We regularly write articles for industry and legal journals & magazines, including commentaries for Online Gambling Lawyer & iGaming Business, a monthly “Licensing Expert” piece for SBC News and a fortnightly page for Pub & Bar and, with their permission, are reproducing them on our website, together with our own news items and reports on topical issues affecting the leisure and gambling industries.

Industry reaction to Entain paying £17m to the UKGC over social responsibility and AML failures

Comments by David Clifton feature in an EGR Compliance article entitled ‘Industry reaction to Entain paying £17m to the UKGC over social responsibility and AML failures’, carrying the sub-heading ‘As the UK’s gambling watchdog enforces its largest ever censure of an operator, how was the news greeted around the sector?’. You can find full details […]

Record £17million payment to be made to the UKGC following AML and social responsibility failings by Entain

The Gambling Commission has today (17 August 2022) announced a regulatory settlement involving the largest payment ever made by a UK licensed gambling operator in lieu of a financial penalty. The operator is Entain Group which will pay a total of £17million (to be directed towards socially responsible purposes), made up of: LC International Limited […]

Smarkets (Malta) Limited fined £630,000 for AML and social responsibility failings

The Gambling Commission has announced that remote betting intermediary, Smarkets (Malta) Limited has incurred the following sanctions after a review of its operating licence disclosed anti-money laundering and social responsibility failings: a warning under section 117(1)(a) of the Gambling Act 2005 in respect of the breaches identified an additional condition has been attached to its […]

UKGC publishes ‘market impact data on gambling behaviour – operator data to June 2022’

The Gambling Commission has published its ‘Market impact data on gambling behaviour – operator data to June 2022’ (that you can download below) Market impact data on gambling behaviour – operator data to June 2022 The Gambling Commission has published further data showing how gambling behaviour is reacting to current environmental factors in Great Britain. […]

ASA ruling underlines that ads must not suggest gambling is a way to solve financial concerns and achieve financial security

In a ruling published yesterday (3 August 2022), the Advertising Standards Authority has upheld a complaint in relation to an in-app ad for a mobile app casino game (prepared by an affiliate organisation for Rank Digital Gaming (Alderney) Limited) suggesting that gambling was a way to solve financial concerns and achieve financial security. By reason of […]

LeoVegas fined £1.32million for AML and social responsibility failings

The Gambling Commission has today (3 August 2022) announced that on 11 July 2002 it imposed a £1.32million penalty on Malta-based remote gambling operator LeoVegas Gaming PLC, following an operating licence review finding that between October 2019 and October 2020 LeoVegas: breached paragraphs 2 and 3 of licence condition 12.1.1. Anti-Money Laundering (AML) – Prevention of money […]

Affordability needs ‘greater clarity’

We reported yesterday (28 July 2022) on a GamblingTV article entitled: ‘Affordability and data likely to be at the heart of gambling reform’ which refers to an interview it had conducted with David Clifton (at SBC Events’ Betting on Sports Europe Conference 2022, held at Twickenham Stadium on 8-9 June) on the subject of ‘the rising importance of affordability in […]