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Regulating the Game opens applications for 2025 Sydney event

Regulating the Game has opened speaker applications for its 2025 Sydney event.

The international conference will hold its fifth annual meeting, where it hopes to attract regulators, researchers, practitioners, industry professionals, and stakeholders within the gambling sector.

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Sydney’s Regulating the Game conference puts out call for speakers ahead of 2025 event

Regulating the Game 2025 will bring together a diverse collection of stakeholders to engage in an immersive program designed to deliver expert content, provoke thinking and discussion, build capabilities, deepen sector knowledge, and drive the conversation on evidence-led policy and best practices in gambling regulation. The conference will feature an array of topics including innovative regulatory policies and practices, leadership and ethics, cashless gambling solutions, game design, product compliance and innovation, crypto gambling, regulatory technologies, emerging research and trends and much more.

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Inaugural call for speakers for Regulating the Game 2025 Sydney

Regulating the Game, the premier conference dedicated to advancing regulatory policy and practice and practice and cultivating compliance excellence and invigorated industry, is excited to announce that the call for speakers for its 2025 edition in Sydney is now officially open.

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"Regulating the Game Sydney 2024 has been our most impactful event so far with lots of people traveling internationally to attend"

From March 10 - 15, the 4th edition of Regulating the Game conference took place in Sydney. Described as a 5-day immersive program that focuses on leading-edge research, regulatory policy and practice, and ethical leadership in the gambling sector, the conference garnered a lot of support across the industry with lots of stakeholders traveling internationally to attend.

Following the conclusion of the event, Yogonet held an exclusive interview with Paul Newson, Director of Regulating the Game, who shared feedback and insights on the conference's latest edition. He also spoke about the newly added feature, the Masterclass Series, and said that it will be a permanent feature of Regulating the Game going forward.

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NSW clubs ‘acutely aware’ of money laundering laws

ClubsNSW says its members are “acutely aware” of anti-money laundering laws and had recently met with the financial crime watchdog to understand what was expected for best practice compliance.

The peak body for the state’s 1000-plus clubs, which host about 65,000 pokies, also backed bringing lawyers, accountants and real estate agents under anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws.

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AUSTRAC targets clubs’ pokies in $70b money laundering crackdown

The financial crime watchdog will target the estimated $70 billion fed into poker machines in NSW clubs each year, in its latest salvo designed to crack down on the laundering of dirty money in the gambling industry.

“We’re having a look at the clubs sector in a much more focused way,” Mr Thomas said in his first interview since beginning a five-year term in January. “They’re quite substantial with lots of money flowing.”

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Just push play

Eight years after a review into Australia’s online wagering space proposed legalizing online in-play sports betting, there has been no movement in that direction. IAG asks the question, Why?

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Tabcorp’s CEO Adam Rytenskild Warns of Regulatory Risks

At the Regulating the Game conference in Sydney, managing director and CEO of Tabcorp, Adam Rytenskild, issued a strong warning, pointing out the dangers in Australia’s gaming regulatory environment. Rytenskild issued a warning over the consequences of inadequate supervision, implying that it would open the door for dishonest gaming companies to take advantage of players without proper oversight.

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Tabcorp CEO Speaks Out against Ineffective Australian Regulations

Adam Rytenskild, managing director and CEO of Tabcorp, issued a stark warning during his Keynote Address at the Regulating the Game conference in Sydney this week. Rytenskild cautioned that ineffective regulatory intervention could see Australia suffer an influx of gaming brands, exploiting consumers without proper oversight. The Tabcorp CEO has been very vocal regarding his stance, using every opportunity to call for reforms.

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On the Run by Andrew W Scott, the IAG CEO Vlog

Episode 63 of “On the Run” by Andrew W Scott, the IAG CEO Vlog, and Ben Blaschke, Managing Editor of IAG. Andrew and Ben provide some commentary on stories published by IAG. Please see the links below for the stories referenced in the video.

Note that news broke less than one hour after shooting that Tabcorp boss Adam Rytenskild stepped down due to “inappropriate and offensive language” in the workplace.

