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The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has set out its approach to combat unlicensed gambling threats, viewed as a source of crime impacting society. The mandate is led by Chief Executive Andrew Rhodes as the Commission upholds its “corporate strategy to increase investment, resources, and capacity to tackle illegal gambling”. Unlicensed gambling is viewed as a crime and an economic threat …

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has published the year-one statistics and datasets of the Gambling Survey for Great Britain (GSGB) for 2023. The survey is a key directive of the Commission, which in 2021 launched a pilot programme to re-model how data is collected on “adult gambling participation and problem gambling prevalence statistics”. Adopting a new methodology and data-collection approach, …

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has notified online licensees of compliance expectations and duties concerning customer account withdrawals. An update published by Commission CEO, Andrew Rhodes, references previous concerns about customers experiencing ‘delays when withdrawing funds’. As noted, late or delayed withdrawals are referenced as an action point of the Commission’s Business Plan and Budget 2023 to 2024. Concerns about …

 The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) stands by its long-term strategy to combat illegal online gambling, as a regulatory objective of the Gambling Review’s White Paper. “The Commission’s approach is to identify and undertake high-impact interventions to disrupt unlicensed operators targeting consumers in Great Britain, all with a view to making it difficult to provide illegal gambling at scale,” stated CEO …

UK gambling’s land-based venues and stakeholders have been warned to prepare for a summer of changes, adopting new rules to comply with the commitments of the Gambling Review’s White Paper. Addressing delegates of the Bingo Association AGM – Andrew Rhodes, Chief Executive of the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC), stressed that the White Paper’s consultation phase will be followed by the …

The Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) has established a new ‘voluntary code on customer checks’ to minimise frictions of financial checks and improve consistencies in know-your-customer (KYC) duties. The voluntary code was designed in collaboration with the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) to help raise standards and reduce the need for private financial document requests when verifying customers. As cited by …

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has vowed to provide stakeholders with better evidence to ensure better outcomes for consumers and the public engaging with gambling. The need for better evidence and enhanced data collection was outlined by the Commission’s launch of its new corporate strategy for 2024-27 tailored to adopt the recommendations set out in the government’s White Paper High …

The National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) is to develop a Monitoring and Evaluation plan for the Gambling Act review (GAR).  Commissioned by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) and the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC), NatCen’s project will establish the evaluation design to address how effective the review has been in preventing gambling-related harm to vulnerable groups and …

GambleAware’s latest research into problematic gambling behaviours found that the West Midlands is the region most exposed to gambling harms.  The safer gambling body’s report shows that “as 168,000 adults in the West Midlands are experiencing ‘problem gambling” – indexed at a total of 3.9% of the local population which is 25% higher than the national average.  The data comes …

Yesterday’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) showcased the distinct opinions of key political actors at the centre of delivering the change needed to future-proof UK gambling.  “There is never a dull moment in our industry,” stated BGC CEO Michael Dugher, opening the proceedings of the AGM held at the Institution of Civil Engineers in …