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To celebrate the King’s Coronation, the Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) has decided to make a huge donation to charities, with major UK bookmakers also participating in the event. The funds, which will be donated to beneficiaries will be generated through the feature handicap Britannia Stakes race, which will be held at this year’s Royal Ascot on June 22. Among the beneficiaries, there are organisations like SportsAid, which is under the patronage of Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, the Ascot Racecourse Supports, Cystic Fibrosis Trust, Holocaust Educational Trust,…

Earlier today, the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) announced that PPB Counterparty Service Limited, t/a Paddy Power and Betfair, is issued a £490,000 fine for sending promotional content to vulnerable consumers. The UK gambling regulator revealed that customers who had self-excluded received a push notification on the operator’s app, promoting enhanced odds on a football match from the English Premier League. Paddy Power and Betfair Operator to Pay a Fine Due to Targeting Self-Excluded Consumers According to the official statement of the UKGC, on 21 November 2021, Paddy Power and Betfair…

An independent Member of Parliament in Australia is looking to uproot all gambling advertising as the number of players in the country’s leniently regulated market rises. Zoe Daniel, a teal independent from Melbourne, submitted a bill to the House of Representatives yesterday, proposing to eradicate all gambling-related marketing from the Australian airwaves. The Broadcasting Services Amendment (Prohibition of Gambling Advertisements) Bill 2023 is the full title of the proposed piece of legislation, which pushes for the complete removal of betting ads from television, radio, and streaming platforms. The Broadcasting Act…

Betting giant Entain funded a lobbying campaign that rallied gamblers to complain to their local Members of Parliament about the recently proposed gambling industry reforms. Last month, the British government unveiled a white paper with proposals to amend the local gambling legislation and enforce stricter regulations on licensed operators. Some of the proposed measures aim to minimise gambling-related harm but could also negatively impact the bottom line of betting brands like Entain’s Ladbrokes, PartyCasino, and Coral. In a press release published in late April, Entain’s boss Jette Nygaard-Andersen seemingly embraced…

Several weeks after the UK Government released its White Paper on gambling, the National Health Service (NHS) released a new report featuring the most current data about problem gambling rates in the country. Apart from providing valuable information about gambling addiction, the new report outlined the percentage rates of male and female gamblers and data about the most popular forms of gambling among local residents within the last 12 months. The recent report of the National Health Service starts with details about problem gambling and reveals that based on the…

A cross-party Treasury committee has called for the UK Government to regulate cryptocurrency trading as a form of gambling rather than merely a financial service. According to the cross-party group of Members of Parliament, the Government must avoid wasting more taxpayer money on the promotion of various technological innovations, such as digital tokens, without informing the wider public about the clear benefits of such a move. The committee also noted that cryptocurrency trading and investing can cause addictions, just like gambling. However, while the underlying blockchain technology could give an…

A recent study has revealed that British residents facing financial difficulties seem to be increasingly turning to gambling in an effort to find a quick solution to their problems, as wealth levels fall to their lowest rates ever. According to reports, the LifeSearch Health, Wealth and Happiness Index that is compiled every year by CEBR (Centre for Economics and Business Research) suffered an 11% decline in the last 12 months alone, to lows that have not been observed since the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. This time, the wealth index…

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has described the increasing number of gambling adverts during live sports events and sports broadcasts as “annoying”. At the same time, the leader of the Opposition, Peter Dutton, has been urging Australian lawmakers to suspend gambling adverts aired during match coverage. The beginning of the week saw Mr Albanese face some questions regarding gambling advertising and the issues associated with it. At the time, he revealed that a review into online gambling is currently underway but refused to provide further details on questions regarding a potential…

Although it has been among the most heavily regulated sectors not only in the UK but also on a global scale, the country’s gambling laws have proven that they were unsuitable to regulate the sector that has profited from addiction for years. The Government has promised to make multiple revolutionary changes to clean up the industry but some anti-gambling campaigners have shared their concerns that would be easier said than done because some politicians have been the ones who have been working in favour of the gambling sector for a…

A person who was suspended from all sports betting operators in the UK for participating in a betting slip scam and later wrote a book on how he succeeded in doing so, revealed that he has lost about £4 million on feeding his expensive gambling addiction. Conman Jason Haddigan, who once tricked British bookmakers into giving him money and later wrote the book “How and Why I Conned the Bookies”, has confirmed he was a problem gambler. As part of the aforementioned scheme that he even described as “going to…