The Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission has ordered Crown Melbourne to implement carded play and spending limits for all electronic gaming machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Australia.- The Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission<\/strong> (VGCCC) has ordered Crown Melbourne to introduce mandatory carded play by December 2023. This mandate is intended to serve as an anti-money laundering measure and will link all electronic gaming machines (EGM) to a person’s identity through their gaming card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The casino operator must implement a pre-commitment using the YourPlay system, which ensures players set time and spend limits prior to playing. While YourPlay will continue to operate on a voluntary basis for customers at other venues, at the Melbourne Casino a player will not be able to continue to play beyond their pre-set limits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The commission commended Crown Resorts for committing to transferring unrestricted gaming machines away from general areas, removing all machines that allow continuous play and restricting credits to AU$1000 per machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n VGCCC chair Fran Thorn<\/a> said: \u201cWe have again demonstrated our strong commitment to minimising gambling harm and reducing the risk of money laundering by going above and beyond Royal Commission recommendations in our Direction to Crown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe were pleased to see Crown step up and identify additional measures beyond those recommended by the Royal Commission to improve the safety and integrity of gaming at the Melbourne casino. We will be carefully monitoring the implementation of these changes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The announcement comes a week after Crown Melbourne was fined AU$30m (US$20m)<\/a> for allowing gamblers to deposit bank cheques made out to themselves, a violation of problem gambling and money laundering controls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The VGCCC has taken disciplinary action against Crown Resorts three times since the Royal Commission<\/a> report. In May 2022, the VGCCC fined Crown AU$80m (US$57.4m)<\/a> for its China Union Pay process, while in November 2022, Crown was fined AU$120m (US$77.2m)<\/a> for failing to comply with its responsible service of gambling obligations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission has ordered Crown Melbourne to implement carded play and spending limits for all electronic gaming machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25558,"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 Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission has mandated Crown Melbourne implement carded play and pre-commitment spending limits for all electronic gaming machines by December 2023. These measures, exceeding Royal Commission recommendations, aim to bolster anti-money laundering and responsible gambling frameworks. This directive follows significant prior fines against Crown for compliance failures, signaling a heightened regulatory enforcement posture.","focusai_entities":"Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission, Crown Melbourne, Crown Resorts, Fran Thorn","focusai_location":"Australia, Victoria, Melbourne","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (1.0), product_ux (0.85), tech_data (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on GGR?","query":"What is the projected impact on Crown Melbourne's Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) and Net Gaming Revenue (NGR) following the mandatory implementation of carded play and pre-commitment spending limits on EGMs?"},{"label":"Regulatory Precedent?","query":"How might this stringent regulatory directive from the VGCCC set a precedent for other Australian jurisdictions or international iGaming markets regarding AML and responsible gambling compliance for land-based casinos?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,156],"tags":[23825],"class_list":["post-777004896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-regulation-news","tag-crown-melbourne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004896","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=777004896"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777004917,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004896\/revisions\/777004917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777004896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777004896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777004896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}