Comments by David Clifton are featured in an EGR Intel article entitled ‘Fine with that: Are the UKGC’s punishments befitting of operators’ shortcomings?’. The subheading to the article reads as follows: “Three major firms were fined a total of £13.7m by the UKGC in the space of 22 days in March, and with more potentially […]
At 3.30pm on Tuesday 28 June 2022, David Clifton will have the pleasure of moderating an affordability-focused panel session at KnowNow’s ‘Compliance Forum’, being held at Etc Venues County Hall, London. The session is entitled: ‘A practical conversation about affordability models, what operators are doing and what solutions are available to help us with the […]
Yesterday (18 May 2022), the Gambling Commission published operator data: reflecting the period between March 2020 and March 2022 inclusive and covering online and in-person gambling with data from Licensed Betting Operators (LBOs) found on Britain’s high streets that shows, by way of quarter on quarter comparisons, how gambling behaviour has been reacting to (a) […]
David Clifton will be speaking on Day 2 of SBC Events’ Betting on Sports Europe Conference 2022, taking place at the Home of English Rugby, Twickenham Stadium, London. His panel session is at 10am on Thursday 9 June in the ‘CR1 – Betting Around Europe’ stream. Entitled ‘UK and the gambling reformation – time to […]
The Advertising Standards Authority has today (19 May 2022) published its Annual Report 2021 (a copy of which you can download below), in which it states as follows in relation to the introduction (with effect from 1 October 2022) by the Committee for Advertising Practice of ‘tough new rules’ to ‘curb broad appeal of gambling ads and […]
A brief House of Lords debate on ‘Gambling Reforms’ took place during the afternoon of 17 May 2022, a transcript of which is available on Hansard here. Possibly the most noteworthy points arising were: the comment by Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (on behalf of the Government) that “Public Health England’s evidence review did not find […]
There has been a flurry of announcements today, 17 May 2022, emanating from the Gambling Commission relating to regulatory enforcement action taken against three of its remote operating licence holders: As reported by the Commission here, the following operators will pay a total of £675,000 to the National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms in regulatory settlements […]
An iGB article entitled ‘Gambling Commission CEO Rhodes calls for new mindset on affordability’ (published on 16 May 2022) contains some interesting comments on four topical areas of interest for the industry, attributed to the Gambling Commission’s CEO, Andrew Rhodes. Affordability: One of the issues we’ve got at the moment …. is a lot of […]
On 11 May 2022, Andrew Rhodes, CEO of the Gambling Commission, spoke at the AGM of the Bingo Association. Disappointingly (and somewhat unusually), the Commission has failed to publish that speech in full. Instead it has published on its website merely a brief summary of the speech (that you can download below). Wholly unilluminating, the […]
Michael Dugher, CEO of the Betting and Gaming Council, shows no sign of stepping back from the BGC’s ‘ding-dong’ war of words with the Gambling Commission on the subject of the illegal online black market gambling threat. We have reported on this topic at various times over the last two years, culminating in our most […]
