Peru’s online gambling regulation is now focused on platform approval, operator oversight, and illegal market cleanup

Peru has moved past the basic authorization phase and is now spending its regulatory energy on technical homologation, ongoing supervision, and squeezing out the illegal online gambling offer. For PSPs and platform providers, the important part is simple: the market is no longer just “licensed or not” — it is being sorted by systems, certificates, registries, and who can actually prove their stack matches the Ministry’s standards.

1. Since February 2024, companies offering remote games or sports betting in Peru must have authorization from the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism to operate legally in the country. The framework comes from Law No. 31557, later amended by Law No. 31806, and its regulation was approved through Supreme Decree No. 005-2023-MINCETUR.
2. By June 2026, the Dirección General de Juegos de Casino y Máquinas Tragamonedas (DGJCMT) said the system included 92 authorizations and 4.534 sports betting rooms or points of attention distributed across the country. In other words, the market has already moved from theory to a fairly visible operating map.
3. The regulator also said it had handled 16.401 administrative requests since the rules took effect, covering authorizations, homologations, modifications, and registrations linked to the digital gambling market. For operators and PSPs, that usually means a lot of paperwork, but also a clearer line between regulated activity and everything else.
4. The formalization process for companies already operating when the law entered into force ended in August 2024. From that point on, only authorized companies could continue offering platforms and services legally to the Peruvian public, while Mincetur kept public registries of license holders, platforms, software, providers, and laboratories so users can check whether an offer belongs to the regulated market.
5. Yuri Guerra, director general of the DGJCMT, said the regulator created a specialized unit to review technical, legal, and financial aspects of online gambling. He added that Peru introduced prior approval, automatic approval, and post-supervision mechanisms, cutting administrative timelines from 20 to 30 days to around five to seven days.

On the technical side, an authorized platform must show that its systems meet the standards set by Mincetur before it can be offered in Peru. That review covers technological infrastructure, game software, available modalities, and live casino modules. For payment teams, that is the part that matters: the regulator is not only checking who is in the market, but what exactly is being plugged into it.