The Philippine gambling industry is facing weaker revenues, technological disruption, and tighter regulatory scrutiny after years of rapid expansion, industry officials said at the Inside Asian Gaming Academy Summit.
PhilWeb said it has developed a unified aggregation platform that allows licensed operators to access and integrate a range of compliant gambling content.
The hacktivist group Deathnote Hackers International has claimed responsibility for the leak of roughly 445,000 entries from Pagcor's National Database of Restricted Persons (NDRP), which contains names of government officials prohibited from playing in gambling establishments.
Two lawmakers sounded the alarm over the growing reach of online gambling in the Philippines, as Pagcor revealed during a House budget hearing that 18 to 20 million Filipinos have registered with gambling apps, with 8 to 10 million of them considered active players.
The Senate on Monday, Feb. 28, formally filed a resolution urging the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (Pagcor) to suspend the operation of the popular "E-sabong" or online cockfight until the cases of the 31 missing cockfight aficionados are resolved.
But, with e-sabong reaching OFWs – particularly lonely seamen -- who have become addicted to the game, Pagcor recently made the decision to block bets from abroad in local e-sabong platforms.
As of December 2019, of the 118,239 workers in POGO establishments, eight out of 10 workers (82.3 percent) are foreigners, and the remaining two workers (17.7 percent) are Filipinos, data from Pagcor showed.
