Beatrice Baiden, corporate affairs head at Ghana’s Gaming Commission, called for gaming operators and regulators to work together against money laundering and terrorist financing. She said regulators should develop policies with industry stakeholders and argued that cooperation is needed to address risks in the sector.
Operators and regulators are being urged to coordinate on policies addressing financial crime risks in gambling.
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Melilla’s director general of technological innovation, Jesús Martínez, called for gambling regulation based on technical criteria, data and oversight. He said public authorities should ensure legal certainty, supervision, controls and protection for vulnerable groups while maintaining institutional neutrality towards legal and regulated gambling.
AGCOM media services director Giorgio Greppi called for rapid implementation of Article 7 of the Digital Services Act during an event in Rome. He said platforms could currently decline requests to remove illegal content and argued that the provision would enable identification and immediate blocking of such content; implementation was still pending.
Davide Gallino of Italy’s AGCOM said at IGE 2026 that regulation should adapt to the growth of online gaming and the blurred boundary between traditional audiovisual media and digital platforms. He called for a coordinated review of the regulatory framework and said prediction markets such as Polymarket could have significant effects on gaming and communications.
At the Italian Gaming Expo & Conference in Rome, ADM distance-gambling and betting office director Antonio Giuliani called for responsible-gambling communication to move beyond the slogan “play responsibly”. He said the agency and concessionaires should develop guidance together, and argued that campaigns should include targeted interventions for groups such as young people and schools, not rely only on mass-media advertising.
ADM official Elisabetta Poso said education should complement restrictions on underage gambling during a panel at the Italian Gaming Expo & Conference in Rome. She said online identity checks are more rigorous, while physical venues rely on operators to enforce the rules, and called for operator training and prevention measures across both channels.