Dave - All the indications (from Scully) etc are that the mechanisms already exist to assess an individuals financial situation in a non-intrusive (frictionless) way.

The only people suggesting an across the board £100/month limit were the hard-line anti-mob - any yet despite all the outrage and the push back that is what all the bookmakers seem to have chosen to voluntarily adopt!

This is the GC's guidance:

Affordability and a customer’s personal circumstances



2.8 Historically, gambling operators have not systematically considered customer affordability when developing their customer interaction policies. Many have used deposit or loss thresholds as a main or sole prompt for a customer interaction, but these have often been set at levels that were inappropriately high, in comparison to the average amount of money that the majority of people have available to spend on leisure activities. This has led to a number of examples of customers spending more than they could afford, and this not being identified sufficiently early, as seen in much of the Commission’s compliance and enforcement casework since 2017.



2.9 Operators should aim to identify those experiencing or at risk of harm and intervene to try to reduce harm at the earliest opportunity. Reliance on deposit or loss thresholds that are set too high will result in failing to detect some customers who may be experiencing significant harms associated with their gambling. It is therefore imperative that threshold levels are set appropriately.



2.10 Open-source data exists which can help operators assess affordability for their GB customer base and improve their risk assessment for customer interactions. Thresholds should be realistic, based on average available income for your customers. This should include the Office of National Statistics publications on levels of household income.



2.11 In considering these thresholds, you should be aware of the difference between ‘disposable income’ and ‘discretionary income’ which refers to the amount left after living costs are taken into account, but it does still include many other unavoidable costs. Most people would consider it harmful if they were spending a significant amount of their discretionary income on gambling.

Trident - I will share something with the forum, Poker related: 888 UK Limited ( Cosmos, Cval, R) Date 27Dec 2022 Reason For Credit Check Gambling Affordability Assessment

I suspect different gambling companies (i refuse to call them by their traditional name) will have different procedures. Personally, I would have no problem with them checking my credit status as that seems a sensible non-intrusive step.

I'm no fan of anybody at the GC dave - but I think all parties have done more than their fair share in terms of being deliberately misleading!

This obviously won't happen and I certainly don't want it to happen - but what would be f'kin hilarious and extremely ironic, in light of all the previous delays and in all likelihood more delays to come; Minister Number six (or maybe number seven by then) arrives on the scene and decides this current system that the bookmakers have completely voluntarily chosen to adopt has worked jolly well! - Lets make that the foundation of the new legislation - £100 monthly deposit limit across the board for every customer, no exceptions unless providing, P60, Wage slips, Bank statements, Mother-In-Laws vital statistics, etc!

All that propaganda, deliberate deception, deliberate inconvenience, deliberate abuse of their customers, etc - and then they get hoisted by their own petard!

Thats TM in a nutshell

If it were to go badly then he shrugs his shoulders and disappears, having been the gobsheit that said everyone else involved in the industry were tilting at windmills and concerned over imaginary threats.

WAC

My credit rating is P**s Poor!. Question to the forum: How does this in any way relate to what I consider to be an amount per month I can afford to gamble with as a responsible adult? I've always had in place deposit limits and loss limits per month...

Thoughts welcomed

Ive shown you countless ways why your theory is horse5hit and why all the origins of this attack on gambling has this newage illiberal leftie ideology behind it thats extremely ill thought through, not that either you or them give a 5hit about that, always suggesting everyone is a bookie mole when all we want is to be allowed to make our own choices.

Like I said you are a danger to people wanting to gamble given the fact you think people do need inconveniencing to pander to minorities unilaterally.

Ive spent far more time than most bother with your waffle TM, thats why I get angry at your floppy arguments.
You are the one who wants to shout down anyone who provides data on the subject in this method of denying how badly this focus on gambling can be....the result of anti gambling lobbyests who used slots to create a narrative and then lumped all gambling in with it.

Now do FO because Ive have more interesting piles than you.