The National Council on Problem Gaming and Gambling Integrity Services are offering gambling operators a way to independently monitor and maintain compliance.
The National Council on Problem Gaming is teaming up with Gambling Integrity Services to assist online gambling operators licensed in the USA to stay compliant with the previously established NCPG’s Internet Responsible Gambling Standards.
Proactively Instilling Organisational Adherence and Compliance
To carry out the agreement, NCPG has contracted with Gambling Integrity Services (GIS) to perform independent evaluations including mystery shopping by trained testers, for sites that specifically request assessment.
Keith Whyte, the Executive Director of NCPG explained the purpose of the agreement, “We understand that many Internet gambling operators have responsible gaming policies in place that go beyond the state regulations. They will now have the opportunity to receive an independent assessment of their responsible gaming programs compared with NCPG’s Standards.”
Operator Benefits
This provides established operators the opportunity to take a proactive step in prioritizing player protection and showing their commitment to player security in a public that remains highly skeptical of gambling organizations to this day.
Further benefits that sites that play ball will experience include a certificate for those complaint with a sufficient amount of criteria. The certification process will continue to be developed over the nest few months via work between NCPG and GIS. When it is perfected, a trial phase of implementation will be offered publicly, with initial compliance testing set to begin in the fall.
GIS Founder Malcolm Bruce further expressed his pleasure, saying that the company is “delighted to be working with NCPG on this crucial initiative to check that legal online gambling operators are protecting players in accordance with the criteria that NCPG have established. State regulations often stipulate only the bare minimum levels of protection and operators have a lot to prove in this area if they want to succeed in expanding online gambling in the US.”
In a market where expansion is essential and regulation is ubiquitous, the NCPG-GIS partnership gives global gambling operators a golden opportunity to prove their trustability and integrity to the public.
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