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Melanie Ellis

Melanie Ellis

Partner and Head of Betting & Gaming at Northridge Law LLP, a UK gambling regulatory lawyer advising operators on compliance, licensing, and regulatory strategy.

Jul 30, 2026

31:52
yeah.
31:53
And this is just for the largest operators, I think, who are going to be initially starting with this.
31:59
And then there's going to be some further engagement with the Gambling Commission about how this goes.
32:06
But then eventually we're moving to a position of, for the 25-year-olds and over, £1,000 net deposit in a rolling 24-hour period or £3,000 in a rolling 90-day period.
32:20
And then those figures being £750 and £2,000 for the under 25.
32:27
So this triggers you then firing off this request to the credit reference agency to essentially discover is this customer subject to financial risks? So have they had bankruptcies or debt settlement orders? Have they got defaulted on loans and so on? And then based on what you get back from that, you have to take appropriate action and we are going to get some more guidance from the Gambling Commission in due course as to what that might be.
33:00
It's probably not going to be particularly prescriptive, that guidance, because they don't like to tell you this is exactly what you have to do in these cases.

13 MINS LATER

45:51
You're not going to be able to do it

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