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Lithuania’s Gaming Control Authority has imposed a €468,350 fine on UAB Baltic Bet, the company behind the Optibet brand, citing significant shortcomings in its anti-money laundering (AML) controls—particularly in the areas of customer due diligence and source-of-funds verification. According to the regulator, the operator failed to adequately gather and assess information about a customer and the origin of funds used for gambling activities before allowing that individual

The Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway has identified serious breaches in anti-money laundering controls at Svenska Handelsbanken AB NUF, operating as Handelsbanken Norway, following a comprehensive regulatory inspection that began with supervisory meetings in early 2024 and concluded with a final report outlining systemic weaknesses across multiple compliance areas. The findings indicate that the Norwegian branch failed to satisfy core legal obligations related to ris