The Philippine Amusement and Gambling Corp (Pagcor), that country’s casino regulator, now has two separate teams of officials in order to oversee respectively the land-based casino licensees and operators of online-based games. The move is part of recent organizational changes, the body stated.
Pagcor had already mentioned in June it had created a “Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Department – Integrated Resorts”, known for short as “CMED-IR”. This was responsible for “all licensed casinos in Entertainment City, the Clark group of casinos and Thunderbird casinos,” the regulator said at the time.
CMED was divided into two – CMED-Integrated Resorts (IR) and CMED-Internet Gaming (IG). CMED-IR is focused on licensed casino operators’ compliance to set regulations, while CMED-IG covers all other Pagcor-licensed gambling operations including E-Sabong.
E-Sabong refers to “online/remote or off-site wagering/betting on live cockfighting matches, events, and/or activities streamed or broadcast live” from a government-authorised cockpit arena, according to Pagcor’s regulatory definition.
As part of its efforts regarding oversight of the gambling sector as a whole, Pagcor also issued last month updated casino regulatory manual (CRM) forms for adoption by licensed casino operators. This was to “substantiate the regulatory and monitoring accountabilities of both regulator and its licensees,” Pagcor noted.
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