Tim Miller, former Executive Director at the Gambling Commission, has become the latest ex-senior figure from Britain’s betting and gaming regulator to enter consultancy work. Miller, who announced his resignation from the Commission in late June 2026, has set up GamReg Consulting, a global specialist advisory firm focused on supporting “governments, regulators and others”. It is unclear whether the “others”…
The appearance of Brazil’s Finance Minister Dario Durigan on CNN Brazil will have only served to elevate the trepidation of the country’s gambling industry.
He revealed that the economic team in the country has not completely taken the possibility of banning the regulated market off the table.
There was a warning from Durigan that the tax revenue from the sector wouldn’t be enough to make it immune from being prohibited, with Durigan stating that “If it harms people, the revenue is not justified.”
Furthermore, an announcement from Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is scheduled to announce his proposal to restrict gambling before Thursday the 24th.
The minister clarified that the fact that betting houses increase public revenue does not justify the increase in debt for Brazilian families.
Measures previously undertaken to ensure the banning of online casinos are expanded to become a more encompassing ban and include more verticals within the gambling sector.
Durigan added that if the go..
BetStop, Australia’s national self-exclusion register finds itself at the centre of a report discussing the controversies in the country’s gambling sector.
Uncertainty is a word that very much epitomises the state of Australia’s gambling industry right now.
Public sentiment is overwhelmingly hostile toward the sheer volume of gambling promotion, with polling showing around 76%-77% of Australians supporting a total ban on gambling advertising.
Health experts, gambling reform advocates and independent lawmakers have increasingly vocalised their views that gambling is a major public health issue. Calls for change are largely based on the 2023 Murphy report, a parliamentary report containing 31 recommendations for gambling reform.
On the back of this, the government under the leadership of Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has resisted a blanket ban and opted for partial restrictions like the three-per-hour gambling ad cap instead.
This has frustrated many Down Under, including A..
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has revealed that it has arrested four people overnight following reports of illegal gambling operations.
Four warrants and enforcement activity were conducted in Manchester City Centre last night, which resulted in two men being arrested on suspicion of immigration offences, one man being arrested on suspicion of money laundering and breaching the Gambling Act, and one man being arrested on suspicion of licensing offences.
The latter two are suspected to have provided gambling facilities without authority and ran a late-night takeaway without a licence respectively.
GMP has seized over £20,000, as well as mobile phones and gambling-related equipment. The raid is reported to have been made possible due to intelligence gathered after a similar scenario occurred in May.
Incidentally, the two people arrested during the May operation – Wing Suet Mak and Tsz To Kwok – are scheduled to appear at Manchester and Salford Magistrates court this time next week..
Lithuania’s gambling authority has blocked Polymarket following the predictions platform’s attempts to “circumvent restrictions on illegal remote gambling”.
The operator is the first in its sector to be restricted by Lošimų priežiūros tarnyba (LPT) as the regulator views its operations as a cover for illegal gambling.
It’s far from the first jurisdiction to restrict access to Polymarket, though.
Last month, South Korean authorities moved to block access to the platform following a dispute and review that lasted for over a month.
Polymarket’s presence in Europe has been massively minimised as several jurisdictions’ regulators have forbidden citizen access.
Countries including France, Spain, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands, to name a few, have taken action against the operator.
European hopes for the US giant may rest in Gibraltar, where a regulated prediction markets framework has been established, and the UK, with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) set to review whether c..
Ladbrokes Coral owner Entain is set to cut up to 400 of its 2,000 customer care roles across the UK, attributing what it calls the “simplification” of this division to new tax burdens. The LSE-listed company has simultaneously stepped up lobbying efforts ahead of the Autumn Budget, hoping to avoid another increase in taxes as Chancellor of the Exchequer, John Healey, reportedly…
Members of the House of Lords are calling for a full scale crackdown on gambling advertising across the UK in the latest political push against the sector. It comes just days after the Local Health and Global Profits (LHGP) research consortium made the same pleas as the UK public continues to show concern around the promotion of the gambling sector.…
With only two months remaining for EU leaders to seek a settlement on the Union’s next budget, Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland has called on member states to consider a bloc-wide gambling levy as a “serious economic proposal”.
The former President of the European Council (2014 to 2019), becomes the highest-profile figurehead to support calls for the EU to fund its 2028–2034 budget cycle through new “own resources”, reducing its dependence on direct national contributions.
Speaking following a meeting of Visegrád Group leaders in Bratislava, Tusk said the EU would need more resources to respond to its changing responsibilities but argued that the additional burden should not fall on citizens and workers.
“As the European Union, we need to spend more money because there are new challenges,” Tusk explained. “I would like these increased resources not to burden people.”
The Polish premier urged leaders to give serious consideration to proposed EU taxes on major digital platforms, ..
The UK Gambling Commission has flipped the consumer insights playbook around, publishing its first study on what players understand as ‘informed choice’.
Introduced by Commission Strategy Manager Donna Bateman, the Behavioural Insights Team report forms part of the UK regulator’s 2024-2027 strategy to nurture a better gambling landscape in the digital age, which includes the collection of wider data sets focusing on consumer voices.
Contrary to the Commission’s current regulatory framework, which defines informed choice in relation to the transparency and fairness of operators, Bateman and her team have instead looked through the opposite side of the lens to understand how consumers themselves interpret the ‘informed choice’ concept when gambling.
The study analysed 53 sources, three deliberative focus groups, and four in-depth interviews with players at higher risk of gambling harm. One detail that consistently popped up across the insights team’s work was that participants identif..
The Chair of the Netherlands’ gambling regulator has urged European nations to collaborate as the continent continues to fight against the illegal gambling market.
Michel Groothuizen, Chair of the Kansspelautoriteit (KSA), lamented the problems that the EU nation continues to face in a blog released on the back of the Netherlands’ annual gambling committee debate.
“Illegal gambling is, in fact, an unprecedentedly large and complex problem. Of every euro a Dutch person gambles away, half goes to the illegal market,” he said.
“Anyone examining this industry will see that the turnover of the global illegal gambling market exceeds the GDP of any country, with the exception of the US and China.
“The public often holds the image of foreign companies with sound business practices that, thanks to the freedom of the internet, occasionally attract a Dutch player. We must abandon that image.”
Michel Groothuizen, Chair of the KSA. Credit: LinkedIn
Groothuizen added that achieving meaningfu..