Denmark’s Financial Supervisory Authority has ordered payments provider Inpay A/S to stop establishing new business relationships with online gambling companies after identifying serious shortcomings in the firm’s anti-money laundering controls.
The action follows an AML inspection carried out in March 2026. According to the regulator’s findings, Inpay failed to demonstrate that it was applying sufficient customer due diligence and transaction monitoring to business clients operating in the online gaming sector.
Inpay is licensed in Denmark as an electronic money institution under the Payments Act and focuses heavily on cross-border payments. Its portfolio includes corporate and financial-sector customers as well as crypto and online gambling businesses, with gaming clients accounting for a significant share of its transaction volumes. Many of those companies are based outside Denmark and, in numerous cases, outside the European Union.
Among the deficiencies identified were failures to update due diligence when relevant customer circumstances changed and inadequate assessments of the purpose and intended nature of certain business relationships. The concerns involved online gambling customers classified as presenting a high risk of money laundering or terrorist financing.
The Danish FSA considered the breaches particularly serious because of their scale, the risk profile of the clients involved and the complexity of ownership structures and cross-border activities. The regulator said the problems affected much of Inpay’s online gaming portfolio.
Inpay has told the authority that it has already voluntarily stopped accepting new online gaming business customers. The formal restriction will remain in place until the company can demonstrate that the identified AML shortcomings have been corrected.
The intervention comes as Danish authorities maintain heightened scrutiny of gambling-related AML risks. Denmark’s Gambling Authority requires enhanced due diligence when gambling customers are judged to present an elevated money-laundering or terrorist-financing risk, including exposure connected with high-risk jurisdictions.