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Commission says Evolution narrowly avoided licence suspension over black market failings

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The UK Gambling Commission has released an official statement regarding Evolution’s recent £4.75m settlement, identifying “serious weaknesses” in the game supplier’s AML oversight between December 2023-November 2024.

A review of Evolution’s UK licence was launched by the Commission in December 2024, following reports that its branded games were found on a number of unlicensed gambling websites unlawfully targeting British consumers.

The review concluded earlier this July after an 18-month period, with a £4.75m settlement to be paid by Evolution being agreed upon by both sides.

In between the one-year window noted above, the UK regulator found “large volumes of visits” by UK-based players to the unlicensed casinos, which were supplied with games by Evolution through a business relationship.

The Commission established that Evolution’s internal assessment procedures that detect money laundering and terrorist financing risks were not effective enough to flag down the infringements occu..

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No leadership, no evidence – how did the Commission decide on affordability checks? 

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Questions have been raised over the direction of the Gambling Commission (GC) in the UK, as it is accused of ignoring any research in its pursuit of stringent affordability checks, or financial risk assessments, depending on which side of the coin you sit.

Peter Marcus, a former Global Head of Gaming Operations for Entain, revealed that he was part of the process during the early stages of the new approach to affordability and stated it was clear that these things were simply unworkable.

He warned that since the departure of Andrew Rhodesas Chief Executive Officer, the GC has essentially stopped listening to industry and to research, marching ahead with a wilful ignorance of the consequences.

Marcus suggested that Rhodes and the GC, under his leadership, had a grasp on the severity of getting affordability checks wrong. However, he now believes that the last two years of research have been ‘a waste of time, as the commission has just pushed ahead regardless’.

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Germany regulator set to expand central monitoring system LUGAS   

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Glücksspiel (GGL), the Federal Authority of Gambling in Germany, is ready to expand the central monitoring system of LUGAS (Länderübergreifendes Glücksspielaufsichtssystem).

Activated in 2023, LUGAS serves as the main data and transactional monitoring system of Germany’s interstate gambling regime (GlüStV). Of regulatory significance, LUGAS is designed to monitor the cross-operator customer depositing thresholds – currently set at €1,000 per month across all online licences.

The authority confirmed this week that it will continue the next phase of the platform’s development in partnership with Dataport, a Bundestag (federal government) sanctioned IT service provider responsible for the technical maintenance of LUGAS and its statutory duties.

Presenting an overview, GGL disclosed that in 2025, LUGAS processed data from more than 60 licensed operators and approximately five million registered players, providing regulators and Germany’s 16 federal states with an increasingly detailed..

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TAB issued $2.7m penalty for spam and telemarketing breaches

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Tabcorp (TAB) has been issued a second penalty in just over a year by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) in relation to spam law breaches.

The Australian regulator announced that TAB has paid over AUS$2.7m (approximately €1.7m) in penalties after multiple spam and telemarketing law breaches were discovered following an investigation.

An ACMA investigation found that between February 2024 and June 2025, TAB made ‘telemarketing calls to VIP customers that included 351 calls to numbers on the Do Not Call Register without consent, 82 calls outside permitted hours, and nearly 4,000 calls without properly identifying itself as the caller and/or the purpose of the call’.

In addition, the operator self-reported that it sent over 217,000 marketing emails and SMS over a 16-day period to customers who had unsubscribed from specific marketing channels.

“The scale and range of these breaches point to serious weaknesses in TAB’s compliance systems.”

ACMA member Samantha Yo..

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UK affordability check clash looming on the horizon

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A showdown is brewing in Britain involving the Gambling Commission, horse racing, the betting industry, campaign groups and MPs, all over one big issue which has been fiercely debated for over five years.

This is of course, Financial Risk Assessments, as the Gambling Commission and 2023 Gambling Act review White Paper call the measures, or ‘affordability checks’ as critics in racing and betting industry circles prefer to call them.

The Commission’s decision to press ahead with Financial Risk Assessments (FRAs) – the most extensive of the two types of affordability measure, the other being light-touch Financial Vulnerability Checks (FVCs) – has seen an outpouring of criticism.

It has now been reported by the Racing Post that the British Horseracing Authority’s (BHA) attempts to gain information about the Commission’s decisionmaking around affordability checks fell on deaf ears in the months building up to the July decision.

Commission to face the affordability music?

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iGaming Daily: Is Brazil’s Ad Crackdown Driving Bettors to the Black Market?

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In this episode, host Fernando Noodt sits down with Elisa Marcante and Leo Biazzi to dissect Brazil’s sudden decision to tighten sports betting advertising rules shortly after regulation came into force. They break down the extending responsibilities for platforms and affiliates, the shift toward tobacco-style warning signs, and whether these strict local and national clampdowns…

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Congressman wants facial recognition to verify age of bettors, predictions users

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Rep. Josh Gottheimer is leading a legislative effort in Congress to ensure prediction markets and online sportsbooks to verify they accept only age-appropriate users via facial recognition.

On Wednesday, Gottheimer (D-NJ) introduced the Facial Recognition to Protect Children Act, a measure that would require prediction markets and licensed online sports betting operators to deploy facial recognition technology to verify the age of users who want to trade or wager.

Gottheimer introduced the bipartisan bill amid concern regarding the availability of trading and gambling to consumers under the age of 18. According to data provided by Common Sense Media, about 40% of boys aged 14 to 17 have gambled in the past year.

“We’re asking our kids to self-police their way past a system built entirely on the honor code. A kid can log into a parent’s, an older sibling’s, or a friend’s account and place a bet with no verification at all. Nobody checks. That’s it. That’s the whole system,” said Gott..

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Heavily-criticised GSGB reveals problem gambling rate in UK for 2025 was 2.4%

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Overall gambling participation in Great Britain dipped slightly in 2025, according to the latest Gambling Survey for Great Britain (GSGB).

The Gambling Commission’s publication revealed that 59% of adults gambled in the past 12 months, down marginally from 60% a year earlier.

Participation over the previous four weeks edged down from 48% to 47%, while online gambling remained unchanged at 38%.

Excluding National Lottery-only players, gambling participation slipped from 41% to 40% over the past year, and down from 28% to 27% over the previous four weeks.

The National Lottery remained the country’s most popular gambling product, with 31% of adults purchasing tickets, while participation in other charity lotteries held steady at 16%. Scratchcard participation fell slightly from 13% to 12%.

Problem gambling rate dips … slightly

One of the big talking points since the inaugural GSGB in 2023 has been the rate of problem gambling in the UK.

The survey showed a modest decline in the pr..

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