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Carruthers: Crown Sydney can be profitable but casino component vital

Crown proposes industry-wide forum to ensure smaller gaming operators strengthen AML, responsible gambling controls

Tabcorp boss leans on state regulators to deal with Ladbrokes retail wagering challenge

Second study into legalizing Thai casinos now complete and ready for House approval

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Hollywood to produce biopic detailing rise and fall of Steve Wynn

IAG thanks 40 applicants for executive position with IAG

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Former Victorian regulator says Australian national sports betting regulator unlikely to be effective

The issue of a national regulator was raised again on Wednesday during a Keynote Address by the Managing Director and CEO of Tabcorp, Adam Rytenskild, at the Regulating the Game conference in Sydney. While Rytenskild said he is not tied to the concept of a national regulator, he did reinforce his view that some sort of agreed framework is needed to standardize how operators are regulated across Australia’s states and territories.

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Tabcorp boss leans on state regulators to deal with Ladbrokes retail wagering challenge

Tabcorp Managing Director and CEO Adam Rytenskild has warned that Australian towns and cities will soon resemble the high streets of London with their proliferation of gambling brands if state regulators don’t crack down on attempts by online betting competitors to hack the retail wagering market.

His comments, delivered during a Keynote Address at this week’s Regulating the Game conference in Sydney, come with Tabcorp embroiled in a legal stoush with rival Ladbrokes over the launch of Ladbrokes Lounges in select pubs and clubs across the country, part of a deal it signed with the Australian Hotels Association (AHA) last October.

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Crown proposes industry-wide forum to ensure smaller gaming operators strengthen AML, responsible gambling controls

Speaking at the Regulating the Game conference in Sydney on Monday, Ciarán Carruthers said that the strict controls being placed upon Crown’s properties in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth would be of little use if similar restrictions did not apply to all gaming venues. Currently, he noted, those identified by Crown as potentially suffering from a gambling problem, or those looking to launder funds, can simply “move elsewhere in the community where the guardrails and protections and safeguards don’t exist.”

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Carruthers: Crown Sydney can be profitable but casino component vital

Crown Resorts CEO Ciarán Carruthers says finding a way to make the casino at Crown Sydney profitable will ultimately determine the property’s success or failure, but insists such achieving profitability is not a lost cause.

His comments in response to a question from Inside Asian Gaming at the Regulating the Game conference in Sydney come after Crown recent announced it was temporarily shuttering one of the two gaming floors at its Sydney casino and reducing the operating hours of the other.

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Regulating the Game announces limited seating with conference just one month away

Gambling law and regulation conference Regulating the Game Sydney 2024 is just one month away, with excitement building for the 5-day immersive conference. Designed to blend expert content with discussions on industry and regulatory policy and practice, the conference aims to cultivate a compliance-oriented, innovative, and sustainable sector.

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Four weeks to go until Regulating the Game 2024 kicks off in Sydney

This unique 5-day immersive conference, focused on gambling law and regulation, and designed to blend expert content with rigorous discussions on industry and regulatory policy and practice, will this year be held at Cliftons Sydney from 11-15 March. There will also be a series of networking events throughout the week.

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Regulating the Game reveals lineup of guest MCs for Sydney conference

"Each of these Guest MCs brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the conference, ensuring that Regulating the Game Sydney 2024 is not just a conference but a dynamic platform for learning and conversation that promises to challenge conventional thinking and inspire new ideas in regulatory policy and practice and industry advancement," a press release states.

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Tabcorp named as Gold Sponsor of Regulating the Game Sydney 2024

Regulating the Game is a comprehensive, high-level event set to run over five days from 11 to 15 March 2024 at ICC Sydney. Bringing regulators, operators and other industry representatives together, it aims to inspire ethical leadership and compliance excellence, supercharge individual and organizational capabilities, deepen sector understanding, and spearhead the dialogue on exemplary gambling regulation standards. The event stands as a platform for vital debates, addressing public policy challenges and championing innovation, continuous improvement and regulatory and sector leadership.

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Regulating the Game Sydney announces Tabcorp as Gold Sponsor of 2024 edition

Regulating the Game Sydney 2024 announced Thursday a collaboration with Australian gambling company Tabcorp, which has been designated Gold Sponsor of the event. "This alignment signifies a shared dedication to contributing to the future of gambling regulation through dialogue, best practices, and innovation," said the conference's organizers.

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Earle G. Hall to host AI Masterclass at Regulating the Game Sydney 2024

Industry entrepreneur and the President and CEO of AXES.ai, Earle G. Hall, will present a special educational session called “AI Unleashed Masterclass: Mastering Tomorrow’s Possibilities Today” during Regulating the Game Sydney 2024, to be held at Cliftons Spring Street, Sydney in March.

