Tag Archives: Chris Philip

Winning Post: UK’s carry-on Gambling Review goes down Hill…

SBC News Winning Post: UK's carry-on Gambling Review goes down Hill...

Regulus Partners reflects on the week that the UK Gambling Review reached its embarrassing slapstick stage, wearing down all industry stakeholders as an Autumn delay beckons the White Paper’s publishing. The farcical handling of the current stage of Britain’s Gambling Act Review was brought to a fitting conclusion last week as the minister responsible, Chris Philp MP, bowed out with …

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Winning Post: Gambling Review… History Repeating Itself?

SBC News Winning Post: Gambling Review... History Repeating Itself?

Can the UK government avoid the pitfalls of previous generational reviews of the gambling sector, and provide stakeholders with evidence-based reforms as required. The government’s pledge is maintained against a final backdrop, that sees Regulus Partners report on frantic lobbying by clandestine groups trying to influence outcomes… There were further signs this week that the history of gambling reviews in …

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DCMS to further delay Gambling Review outcomes to May 2022

SBC News DCMS to further delay Gambling Review outcomes to May 2022

UK gambling stakeholders have been warned that the government will announce a further delay in the publishing of the White Paper of proposals to reform the industry. This morning, The Guardian reported that a further delay would push the publication of the White Paper to May 2022 – citing “three sources with knowledge of the process”. The government’s review of …

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BGC: GAMSTOP to lead first trials of Single Customer View project 

SBC News BGC: GAMSTOP to lead first trials of Single Customer View project 

The Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) has announced that UK gambling’s headline ‘Single Customer View’ cross-industry data-sharing project will be trialled by GAMSTOP.  The Single Customer View project was assigned by the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) to BGC members to develop new technical safeguards to protect those most at risk of gambling harms. The trial’s aim is to identify those …

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Anti-FOBT report authors labelled ‘all tank and no think’

SBC News Anti-FOBT report authors labelled 'all tank and no think'

A much-trailed report into fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs) from the right-leaning think tank ResPublica has been slammed for “parroting” the line taken by the report’s paid sponsors the Campaign for Fairer Gambling (CFG). The report published this week entitled ‘Wheel of Misfortune: the case for lowering the stakes on FOBTs’ called for the reduction of the maximum stake applicable for …

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