The Financial Intelligence Office (GIF) has reported that the number of Suspicious Transaction Report (STRs) filed by Macau financial entities and gaming companies in the first quarter of 2022 was up 10 per cent when compared to last year. STRs related to the gaming industry were up 14.1 per cent, from 362 in Q1 2021 to 413.
The total number of suspicious transactions rose to 720, up 10.1 per cent year-on-year. Some 57.4 per cent of reports came from gaming operators.
Financial and insurance institutions accounted for 218 reports up 11.2 per cent from the same period last year. Reports about other institutions accounted for 89, up 7.3 per cent year-on-year. In 2021, the GIF reported a total of 1,330 STRs in Macau, up 9.5 per cent when compared to 2020.
Macau’s GGR for the first three months of 2022 combined stood at MOP17.77bn (US$2.19bn), down 24.8 per cent year-on-year.
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