SkillOnNet has entered into a partnership with the International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA) to help combat corruption and fraud within the betting industry.

As part of the deal, the provider will join a further 70 betting brands which focus on preserving the integrity of sports betting.

Khalid Ali, CEO of IBIA, commented: “IBIA is pleased to welcome SkillOnNet to our association of leading global gambling operators. The addition of SkillOnNet to IBIA further strengthens our position in Brazil, the LatAm region and globally.

“The move highlights SkillOnNet’s commitment to protecting the integrity of its betting products, consumers and related sporting events by utilising the world’s leading operator-led monitoring and alert network.

“IBIA looks forward to working closely with SkillOnNet and to integrating the operator within our global sports betting integrity system.”

The IBIA’s Monitoring & Alert Network will enable SkillOnNet to detect and report suspicious betting a..

UK gambling will move forward to implement new controls, empowering trust and transparency for online consumers, to be applied from 31 October 2025.

New controls have been added by the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) to the Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice (LCCP), continuing to apply the recommended reforms of the Gambling Review’s White Paper: High stakes: gambling reform for the digital age.

Changes seek to provide consumers with a more effective way to manage their gambling spend by ensuring that a customer sets and maintains deposit limits when engaging with online operators.

From 31 October, online gambling operators must ensure that a customer sets a financial limit on their account before making their first deposit. Further conditions call for online operators to make it easier for customers to review their spend and modify the financial limit at any point of activity.

New controls detail that online licences will be required to remind consumers every six months to rev..

From this month going forward, Slovakia’s national gambling helpline will be managed by the Predná Hora specialist treatment centre.

The treatment center – a former Bulgarian royalty residence nestled in the Slovakian mountains – has been operating as a hospital for addiction and compulsive gambling patients since 1995.

Its activity includes international collaboration, including participation in joint research initiatives with universities and hospitals from Poland, Sweden, and the Czech Republic.

Vladimír Stanislav, Director of the Predná Hora center, said: “Our system works with a comprehensive treatment program, with the community and, above all, with enthusiastic and committed staff, who believe that our clients are high-quality and valuable individuals who are able and willing to change their lives.”

Predná Hora will operate the new helpline seven days a week from a free telephone number open between 9am-1am, with the option to connect to an answering machine outside of wo..

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) and the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) have been urged by campaigners to investigate the advertising practices of operators targeting consumers.

The call for regulators to investigate the advertising algorithms and data tracking of operators follows a High Court ruling by Justice Collins Rice that Sky Betting and Gaming (Sky Bet) had violated UK data protection laws.

The High Court had arbitrated a former problem gambler’s case against Sky Bet for advertising to him without obtaining valid consent. Sky Bet was accused of using cookies to create an extensive profile of the problem gambler to target him with personalised adverts via third parties.

The gambler is reported to have lost £45,000 over a decade playing with Sky Bet. He was profiled as a ‘high-value customer’ and did not opt out of marketing communications.

Upon review of the evidence, Justice Collins Rice determined that Sky Bet had breached data protection laws, as its mechanisms..