title: Mexico — Payments and banking: Can we move player money? | advennt.io canonical: https://advennt.io/jurisdictions/mexico/payments/ [Jurisdictions](https://advennt.io/jurisdictions/) [Mexico](https://advennt.io/jurisdictions/mexico/) Payments and banking Mexico · Question 06 of 11 # Payments and banking: Can we move player money? Mixed · Uncertain · Not reviewed · 1 post-review update · Not reviewed · [Back to full Mexico report →](https://advennt.io/jurisdictions/mexico/) Key section parameters | Jurisdiction | Mexico (MX) | |---|---| | Regulator | Recorded in register | | Favourability | Mixed | | Confidence | Uncertain | | Review status | Not reviewed · 1 post-review update · Not reviewed | | Last collected | 18 Oct 2026 | Summary answer Permit holders may accept standard funding methods (cards, bank transfers, e-wallets). Gambling is VAT-exempt, but PSPs face heightened AML scrutiny given the sector's organised-crime overlay. The 2026 reform grants SAT real-time access to operational data and introduces site-blocking, increasing pa… Not reviewed Information added after the 2 Sep 2026 expert review — published for currency and labelled not reviewed. 14 Sep 2026 Not reviewed Payments and cross-border money-flow risk rose materially this cycle. A pending FinCEN Section 311 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, published 13 November 2025, would sever ten named Mexican gambling establishments from the US correspondent-banking system if finalised — an uncertain but material development given its explicit targeting of the gambling sector. This sits alongside findings from the November 2025 casino-suspension probe, which identified cross-border financial flows connected to the United States, Romania, Albania, Malta, Panama, Switzerland and the UAE. Together these developments indicate that Mexican gambling operators' access to international correspondent-banking rails is under active and specific scrutiny, with a finalised US rule representing the clearest near-term escalation risk to monitor. ## Full section analysis Permit holders may accept standard funding methods (cards, bank transfers, e-wallets). Gambling is VAT-exempt, but PSPs face heightened AML scrutiny given the sector's organised-crime overlay. The 2026 reform grants SAT real-time access to operational data and introduces site-blocking, increasing payment-channel risk for non-compliant flows.