Notes from the floor
Honest, unfiltered thinking on iGaming - platform selection, CRM, compliance, African markets, offline-to-online, governance. From someone who's been in your chair.
Operators Chase the June 30 Deadline. The State Has Already Moved on to the Player.
South Africa's NGB has forfeited 2.3 million rand of player winnings from unlicensed sites in eight weeks — three times the full prior year. Section 16 channelization moves enforcement onto the player and changes which licence they choose next.
Mexico Has 5,336 Betting Permits. No One Knows Which Ones Still Operate.
A licensing regulator that cannot publish a machine-readable list of its own licensees is a FATF problem before it is a regulatory problem. Mexico is the warning African markets should be reading carefully.
AI Didn't Close the Compliance Gap. It Widened It From the Other Side.
Fraud teams iterate in days. The compliance function reviewing them operates on a quarterly or annual cycle. Running annual AML reviews against opponents who ship updates every week is not a compliance strategy. It is a lag report.
Ghana Removed the Betting Tax. The Compliance Framework Stayed.
Ghana removed the 10% betting tax. The press covered what was removed. Nobody wrote much about what stayed.
The Enforcement Export
Curacao tightened. Tobique opened. The enforcement apparatus is working. The deterrence architecture is not built.