News September 2025
Gambling Commission fines ProgressPlay Supplier News
ProgressPlay, which runs 134 websites, will pay a £1m fine after a Gambling Commission compliance assessment revealed Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and social responsibility failings. ProgressPlay has also been given a warning
and is expected to undergo a third-party audit following the conclusion of the licence review to ensure it is effectively implementing anti- money laundering and social responsibility policies, procedures and controls. Te licensee did not conduct an appropriate
Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (MLTF) risk assessment and did not implement appropriate controls to minimise the risk of MLTF. It failed to take a sufficiently risk-based approach to AML and failed to sufficiently
Argentina’s online bill postponed Legislation
Te initiative to regulate online gambling and set limits on advertising has come to a halt in the Senate and will not be revisited until 2026. Although it received initial approval from the House of Representatives, disagreements within committees have prevented any significant progress on the proposal. Tis year, the Health Commission, led by Senator Lucía Corpacci, was the sole body to examine the issue but it failed to produce a report. Te delay has also been attributed to a change in the analysis process, as the issue was subsequently assigned to the General Legislation and Justice and Penal Affairs committees. Tis
Illegal gaming soars in the U.S. Operator News
A new study from the American Gaming Association has concluded that Americans bet a total $673.6bn annually with illegal and unregulated gambling operators, diverting activity away from licensed operators and denying communities critical resources that fund infrastructure, education, and public safety. Driven by a sharp rise in illegal iGaming, expanding use of unregulated skill machines, and persistent illegal sports betting, the illegal market
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scrutinise transactions carried out during the course of customer relationships. Social responsibility failures included not
having in place adequate systems and processes to effectively monitor customer activity at the point of account opening – this meant that early identification of any potential gambling related harm or the implementation of appropriate interventions was put at risk Tis is the second occasion ProgressPlay has
faced enforcement action – in 2022 the operator paid £175,718 for social responsibility and anti-money laundering failures.
CAI appoints Per Jaldung as MD Operator News
Casinos Austria International has appointed Per Jaldung as its Managing Director in a dual role where he will continue with his role as CEO of Grand Casino Brussels Viage. Mr Jaldung was CEO of Svenka Spel’s Casino Cosmopol in Sweden for over 14 years before taking the role as CEO of Grand Casino Brussels Viage in December 2023. Mr Jaldung said: “I really look forward to collaborating with the team to strengthen our existing businesses across our countries and to explore new opportunities for the company in the international gaming market."
sponsorship of online gambling across all media platforms, including social media and sporting events. It would also prohibit welcome bonuses, mandate biometric verification for user identity and age confirmation, and impose several other restrictive measures on online gaming operators. However, the bill has been plagued by a
shift, which took place after several months, hindered the possibility of convening a plenary meeting to advance the proposal toward a vote. Te proposed legislation, if approved by the Senate, would ban advertising, promotion, and
has grown 22 per cent since AGA’s last report in 2022. Growth in the legal market in recent years has kept the illegal market’s share of total US gaming revenue largely steady – with illegal operators capturing smaller shares of sports betting and iGaming revenue – but illegal operators still account for nearly one-third (31.9 per cent) of the total U.S. gaming market. Te illegal and unregulated gambling market generated an estimated $53.9bn in annual revenue for offshore betting rings and unregulated machine operators, robbing state governments of $15.3bn in taxes each year.
number of problems with opponents arguing that it is overly restrictive and it infringes upon the rights reserved to provincial governments. After it was approved in the House of Representatives and sent to the Senate it was revealed that the government of Javier Milei planned to issue a Decree of Necessity and Urgency (DNU) specifically aimed at combating child gambling addiction, with the intention of blocking the project in 2025.
Unregulated machines remain one of the fastest- growing threats to legal gaming, with more than 625,000 machines now operating across bars, restaurants, and convenience stores, a 7.7 per cent increase since 2022. Tese machines generated $30.3bn in revenue and cost states $9.5bn in lost tax revenue. Te study was conducted by Te Innovation Group on behalf of the American Gaming Association and is based largely on a survey of 2,454 U.S adults, examining their past-year gambling behaviours with both legal and illegal operators as well as their observations of unregulated gaming.
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