Gibraltar has submitted its Gambling Act draft for consultation, which will require licensees to have a “sufficient substantive presence” in the jurisdiction. Introducing five objectives for the regulation of gambling in the British oversees territory, the current bill would require interested companies to have a presence in Gibraltar, whilst also looking into the suitability of their owners. The five drafted …
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Mark McGuiness: The Football Pools – Back to the good old days…
Mark McGuiness, Head of Marketing and Casino at The Football Pools, says that global events and the upcoming review of the UK Gambling Act will change how bettors bet, with many consumers looking for big wins from small stakes and with established brands they can trust… You only have to take a quick look at the news headlines to see …
Read More »Dean Akinjobi: Digital sports and music sponsorships provide ‘comprehensive offering’ for betting brands
In line with continuing speculations of a gambling sponsorship ban in sports, a shift beginning to emerge in the market is an increase in digital sports sponsorships across fan sites and influencer channels. Speaking to SBC, Dean Akinjobi, CEO of Football Media, talked of his agency’s partnership with crypto-betting Sportsbet.io which recently brought about a deal with Kenyan rapper King …
Read More »W2: It’s time to actually Know Your Customer
“We cannot make the operators the police,” said W2 founder and CEO Warren Russell, as he called on all key stakeholders within the UK’s igaming industry to work collaboratively to identify problem gambling and become better aware of its real dangers. Russell spoke to SBC News about why KYC checks are not just a task for the onboarding phase and …
Read More »Gambling shirt sponsorship set to be banned in the Premier League
As part of the forthcoming review of the UK Gambling Act, betting and gambling firms are set to be banned from appearing on the front of football shirts, according to a report by Sportsmail. The review will likely see widespread changes to UK gambling advertising regulations, whilst it has it also been reported that the impact of pitchside and television …
Read More »Coalition Against Gambling Ads bus tour aims to place blackout advocates with policy stakeholders
Members of the Coalition Against Gambling Ads (CAGA) a not-for-profit campaign seeking to end all advertising and sponsorships of gambling brands, will embark on its ‘Park the Bus’ tour of Britain this September. The five-day tour, which will commence on Monday 6 September, aims to raise awareness of the devastating consequences of normalising gambling adverts on UK consumers and young …
Read More »GambleAware to fund critical research on ethnic and female gambling harms
GambleAware has called for the launch of two new research projects which will examine the ‘lived experience of gambling harm amongst marginalised communities and women’. The safer gambling research, education and treatment charity will fund each project with an investment of £250,000 to secure deeper insights and new evidence on gambling harm impacts within the two groups. As communicated in …
Read More »AgeChecked and Rdentify to collaborate on breaking at-risk identification barriers
AgeChecked and Rdentify will unify tech and AI capacities to strengthen the ‘identifying of vulnerable customers’ for igaming operators. Forming a new partnership, online ID verification specialist AgeChecked will work with igaming risk assessment software provider Rdentify to develop new comprehensive tools monitoring customer engagements. The alliance will see AgeChecked and Rdentify share tech and engineering resources to improve online …
Read More »Peter Murray: W2 affordability takes central role in the safer gambling arena
The ‘laser-like’ focus of the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) on player protection, combined with the likely compliance updates from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) led review of the UK Gambling Act, could mean that adoption of W2’s new real-time affordability solution becomes vital for the country’s gaming operators. We spoke to W2 Head of Sales Peter …
Read More »W2 releases first real time affordability solution for UK operators
W2 has launched a new real-time affordability check solution to support the needs of operators adapting to evolving compliance guidance from the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC). UKGC guidance requires licensees to put affordability at the heart of their safer gambling commitments for 2021, and will undoubtedly become a central focus in the Gambling Act review, particularly as so many fines …
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