Sports
February 28, 2022
Spotlight, Paddy Power Create New Cheltenham Morning Show
Spotlight Sports Group announced a new live morning show created in collaboration with Paddy Power. Racing Fans to Enjoy New Live Morning Show during 2022 Cheltenham Festival The leading technology, content, and media company, Spotlight Sports Group (SSG), announced that it plans to launch a new live morning show. The show will run throughout the […]
Industry
February 24, 2022
UKGC Fines BV Gaming $2.68M, Cites Mitigating Factors
BetVictor, the trade name of BV Gaming, has become the latest operator in the British gambling market to come under scrutiny and subsequent penalty by the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC). BV Gaming also owns Parimatch.com and Heart Bingo. The regulator has issued a £2 million ($2.68 million) penalty on BV Gaming in what the watchdog […]
Sports
February 23, 2022
Southampton FC Launches ‘The Bitcoin Hunt’ Alongside Sportsbet
Southampton Football Club will celebrate its continued partnership with its main club partner, the crypto sports betting platform Sportsbet.io, by hosting a treasure-hunt-styled event with a whole Bitcoin on the line. The Bitcoin Hunt Begins The competition is fittingly called The Bitcoin Hunt and will see participants go through a variety of challenges as they […]
Industry
February 23, 2022
Low6 Picks Sporting Minds UK as Its Charity of 2022
Sports technology company Low6 has teamed up with Sporting Minds UK in a bid to raise awareness for organizations that are making meaningful and positive changes in sports. A particular focus of the collaboration, and the charity, is to encourage and nurture positive mental health in sport, an industry that has known to face challenges […]
Industry
February 22, 2022
British Gambling Perception Shifting After Five Years of Worsening Attitude
A survey by the Gambling Commission suggests the British perception of gambling is improving for the first time in the last five years when the first survey was initiated. After subsequent years of worsening public attitudes, respondents who were surveyed by phone recorded statistically-significant improvements in their views on gambling. Gambling Commission’s Surveys Study Gambling […]
Industry
February 22, 2022
The LGA and APCC Appeal for Tougher Regulations on UK Gambling
The Local Government Association and the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners are appealing for tougher regulations on the gambling industry amid gambling harm concerns. They hope that this will be taken into mind in the 2005 Gambling Act review. Councils Should be Able to Choose Which Venues to Greenlight The concerns stem from recent research that concluded […]
Business
February 21, 2022
Playtech CEO Weizer Willing to Join Investors behind TTB Partners
British gambling software maker Playtech continues to be making the headlines after an official statement today revealed its chief executive officer and a former director are willing to join the group of investors behind the latest candidate to acquire the company. CEO Backs Potential Buyers Playtech stated chief executive officer Mor Weizer and former company […]
Industry
February 21, 2022
Betting and Gaming Council Report Shows Fallacy of Over-regulation
Governments and regulators continue to turn the screws on the clamps holding down the regulated gambling industry. As they do, they are inadvertently allowing the size of the unregulated market to grow. This is the revelation of a new report conducted by the Betting and Gaming Council (BGC), which shows that offshore gambling across Europe […]
Industry
February 21, 2022
UK MPs Are Flooded with Freebies Ahead of the Gambling Act Review
Betting operators in the UK have flooded MPs with around £100,000 ($136,000) in freebies as the review of the Gambling Act of 2005 is about to begin. As the Daily Mail reports, rumors are now circulating that the operators are basically trying to buy some friends in the Parliament to rule in favor of the […]
Industry
February 21, 2022
NHS Confirms to Stop Accepting Money from Gambling Industry
The National Health Service has confirmed that it will no longer accept payments and financial assistance by gambling firms to fund treatment services. This comes as the NHS launches two new clinics to treat addiction in Southampton and Stoke-On-Trent. NHS mental health director Claire Murdoch confirmed the news with GambleAware, an NGO that has been […]