Bookmakers and betting agencies are attractive to organised criminal networks because they handle large volumes of cash and electronic wagers, often through multiple outlets and customer accounts, creating opportunities to place, layer or integrate illicit funds under the guise of legitimate betting activity.
Criminals may exploit features such as cash betting, ticket redemption, account top-ups and winnings withdrawals to disguise source of funds or manipulate betting outcomes. To address these risks, it is essential that bookmakers and betting agencies maintain a robust, enterprise-wide money laundering, terrorism and proliferation financing risk assessment framework.
By systematically identifying and assessing their exposure to financial crime risks and by evaluating the design and operational effectiveness of their mitigating controls in a manner appropriate and proportionate to their nature, size and complexity, they can ensure compliance with regulatory obligations, protect the integrity of their operations and preserve the trust and confidence of regulators, customers and the wider community.
About Arctic Intelligence’s Risk Assessment Platform
Arctic Intelligence’s Risk Assessment Platform can be used by smaller reporting entities out-of-the-box with standardised risk and control libraries or configured by medium and larger enterprises to suit any enterprise risk management framework.
Our multi-award-winning platform is highly-configurable and can be tailored to suit your methodology, risk indicators, applying risk and/or control weightings as appropriate, with a full audit trail and real-time data aggregation of individual business lines or consolidated across enterprises.
Designed by experts to support your industry
The money laundering, terrorism and proliferation financing risk and control module contains a library of risks, controls and control tests designed specifically for different types of bookmakers and betting agencies:
What’s included in the content module?
Each of our expert-designed risk modules contain an Enterprise-Wide Risk Assessment, a Channel Risk Assessment, a Product Risk Assessment and a Country Risk Assessment containing hundreds of risk indicators and risk factors, grouped under different risk categories and risk groups.
In addition to a fully comprehensive risk library, our module also contains a library of controls and control tests that you can use to assess the design and operational effectiveness of your control environment.
Our content modules can be used out-of-the-box, easily modified to suit your requirements or you can simply build and import your own risk and control content. We can support implementation directly or through our growing advisory network.
What’s the content module structure?
Our content modules contain hundreds of different risk factors and risk indicators combined with hundreds of controls and control tests, aligned to the following structure.
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Exposure to External Risks - Higher Risk Environments; Higher Risk Relationships and Higher Risk Regulatory Environments.
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Exposure to Internal Risks - Higher Risk Business Operations; Governance and Oversight; Program Alignment to ML/TF/PF RIsks; Business Location Risks; Business Activity Risks; Employee Risks and Outsourcing Risks
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Why choose the
Risk Assessment Platform?
How does it work?
The diagram below visualises recognised industry best risk assessment practices overlaid against the features within the Risk Assessment Platform that supports these processes.
