Looking at the criteria mentioned when
SBR does a sportsbook review there seems to be one glaring omission: the Balance Sheet !!
Reading about the crap players are getting from WSEX and other books it seems pretty obvious to me that there are lots of sportsbooks out there that rely on players to fund their working capital.
Sportsbooks have no right to use players' funds for their own purposes.
No way should a bookmaker be using player deposits for working capital funding purposes.
Ideally player depos.ts should be held in a separate trust account and the bookmaker should only be entitled to access those funds when players lose. Conversely the trust account should be topped up when players win. A daily settlement process should be in place.
Government appointed regulators are failing in their duty to players if they are not requiring and policing the above.
Any proper review of a sportsbook must include a review of their balance sheet to ensure that player monies are not being put at risk. Books which fail that test should not be rated at all but placed on the Blacklist as they simply don't have the money to pay all their clients out and are technically insolvent.