The PGA TOUR has made a significant commitment to sports betting integrity by entering a partnership with the Coalition of Responsible Sports Betting Advertising.

Focusing on ensuring responsible practices within sports betting advertising, the coalition was formed by the NFL and FOX in 2023. Other members include the MLB, NASCAR, NBA, WNBA, NHL, and NBC Sports.

Scott Warfield, Vice President of Gaming at the PGA TOUR, commented: “With the proliferation of sports betting in the United States, the PGA TOUR remains committed to establishing a safe and healthy marketplace for consumers.”

Overall, the coalition and its members aim to limit advertising only to adults of legal betting age and avoid the promotion of excessive gambling.

A joint statement by the organisation said: “As the legalisation of sports betting spreads nationwide, we feel it is critical to establish guardrails around how sports betting should be advertised to consumers across the United States.

“Each member of ..

The debate on UK gambling adopting mandatory affordability checks on customers has drawn distinct opinions across political ranks.

Yesterday, the debate was brought to Westminster Hall as MPs responded to UK racing’s petition to “abandon financial risk checks as proposed by the White Paper”.

Collecting over 103,000 signatures, UK racing cites that the current proposals favoured by the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) of introducing ‘light checks’ on player accounts at a net loss of £125 a month or £500 per year are intrusive to recreational customers.

Furthermore, UK Racing states that the Commission’s proposal to introduce financial risk assessments on gambling accounts with losses greater than £1,000 within a rolling 24 hours or £2,000 within 90 days poses a direct threat to the heritage sport’s funding of stakeholders.

Christina Rees: Labour
Mandate of Gambling Review must be upheld

Opening the proceedings yesterday, MP Christina Rees (Labour, Neath) noted the sensitivities of the..

The Netherlands Gaming Authority (KSA) has released the new vision of its ‘Safe Play’ mission together with its updated objectives.

As part of its Supervisory Agenda 2024, the objectives highlight the areas where the KSA believes need to be strengthened with more robust risk protections.

Going forward into the year, the topics of particular focus as described by the regulatory watchdog will be:

Control of duty of care/addiction prevention: players are protected from risky or problematic gambling;
Combating illegal online offerings with further attention to the entire chain: at least 90% of players play with legal providers;
Support of partners, independent investigations and interventions in the physical domain: the KSA fights physical illegal gambling together with its partners (such as municipalities, police, OM, RIECS, Tax and FIOD);
Compliance with data delivery: providers provide the data necessary for monitoring in a timely, complete and accurate manner.

These have all been p..

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has congratulated four countries for meeting international AML standards and getting off the grey list.

Uganda, the UAE, Barbados and Gibraltar have all been excluded from the list of redtaped countries after the latest FATF preliminary meeting concluded that they have fixed all AML deficiencies within the agreed timeframes.

The Action Plan that the group of four was assigned to followed extensive evaluations that put them under increased monitoring by FATF. After an on-site visit to each of the countries, the regulator has decided to stop subjecting them to the process, given that they continue to strengthen their AML/CFT regimes.

The plenary session also concluded with a new risk-based guidance for the implementation of Recommendation 25 on the beneficial ownership and transparency of legal arrangements – seeking to prevent global crime syndicates from using legal pathways to launder money.

In this sense, an agreement was also made to la..