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Pitch! @RTG London inspires innovation, leadership and compliance

The inaugural Pitch! at Regulating the Game London was a marvellous evening packed with animated talks about leading RegTech solutions, innovative interventions for gambling harm and leading thinking about certification and compliance, punctuated with terrific food and drink. The evening was masterfully compèred by Tara Stapley and her irritable enforcer Timmy the Timer. While Tara charmed and entertained, Timmy intimidated speakers with the threat of his shrill alarm strictly enforcing the 10 minute pitch time limit.

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"The consensus has been that Regulating the Game London's program and the caliber of speakers were exceptional"

Already established in Sydney, the Regulating the Game conference took place in London on September 25-29 for the first time ever. Described as a 5-day immersive program that focuses on leading-edge research, regulatory policy and practice, and ethical leadership in the gambling sector, the conference garnered a lot of support across the industry.

Following the conclusion of the event, Yogonet held an exclusive interview with Paul Newson, Director of Regulating the Game, who shared feedback on the conference's inaugural event as well as insights into the upcoming Sydney edition.

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BetBlocker’s Last Pitch! @RTG London

BetBlocker is the 8th and final organisation selected to deliver quickfire pitch at the first international Regulating the Game conference in London 25 – 29 September.

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Regulating the Game names RET charity BetBlocker as final candidate for Pitch! night

Pitch! is a unique concept debuting at RTG@London by which innovative firms and individuals are invited to pitch their ideas to the sector. It aims to brings together the sector to platform new technologies, research and policy thinking aimed at helping industry meet and exceed minimum standards while advancing efficient and effective regulation, and helping invigorate the sector.

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BetBlocker’s last Pitch! at Regulating The Game London

The final Pitch! candidate for Regulating the Game London has been announced. BetBlocker is the 8th and final organisation selected to deliver a quickfire pitch at the first international Regulating the Game conference in London 25 – 29 September.

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Better Change brings positive play to Pitch! @RTG London

United by a shared purpose to educate and empower people, Better Change works as part of the regulated gambling industry to build confidence and expertise in people who want to build great careers in an industry they are as proud to work in as we are ourselves. Better Change represents the majority of people who gamble.

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One month to go until Regulating the Game London conference

There is now less than one month to go until the inaugural Regulating the Game London gambling law and regulation conference gets underway.

The five-day event will run from 25 to 29 September 2023, combining expert content with rigorous discussion about regulatory policy and practice and cultivating a compliance-oriented, innovative and sustainable industry.

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One Month to go until Regulating the Game London!

Regulatory and gambling specialist Paul Newson, said the event was one-of-a-kind worldwide and deliberately brought all stakeholders together to hear leading regulatory and industry speakers, challenge thinking, contest ideas and help build deeper understanding of the sector. It’s also about stimulating conversation and engagement with evidence led policy development that can advance efficient and effective regulation as well as foster an invigorated, innovative and sustainable sector.

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One Month to go until Regulating the Game London!

Regulating the Game is a unique 5-day immersive gambling law and regulation conference structured to marry expert content with rigorous discussion about regulatory policy and practice and cultivating compliance oriented, innovative and sustainable industry.

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Regulating the Game conference set to take place in London next month

The Regulating the Game conference is only a month away. This five-day event is dedicated to focusing on the world of gambling law and regulation.

Making its debut in London, this conference has a successful track record, having been established in Sydney as Australia's gambling law and regulation conference. The UK, like Australia, is facing scrutiny of its gambling policy landscape.

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One Month to go until Regulating the Game London!

Regulating the Game is a unique 5-day immersive gambling law and regulation conference structured to marry expert content with a rigorous discussion about regulatory policy and practice and cultivating compliance-oriented, innovative and sustainable industry.

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Pitch! and Norths Collective provoke innovation at Regulating the Game Sydney 2024

The Regulating the Game conference is hitting its stride and emerging as a must-attend gambling law and regulation conference with its focus on confronting challenges, informing policy discourse, cultivating curiosity and critical thinking, contesting ideas and motivating the sector towards continual improvement and ethical leadership.

