Austrian Study Finds Few Risks of Money Laundering in Online Poker
Key Takeaways
  • TÜV Trust IT has published an economic study “Online Poker: Possible Money Laundering and its Prevention”
  • The report suggests that policymakers have overestimated the risks.
  • A strategy, via a ten point plan, to reduce the risks to almost zero forms the conclusion of the report.
  • TÜV Trust IT “now considers itself able to define standardised testing criteria to make it easier to supervise gambling services providers, both technically and in terms of financial regulation.”

The Austrian company TÜV Trust IT has published an economic study “Online Poker: Possible Money Laundering and its Prevention” which suggests that policymakers have exaggerated the risks of money laundering in online poker.