The Australian regulator has sought the Cura\u00e7ao government’s assistance in tackling illegal offshore gambling operators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Australia.- The Australian Communication & Media Authority (ACMA<\/strong>) has appealed to the Cura\u00e7ao government for assistance in tackling offshore gambling operators targeting the Australian market. The regulator is said to have written to Cura\u00e7ao Finance minister\u00a0Javier Silvania<\/strong> to highlight the ongoing gambling reforms in the Dutch Caribbean island and request action.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The letter addressed Cura\u00e7ao “master” licence holders found to breach Australian laws by providing or advertising prohibited interactive gambling services to Australian customers. It outlined a list of violators who have engaged in the promotion or provision of igaming products in Australia, many of whom have evaded fines.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The ACMA acknowledged the challenges it faced in enforcing penalties due to the global nature of online gambling and expressed a desire to establish regulatory collaboration with overseas gambling regulators, including the Cura\u00e7ao Gaming Authority (CGA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Over 200 services have pulled out of the Australian market since the Australian Communication & Media Authority (ACMA<\/strong>) started enforcing new offshore gambling rules in 2017, with various Cura\u00e7ao-based operators among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The regulator recently\u00a0took action against a CS:GO skins gambling site<\/a>\u00a0targeting young players and\u00a0fined Entain<\/a>\u00a0AU$13,320 for accepting illegal in-play bets during the LIV golf tournament in Bangkok in October 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Australian regulator has sought the Cura\u00e7ao government’s assistance in tackling illegal offshore gambling operators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":17395,"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 Australian Communication & Media Authority (ACMA) has formally requested assistance from the Cura\u00e7ao government to address illegal offshore iGaming operators targeting the Australian market. ACMA's appeal to Cura\u00e7ao's Finance Minister, Javier Silvania, highlights breaches by Cura\u00e7ao-licensed entities and seeks enhanced regulatory collaboration, acknowledging enforcement challenges due to the global nature of online gambling. This initiative underscores Australia's ongoing efforts to enforce its interactive gambling laws, which have seen over 200 services exit the market since 2017.","focusai_entities":"Australian Communication & Media Authority (ACMA), Cura\u00e7ao government, Javier Silvania, Cura\u00e7ao Gaming Authority (CGA), Entain","focusai_location":"Australia, Cura\u00e7ao, Bangkok","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.95), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.85), marketing_crm (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.85), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Cura\u00e7ao's Regulatory Response?","query":"What specific actions or reforms is the Cura\u00e7ao government, particularly the Cura\u00e7ao Gaming Authority (CGA), expected to implement in response to ACMA's appeal regarding \"master\" licence holders?"},{"label":"Impact on Australian Market?","query":"How will enhanced regulatory collaboration between ACMA and Cura\u00e7ao impact the competitive landscape and market access for both licensed and offshore operators in the Australian iGaming sector?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,156],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-777005823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-regulation-news","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777005823","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=777005823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777005823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777005835,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777005823\/revisions\/777005835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777005823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777005823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777005823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}