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Prohibition of gambling on credit cards
This report focuses on research conducted around the prohibition of gambling on credit cards
Contents
- Executive summary
- Background and approach
- Methodology and limitations
- Operator Implementation and customer behaviour
- Credit cards and digital wallets
- Deposits prior to the introduction of the ban
- Displacement to other high-cost credit sources
- Displacement to illegal sources of funds
- Bypassing the ban through other behaviours
- Displacement to unlicensed gambling sites
- Inconvenience to leisure gamblers
- Conclusions and next steps
- Appendices
Operator Implementation and customer behaviour
- Metric
- Operators implement the ban effectively and on-time
- Concern
- If operators did not implement the ban, it would be an outright failure
- Assessment
- We are confident that gambling operators introduced the ban in a timely and effective way
Two principle data sources that have been considered for whether the ban has been effectively implemented are as follows:
- Bank data: A major high street bank has informed us that they observed the volume and value of gambling transactions with credit cards to the gambling merchant code, MCC7995, reduce to a very low level after the ban.
The continuing low-level expenditure can be explained by activities outside the scope of the ban (predominantly lotteries and competitions spending).
- Our information: We have not detected any operator breaches during compliance assessments and have not received any alerts to systemic breaches of the gambling with credit card prohibition.
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Last updated: 2 November 2021
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