Tag: Alejandro H. Tengco

PAGCOR Chairman commends Philippine licensees for resilience amid tightening regulation

27 November 2025 at 6:27am UTC-5
PAGCOR Chairman and Chief Executive Alejandro H. Tengco has commended Philippine licensed operators for their resilience and willingness to comply with more stringent rules ...

Pronet Gaming signs Manila outsourcing deal with Claymore Solutions

20 November 2025 at 8:08am UTC-5
London-based platform provider Pronet Gaming is set to start moving its IT and trading teams to Manila in the Philippines from 1 December, via local business process outsourcing ...

Philippine regulator boosts data privacy with National Privacy Commission partnership

23 October 2025 at 7:24am UTC-4
Philippine gambling regulator PAGCOR has partnered with the National Privacy Commission to strengthen data protection and regulatory services across the country’s regulated ...

Philippine government honors PAGCOR for PHP12.7 billion contribution to treasury

10 October 2025 at 7:05am UTC-4
Philippine gambling regulator PAGCOR has received a certificate of recognition from the country’s department of finance for remitting PHP12.7 billion in dividends to the ...

Chairman Tengco: ‘PAGCOR is for stricter regulation and not for a total ban’

8 September 2025 at 5:59am UTC-4
Chairman and Chief Executive of the Philippine regulator PAGCOR, Alejandro Tengco, has roundly rejected calls for e-gaming to be banned in the Philippines, warning that it ...

Philippine Palace calls for data-driven review of online gambling

4 August 2025 at 7:31am UTC-4
The office of the Philippines President has called for a data-driven study of online gambling in the country before any significant policy changes. The announcement follows ...

Philippines online gaming revenues surpass US$2 billion for first time ever in first half of 2025

30 July 2025 at 5:17am UTC-4
The Philippines gaming industry recorded combined gross gaming revenues of PHP214.75 billion in the first six months of 2025, buoyed by the ongoing rise of the domestic online ...

PAGCOR signs MOU with the Ad Standards Council to prescreen gambling advertising

17 July 2025 at 7:28am UTC-4
Philippines gambling regulator PAGCOR and the advertising standards watchdog, the Ad Standards Council, have agreed to implement pre-screening and regulate gambling advertisements ...

PAGCOR stops primetime TV gambling advertising

14 July 2025 at 6:56am UTC-4
Gambling advertisements will now be banned during primetime television in the Philippines, according to the country’s gambling regulator PAGCOR. After discussions with the Ad ...

PAGCOR grants PHP50 million for deportation of illegal POGO workers

3 July 2025 at 7:53am UTC-4
The Philippine Bureau of Immigration will receive a PHP50 million grant to support its efforts to deport illegal gambling workers. The grant comes from the country’s gambling ...