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Maxymiser Open Invite Event – Customer Success Symposium

SBC News Maxymiser Open Invite Event - Customer Success Symposium

Website optimisation and marketing data specialists Maxymiser have announced the launch of the Maxymiser Customer Success Symposium, the marketing insight and networking event designed to shed light on digital customer marketing initiatives that have generated success in competitive markets The Maxymiser Customer Success Symposium is a  free-to-attend conference, hosted at BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LN, on the 27th of …

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Maria Miller Asks Gambling Commission to Toughen Code Up

SBC News Maria Miller Asks Gambling Commission to Toughen Code Up

The Association of British Bookmakers (ABB) may have passed a voluntary code of conduct for the gambling industry; however UK Culture Secretary Maria Miller has asked the UK Gambling Commission to revise the proposed Code for Responsible Gambling and Player Protection, with a view to further strengthening player protection with regards to gambling products, both online and at retail level. …

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Professor Mark Griffiths – Helping customers set their limits

SBC News Professor Mark Griffiths - Helping customers set their limits

Professor Mark Griffiths of Nottingham Trent University is a Chartered Psychologist and Director of the International Gaming Research Unit. He was the expert adviser on the ABB’s new Code of Conduct which hopes to reduce the chance of people getting into problems while player betting shop gaming machines. SBC:  What do you think is the key measure that bookmakers have …

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Code Of Conduct Set to Tackle Problem Gambling

SBC News Code Of Conduct Set to Tackle Problem Gambling

The recent government  debate and increased media coverage regarding problem gambling, the  promotion and advertising of betting and gambling services and the expansion of UK betting shops has triggered the UK gambling industry to launch a code of conduct in order to tackle issues and concerns effecting the industry and its customers. As of March 1, the UK gambling commission …

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UK Betting Heavyweights Support ABB Code

SBC News UK Betting Heavyweights Support ABB Code

UK gambling operators have come together to support the recent launch of the Association of British Bookmakers (ABB)  Code for Responsible Gambling and Player Protection. The code will come into action on the 1st of March 2014, and will look to bring new best practices for better protection of  UK betting and gambling customers. The newly designed code implemented by the ABB, …

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Belgian PPO confiscate €600,000 of Betclic Funds

SBC News Belgian PPO confiscate €600,000 of Betclic Funds

The Belgian Public Prosecution Office (PPO) has seized €600,000 of French igaming operator – Betclic funds. The PPO claim the operator had directly broken Belgium law and policy regarding igaming wagering and transactions. The PPO claim that they are acting under Belgium financial law, which allows them to directly confiscate funds associated with Belgium non regulated igaming operators. This is …

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Finnish Cabinet Committee Set to Punish Unregulated Operators

SBC News Finnish Cabinet Committee Set to Punish Unregulated Operators

Finland’s Cabinet Committee of Economic Policy shed outlines of new measures designed to strengthen the country’s gambling state monopoly. New measures are set to be implemented in order to deter and punish unregulated operators targeting the Finnish market and breaching the current rules and regulations of the Finnish Lotteries Act. The Committee are set to have a special emphasis on …

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Richard Glynn Ladbrokes Shares Winner

SBC News Richard Glynn Ladbrokes Shares Winner

Richard Glynn CEO of Ladbrokes was  awarded 192,080 shares worth £290,000 under long-term share incentive plans tied to his contrat signed in 2010, the payout represents a quarter of the potential maximum of the share awards set in 2010. News of the payout — which is much lower than last year,comes days after the bookmaker reported sharply  falling annual profits …

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Sir Roy Gardner Joins Hills Board

SBC News Sir Roy Gardner Joins Hills Board

William Hill  announced the appointment of Sir Roy Gardner as an independent Non-executive Director, with effect from 3 March 2014. He will serve as a member of the Audit and Risk, Remuneration, Nomination and Corporate Responsibility Committees, and will take over as Senior Independent Non-executive Director when David Edmonds retires from the Board at the 2014 Annual General Meeting. Sir …

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