The Local Government Association (“LGA”) has published advice for licensing authorities entitled “Approaches to managing licensing and related issues during the COVID-19 pandemic” (that you can download below). The LGA states as follows on its website: This note provides a summary of issues councils’ licensing teams and others have raised with the Local Government Association (LGA) […]
David Clifton will be moderating the “Brand Control – Working with Affiliates” panel session during the Digital Marketing Day at the SBC Digital Summit between 11.20am and 12.00pm on Friday 1 May 2020. Discussing with David how tight a rein operators need to hold when it comes to their marketing partners, his panellists will be: Eitan […]
The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that ads: seen on 17 September 2019 on a media screen at the Betting on Sports trade show, featuring the claim “The Biggest Jackpots” and a press ad, seen in the iGaming Times and Gambling Insider in September 2019, featuring the claim “#1 World’s Live-Games Provider” did not allow businesses or […]
The credit card ban for all forms of remote gambling (ie betting, gaming and lotteries) and for non-remote betting – announced by the UK Gambling Commission on 14 January 2020 (as previously reported by us here) – has come into effect today, 14 April 2020. Under the heading “Protecting the safety of consumers is at the heart of today’s credit […]
Following on from its 30 March 2020 call to consumers to “Report a Coronavirus related ad”, the Advertising Standards Authority has now published the following “Gambling Advertising and Lockdown” warning on its website: The conduct of the online gambling industry, including the nature and frequency of its advertising, is under particular scrutiny during this period of […]
The following comments by David Clifton feature in an article entitled “Online opportunity could quickly turn to threat, analysts warn” on page 4 of the April 2020 edition of iGamingTimes: Whilst cancellation of sporting events has been a catastrophe for the betting sector, the opportunity to convert customers to virtual sports and casino games has been quickly […]
The Gambling Commission has today (8 April 2020) published on its website the reasons for its suspension (for AML and social responsibility failings) of the operating licence of Triplebet Limited trading as “Matchbook”. We previously reported on that suspension here. In its website posting, the Commission explains the current position as follows: Triplebet operated a betting […]
As has been anticipated, the Betting and Gaming Council has now taken over the work previously undertaken by the Senet Group, save that management of the retail betting shops multi-operator self exclusion scheme (“MOSES”) will continue as an independent organisation The BGC has made the following announcement on its website: The Betting and Gaming Council […]
In their article for the April 2020 edition of Pub & Bar magazine entitled “Coronavirus Report for Pubs and Bars” (that has been published today 6 April 2020), David Clifton and Suzanne Davies have updated their “Coronavirus legal guidance – the do’s and don’ts” article published online by Pub & Bar on 16 March 2020. Their article […]
As anticipated by us, the Gambling Commission has suspend the operating licences of two online gambling operators – Dynamic (t/a Prophet) and Sportito – for failing to participate in GAMSTOP by 31 March 2020 in accordance with LCCP Social Responsibility code provision 3.5.5. The Commission’s announcement in this respect (that you can download below), published today (3 […]
