The UK Gambling Commission said its financial risk assessment pilot will continue until April 2025. Its first phase covered 530,000 assessments across three credit agencies on roughly 300,000 accounts, with 95% of accounts meeting the commission’s success criteria.
Operators may need to prepare for changes informed by the pilot’s findings and subsequent government advice.
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The Culture, Media and Sport Committee has written to the UKGC about its decision to proceed with financial risk assessments. The letter seeks answers following the regulator’s announcement.
The UK Gambling Commission reported results from its financial risk assessment pilot in the UK, with policy director Ian Angus saying fewer than 3% of active customers would prompt operator intervention under current proposals. Of that group, 97% could receive a frictionless assessment, while about 0.1% of active accounts would not. The UKGC board will decide whether to implement the assessments permanently.
The UK Gambling Commission said it will intensify anti-money-laundering supervision and publish a gambling-sector money-laundering and terrorist-financing risk assessment in July. At the Gambling Anti-Money Laundering Group conference on 10 June 2026, enforcement director John Pierce also highlighted weaknesses in applying risk procedures and said the Commission expects technology used for compliance to demonstrate its effectiveness.
The Gambling Commission's acting CEO said financial risk assessments leave more than 97% of accounts untouched. The acting CEO accused opponents of using minor points to pick apart the reforms.
Sarah Gardner, the acting chief executive of the regulator, has pushed back at what she characterised as minor objections being used to dismantle the reforms, according to a news report. She maintains that financial risk assessments leave more than 97% of accounts untouched.
Industry stakeholders have criticised the UK Gambling Commission's announcement that it is ready to impose Financial Risk Assessments on operators. The Commission told journalists at a Tuesday meeting it was prepared to apply a staged rollout.