DECEPTIVE COMMERCIAL PRACTICE? FRENCH REGULATOR WARNS GAMBLING OPERATORS

The French National Gambling Authority (ANJ) has warned operators that they must register wagers unless there is a legitimate reason, or face being charged with deceptive commercial practice. 

Apparently, since launching an effort to boost player protection and combat problem gambing, the regulator has received several reports of operators failing to register, or limiting wagers.

Now, the ANJ has reminded gambling operators that they can only legally limit or refuse bets if there is a provable legitimate reason, such as to prevent problem or underage gambling, or combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism. 

The warning echoes that issued by the Lithuanian Gambling Supervisory Authority earlier this year, after it fined UAB Tete-a-Tete Casino for unreasonably setting betting limits on an online customer.

AYO.NEWS says:

As any gambling operator knows, balancing compliance with responsible gambling/AML/ATF regulations and customer freedoms is getting ever more difficult. Have operators really been taking advantage of customers, or are some just being overcautious?