The licence is effective to October 2025 and allows Singapore Pools to conduct betting operations, gaming and lotteries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Singapore.- The new Gambling Regulatory Authority of Singapore (GRA)<\/a> has issued a licence to Singapore Pools under Section 54 of the Gambling Control Act 2022 (GCA). The licence, which is effective from October 25 2022 to October 24 2025, allows Singapore Pools to conduct betting operations, gaming and lotteries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Singapore Pools has 297 approved gambling venues. It has been in operation since 1968. The GRA assessed that Singapore Pools had fulfilled the suitability criteria under the GCA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The GRA has confirmed that it has absorbed work previously carried out by the former Casino Regulatory Authority (CRA)<\/a>. The new regulator for the entire gambling landscape<\/strong> in Singapore was launched in August<\/a>. It has the authority to issue licences for gambling services such as betting and lottery businesses, gaming machine rooms and gambling in private establishments, provided the licensees are considered \u201cfit and proper\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The licence is effective to October 2025 and allows Singapore Pools to conduct betting operations, gaming and lotteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Gambling Regulatory Authority (GRA) of Singapore has issued a comprehensive license to Singapore Pools, effective until October 2025, authorizing its betting, gaming, and lottery operations across 297 venues. This marks a significant regulatory milestone following the GRA's establishment in August and its absorption of the former Casino Regulatory Authority's functions, consolidating oversight of the entire Singaporean gambling landscape. The issuance confirms Singapore Pools' compliance with the new Gambling Control Act 2022 suitability criteria.","focusai_entities":"Singapore Pools, Gambling Regulatory Authority of Singapore (GRA), Casino Regulatory Authority (CRA)","focusai_location":"Singapore","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), investor_analyst (0.85), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GRA's Future Enforcement?","query":"What specific changes in regulatory enforcement or compliance expectations can be anticipated from the Gambling Regulatory Authority (GRA) now that its mandate encompasses all gambling verticals, beyond the former CRA's scope?"},{"label":"Market Entry Implications?","query":"How does the GRA's consolidated licensing framework and the re-licensing of Singapore Pools impact the potential for new B2C or B2B market entrants in Singapore's regulated gambling landscape?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16333],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-34839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34839","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=34839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34871,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34839\/revisions\/34871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}