For many, gambling is the harmless purchase of an occasional lottery ticket. And the majority of gamblers exercise good self-control, keeping even regular betting to a modest discretionary spend. For others the picture is different. Those who are pre-disposed to addictive behaviours are easily drawn...

Compliance costs money – something well understood in the financial services sector, including niche areas such as Gambling, and Travel Money and Remittance providers. But making compliance cost-effective can seem elusive. As geopolitical tensions multiply, and as criminal activity expands in the digital environment, legislation...

The post 2018 relaxation of sports betting laws in the US has growing consequences, especially since the end of the pandemic. Not all of them are good. Sports betting is currently lawful and under way in 34 states plus DC, and lawful and soon to...

Interviewed recently for SBC Americas1 (a gambling industry news service covering the Americas), Odds on Compliance’s John Wellendorf set out structured advice for internet gambling operators. His commentary reflects the reality of gambling regulation – that many US states have moved from a top-down model...

In a recent article1 in Regulation Asia, Clare Rowley of GLEIF (the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation), sets out how comprehensive identification of legal entities and their behaviours is the key to fighting modern and future financial crime. In fact, GLIEF’s very purpose is to...

Individual rights are important. None more so than in how to spend our own money. But simple freedoms are not always as simple as they look. Take gambling. There are few genuinely successful gamblers. And the unsuccessful majority includes a significant number who are addicted...