to the felt against the ‘Loose Cannon’ to win big.
As always, each episode will showcase high stakes No Limit Hold’em cash game action in the beloved Big Game format, where one amateur player or ‘Loose Cannon’ is staked $50,000 and gets to keep any profit they make at the table.
Canadian Operations Manager Andy Taylor will shake up the felt as the ‘Loose Cannon’ hoping to beat the pros. Andy runs a property maintenance company as his main job and, alongside his wife, runs a non-for-profit organisation aimed at improving the skillset and mindset of young athletes across Toronto.
The teaser for the new Big Game episodes was aired during the live stream of the €100,000 High Rollers Invitational at PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Monte Carlo, featuring Big Game player Jason Koon. Koon took home €1,000,000 after topping a field of some of the best in the world.
The first Big Game episode will air on PokerStars YouTube channel on May 17, with new episodes airing weekly and culminating on June 14.
- Sunday, May 17 – BGOT Season 3 Episode 1
- Sunday, May 24 – BGOT Season 3 Episode 2
- Sunday, May 31 – BGOT Season 3 Episode 3
- Sunday, June 7 – BGOT Season 3 Episode 4
- Sunday, June 14 – BGOT Season 3 Episode 5
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IBJR hails App Store approval as a milestone in the fight against illegal betting in Brazil
The Brazilian Institute for Responsible Gaming (IBJR) considers Apple’s decision to allow the distribution of regulated sports betting and online gaming applications on its Brazilian App Store a key milestone for the consolidation of a transparent and integrity-driven sector.
This measure strengthens regulation by making it easier for users to clearly identify operators that are duly authorized to operate in compliance with national rules.
Following Google’s decision, made less than a year ago, to authorize the distribution of sports betting apps on the Play Store in Brazil, this initiative acts as a powerful cybersecurity filter and helps protect consumers from the risks of the illegal market.
Since only operators licensed by the SPA are allowed to offer services to iOS users, the process of channeling traffic into the regulated environment is further strengthened.
However, for the measure to be fully effective, continuous enforcement is required, as several illegal apps can still be found on major platforms.

Data from Instituto Locomotiva, in partnership with LCA Consultoria, indicate that the illegal environment—much of it controlled by organized crime—moves around R$40 billion per year in Brazil and generates an estimated annual loss of R$10.8 billion in tax revenue.
In this context, actions that help distinguish legal operators from unauthorized ones are essential.
The presence of applications on both the Play Store and Apple Store reinforces the commitment to Responsible Gaming, as they integrate functionalities required by legislation and audited by the platforms.
These include strict age verification to prevent access by minors under 18, clear risk warnings related to gambling, and self-exclusion tools.
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