Enforcement: How hard does the regulator enforce?

The FSA's enforcement activity against the offshore and online segment has taken the form of public non-licensure notices rather than fines, criminal referral, or licence revocation. The FSA published a notice stating that 1xbet is not licensed by the FSA to conduct interactive gambling services, dated to 2023, and a further notice naming Amazon Betting Limited as unlicensed for interactive gambling services, dated to around June 2024. Neither notice is accompanied by further enforcement escalation in the record. Against its own licensees, SI 2/2024 rules 7(6), 9 and 11 set an administrative penalty of SCR 20,000 per breach of capital-adequacy or internal-control requirements — a procedural rather than punitive sanction ceiling. No licence revocation was identified in the record. Cross-border solicitation is restricted under SI 2/2024 rule 4(2), which prohibits licensees from soliciting players in jurisdictions listed in the First Schedule as 'excluded jurisdictions', though this bears on an operator's own marketing conduct rather than describing an inbound extraterritorial enforcement mechanism.