{"id":28032,"date":"2022-03-14T07:45:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T10:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=28032"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:33:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:33:52","slug":"80-of-singapore-pools-turnover-now-comes-from-sports-betting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/80-of-singapore-pools-turnover-now-comes-from-sports-betting","title":{"rendered":"80% of Singapore Pools turnover now comes from sports betting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Singapore&#8217;s minister of state for home affairs used the figures to make the case of an overhaul of gambling legislation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Singapore.- <strong>Desmond Tan<\/strong>, minister of state for home affairs, has revealed that in five years online sports betting has gone from accounting from 30 per cent to 80 per cent of Singapore Pools&#8217; revenue. He highlighted the numbers at the second reading of the\u00a0<strong>Gambling Regulatory Authority of Singapore Bill<\/strong> as an example of why overhauling legislation was needed to keep up with changes in technology and the way people gamble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also said the new legislation was needed because of the way the line <strong>between gambling and gaming\u00a0<\/strong>had been blurred through the introduction of elements such as mystery boxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\u00a0<strong>Gambling Control Bill\u00a0<\/strong>will create the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/new-singapore-gambling-legislation-receives-first-reading\" target=\"_blank\">Gambling Regulatory Authority (GRA)<\/a>\u00a0as a single regulator for all forms of gambling. Singapore hopes the new regulator will be in place for mid-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the new bill, the legal age for gambling in Singapore will remain 21, except for gambling at Singapore Pools\u2019 physical outlets which will remain at 18. A new offence of proxy gambling will be introduced, criminalising gambling through someone else. Family and friends will be allowed to socially gamble at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore&#8217;s minister of state for home affairs used the figures to make the case of an overhaul of gambling legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Singapore is overhauling its gambling legislation, driven by a significant shift to online sports betting and the blurring lines between gambling and gaming. The new Gambling Control Bill will establish the Gambling Regulatory Authority (GRA) as a unified regulator, introduce a new proxy gambling offense, and maintain the legal gambling age at 21, with exceptions for physical Singapore Pools outlets.","focusai_entities":"Desmond Tan, Singapore Pools, Gambling Regulatory Authority (GRA), Gambling Regulatory Authority of Singapore Bill, Gambling Control Bill","focusai_location":"Singapore","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.95), operator_casino (0.9), product_ux (0.75), payments_fraud_aml (0.85), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GRA Enforcement Powers?","query":"What specific enforcement powers will the new Gambling Regulatory Authority possess, and how will they differ from previous oversight mechanisms in Singapore?"},{"label":"Gambling vs. Gaming Clarification?","query":"How will the new legislation provide clear guidelines for B2B suppliers and B2C operators to distinguish between 'gambling' and 'gaming' elements, particularly concerning features like mystery boxes?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338,158],"tags":[229,23911,233],"class_list":["post-28032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-gambling","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-sports-betting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28041,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28032\/revisions\/28041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}