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The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) will launch a new stakeholder consultation reviewing penalties for regulatory breaches and exploring how to improve operator accountability across gambling businesses.  The decision was announced by Senior UKGC Policy Director Tim Miller, speaking at Wednesday’s CMS Tax/Law Gambling Conference in London. Miller stated that planned reviews ‘should come as no surprise”, as the Commission has …

Camelot UK’s High Court challenge of the Fourth National Lottery Licence Competition could cost the UK government £600m in damages – should the lawsuit deem the competition as an unfair outcome.  The operating steward of the National Lottery since its 1994 inception, Camelot refuses to accept the ruling of the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) to award its next 10-year operating …

 The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has been allowed to proceed with awarding the National Lottery’s operating contract to Allwyn Entertainment UK. In May, Camelot UK – the incumbent operating firm of the National Lottery – had filed a High Court lawsuit against the UKGC awarding the Fourth National Lottery licence to Allwyn – which had been chosen as the ‘Preferred …

Speculation continues to mount on the pending outcomes of the government’s review of the UK gambling sector, whose White Paper of Recommendations has been pushed back to July, by DCMS. This morning, The Times and Daily Mail reported that PM Boris Johnson will maintain his 2019 General Election pledge of imposing significant curbs on the online gambling sector, needed to …

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 …

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has issued new guidance to help operators match new consumer protection requirements that will be introduced as of 12 September. The guidance follows the Commission’s April update that announced a raft of new procedures ‘ensure online gambling businesses do more to identify and taken action to protect customers at risk of harm’. Licensed operators must …

Gambling With Lives has publicly called-out UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) Chief Executive Andrew Rhodes for finding no time to communicate with the families bereaved by gambling suicide.  The Charity that seeks a root-and-branch reform of UK gambling focused on suicide prevention told the Daily Mail that Rhodes had made no attempt to engage with families of suicides attributed to gambling …

 The Advertising Standards Association (ASA) has issued further guidance on the rules applied to ‘content marketing’ of gambling services/products on social media and other digital channels. The guidance was published as a ‘remit statement’ responding to queries by operators, related to its 2021 “CAP Code on marketing communications appearing on websites, apps and cross-border platforms”. Questions were raised as to …

GambleAware has revealed that participation and spend on gaming products are disproportionately concentrated in the most deprived areas of Great Britain. This conclusion came as the charity revealed its commissioned Patterns of Play study, carried out by researchers from NatCen and Professor David Forrest and Professor Ian McHale, from the University of Liverpool.  The data from the research includes 139,152 …

January 2019 famously saw the introduction of the gambling advertising ban in Italy, with forecasts of the disaster that would befall the industry if similar prohibitions spread across Europe. The following year a new Royal Decree on Commercial Communications imposing strict limitations on gambling advertising in Spain was approved by the European Commission. Only the COVID-19 pandemic has delayed its …