Light touch financial vulnerability checks threshold reduced from today

Following our article in July last year, today the threshold for light touch financial vulnerability checks conducted by remote operators has reduced with immediate effect.

Previously, the net deposit per 30-day rolling period was £500 between 30 August 2024 and 27 February 2025, and this has now reduced to £150 net deposit per 30-day rolling period.

These checks will focus on publicly available data and will not require operators to consider individual details such as postcode or job title and are intended to be light touch.

The purpose behind the checks is to identify customers who are particularly vulnerable, specifically where a bankruptcy has been involved.

This change applies to all remote licences, except any remote lottery licence the holder of which does not provide facilities for participation in instant win or high frequency lotteries, remote gaming machine technical, gambling software, host, ancillary remote bingo, ancillary remote casino, ancillary remote betting, remote betting intermediary (trading rooms only) and remote general betting limited licences.

Social Responsibility Code 3.4.4 has been updated to reflect this change.

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