In a public statement (that can be downloaded below), it has been announced by the Gambling Commission today that Sky Betting & Gaming is to pay a penalty package of over £1 million for failing to protect vulnerable Skybet customers who had self-excluded from gambling, with the consequence that: 736 self-excluded customers were able to open […]
In an article for SBC News on the Gambling Commission’s “Online Gambling Review”, David Clifton suggests that it can have come as no surprise that, after all that has happened in recent months, the Commission has announced proposals designed to provide greater protections for children, reduce problem gambling risks to vulnerable customers and act on […]
On 21 March, at Day 1 of SBC Events’ Betting on Football conference 2018 at Chelsea FC’s Stamford Bridge stadium, David Clifton moderated a panel session entitled “Italy – Living without the World Cup”. David is pictured at the left in the below photograph, with his following panel members (left to right): Quirino Mancini, Partner, Tonucci & Partners Francesco […]
The Gambling Commission has today published its Money laundering and terrorist financing risk assessment 2017 highlighting the core and emerging risks associated with each of the gambling sectors within the British licensed gambling industry. The Commission intends that this risk assessment (that can be downloaded below) should “act as a valuable resource for the industry in informing their own ML/TF risk assessments”. […]
The Gambling Commission has today published its “Online Gambling Review” (that can be downloaded below) in which it sets out its “new plans to make gambling online in Britain safer than ever before”. Those plans include: further protecting children by banning operators from providing free-to-play demo games until a consumer’s age has been determined, improving the […]
We have reported previously on the undertakings given by Ladbrokes, William Hill, and PT Entertainment in response to the CMA’s concerns that certain terms in their bonus promotions were likely to be unfair, in breach of consumer protection law, and could mislead their customers. Following a CMA investigation (in collaboration with the Gambling Commission), it has […]
The Industry Group for Responsible Gambling has today announced a further enhancement to the Industry Code for Socially Responsible Advertising (“the Industry Code”). It requires that throughout each television advert a responsible gambling message or a reference to www.begambleaware.org will appear. This provision will come into force at the end of June 2018. The new […]
We have previously provided a link to David Clifton’s article for iGaming Business published last month, entitled “Compliance in the wake of Will Hill failures”. The article (that can now be downloaded below) sets out the basics of what should be done by those who received the Gambling Commission’s warning letter to all UK licensed remote casino […]
In this month’s “Licensing Expert” article for SBC News (that can be downloaded below), David Clifton provides his initial comments on the Gambling Commission’s advice, that was published earlier today, in which it identified a package of measures that – taken together – could “form a coherent strategy for tackling harm in relation to machine play”, that will undoubtedly have a […]
The Gambling Commission has today published its advice to support the Government with its review of gaming machines and social responsibility measures (that can be downloaded below, together with the accompanying letter sent to the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 28 February 2018). In what is a comprehensive package of measures that, taken together, […]
