Inside Asian Gaming

IAG JUL 2020年7月 亞博匯 28 COVER STORY DIGITAL TRAIL Online operators in New Jersey must satisfy anti-money-laundering and know-your-customer requirements and monitor play. “Before one wager is made, the casino knows who their online customers are, where they live, their credit history, and can then track every wager made,” Klebanow Consulting Principal Andrew Klebanow says. “It’s a myth that just because you can see the person in a brick-and-mortar casino you can do better AML [anti-money-laundering],” Bird & Bird Partner Andy Danson, head of the law firm’s international gambling group, says. “It’s difficult to deceive proper [online] operators.” Players can only wager while physically located within New Jersey. “Geofencing and geolocation tools Sihanoukville, Cambodia was undergoing a construction boom on the back of online gambling before China intervened last year. 在中國去年干預之前，柬埔寨西哈努克依託的網絡博彩興起一股建築熱潮。 or third-party companies provide accurate reporting to identify if the customer is in a location where betting is legal,” English, GMA’s Managing Director of Sports Betting and Technology and a pioneer of legal mobile sports betting in the US, says. DIFFERENT STROKES The European Union allows member states to set their own internet gaming rules, giving Asian jurisdictions a range of examples. Jurisdictions vary on whether servers and banking functions must be located in the licensing country or simply within the EU. “For an operator, it’s a pain to have different servers and banking here and there,” Tottenham, who founded his firm in 1986, says. “But it gives peace of mind to the regulator.”