The Danish Gambling Authority has announced that the new European supervisory authority, AMLA (Anti-Money Laundering Authority), has published three new draft regulatory acts for public consultation.

The draft acts are intended to supplement the Anti Money Laundering Regulation with detailed rules in the following areas:

• Customer Due Diligence procedures. The draft act specifies the detailed requirements for customer due diligence. The main rules are set out in the new Anti Money Laundering Regulation, which enters into force on 10 July 2027. The consultation deadline is 8 May 2026.

• Pecuniary sanctions, administrative measures and periodic penalty payments. This draft act concerns the principles and related elements for determining sanctions to be applied by authorities to entities that fail to comply with the rules. The consultation deadline is 9 March 2026.

• Criteria for identifying business relationships, occasional and linked transactions and lower thresholds. The draft act specifies the criteria for identifying business relationships, occasional and linked transactions, and lower thresholds. The main rules are set out in the new Anti Money Laundering Regulation, which enters into force on 10 July 2027. The consultation deadline is 8 May 2026.

The Danish Gambling Authority encourages gambling operators to submit consultation responses to AMLA’s draft regulatory acts to the greatest extent possible. The public consultations are available on AMLA’s website.

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The Danish Gambling Authority’s statistics for October 2025 show a decrease in the total gambling spend in comparison to the same month last year. However, the betting market was the only market to experience a decrease.

The total gambling spend in October 2025 amounted to DKK 599 million, which corresponds to a decrease of 3.4 per cent compared to October 2024. The statistics show that the decrease for the total gambling market is due to a large fluctuation in the betting market in October 2025 compared to October 2024. The betting market had a decrease of 46.0 per cent. Online casinos experienced the largest increase of 24.4 per cent, while land-based (physical) casinos and gaming machines experienced an increase of 6.0 percent and 0.6 percent, respectively.

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The Danish Gambling Authority has called attention to FATF’s (Financial Action Task Force) updated lists of high-risk jurisdictions: the Grey List (jurisdictions under increased monitoring) and Black List (call for actions). Among other things, gambling operators must include FATF’s lists of high-risk jurisdictions when risk assessing players.

Jurisdictions listed on the Grey List:

Algeria, Angola, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Cameroon, the Ivory Coast, DR Congo, Haiti, Kenya, Laos, Lebanon, Monaco, Namibia, Nepal, South Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, Vietnam, the Virgin Islands and Yemen.

Jurisdictions listed on the Black List:

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Iran and Myanmar

Gambling operators are required to conduct enhanced customer due diligence (EDD) pursuant to section 17(1) of the Danish AML Act, if a player is assessed to impose a higher risk of the gambling operator being misused for money laundering or terrorist financing.

Gambling operators shall conduct this risk assessment based on Annex 3 to the AML Act (high-risk factors) which includes the FATF high-risk country lists (the so called black list and grey list)

It is not required that gambling operators perform EDD if a country is listed on the FATF’s list. EDD are only a requirement for players from jurisdictions listed in the EU Regulation of High Risk Third Country list pursuant to. 17(2) of the AML Act.

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