Tag Archives: Gambling Commission

Another UK gaming operator has been hit with a fine following a Gambling Commission investigation, though not for the usual reasons. Fafabet, which is registered as Taichi Tech Limited and trades under the former brand name, has been fined $170,000 for what the UKGC described as ‘unfair terms and conditions’. This stands out as the vast majority of UK  operators …

PlayItForward is committed to creating partnerships with charities who support those affected by gambling harms, making sure that service users’ needs are prioritised.  However, this is not possible without concrete data to inform action. With support from PlayItForward, Betknowmore UK has engaged in exciting research projects to inform the development of its services.  In conversation with SBC News, Dr Liz …

The government review of the UK’s gambling laws appears unlikely to spring any surprises when it is finally published today, if an article in The Times written by the minister in charge today is anything to go by. One of the biggest changes is the imposition of stake limits for online slots for the first time, with younger players limited to …

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has updated stakeholders on progress related to its statistics, research and data collection on “gambling participation and the prevalence of problem gambling”.  2021 and 2022 saw the Commission task social research agency NatCen and the University of Glasgow with testing a new pilot methodology to improve data collection and statistical analysis on its desired metrics. …

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has this morning charged TGP Europe Limited a penalty totalling £316,250 for failures in anti-money laundering (AML) and social responsibility measures. The Isle of Man-based business, which manages a white-label network of 19 websites, including the sportsbook brands of Fun88, 12Bet, BK8 and Kaiyun, will also receive an official warning and face added conditions to …

The British public’s participation in gambling activity has ‘significantly increased’ as of September 2022, according to the latest statistics of the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC). Total ‘in-person’ participation in betting and gaming (retail betting and land-based casino)  – over the previous four weeks rose to 27%, as reported by the Commission’s latest data report, based on its quarterly telephone survey …

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has cited progress on achieving the priority areas of its new ‘three-year Corporate Strategy’, helping improve the governance of licensed gambling businesses. corp The Commission published its 2021/2022 ‘Annual Report & Accounts (April 2021-March 2022)’ assessing its performance, measures and compliance work to make gambling safer in Britain. The compliance work was undertaken over the …

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has revised the requirements of the Social Responsibility Code Provision on remote customer interactions.  The notification came this afternoon, alerting licensees of changes announced to its April update on new requirements of the Social Responsibility Code Provision “to ensure that remote operators do more to identify customers at risk of harm”. Operators were advised that …

Year-on-year problem gambling rates have continued to decline, according to the latest data sets published by the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) monitoring gambling prevalence.   The latest survey results covering the 12-month period up to June 2022 indicated that general problem gambling rates have further declined from 0.4% in 2021 to 0.2% in 2022. Results were gathered from the Commission’s quarterly …

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has changed its internal policy on the management of licences ‘to make better use of its resources to govern the gambling sector’.    Changes will see the Commission move away from its existing model in which it has assigned a ‘dedicated account manager’ for individual licences. The working model will be replaced by the use of …