Lottopar and Paraná’s Scientific Police marked the incoming director-general’s appointment while reaffirming their partnership against financial crime. Lottopar said the arrangement includes R$10m for a data-processing and forensic analysis centre under construction in Curitiba.
The planned centre links lottery-authority funding to financial-crime investigative capacity in Paraná.
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Reportedly, Ireland’s government assessed gambling as presenting low financial crime risk. The assessment excluded online bookmakers and members’ clubs from that low-risk classification.
Ireland’s government published a national financial-crime risk assessment and assigned the GRAI a stronger supervisory role over gambling. The assessment classifies remote bookmakers as a significant money-laundering risk, while the action plan provides for mandatory licensing of private members’ clubs, stricter enforcement of casino licence and anti-money-laundering conditions, crypto due-diligence standards and closed-loop payments. Figures for 2023 put retail bookmakers’ revenue at about €2.4bn and online platforms’ revenue at about €2.6bn.
The Philippines Department of Justice said it would continue tackling money laundering, terrorism financing and related financial crimes after the European Commission removed the country from its high-risk list. Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla said the delisting reflected action on anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorism-financing deficiencies; casinos became subject to the country's anti-money-laundering law under 2017 legislation.
It was reported that GGL and Dataport are continuing work to develop and improve Germany’s LUGAS system. The shared infrastructure supports online gambling supervision across the federal states.
Polymarket agreed to provide data feeds for integration across Dow Jones and News Corp’s US financial media properties, the company said. The integrations are intended to show prediction-market signals across economic, political and cultural topics; further data experiences are expected over time.