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NEW TECH: This free tool can help gauge, manage third-party cyber risk; it’s called ‘VRMMM’

The Last Watchdog

Shared Assessments was created in 2005 by five big banks and the Big Four accounting/consulting firms as a forum for deriving a standardized way to assess the risks of partnering with one other. The founding participants developed assessment regimes and tools, all having to do with measuring and assessing, essentially, third-party risks.

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Credit card gambling ban: government to meet banks and bookies

IT Governance

As it is, all commercial gambling businesses that hold a licence under the Gambling Act 2005 must abide by that law and the Commission’s LCCP (Licence conditions and codes of practice) or expect regulatory action. It allows people to bet more than they can afford and particularly affects gambling addicts. Labour will ban it.”.

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Gambling trade bodies are creating a powerful lobbying group amid strengthening regulations

IT Governance

Under current rules, all commercial gambling businesses that hold a licence under the Gambling Act 2005 must abide by that law and the Commission’s LCCP (Licence conditions and codes of practice) or expect regulatory action. It allows people to bet more than they can afford and particularly affects gambling addicts. Labour will ban it.”.