Ampersand is Clarion Gaming’s “global think-tank initiative”, a free-to-join research and knowledge sharing initiative for the global gaming industry. Over 2,000 industry professionals participate in regular Ampersand online surveys and meetings, share best practice and learn from one another. David Clifton attended the Ampersand London Assembly on 30 October 2019. He is pictured below (on the […]
As we have previously reported, two changes to the Gambling Commission’s Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice have come into force today, namely: changes to provisions relating to alternative resolution providers (ADR) – in relation to which an up to date list of approved ADR providers can be found on the Commission’s website here – and […]
The agenda in the highly topical and very well-attended Safeguarding Standards conference (that we co-hosted with Valletta-based boutique law firm City Legal in Malta earlier this month) was dominated by the same gambling sector issues – AML, affordability, social responsibility/customer interactions, responsible gambling – that featured in yesterday’s ARQ Gaming Compliance Forum in Malta. The keynote speaker at yesterday’s conference was Neil McArthur, CEO […]
The Gambling Commission has updated its ‘Available for use’ guidance (that can be downloaded below) to make it clear that, for the purpose of calculating the category B gaming machine entitlement in gambling premises, gaming machines should only be counted if they can be played simultaneously by different players without physical hindrance. In so doing, it warns […]
This year – on 12 November 2019 at 2pm GMT – GamblingCompliance will be supporting Responsible Gambling Week 2019 by hosting a webinar entitled “How can gambling operators responsibly manage VIPs?”, that will address the developing political and regulatory approaches to VIP gambling, and examine how operators can responsibly manage their high value players. This is a highly topical issue given that, to quote GamblingCompliance’s own words: “VIPs […]
The Gambling Commission has today published the 2019 Young People & Gambling survey (that you can download below) that looks at: gambling trends of 11 – 16-year-olds in Great Britain and those forms of gambling and gambling style games that young people legally take part in, along with gambling on age restricted products. The Commission makes […]
To help raise awareness of the service it provides, GamStop – the UK’s online gambling self-exclusion scheme – has produced an animation that you can access on YouTube here. More information about GamStop can be found on its website. You can also access via the links below our previous website postings on the subject of GamStop: GamStop advance registration is […]
Coinciding with publication of a report into online gaming entitled “Gaming the system” (that can be downloaded below), the Children’s Commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, has today called for (a) changes to gambling legislation so that ‘loot boxes’ are classified as gambling and (b) games distributed online to become subject to a legally enforceable age-rating system, as is the […]
The Gambling Commission has reported on its website on a further co-creation workshop, this time focusing on “challenges and opportunities in marketing and safer gambling”. It cites as the background to this workshop the rise in complaints about the sheer volume of gambling adverts during the 2018 football World Cup, with particular reference to “the amount of […]
It has been announced that the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) is to commission research into the operation and impact of the Late Night Levy in London, including analysis of crime and antisocial behaviour. The intention is that this will ensure that future GLA policies, guidance and consultation responses to local authorities, or the […]