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Pitch! and Norths Collective provoke innovation at Regulating the Game Sydney 2024

The Regulating the Game conference is hitting its stride and emerging as a must attend gambling law and regulation conference with its focus on confronting challenges, informing policy discourse, cultivating curiosity and critical thinking, contesting ideas and motivating the sector towards continual improvement and ethical leadership. The Regulating the Game team is getting ready its first London event 25 – 29 September and planning is well underway for the next Sydney conference in March next year.

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Pitch! night launches at Regulating the Game Sydney in 2024

Pitch! night @RTG, to be sponsored by Norths Collective, is initially being launched at the upcoming Regulating the Game London conference in September and is dedicated to platforming leading-edge products and approaches that can uplift capability, improve outcomes and introduce efficiency by tackling regulatory friction and challenges, inspiring compliance, provoking innovation and fostering ethical leadership.

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Batter up AXES.ai joins Pitch! @RTG London

Pitch! is a new networking event as part of the Regulating the Game London conference focused on platforming leading-edge products and approaches that can uplift capability, improve outcomes and introduce efficiency by tackling compliance and regulatory friction and challenges and fostering ethical leadership.

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Batter up AXES.ai joins Pitch! @RTG London

September 2023 will see London’s first Regulating the Game conference. The hugely successful immersive 5-day program is already well-established in Australia and focuses on leading edge research, regulatory policy and practice and ethical leadership in the gambling sector.

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Earle G Hall’s AXES.ai to join Pitch! night at Regulating the Game London conference

Pitch! – part of the RTG gambling regulation education program to be held in London from 25 to 29 September – is a unique concept by which innovative firms and individuals are invited to pitch their ideas to the sector. It is one of three networking events to be hosted for attendees of the London conference, which brings together innovators and the sector to platform new technologies, research and policy thinking aimed at helping industry meet and exceed minimum standards while advancing efficient and effective regulation, and helping invigorate the sector.

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SG:certified joins Pitch! @RTG London line-up

Pitch! night is one of three exciting networking events at the London conference which brings together innovators and the sector to herald breakthrough products and services that help the industry meet and exceed minimum standards, inspire ethical leadership and excite the sector.

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SG:certified joins Pitch! @RTG London line-up

The hugely successful immersive 5- day program is already well-established in Australia and focuses on leading-edge research, regulatory policy and practice and ethical leadership in the gambling sector.

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SG:certified to showcase compliance platform at Regulating the Game London’s Pitch! night

Pitch! – part of the RTG gambling regulation education program to be held in London from 25 to 29 September – is a unique concept by which innovative firms and individuals are invited to pitch their ideas to the sector. It is one of three networking events to be hosted for attendees of the London conference, which brings together innovators and the sector to platform new technologies, research and policy thinking aimed at helping industry meet and exceed minimum standards while advancing efficient and effective regulation, and helping invigorate the sector.

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SQR brings verify, tokenise, trust model to Pitch! @RTG London

SQR is a free-to-use digital identity app and Know Your Customer (KYC) / AML Compliance tool that solves the pain of businesses and individuals alike. For businesses, SQR provides a secure and reliable way to verify the identity of their customers, reducing fraud and improving the customer experience. For individuals, SQR provides a convenient and secure way to manage their digital identity, protecting their privacy and giving them control over their data.

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SQR to bring Verify, Tokenise, Trust Model to Pitch! @RTG London

Pitch! night is one of three exciting networking events at the London conference which brings together innovators and the sector to platform new technologies, research and policy thinking that help industry meet and exceed minimum standards, advance efficient and effective regulation and help invigorate the sector.

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ClientScan secures Pitch! @RTG London

September 2023 will see London’s first Regulating the Game conference. The hugely successful immersive five-day program is already well-established in Australia and focuses on leading edge research, regulatory policy and practice and ethical leadership in the gambling sector.

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Regulating the Game Conference Comes to London This Autumn

This September will mark the first time Regulating the Game (RTG), an Australian gambling regulation education conference will be held in London, the UK. As announced by IAG, the event will be taking place between September 25 and September 29, 2023. For five days, attendees within the gambling vertical will brainstorm ideas for the sector.

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Armalytix to hold Pitch! night at Regulating the Game London 2023 conference

The Australian gambling conference, Regulating the Game (RTG) will be coming to London for the first time in September 2023 and Armalytix has confirmed that it has secured the first Pitch! networking event.

Pitch! will be just one of the networking events dedicated to new technology, research and policies which aim to strengthen standards and regulation in the industry.

