Player Protection

Unibet has become the first operator in France to offer Gamban’s blocking software to its customers, after parent company Kindred Group signed a partnership with the safer gambling solutions provider.  Kindred sponsored Gamban’s tranformation for French customers. The platform was previously unavailable in the French language – in order to boost the accessibility and reach of the software, which will …

GamCare has reaffirmed its support of the national Talk Money Week 2022 (#TalkMoney / 7-to-11 November) campaign of the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS).  Every November, MaPS, a unit of the Department for Work and Pensions, encourages the British public to seek open advice on their personal finances. The campaign seeks to provide those concerned about money issues with better …

EPIC Risk Management has reported significant progress in delivering its player protection programme against gambling harms for students, in a deal with the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA). As sports betting continues to be legalised in more than 30 states, colleges and universities across the US in all three NCAA divisions are improving student-athletes’ awareness of the risks and potential …

Danielle Smith has joined EPIC Risk Management as Director of Operations, following a 13-year career in the British Army, specialising in legal matters.  The former Military Police officer served as a staff officer, conducting ‘a lot of HR-focused work’ in personnel and policy as well as investigative work – the consultancy expects the new hire to bring ‘military precision’ to …

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has alerted stakeholders of changes to its upcoming “Young People and Gambling” report, due to be published on 10 November.  Since 2011, the Commission has surveyed 11 to 16-year-olds’ involvement in gambling as a key assessment of market safeguards to protect children from being harmed or exploited by gambling. However, since 2020, the regulator has …

Kindred Group has announced a first-of-kind initiative with Swedish state-owned monopolies ATG and Svenska Spel that will see the companies publish data on metrics related to Swedish problem gambling.  The Trio, which accounts for more than half of Sweden’s regulated gambling marketplace, seeks to “contribute to a facts-based dialogue on what is being done to reduce gambling harm”. The initiative …

GamCare has revealed that the number of calls to its National Gambling Helpline increased during 2021/22, citing economic instability and rising living costs.  The  charity published its annual report for 2021/22, which covers the 12 month period ending 31 March of this year, detailing its findings and operations over the past 365 days. Regarding the helpline, one of GamCare’s primary …

GG.BET has partnered with Torte de Lini – an active member in the esports scene – aiming to grow and develop the gaming community. Under the terms of this sponsorship deal,  Torte de Lini  (full name of Michael Yossef Cohen-Palacio) will keep on maintaining guides and take part in creating exclusive Dota 2 content.  Furthermore, the guidemaker will also take …

Flutter Entertainment has secured GamCare’s Advanced Safer Gambling Standard for three of its primary betting and gaming brands. The Paddy Power, Sky Betting and Gaming and Betfair ‘online focused’ sportsbook and casino operators, oriented towards the UK and Irish markets, received the accreditation following an assessment. Specifically, the gambling treatment charity and industry standards organisation granted Flutter the Gold Advanced …

GambleAware has highlighted key recommendations and feedback made by Bournemouth University on “How to Create Safer Online Gambling” environments  Bournemouth University was commissioned by GambleAware to provide independent research on how operators delivered effective and engaging safer gambling messages to customers. The research was further tasked with evaluating the transparency of messages when operators provide information to customers.  Insights were …