The Chairman and CEO of Philippine gaming regulator PAGCOR has revealed that licensed offshore gaming operators will no longer be known as POGOs (Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators) and will instead be referred to as Internet Gaming Licensees, or IGLs.
In an exclusive interview with Inside Asian Gaming at G2E in Las Vegas, Tengco outlined new details of the agency’s efforts to bring the offshore gaming industry into line, having put all POGOs under a “probationary stance” in August and requiring each to undergo a stricter probity process under a revised regulatory framework.
On the new name for offshore operators, Tengco explained, “This is the first time we are announcing this publicly, we will be using this new expression IGL from now on.”
