Peru updates AML rules for casinos and expands enforcement reach to online betting and gaming

Peru has taken another step in tightening oversight of its gambling sector after the Superintendence of Banking, Insurance and Private Pension Funds updated anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing rules for casinos and slot-machine operators, while also expanding the sanctions framework to cover online gaming and sports betting businesses supervised by MINCETUR.

Peru’s banking and insurance supervisor, the SBS, announced on April 8 that it had updated the anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing framework applicable to legal entities operating casinos and slot machines under the supervision of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism. The agency said the new rule is intended to align the sector with Financial Action Task Force recommendations and modern compliance standards. The updated framework replaces the previous legal regime established by Resolution SBS No. 1695-2016.

According to the SBS, the revised rule clarifies the scope of the compliance system and regulates its main components, including due diligence on directors, employees and suppliers, staff training, internal manuals and codes of conduct, the appointment of compliance officers, suspicious transaction reporting, annual compliance reporting, internal audit obligations and controls related to the financing of weapons proliferation. This shows that the regulator is not making a narrow technical adjustment, but is rebuilding the sector’s AML architecture around a fuller set of internal control obligations.

The same Resolution SBS No. 01015-2026 also modifies the sanctions framework for AML/CFT breaches so that it now includes companies operating remote games and remote sports betting, as well as sports betting halls using the internet or other communication channels. In its press release, the SBS said this change strengthens MINCETUR’s sanctioning capacity in AML matters with respect to the entities it supervises.

That point is especially important because Peru already had a separate AML rule for online games and remote sports betting. MINCETUR’s own official portal lists Resolution SBS No. 03622-2025, published in October 2025, as the AML/CFT rule applicable to companies operating remote games and remote sports betting. That means the April 2026 resolution is better understood as part of a broader tightening and integration of Peru’s gambling-control framework, rather than the first time the country has moved against risks in the digital segment.

For Peru’s gambling market, the latest measure signals a more mature regulatory phase in which land-based casinos, slot operators, online gaming businesses and sports betting platforms are being brought into a more coherent supervisory and sanctions structure. As Peru continues to formalize both physical and digital gambling, compliance with AML/CFT rules is clearly becoming one of the central pillars of market oversight. This final assessment is an inference based on the SBS update, the sanctions changes and the earlier 2025 online-gaming AML rule.