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05/19/26
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Stephen Crystal, SCCG Management: “The UAE is, without exaggeration, the most strategically engineered market opening our industry has seen in a generation”

05/13/26
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Kate Chambers: “The GCGRA has been very clear that it expects operators and suppliers to arrive ready, not to build their programmes after the licence is granted”

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Jennifer Carleton, GCGRA: “We operate a supervision model that calibrates oversight according to the nature, scale and risk profile of the licensed activity”

05/08/26
Marie Chowdhry - Partner, Financial Regulation and Fintech, at Pinsent Masons. Why entering the UAE gaming market without a local compliance strategy is a costly mistake.

Marie Chowdhry, Pinsent Masons: “In the UAE, a transplanted UK or Maltese compliance manual will not be fit for purpose without substantial localisation”

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