Recent content by conker

3rd study is the one that speaks to what @gamebandit39 and @Greenpickle are describing, though not through games. Research agency interviewed young people aged 16 to 21 for the regulator. What came back was that first contact with gambling typically happens between eight and twelve, usually...

You set this number. That's the actual distinction and it's not a small one. The Commission has been explicit that these reforms don't impose income checks or general affordability requirements. You pick your own cap based on what you know about your own finances and the operator has to honour...

The FRA pilot is a fair thing to raise but the framing isn't quite right. The whole design goal was to avoid asking players for anything. It used credit reference agency data in the background specifically so nobody would have to upload bank statements or payslips. The reason it struggled is...

Worth adding that Anjouan hasn't stood still either. Through 2025 and 2026 it's been raising fees, asking for real corporate documentation, and revoking licences from operators that ignored complaint rulings. Partly self-interest, since the licence is worth less if it's known to mean nothing...

That's crude but it's closer to true than most people realize, and the CGA says so itself. Its own site states that resolving disputes between players and operators is not within its mandate. It cannot order an operator to compensate you and it is not a civil court. So the regulator is not your...

Affiliates are captured, actually. The definition of wagering advertising in the bill covers content by, on behalf of, or for the benefit of a licensed provider, and that reaches affiliates and platforms. Enforcement's another question entirely.

The Greens and Pocock voted against it, which tells you something about how it's landed. Pocock called it a betrayal. Jenny Ware, who actually sat on the 2023 inquiry, has criticized it as well, and she's Liberal. So you have reform advocates saying it's too weak and the industry sayin it's too...

@BillThornes going back to your question, the honest answer is that racing was carved out because racing is treated as a sport with a heritage attached and slots are treated as a product. Once policy decides something is a product rather than a culture, it becomes taxable in a way the other...

The Treasury's own position wasn't hidden though. They stated they expected operators to pass on up to 90% of the increase to consumers through higher prices or reduced payouts. That was in the documentation. So the "they didn't know this would happen" argument doesn't hold. They knew. They...

thats a genuinely good point and it hadn't occurred to me. enforcement pushing the product toward the most legally contested category

worth noting the platforms know this now and are moving on it faster than any regulator asked them to. kalshi put in guardrails in march stopping politicians trading their own races and athletes trading their own leagues. polymarket published market integrity rules the same week what none of...

worth noting that's the pattern anywhere standards rise, not something curacao-specific. operators who can meet the bar stay and get more credible. ones who cant leave and get less credible. overall standard of the licensed market goes up, overall standard of what's available to players stays...

theres a wrinkle in the swaps argument that hasnt come up and i think its the most interesting thing happening right now. soldier charged over the maduro trades - van dyke - his lawyers filed a letter earlier this month previewing a motion to dismiss. their argument is that the cftc has no...

probably yes to both, and applied across the licensed estate rather than just at betfred, because every compliance team in the country read that decision and asked whether their own review lag would survive the same assessment. the awkward part is that operators overcorrecting on automated...

technically it's not a fine at all it's a payment in lieu of a financial penalty as part of a settlement, plus they cover the cost of the investigation. that distinction matters more than it sounds. a settlement generally means the operator engaged early and put an action plan in place, and the...