We regularly write articles for industry and legal journals & magazines, including commentaries for Online Gambling Lawyer & iGaming Business, a monthly “Licensing Expert” piece for SBC News and a fortnightly page for Pub & Bar and, with their permission, are reproducing them on our website, together with our own news items and reports on topical issues affecting the leisure and gambling industries.

David Clifton comments on Sky Bet’s affiliate hub closure

David Clifton and others from the Betting on Sports 2017 panel in which he is participating next Wednesday are quoted in an SBC News article entitled “Sky Bet’s affiliate hub closure due to increasingly tough enforcement stances” that can also be downloaded below. Our own further comment on this issue can be found here.

Top five compliance tips for society lotteries

The Gambling Commission has published its “top five compliance tips” for licensed society lotteries to minimise the risk of what it calls “lottery compliance gaffs that are putting fundraisers at risk of breaking the law”. The five tips are set out in a guidance note (that can also be downloaded below) and they are headed: […]

Just the first of many affiliate marketing programme closures?

Sky Betting & Gaming has announced that it has closed its affiliate marketing programme, citing “growing regulatory requirements”. The need to comply with all such regulatory requirements was the central theme of David Clifton’s August Licensing Expert article for SBC News. Whether this is just the first of many such affiliate programme closures will be a key topic […]

David Clifton to speak at Compliance Briefing: London

  As reported in Gambling Insider today under the heading “Heavyweight Legal Experts confirmed for Compliance Briefing: London 2017” and similarly last month in iGaming Business (both downloadable below), David Clifton will be speaking at the Compliance Briefing: London 2017 conference being held at County Hall, London on 12 October 2017. Key topics will include implications of the […]

OFSI launches annual Frozen Assets Review

On 4 September 2017, HM Treasury launched its annual Frozen Assets Review. OFSI’s Financial Sanctions Notice on this subject can be downloaded below. As in previous years, all individuals, organisations and businesses holding frozen assets will have until Friday 13 October 2017 to report them to the Treasury’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI). Reporting […]

How to calculate Remote Gaming Duty on freeplays

HMRC has published guidance (that can also be downloaded below) to assist remote gambling operators to find out which online gambling free games and bonuses offered by them are liable to tax, and how to calculate their liability for accounting periods beginning after 31 July 2017. You can read our last post on this subject here.

Gambling behaviour in Great Britain in 2015

The Gambling Commission has published a report that provides a comprehensive analysis of gambling across the whole of Great Britain. It examines the rates of participation, at-risk gambling and problem gambling, and explores their associated characteristics and behaviours. The report can be downloaded below. Its headline findings are: 1.4% of gamblers were classed as problem gamblers (0.8% of […]

Don’t gamble on your affiliates

In this month’s “Licensing Expert” article for SBC News (that can be downloaded below), David Clifton focuses on the fact that licensed gambling operators can be left carrying the can for failings by their affiliates not only under the Gambling Commission’s LCCP but otherwise. He recommends that marketing teams within such operators’ businesses spend a bit of time […]