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.

UK’s Voluntary Betting Ad Ban Faces Restart Test

David Clifton is quoted in an OnlineBettingSites.com article entitled “UK’s Voluntary Betting Ad Ban Faces Restart Test” (that you can download below). The article focuses on the 27 April 2020 announcement by the Betting and Gaming Council that as soon as possible but, in any event no later than today (7 May 2020), all BGC […]

FSB Technology regulatory settlement operates as a stern warning to other white label providers

The Gambling Commission has today (6 May 2020) announced that a regulatory settlement has been concluded with FSB Technology (UK) Limited (“FSB”) that is to pay £600,000 for advertising, money laundering and social responsibility failings, as well as having additional conditions imposed on its operating licence that require it: before entering a relationship with a third-party partner, […]

BGC fights its members’ corner in PoliticsHome article

Authoring an article entitled “During the coronavirus, BGC is working hard to make gambling safer” in PoliticsHome, Betting & Gaming Council CEO Michael Dugher has written as follows: Prohibitionists may be using Covid-19 to kick the gambling industry, but thanks to the action we’ve taken, fears are unfounded and standards are on the up. From the very […]

Forthcoming relaxation of remote key equipment requirements confirmed

We have reported previously on the Gambling Commission’s consultation on remote key equipment that ran from 30 January to 26 March 2020. The Commission has now published its “Consultation responses” (that you can download below) in which it confirms that it intends to implement both proposals from the end of July 2020, namely:  removal of licence condition […]

Use of technology to achieve safer gambling goals

Comments by David Clifton are included in an EGR article entitled “Technology, the regulators and the player journey”, in which the author of the article, Scott Longley addresses the question “With operators under increasing pressure from regulators over how they monitor and police customer journeys, could the adoption of new technological tools such as machine learning and AI […]

It’s just good business to be fully compliant

David Clifton’s panel session today (1 May 2020) for the SBC Digital Summit – “Brand Control – Working with Affiliates” – is featured in a CasinoBeats article entitled “Marcos Oliveira – It’s just good business to be fully compliant” that you can download below. That title reflects a comment to that effect during the session by Marcos Oliveira, chief affiliate […]

UKGC appoints four new commissioners

The UK Gambling Commission has today (1 May 2020) announced the appointment of four new commissioners. Its announcement reads as follows: New commissioner appointments at the Gambling Commission Four new Commissioners have been appointed to the Gambling Commission with immediate effect. Terry Babbs, Brian Bannister, Jo Hill and Sir Martin Narey have been appointed by […]

Better the devil you know ….

David Clifton’s current monthly Licensing Expert article for SBC News – entitled “Better the devil you know ….” summarises key regulatory developments affecting the gambling industry since the start of the COVID-19 lockdown in the UK, with a particular focus on marketing and advertising of gambling, including: the long-awaited “Final Synthesis Report: The Effect of Gambling Marketing and Advertising on Children, […]