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The Widely-Publicized Ban on Credit Card Gambling Comes Into Force in the UK As of the 14th of April, 2020, UK players can no longer gamble online using credit cards. The UK Gambling Commission announced that the credit card gambling ban came into force, by issuing an official statement on its...

If you’ve been reading the news, you must have noticed that the gambling industry in the UK is facing many changes. A few weeks ago, UK’s major political parties shared their manifestos promising that gambling in the country will not stay the same, regardless of the election results, with...

UK Cross-Party MPs Request for a £2 Stake Cut to Be Introduced on Online Slots, Too You probably remember the chaos caused by the fixed-odds betting machines stake cut at the beginning of 2019? Giant land-based gambling operators started reporting revenue loss and shop closures. Small...

A Co-Creation Workshop Led by the UKGC Reveals Marketer’s Perspective on Safer Gambling and Marketing We are all well aware that the UK Gambling Commission has been heavily criticised for allowing operators to promote gambling as they did. In 2018, during the football World Cup, there were...

With a clear message, or a warning, depending on how you see it, the UK Gambling Commission announced to have published its Enforcement Report 2018/2019, presenting the industry with a report on how many enforcement measures they had to take in the last 12 months, saying that it would serve as...

For the first time ever in the UK gambling history, online gambling shows an increase while land-based gambling a slight decrease. The UK Gambling Commission has published the report, which gets published twice a year, to inform those interested in the current situation of gambling in the UK...

UKGC Publishes the 2019-2020 Business Plan Which Focuses on Underage and Vulnerable Players’ Protection The UK Gambling Commission has published its 2019-2020 Business Plan a few days ago. Central to the Plan is the vulnerable and underage players’ protection. The Commission outlined the key...

The UK Gambling Commission has published its 54-page report on Gambling Participation for the year of 2018. The Gambling Participation in 2018: Behaviour, Awareness and Attitudes annual report shows that players’ participation in gambling in 2018 has remained stable in comparison with 2017. The...

Undercover investigation discovers that UKGC has been covering for Bet365 for quite some long time, to give losers cash returns on money they’ve lost gambling there. The major gambling watchdog was called toothless following this report since it has remained blind to the Bet365’s breach of...

The UK watchdog has announced new rules regarding ID verification that will take effect on May 7th, 2019. The new rules have been published on the UKGC’s official website, reminding online operators to follow them to the point in order to make gambling fairer and safer. The new rules were...

The UK Gambling Commission has had its hands full over the past few months. They have been issuing all kinds of warnings to operators and some operators have even paid penalties for their irresponsible behaviours. On 31st of January, the last warning was published. The UK Gambling Commission...

UK Gambling Commission has been warning online casino operators to comply with the new rules and updates for several months now. During these past few months, they have been reminding operators about all the updates and changes in the rules for Responsible Gambling and Dispute Resolution and...

UK Gambling Commission Has Fined Paddy Power Betfair £2.2m for Failing to Protect Their Customers The popular UK betting group Paddy Power Betfair has been fined £2.2m by the UK Gambling Commissioner for failing to stop stolen money from being gambled by failing to properly protect their...

Ian Angus, the Programme Director for Consumer Protection has given a speech at the Responsible Marketing for Gambling Operators Conference in London and advised gambling operators to stop ignoring all the signs they get from the public and politics if they want to avoid a gathering storm. He...

The major gambling regulator UK Gambling Commission has announced updates in the rules over customer complaints and the resolving of disputes in order to improve both operators and customers’ gaming time, but more specifically to make sure the operators are treating customers fairly. In most...