Caroline Kongwa, chief strategic adviser at South Africa’s National Gambling Board, said regulating gambling technology could support player safety, fairness and transparency in Africa. She also said technology could help oversee responsible-gambling measures, including self-exclusion.
Operators may face stronger expectations to use technology to support player protection and fair gambling.
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Loyra Abogados partner Patricia Lalanda argued at a conference in Spain on 28 October that prediction markets, sweepstakes and skill games need separate regulatory analysis because their technical and operational differences do not fit one framework. She also said anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing duties should be built into products from the design stage.
Patricia Lalanda, a partner at Loyra Abogados, argued that prediction markets, sweepstakes and skill games cannot be assessed under the same criteria, since their technical and operational differences prevent a single regulatory framework from being applied to them. She made the point during a panel discussion at the III Congreso Internacional de Prevención del Blanqueo de Capitales, held on 28 October. The panel was titled "Prediction Markets. Juego online y PBC".
ANESAR technical secretary general Juan Lacarra called for consistent regulation across public and private gaming and respect for regional powers in Spain. He cited about 3,600 gaming halls, more than 36,000 machines and around 47,000 direct and indirect jobs, according to the interview.
Spain's private gaming sector operates under different rules from public gaming on advertising, sponsorship, sales channels and access controls, according to Juan Lacarra, technical secretary general of the trade association ANESAR. He argued that regulatory rules and principles should be applied consistently across the whole market. Lacarra spoke to COPE Aragón in an interview held after ANESAR's board meeting in Zaragoza on 7 October.
Jdigital director general Jorge Hinojosa called for a long-term reform of Spain’s gambling rules at Gaming in Spain. The association said the framework developed since 2011 should adapt to technological and consumer changes, address illegal gambling and avoid placing legal operators at a competitive disadvantage.
Jdigital called for Spain's gambling rules to be reformed with a long-term view that reflects technological change and shifts in consumer habits, its director general Jorge Hinojosa said at Gaming in Spain. Hinojosa set out the association's position at the event, where he addressed the regulatory challenges the sector faces over the next decade.
Ramón Cubián called for coordination between Spain’s national government and autonomous communities on gambling regulation at the first CeJuego forum. The report said regional governments should retain powers over land-based gambling regulation, authorisation, inspection and oversight.
AGIC vice-president Giovanni Emilio Maggi said Italy’s land-based gambling reorganisation should be followed by new tenders, giving qualified operators a nine-year period to modernise. He said investment could support player protection, checks on gaming and certification of sales points; he also described a proposed legal-distance concept, with protocols to be defined by ADM.