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Presentation on technical procedures of the French regulatory authority of online gaming
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1. General introduction to French technical regulation (P1)
PRESENTATION OUTLINE
2. Types of checks and studies (P2)
3. Focus on sport: Alert procedure (P3)
4. Forecast examples (P4)
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Securing the gaming experience
Reinforced checks on gaming operations
Features of the French technical regulation model
P1
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APPROVAL
ARJEL
INSPECTION
Player Operatator platformFRONTAL
Gaming infractions
SECURING the gaming experience
APPR
OVAL
CH
ECK
INSPECTION
P1
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ARJEL
Operatator platformFRONTAL
MONITORING of gaming operations P1
All basic gaming operations
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Financial data
Game data
Player account
data
ChecksStudies
About 50 million events per day
P2Forms of check
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Contrôles
Operator checks
Sporting competition operator checks
Sports competition checks
Addiction checks
Fraud/laundering checks
GNA checks
Checks on request
Player account management
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Tax base checks
Manual checks
Automatic checks
Planned checks
P2Forms of check
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Player behaviour
Symptoms linked to addiction
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Studies
Operator marketing practices
P2Forms of check
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Developed internally
A “Frontal” team of only four, part-time staff
An ARJEL investment of less
than 0.5M€
Costs dependent on each operator
(from less than 20k€ per year for frontal)
P2Forms of check
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FOCUS ON “SPORTS BETTING” CHECKS
P3
3+1 MAJOR PROCEDURES implemented
Retrieval and collation of game data
Alert procedure– Indicators and forecasting
Automation – Development of dedicated software
Human decision making
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Determination of indicators and forecastsAlert procedures
Establish “theoretical” indicators according to
sport
Determine indicators and “standard” values
for each indicator
Determine specific alert thresholds for each
indicator
Determine alert levels for forecasts
Define forecasts
Implement forecasts
Raw data
Determine influential environmental
factors
P3
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Defininition of indicators for “Football”
Number and sum of bets
Average number, sum of basic bets
Average number, sum of 1N2 bets
Proportion of 1N2 bets to basic betsRelative weight of 1, N and 2 bets
Analysis of most active IP addresses and player accounts
Temporal distribution of bets (number and sum)
Geographical distribution of bets (number and sum)
Standard indicators for Football
Advanced indicators…
P3