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The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) will apply new rules on gambling incentives and promotional wording to ensure UK licences apply safe and fair terms for consumers.   New measures include changes to end harmful marketing practices and improve consumer understanding of bonus offers and terms used, which the Commission previously detailed as an outstanding concern.  Following a consultation, the Commission will …

UK gambling will move forward to implement new controls, empowering trust and transparency for online consumers, to be applied from 31 October 2025. New controls have been added by the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) to the Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice (LCCP), continuing to apply the recommended reforms of the Gambling Review’s White Paper: High stakes: gambling reform for …

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has launched the third consultation on proposals to make gambling in Britain safer and fairer, as recommended by the White Paper of the Gambling Act Review. The third consultation will run for a period of 16 weeks, from 29 January 2025 to 20 May 2025. The Commission seeks feedback on the technical standards and testing …

Tim Miller, Executive Director of the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC), has said that the financial services industry is more than capable of helping in the fight against problem gambling. The comments were made during the launch event of the Gambling Harms Action Lab (GHAL), the idea for which was first conceived in 2019 with the Commission’s National Strategy to Reduce …

Tim Miller, the Executive Director of the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC), urged more operators to sign up to the industry’s proprietary safer gambling tool GamProtect.  The Director gave a speech during GamProtect’s launching event earlier this week, where he praised the collaborative efforts to bring the initiative to life since the idea was first put on the table back in …

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 announced that it will proceed with the next steps to implement affordability checks on remote gambling operators. The decision was announced this afternoon by Tim Miller, Executive Director of Policy Development for the Gambling Commission. Affordability checks were deemed a key protection needed to “identify and take action for customers who may be financially …

As the end of February approaches, speculation mounts on how the UK government will proceed to apply financial risk checks and staking limits as part of the Gambling Review, which remains under its White Paper consultation phase. Attention turns to the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) carrying out its seven White Paper consultations in 2024, examining technical elements related to: “Socially …

Tim Miller reflected on the journey and the scale of work undertaken on the UK Gambling Act review and its subsequent White Paper consultations as the most comprehensive examination of a gambling market undertaken by a regulatory agency. Many believe that the process of the Gambling Review had been triggered before the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) …

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has launched its second round of consultations to review the proposals outlined in the Gambling Review’s White Paper Seeking feedback from all gambling stakeholders, the next phase of the consultation will run for 12 weeks, implying a deadline of 21 February 2024. The second set of consultations on proposals contained in the White Paper calls for …