{"id":777028617,"date":"2025-07-03T08:55:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T11:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777028617"},"modified":"2026-04-21T21:19:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:19:26","slug":"philippine-senator-calls-for-stricter-regulations-on-online-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/philippine-senator-calls-for-stricter-regulations-on-online-gambling","title":{"rendered":"Philippine senator calls for stricter regulations for online gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Senator Gatchalian has presented a new bill.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Philippines.-\u00a0 Senator Sherwin Gatchalian has urged the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) and other government agencies to intensify actions against illegal gaming<\/a>. He has filed a bill that seeks to require stricter know-your-customer rules, regulate advertising and prevent e-wallets<\/a> from acting as online payment platforms for online betting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The measure also proposes to increase the minimum age for legal online gambling from 18 to 21. Gatchalian said he would not push for the total ban to prevent providers from going underground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said: \u201cI strongly urge PAGCOR, along with the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), police, and other law enforcement agencies, to conduct a thorough operation to block these websites from being accessed by local internet users,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gatchalian, chairperson of the Senate Committee on Ways and Means, is the main author of \u00a0Senate Bill No. 2868<\/a>, which passed its third and final Senate reading<\/a> in June. The bill, which would institutionalise the Philippines’ ban on offshore gaming operators, has been sent to the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The proposed legislation would repeal Republic Act (RA) 11590, which legalised offshore gaming. It mandates the forfeiture of all offshore gaming-related properties and equipment to prevent their reuse in illegal operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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\n\t\t\tSee also:<\/span><\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> Philippine lawmaker works on measure to limit use of e-wallets for online gambling<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senator Gatchalian has presented a new bill.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":777021819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Senator Gatchalian has introduced a bill in the Philippines aimed at intensifying actions against illegal gaming, proposing stricter KYC, advertising regulations, and restricting e-wallets for online betting. The legislation also seeks to raise the minimum gambling age to 21 and institutionalize a ban on offshore gaming operators by repealing Republic Act 11590.","focusai_entities":"Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR), Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), House of Representatives","focusai_location":"Philippines","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.7), product_ux (0.7), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"POGO Ban Impact?","query":"What are the projected economic and operational impacts of institutionalizing the POGO ban on the Philippine iGaming ecosystem and related B2B service providers?"},{"label":"E-wallet Restrictions?","query":"How will the proposed restrictions on e-wallets for online betting affect payment processing infrastructure and player acquisition funnels for licensed operators?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,16333],"tags":[225,4138,337],"class_list":["post-777028617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legislation-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-legislation","tag-online-gambling","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777028617","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\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777028617"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777028617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777028621,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777028617\/revisions\/777028621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777021819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777028617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777028617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777028617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}