At the beginning of March the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/212 of 13 December 2017 came into force. Through this amendment, the European Commission added Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago, and Tunisia to the list of „high-risk third countries“.

Although the transposition of the 4th EU Directive on the prevention of Money Laundering (EU 2015/ 849 – 4th AMLD) is currently underway in all EU Member States with 26 June 2017 as deadline for the implementation, the EU Commission has proposed a new Directive (5th AMLD) in July 2016 amending the revised AML framework not yet put into force on national level.

Vienna, September 2013. Whenever in recent years discussions in the context of the German inter-state treaty on gambling (GlüStV) have touched on the issue of the regulation of the online poker market, critics of such regulation argued with the horror scenario of money laundering – an argument which up to now has not been sustainable.

Money changers, money transfer service providers such as Western Union and credit card payment gateways like VISA and MasterCard will now come under the ambit of India’s anti-money laundering laws. A bill to amend the Prevention of Money Laundering Act was introduced in the Rajya Sabha by Minister of State for Finance Pawan Kumar Bansal. After the Amendment Bill is passed by Parliament and comes into effect, businesses like casinos would also come under legal obligation to report their activities in the country.

Money-transfer companies, exchange entities, federal credit and saving unions, as well as casinos, will be regulated by the Commission of Financial Analysis (CAF), headed by Attorney General Office of Nicaragua, in the prevention and control of money laundering. General Attorney of the Republic, Julio Centeno Gómez, and the executive secretary of this institution…

Different measures have been taken due to the entry of foreign operators in the Chilean market. Four casinos have already been inaugurated since the beginning of the new law of casinos, and, by the end of the year; other five entertaining and betting centers are expected to be inaugurated. The oldest has only one year of difference and, unlike the seven casinos that already exist in the country…

The US Government is urging Britain to amend the new gambling laws as part of a drive to crack down on money-laundering. The recommendation comes in a report presented to the US Congress which also calls for Britain to draw up new rules to monitor bank customers with links to foreign regimes. The US call for changes to the Gambling Act 2005 emerged as bookmakers opened on Good Friday for the first time, as a result of the same legislation.