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On Monday, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) announced that Ruth Evans has succeeded Charles Counsell to take on the full time role of Gambling Commission chair.
Counsell took the helm in February 2025 following Marcus Boyle’s departure in January last year.
Evans, who chairs Stop Scams UK, an initiative she founded in 2019 to unite banks, technology companies and telecom providers to combat payment fraud, will assume the position on 30 September, commencing a five-year term.
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It finds that online gaming shows more documented terrorist financing activity than gambling, although proliferation financing risks remain limited across both sectors.
Cash, e-wallets, mobile money and virtual assets emerge as the payment methods most vulnerable to abuse. This is particularly true where operators use them to structure deposits below reporting thresholds.
Giles Thomson, FATF president, said unregulated sectors risk becoming “attractive gateways for fraudsters, professional money launderers and organised criminal networks”. He called on governments to strengthen oversight, crack down on illegal and offshore operators and deepen public-private cooperation.
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One notable omission for an experienced audience is the lack of a bonus buy, meaning the combined feature modes must be earned through the crystal collection system rather than purchased. That decision keeps the anticipation tied to the meters filling; it also lengthens the runway to the slot’s most rewarding states.
Triple Beasts of Fortune reflects Play’n GO’s continued reliance on high-frequency releases built on recognizable mechanical templates rather than one-off experiments. The studio has long favored feature-led iterations, and here it reworks the familiar buffalo-style expanding-reels format by making its bonus rounds combinable.
The slot’s headline figures place it firmly in the studio’s high-volatility bracket, with a 30,000x max win and a standard 96% default RTP. Those numbers matter mainly as positioning. They signal a top-heavy payout profile in which most of the potential is reserved for the layered feature states rather than base-game play.
