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Brazil’s SPA agrees data-sharing pact to study betting and debt

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Brazil’s Secretariat of Prizes and Betting (SPA) agreed a 12-month technical cooperation pact with the Fundo de Garantia de Operações (FGO) to study the effect of fixed-odds betting on debt. The FGO will share programme beneficiaries’ CPF registration numbers for analysis and to help operators block participants from betting for 12 months under Novo Desenrola Brasil rules.

Operators may need to use the shared beneficiary data to block eligible debt-refinancing participants from fixed-odds betting for 12 months.

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