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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

PlayerOperatator

platformFRONTAL

Gam

ing infractionsSECURING the gaming experience

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INSPEC

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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 forecasts

Alert 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 bets

Relative 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