Series 11, Episode 10: Domestic PEPs: Compliance lessons from the UK election gambling scandal

In this last episode of series 11, Helen Parry, senior regulatory expert and Rachel Wolcott, senior editor, discuss the gambling scandal that enveloped the UK general election and cross over themes for compliance. Cheating is an offence under section 42 of the Gambling Act and betting firms are supposed to do enhanced due diligence on politically exposed persons (PEPs). Helen explains how recent enforcement actions against UK gambling firms around their failure to conduct enhanced due diligence on PEPs led to better controls that meant UK politicians using inside information to place bets on the general election date were detected quickly. Helen and Rachel discuss the UK Financial Conduct Authority's guidance for risk managing PEPs as well as other inside information examples around political polling and other sensitive information. LinksCOLUMN: Stop the bets – the law and regulation of political gambling and politically exposed persons (pay wall - go-ri.tr.com/Cdfrka)(FG 17/6 - https://www.fca.org.uk/publication/finalised-guidance/fg17-06.pdf) UK FCA guidance on the treatment of politically exposed persons for anti-money laundering purposesWilliam Hill Group businesses to pay record £19.2m for failures (UK gambling commission press release - https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/news/article/william-hill-group-businesses-to-pay-record-gbp19-2m-for-failures)Entain to pay £17 million for regulatory failures (UK gambling commission press release - https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/news/article/entain-to-pay-gbp17-million-for-regulatory-failures#:~:text=A%20gambling%20business%20is%20to,.uk%20and%20foxybingo.com.)Contact [email protected]@thomsonreuters.com