The Gambling Commission (UKGC) has shared more insights from the pilot scheme of financial risk assessments (FRA) carried out during 2025. As a concept, FRAs were enshrined in Gambling Commission policy as part of 2023’s Gambling Act review white paper.
In a blog, Helen Rhodes, the UK regulator’s director of major policy projects and evaluation, has now revealed that in certain areas the FRAs have outperformed the previous government’s estimations.
Rhodes first took the opportunity to push back against perceived criticisms of the implementation of financial checks, which she called “confused.”
She wrote: “There has been a lot of recent commentary about financial risk assessments and sadly much of it has been ill-informed or inaccurate.”
