To the north, the gates to sports gambling have opened. “I think it’s a good idea, like any other piece of gambling as long as people don’t abuse it,”.
Over 1 000 officials from the financial services and related sectors in 46 countries are expected to participate in one of the hemisphere’s largest virtual conferences on corruption, cyber-crimes and compliance this week.The two-day conference, Caribbean Conference on Corruption, Compliance and Cybercrime (3Cs 2022), hosted by the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), starts on Wednesday and will also examine sports corruption and governance, as well as the “stunning collapse” of The Bahamas-registered crypto-currency exchange FTX.With the overarching theme of Good Governance for the Sustainable Development of the Caribbean, the conference will feature some of the world’s experts and thought leaders on solutions to corruption, cyber-crimes and compliance in the Caribbean.Experts from outside the Caribbean include keynote speaker Professor Nikos Passas, Bryan Smith Chief of Cybercrimes with the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Patrick Killeen