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Online Sports Gambling Makes Bet On Faster Payments

PYMNTS

In a new PYMNTS interview, Tom Cregan, CEO and managing director at EML , discusses the place of instant payments in the changing gambling ecosystem. But that’s not the case for online gambling, said Cregan, who noted, “It can sometimes take two or three days” for those winnings to get into gamblers’ accounts. Supreme Court.

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How Shohei Ohtanis’ Interpreter’s Theft of $16.5 Million Occurred and Went Undetected for Years

Withum

According to a federal indictment and a guilty plea, Ippei Mizuhara, Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter, unlawfully transferred more than $16 million from Ohtani’s bank account at a bank in Arizona to pay his gambling debts to an illegal bookmaking operation. During the account setup, Mizuhara translated for Ohtani.

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Wild Cards? Gambling, Payroll, Other Models Provide Fresh Fuel For Prepaid

PYMNTS

Cards (as in prepaid, stored-value cards that consumers can use for gambling, payroll and a variety of other uses, many of them novel) are only half the battle. Placing A Bet On Online Gambling. The rise of online and mobile (legal) gambling is providing benefits to reloadable and store-value cards, and driving innovation.

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Accounting Professor Indicted on Fraud Charges Over Embezzlement Claims

CPA Practice

The charges identified Kroger as a professor of business and accounting, but does not specify where. According to the indictment, Kroger and a business partner identified only as “Individual A” set up a Wyoming-based company called Lone Star Municipal Finance Company LLC in October 2019.

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Friday Footnotes: An Outsourcing Shortage Now Too?; Finally, Some Disruption; PwC Haters Celebrate Government Inquiry | 3.17.23

Going Concern

Restoring Exam credits expired during COVID would help address CPA shortage [ AICPA ] The accounting profession is confronted with a talent shortage, and reinstating CPA exam credits that have expired since January 1, 2020, could have an immediate impact on our CPA pipeline. Certainly, credit goes to all who are attempting to do something.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Tax Practitioners Resent Getting Lumped in with PwC Scandal; Marcum’s Orphan | 8.12.24

Going Concern

During her sophomore year, Ortiz co-founded the Alpha Chapter of the Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting (ALPFA). Through ALPFA, Ortiz networked with professionals from the Big Four accounting firms — Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC — which gave her a crucial “kickstart.” Have a great week! Love ya bye.

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Friday Footnotes: Anyone Wanna Work in Hollywood?; Profit-Hungry CEOs Love Gen AI; KPMG’s SF Future | 1.19.24

Going Concern

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. And take our 2024 Predictions for the Accounting Profession survey ! Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default.

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