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Data intelligence firm Armalytix set to “Pitch!” at Regulating the Game London

Data intelligence firm Armalytix has been named as the first company confirmed to take part in Pitch! night at the debut of “Regulating the Game” (RTG) London.

Pitch! – part of the RTG gambling regulation education program to be held in London from 25 to 29 September – is a unique concept by which innovative firms and individuals are invited to pitch their ideas to the sector.

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Regulatory conference Regulating the Game London 2023 to feature Pitch! night promoting new and innovative ideas

Pitch! night will provide participants with an opportunity to showcase the next generation of products and services, compliance tools and industry technology solutions, according to organizer Senet, while presentations on emerging research, practices and trends in industry supervision, safer gambling and anti-money laundering arrangements are also welcomed.

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Pitch! @RTG invites RegTech and innovators to London

Regulating the Game London 2023 will bring together industry leaders from across the globe to discuss responsible gambling, regulatory policy, and anti-money laundering.

September 2023 will see London’s first Regulating the Game conference. The hugely successful immersive 5-day program is already well-established in Australia and focuses on leading-edge research, regulatory policy and practice and ethical leadership in the gambling sector.

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Pitch! @RTG invites RegTech and innovators to London

September 2023 will see London’s first Regulating the Game conference. The hugely successful immersive 5-day program is already well-established in Australia and focuses on leading edge research, regulatory policy and practice and ethical leadership in the gambling sector.

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Tabcorp CEO calls for national regulatory framework to oversee Australia’s sports betting market

Tabcorp’s Managing Director and CEO Adam Rytenskild told industry representatives on Wednesday that the current state-based model of regulation – which sees Tabcorp licensed in seven states and territories while many corporate bookmakers need only be licensed in the Northern Territory – is no longer effective in providing necessary community safeguards.

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Australia: Tabcorp commits to volutarily end primetime gambling advertising

Australian gaming giant Tabcorp announced a commitment to ending primetime gambling advertising during Sydney's gambling law and regulation conference Regulating the Game. Leaders and specialist practitioners in areas such as financial crime and safer gambling came together for a series of presentations and panel discussions to examine the issues facing the industry, including that of excessive advertising.

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Tabcorp commits to ending primetime advertising

Anti-money laundering and responsible gambling were the focus for the second day of Regulating the Game Australia’s leading gambling law and regulation conference in Sydney and today was all about leadership, integrity and ethics.

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Hidden Enemies

Ahead of this year’s “Regulating the Game” gambling regulation education program, to be held at ICC Sydney from 6 to 10 March 2023, Inside Asian Gaming catches up with Creina Chapman, Deputy Chair and CEO of the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), to discuss their mission against illegal gambling operators.

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Carl Brincat: “Above all else, safe, sustainable, and responsible gambling is of paramount importance to the gaming sector”

Carl Brincat, CEO at the Malta Gaming Authority, speaks about the gambling sector in Malta, MGA’s strategy and its presence at Regulating the Game in 2023.

Exclusive interview.- Focus Gaming News caught up with Carl Brincat, CEO at the Malta Gaming Authority (MGA) to talk about the regulator’s work and strategy, responsible gaming, AML controls and his expectations for Regulating the Game

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AXES.ai a major sponsor of Regulating the Game 2023 London

Former President of the International Association of Gaming Regulators and Senet Advisory regulatory and gambling specialist Paul Newson, said it’s important that all stakeholders are engaged and active in the public square, contributing knowledge and insights, and hearing contrasting perspectives, to best inform public policy thinking and discussions, and help influence efficient and effective regulatory settings to best secure sustainable industry.

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The future of RG will be about destigmatizing responsible play: Experts

Speaking remotely at Regulating The Game 2022, Alan Feldman, a Distinguished Fellow in Responsible Gaming for UNLV’s International Gaming Institute, and Dr. Anatasia Hronis, a Clinical Psychologist and founder of Australian Institute for Human Wellness argue that whilst the industry has been improving, it is still too reactive when it comes to player health and gambling-related harm – intervening only when signs of harm have surfaced.

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Interview with ACMA Member, Fiona Cameron

We recently interviewed Fiona Cameron, an authority member of the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) and asked about the challenges facing authorities in stamping out illegal online gambling operators in Australia. Cameron will also be speaking at next month’s Regulating the Game 2022, a five-day education program held at the International Convention Center in Sydney from 7-11 March 2022.

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