Tag Archives: Winning Post

Winning Post: Growth Plan 2023 or gambling on the UK’s future?

SBC News Winning Post: Growth Plan 2023 or gambling on the UK's future?

Regulus Partners dissects the ‘mini-budget’ statement summoned by new Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng, as the closing months of 2022 will reveal the true impact of macro trends on UK gambling as consumers face a winter pinch. For the first time in over a decade, macroeconomic issues are likely to be the dominant drivers of revenue performance in more …

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Winning Post: Knight rides the Rambling Rhodes

SBC News Winning Post: Knight rides the Rambling Rhodes

Regulus Partners reports that Gambling Commission Chief Executive Andrew Rhodes was ambushed by Julian Knight MP on questions related to mandatory affordability checks,  a subject that gambling stakeholders require transparency on the review’s pending technical reforms.  The Gambling Commission found itself under fire once again this week as its chief executive, Andrew Rhodes appeared before the Culture, Media and Sport …

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Winning Post: Can ARC break the tyranny of Studflation…

SBC News Winning Post: Can ARC break the tyranny of Studflation...

Regulus Partners begins its week of industry observations by analysing Arena Racing Company’s (ARC) decision to overhaul its prize-pool structure and points system of its UK racing fixtures. Should ARC’s strategy be executed correctly, the changes adopted may prove to be beneficial for all UK racing stakeholders battling the heritage sport’s visible declines… Arena Racing Company (ARC) has announced some …

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Winning Post: UK Government silent on several key reviews

SBC News Winning Post: UK Government silent on several key reviews

Regulus Partners observes that the UK government has remained silent on several key reviews ahead of the pending publication of its White Paper on Gambling Review recommendations… As with Monty Python’s Spanish Inquisition, it is extremely hard to know when to expect key events in the government’s review of the 2005 Gambling Act. This week’s non-barking dog was the Government …

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Winning Post: Collaboration gone missing on National Strategy to reduce gambling harms

SBC News Winning Post: Collaboration gone missing on National Strategy to reduce gambling harms

In 2019 the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) launched its three-year National Strategy placing stakeholder collaboration at the forefront of minimising gambling harms. Come 2022, Regulus Partners observes that collaboration is no longer a desired discipline as stakeholders pursue individual actions to tackle gambling’s most complex and pressing matter.   Today is the final day of the National Strategy to Reduce …

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Winning Post: Problem Gambling abandons hope of fact-led analysis

SBC News Winning Post: Problem Gambling abandons hope of fact-led analysis

Last week, GambleAware grabbed media headlines, publishing its annual YouGov treatment support survey that contradicted Gambling Commission % figures on disorder rates. Critical of GambleAware’s self-selected research, Regulus Partners warns that the charity has deflected from recognising real progress on treating and detecting gambling disorders.  Even by the standards of recent times, this was an utterly hopeless week for public …

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Winning Post: German gambling adjusts to a new normal

SBC News Winning Post: German gambling adjusts to a new normal

Undertaking a deep dive of German sports betting (omnichannel) and online gaming monthly tax yields since July’s GlüNeuRStV market reform. Regulus Partners uncovers that “as is often the case a critical mass of consumers is proving resilient to bad regulation” – creating a dangerous precedent for all market stakeholders.   The German domestically regulated sportsbetting market recovered in turnover terms in …

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Winning Post: Will New York become US sportsbooks’ rotten apple?

SBC News Winning Post: Will New York become US sportsbooks' rotten apple?

Regulus Partners returns to action this 2022, examining the hazardous playing field of the high tax and compliance New York sportsbook marketplace that made its debut this weekend. Investors and stakeholders await to see how NY’s nine licensed incumbents will proceed in a market that holds a visibly flawed model for participants… While the New Year has been marred by …

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Winning Post: US stats show all the signs of being over-stretched

SBC News Winning Post: US stats show all the signs of being over-stretched

Having reviewed the monthly revenue stats of US wagering’s current ‘big-3’ states New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan. Regulus Partners warns that bonus-inflated metrics are not an effective measure to gauge the total addressable market (TAM) of a disrupted US gambling marketplace… September marks a seasonal return of US sports as well as a Northern hemisphere seasonal uplift in igaming activity. …

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Winning Post: Digging in the Sandbox of privacy

SBC News Winning Post: Digging in the Sandbox of privacy

Last week the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) granted the Gambling Commission its phase-1 sandbox approval to proceed with its Single Customer View (SCV) project.  Despite its GDPR greenlight, Regulus Partners outlines the foreseeable challenges the Commission will face in turning its headline project into reality. Meanwhile, in Manchester, Regulus observes another think-tank ‘echo chamber’ debate on gambling’s regulatory future take …

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