Greek gambling regulator opens tender for legal and technical partner on player verification

The Hellenic Gambling Supervision and Control Commission (EEEP) has launched a tender for a legal and technical partner to improve how it verifies Greek gamblers’ identities in the regulated online market. For PSPs and acquiring teams, the point is straightforward: Greece is pushing harder on KYC, AML and cybersecurity around Electronic Player Accounts (EPAs), and the compliance bar is moving up.

1. The tender covers the redesign of the framework governing Electronic Player Accounts (EPAs), which are used to verify and track participants in Greece’s regulated online gambling market. The new technical structure is meant to strengthen Know Your Customer (KYC) procedures and help licensed operators better prevent fraud, financial crime and underage play.
2. According to the tender documents, the EEEP is looking for a technical and legal partner to design and improve the framework for the secure identification of gambling players, including “the process of certification and verification of the identity of players.” The selected contractor will also provide legal expertise until the end of 2026, or up to 190 hours of consultancy.
3. The contract is worth €28,500 and will include three progress reports setting out proposals to strengthen Greece’s player verification regime. On paper this is a small consultancy budget; in practice, it is part of a wider tightening of the control stack around online gambling in Greece.
4. The tender comes after draft legislation passed last month to overhaul gambling regulation in Greece. That bill would expand the EEEP’s permanent staff from 80 to 110, with new hires in enforcement, IT and cybersecurity, and market surveillance and intelligence.
5. The same legislative package would also give the regulator power to immediately block illegal gambling sites, extend the blacklist to mobile applications as well as websites, domains and IP addresses, and impose new obligations on promoters, intermediaries and service providers that facilitate access to gambling. Banks would be required to block transactions linked to unlicensed gambling operators.

For high-risk payment teams, the useful read here is that Greece is not treating player verification as a narrow product tweak. The regulator is pairing EPAs, tighter KYC and AML rules, site blocking, and bank-level transaction controls in one enforcement push — and it has already filed criminal complaints against 18 influencers and streamers accused of promoting unlicensed betting platforms.