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.
EGBA members committed to alignment on the day the standard was published.
EN 18144 gives Europe its first common standard for behavioural markers of harm — nine markers, cross-border, voluntary. Who wrote it matters more than what it says.
The fine is not a technology failure.
The technology worked exactly as the operator intended it to.
The AI AML vendor gets the sale.
The PML holder gets the enforcement action.
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.
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.