EGBA criticizes Finland’s block on foreign online payment service providers admin, April 17, 2024 The European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA) has described Finland’s decision to implement legislation blocking foreign payment providers from being able to offer their services to local iGaming aficionados as ‘a missed opportunity for overdue gambling reform.’ The Brussels-headquartered trade group used an official Thursday press release to detail that the measure approved by the 200-seat parliament of the Scandinavian nation earlier this week was floated by the coalition government of Prime Minister Sanna Marin as a way of preventing local punters from accessing non-domestic iGaming websites. The organization pronounced that this legislation is now set to come into force from the first day of 2023 with its advocates having justified the move ‘on consumer prot…