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# Singapore — Payments and banking: Can we move player money? | advennt.io

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# Singapore Gambling — Payments and banking: Can we move player money?

Key section parameters

Jurisdiction Singapore (SG)

Regulator Recorded in register

Favourability Unfavourable

Confidence Confirmed

Review status Expert approved · 2 post-review updates · Not reviewed · In expert review scope

Last collected 4 Nov 2026

Summary answer

Under the Casino Control (Conduct of Gaming) Regulations 2009, casinos operators are allowed to accept the following in exchange for the issue of chips for casino gambling:

Cash

Chips issued by another casino operator

In exchange for chip purchase vouchers issued by the casino operator

Credit ca…

11 Oct 2026 Read update The Casino Control (Prescribed Casino Chips) Regulations 2026, commenced 21 September 2026, newly classify electronic credits as casino chips. This regulatory reclassification brings electronic credit instruments used within casino premises under the same regulatory treatment previously applied to physical casino chips, changing how such instruments are handled for compliance and anti-cheating purposes. The regulations commenced alongside the broader second-tranche amendments to the Casino Control (Amendment) Act 2024, which also newly criminalised device-based recording of non-card-game play patterns, a change with a bearing on how in-casino value instruments and gaming equipment are monitored.

4 Oct 2026 Read update The Casino Control (Prescribed Casino Chips) Regulations 2026, in force since 21 September 2026, prescribe electronic credits as casino chips, allowing a patron to draw virtual credits directly from a cashless gaming account or e-wallet at tables or gaming machines rather than relying solely on physical chips. GRA has stated it has no intention of allowing cryptocurrency to be used as a chip instrument for casino gambling, citing money-laundering risk, drawing a clear regulatory line between fiat-anchored cashless infrastructure and crypto-asset settlement within the casino channel. This is the first prescribed non-physical wagering instrument in Singapore's casino framework and sets the payment-rail boundary within which any cashless gaming technology supplier must operate.

## Full section analysis

Under the Casino Control (Conduct of Gaming) Regulations 2009, casinos operators are allowed to accept the following in exchange for the issue of chips for casino gambling:

Cash

Chips issued by another casino operator

In exchange for chip purchase vouchers issued by the casino operator

Credit card, where a transaction involving a credit card is permitted under the CCA or any regulations made thereunder (i.e. only for premium players or patrons who are neither Singapore citizens nor permanent residents)

Direct debit from the amount standing to the credit of the patron’s deposit account or cheque cashing account with the casino operator

By amount debited against the patron’s credit account with the casino operator, where the casino operator is permitted to issue chips on credit to the patron under the Casino Control Act

By any other mode of payment that the GRA may approve

For remote gambling, Singapore Pools only accepts payment in the form of the following:

Cash

NETS (direct debit and credit payments at the point of sale)

eNets (direct debit via personal internet banking account)

Debiting from a nominated personal bank account

For non-remote gambling, Singapore Pools only accepts payment in the form of the following:

Cash

NETS