- Compliance is risk-based, meaning there is no one solution for all casinos. Each casino has to tailor its compliance system to the risks associated with its size, location, regulatory environment, and customers.
- Regulators expect casinos to use all available resources to identify threats, including all available information and the latest technology to capture it.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- AML compliance requires use of all sources of information. This is an opportunity to gather business intelligence on some of your most valuable customers.
- A casino is a financial institution in the eyes of the regulators. Casinos need to adapt the best practices of banking to the world of gaming.
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning provide a deeper search on high-risk individuals, but they also create false positives that require analysts to resolve.
Impact and Result
- Ensure the IT team understands their roles and responsibilities prior to implementation to help ease the transition into this new system.
- Identify the AML requirements for both know-your-customer (KYC) information and transaction monitoring systems.
- Use the accompanying vendor landscape to evaluate the leading products in the market space according to your particular risk-based scenario.