Singapore Orders Casinos to Share Patron Data Under New Laundering Rules

Singapore's two casinos must now share customer information with each other under changes to the country's gambling law that took effect on Sept. 21, 2026.

Until then, privacy rules barred Marina Bay Sands and Resorts World Sentosa from sharing patron data directly, so the regulator relayed it by hand. The government called that arrangement inefficient and said it slowed action on suspected money laundering.

Marina Bay Sands alone took $1.02 billion from gamblers in the three months to June 30, its owner reported.

New Offenses Cover Late Bets and Recorded Slot Play

Three things became crimes inside a casino on that date, the Ministry of Home Affairs said: pulling a bet back after the result of a game is known, recording play on slot machines and other non-card games, and entering as a banned person who knows or ought to know about the ban.

A fourth change is aimed at families. Relatives can already ask a government committee to cap how often a gambler enters a casino. Breaking that cap is now a criminal offense.

The National Council on Problem Gambling can also swap an exclusion order for a visit limit or vice versa, immediately. The old route took one to two months, leaving a gap with no protection.

Regulator Gains New Grounds to Call an Operator Unfit

The Gambling Regulatory Authority can now weigh unethical conduct, damage to the reputation of casino gambling in Singapore and weak internal controls against an operator.

Each feeds into whether it keeps its license.

The test lands months after the authority criticized Resorts World Sentosa's operator over a failure to implement an approved internal control, according to multiple industry reports.

Elsewhere in Asia, Cambodia has ordered its licensed casinos to stop running online gambling from October.

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