‘Department of Trust’ (‘DoTrust’) is the name of a company registered with the UK Financial Conduct Authority (‘FCA’) as an Open Banking Account Information Service Provider Agent. It was founded in 2021 by gaming industry veteran Charles Cohen, co-founder of mobile gambling pioneers Probability plc, who also served as Vice President of Mobile and Sports […]
The Gambling Commission has drawn attention on its website to publication by HM Treasury of an updated advisory notice regarding the risks posed by jurisdictions with unsatisfactory money laundering and terrorist financing controls. It states as follows: HM Treasury have published an advisory notice regarding the risks posed by jurisdictions with unsatisfactory money laundering and […]
On 29 March 2022 a debate on gambling-related harm (opened by Carolyn Harris MP, Chair of the Gambling-Related Harm All Party Parliamentary Group) took place in Westminster Hall. You can: download below: the Debate Pack on the subject of Gambling-Related Harm, published by the House of Commons Library in advance of the debate and a House […]
A ‘Comment’ piece by David Clifton entitled ‘The twists and turns of political rhetoric’ is published in the current (25 March 2022) edition of Coinslot (pictured below), in which David picks up on comments made by Chris Philp MP, the DCMS Minister with responsibility for gambling, in his keynote speech at the Gambling Reform Rally on 9 […]
The Regulatory Sandbox is a service developed by the Information Commissioner’s Office (‘ICO’), to support organisations that are creating products and services which utilise personal data in innovative and safe ways. In November 2020, the Gambling Commission was accepted into the Regulatory Sandbox, the aim of which was to (a) establish whether there is an appropriate […]
Based on fieldwork carried out between 18 November and 14 December 2021, GambleAware has today (23 March 2022) published new research findings, conducted on its behalf by YouGov, estimating that 2.8% of adults in Great Britain (i.e. 1.4 million people) are experiencing gambling harms. This contrasts with the Gambling Commission’s current assessment of problem gambling rates (most […]
In his current monthly ‘Licensing Expert’ article for SBC News, entitled ‘The story behind a tragic story’ (reported by us here), David Clifton concluded that it is inevitable that the Coroner’s conclusions in the inquest into the tragic suicide of Jack Ritchie will feature in the forthcoming debates on gambling law reform following publication of the […]
On 29 December 2021, we reported on a Home Office consultation proposal to relax licensing hours in England and Wales to mark HM The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee on 2 June 2022 On 21 March 2022, the following written statement was made in the House of Commons by Kit Malthouse MP (Minister of State for Crime & […]
Today, 22 March 2022, the Gambling Commission has announced that it has fined Camelot UK Lotteries Limited (‘Camelot’), holder of the Third National Lottery Licence and current operator of the UK’s National Lottery, £3.15million for breaches of licence conditions, linked in each case to Camelot’s National Lottery mobile application. It’s not been a good week for […]
The Betting and Gaming Council has today (21 March 2022) published the following news item on its website in which it once again raises the unsafe, unregulated online gambling black market threat it believes would arise from “well-meaning but naive changes” to regulations as part of the UK Government’s ongoing Gambling Review. INDUSTRY VOWS TO BACK […]
