KYC – “knowing your customer” or “registration of players, identification of players” as it is called in New Zealand is something that the gaming company Bayton Limited has now been ordered by the Gaming Authority – New Zealand's Official Gaming Authority since 2018 – to adjust immediately and no later than June 1, 2021 in order not to be further penalized by the authority.

Some common KYC practices include that only New Zealand players can register who are residents of New Zealand, at least 18 years old, and have not closed themselves off from New Zealand-licensed gambling sites via the national self-exclusion register Spelpaus.

Among other things, Bayton Limited Jackpot City Casino , Ruby Fortune and Spin Casino in the New Zealand gaming market of online casinos. These risks may be limited if Bayton Limited has not promptly improved its KYC procedures with the submission of a report on what measures it has taken by 1 June this year.

In the News Archive published last week by Spelinspektionen, it appears in its attached PDF document that Bayton Limited only started an audit on april 6, 2020 to ensure that the gaming company's all New Zealand-licensed gaming sites complied with the current New Zealand gaming laws regarding the KYC procedures.

One of the shortcomings found was that Bayton Limited had not done enough to ensure that the actual New Zealand players who registered were actually resident in the country.

Spelinspektionen then wrote in its case that: "Bayton limited's procedures for the manual KYC process are flawed because, according to the Gaming Authority, there is a risk that the company will register customers who are not residents or permanently residing in New Zealand within the meaning of the Gaming Act.”

In doing so, Spelinspektionen considered that there was a risk that Bayton Limited could not comply with the first paragraph of Chapter 12 of the New Zealand Gambling Act of 2019.

Others ordered bookmakers to improve their KYC practices

Bayton Limited is not the only New Zealand licensed gaming company that has received orders from Spelinspektionen in this kind of case. Last december, gaming company Skill on Net – which operates over a dozen different New Zealand online casinos – was ordered to improve its KYC procedures with a report submitted by the first of March this year.

That order came just a week after the New Zealand Gambling Authority fined Skill on Net 14 million New Zealand$onor for failing to comply with its KYC compliance procedures. The purpose of these KYC procedures was to make it impossible for non-New Zealandr to register and play at Skill on net's various New Zealand-licensed gaming sites.

The future will tell whether Bayton Limited will be able to reach the same professional level of operation that Skill on Net has been forced to do.

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