Business
November 22, 2021
Bragg’s Oryx Gaming Granted UK Supplier License
Bragg Gaming Group announced today Oryx Gaming, a company under the group’s umbrella, received a supplier license in the UK to allow the group to expand its global footprint. Unmatched Size and Maturity The supplier license awarded to Oryx Gaming by the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) was hailed as a significant milestone for the listed […]
Industry
November 22, 2021
United Kingdom’s Gambling Commission Proposes Changes to Its Policies
The Gambling Commission of the United Kingdom launched a consultation where it described upcoming changes in its policies. The proposed change of rules will affect compliance activities, regulatory enforcement, licensing and risk assessments. The Proposed Changes One of the envisioned changes seeks to speed up the enforcement process. Because transparency is important to the regulator, […]
Industry
November 18, 2021
BGC Praises Facebook Feature That Allows Consumers to Opt out of Gambling Ads
The Betting and Gaming Council has commended Facebook for its decision to shore up responsible gambling practices and introduce an “opt-out” feature added in to allow consumers to automatically filter gambling content, such as betting advertisements. This comes shortly after Reset Australia offered scathing criticism of the social media giant, which it accused of scraping children’s data to fuel predatory “stalker […]
Business
November 18, 2021
Flutter Strengthens Bingo Portfolio with Tombola Acquisition
Flutter Entertainment is set to pay $542.90 million to acquire Tombola, a bingo gaming company that has been generating robust financial results over the past years. The owner of Paddy Power, Betfair, and FanDuel revealed the acquisition on Thursday, looking to secure another high-value asset to its portfolio. Flutter Acquires Bingo Company Tombola Flutter is confident […]
Industry
November 17, 2021
Safer Gambling Week Reaches 25M People
This year’s edition of Safer Gambling Week, a cross-industry initiative to promote safer gambling in the United Kingdom and Ireland, took place between November 1 and November 7 and had a remarkable engagement. Safer Gambling Week Scores Record Impressions According to statistics, the initiative’s online campaign has seen impressive growth across all social media outlets it has a […]
Industry
November 12, 2021
GambleAware Funds $335K Research for Women Problem Gambling
GambleAware has committed another $335,000 that will go directly to fund research that gauges the experience of women with gambling and gambling-related harm. The grant has been awarded to an IFF Social Research Agency team led by Kelsey Beninger. The research will be carried out in collaboration with University of Bristol professor of human geography […]
Legal
November 11, 2021
PGMBM Seeks to File Class-Action Lawsuit in Sky Betting Case
A London-based law firm may be looking to bring action against betting firm and online casino operator Sky Betting and Gaming, citing prohibited advertising as the basis of future litigation. The firm, PGMBM, is looking into the possibility of filing a class-action lawsuit on behalf of 120,000 people who mistakenly received a gambling advertisement by […]
Industry
November 11, 2021
As UK Betting Laws are Set to Change, Politicians Are Receiving Donations
As records reveal, gambling companies have given a lot of money as donations to UK MPs and even hired two Members of Parliament as advisors just before historical changes are set to be made to UK’s Gambling Act. As the planned review of the Act is set to start, companies have been accused by campaigners […]
Casino
November 10, 2021
Gambling Companies to Return $1.5M in Healthcare Embezzlement Case
The United Kingdom recently sentenced a general practitioner to three years and four months in prison after he had been found out to have siphoned off approximately $1.5 million from a healthcare organization to fuel his short spell of gambling. In the wake of the discoveries and Dr Rumi Chhapia’s sentence, the gambling companies that […]
Legal
November 9, 2021
Former Horse Data Analyst Sentenced for Fudging Wagering Results
Jack Bentham, a recovering gambling addict and a former horse racing analyst at PA Media, has been sentenced to ten months in prison after he was found guilty of manipulating race data to better reflect his own picks. Effectively, he robbed bettors, who had placed winning bets, of their proceedings by altering the data to […]