I have had a few meetings with this gaming commission because I was having a few problems with affiliating and we spoke about guidelines I was curious about. MGA had a new gaming act approved that went into effect last summer and for some starting Jan 1. It was to crack down on money laundering. I wanted to know about source of wealth because I wanted to take into consideration when deciding to continue affiliating or not and to know to warn friends and players this may become an issue. I asked them directly will you be forcing casinos to start cracking down like the UKGC with source of wealth and their answer was no. They basically said they have told casinos to enforce money laundering rules and if you suspect it take cautionary measures. They have not went the UKGC route contacting all casinos and demanding most players need to provide SOW.
I work with all Canadian players and I have heard maybe 3-4 cases of people being asked for SOW. Any time I have worked with UKGC players I have heard thousands of stories. So when you say they are more strict - that is just not true at all.
It will change. SOW checks will be more common for MGA players this year.