We have previously reported (on 7 June 2022) on a Westminster Hall debate on the question of a Statutory Gambling Levy to fund problem gambling research, education and treatment. It is interesting therefore to read comments on this same subject-matter made by Lee Willows (Founder and former CEO of Young Gamers & Gamblers Education Trust (YGAM) […]
It was announced yesterday (17 June 2022) that included within the outcomes of the FATF Plenary held between 14 and 17 June are the following: Gibraltar has been added to the FATF ‘grey list’ of jurisdictions under increased monitoring, meaning that it has committed to resolve swiftly identified strategic anti-money laundering and counter terrorist […]
Paddy Power has for a very long time had a reputation for injecting humour into its advertising campaigns. However, this has sometimes failed to find the approval of the Advertising Standards Authority. A previous example of this was the ASA’s 8 May 2019 ruling upholding complaints that an ad featuring Rhodri Giggs (brother of former […]
Gambling Commission CEO, Andrew Rhodes, delivered the following keynote speech yesterday (13 June 2022) at the Westminster Media Forum ‘Next Steps for UK Gambling Regulation’ Conference, chaired by Ronnie Moncur MP (Vice-Chair of the Gambling Related Harm APPG): Hello everyone and thank you to Ronnie for Chairing this morning’s session. I would also like to […]
Following earlier work seeking to understand why people gamble, and its wider Consumer Voice research, the Gambling Commission has now published research findings that focus on building understanding of “what the typical consumer journey looks like, from the beginning of a gambling interaction to the end”. Entitled ‘Understanding Consumer Journeys: Introducing the Path to Play’, […]
The following ‘Remit Statement’ has today been published as a ‘CAP News’ item on the Advertising Standards Authority (‘ASA’) website, arising from questions raised by research over the extent to which the ASA’s remit covers gambling provider communications in social media content marketing. It records agreement between the ASA and the Gambling Commission that: The ASA will […]
On 7 June 2022, a Westminster Hall debate (opened by Labour MP Liz Twist) took place on the subject of the impact of the collapse of Football Index. We have previously reported extensively on this subject-matter, including in our posting entitled ‘Football Index operating licence suspended (plus a summary of what led up to that […]
Yesterday (8 June 2022), GambleAware published a report containing findings from ‘Patterns of Play’ research that it had commissioned. The ‘Patterns of Play’ study: was carried out by researchers from NatCen and Professor David Forrest and Professor Ian McHale (University of Liverpool), took into account data from 139,152 online gambling accounts, provided by seven major operators […]
FATF has published a follow-up report (that you can download below) analysing the UK’s progress in addressing technical compliance deficiencies identified in its 2018 Mutual Evaluation Report, on which we previously reported here. Summarising its findings, FATF states: Since the 2018 assessment of the United Kingdom’s measures to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing, the country […]
Yesterday (7 June 2022) a Westminster Hall debate took place on the question of a Statutory Gambling Levy to fund problem gambling research, education and treatment. The House of Commons Library debate pack, published ahead of the debate (on 26 May 2022), stated as follows: The Gambling Act 2005 regulates gambling in Great Britain. The […]
