Inside Asian Gaming

IAG JUL 2023年7月 亞博匯 86 constitute industry best practice and should be applied wherever feasible. The recent establishment of the GRA as a single agency, with full law enforcement powers responsible for regulating the entire gambling landscape in Singapore, is a model that might be appropriate for other smaller gaming jurisdictions. Establishing one sole regulator focused entirely on gambling prevents cross-agency disputes over “territory” while providing the requisite manpower and resources and the power to liaise with overseas law enforcement counterparts where necessary. The prescriptive approach adopted by the Singapore government seems to fit this jurisdiction’s needs: for more than a decade this methodology has successfully managed to excludeorganizedcrimefromthe IRs and has generally resulted in the government and regulators avoiding embarrassment or scandal relating to the IRs, in COLUMNISTS