Ukraine’s gambling regulator has launched a tender to develop the software needed to automate the banning of military personnel from accessing gambling platforms.

Ukraine first ordered a ban on service members accessing gambling establishments and participating in online gambling during martial law in April 2024.

However, the regulator is now expanding its efforts to halt the military from gambling as it embarks on the expansion of tech being utilised in the implementation.

PlayCity has now confirmed that a tender has been released for the development of a system that will automatically verify and restrict military members from gaining access to gambling.

The regulator said that the technology will use the Trembit system, Ukraine’s state platform for data exchange.

The system will first check the Register of Persons with Restricted Access to Gambling and then the State Register of Military Personnel to determine if a user is allowed to access a site.

Testing is now underway, and..

Bookmakers in Poland are facing a fresh wave of social responsibility assessments by the Office of Competition and Consumer Protections (UOKiK).

Announced by the government, the assessments will affect local market players STS, Fortuna, Superbet, Bukmachers, E-toto Bukmachers, LV Bet and Totalbets.

SBC News understands that these are routine checks, and not a response to signals raised about potential breaches of obligations.

What the UOKiK will focus on is investigating whether there are cases of what it calls ‘dark patterns’ – practices used to manipulate consumer behaviour through front-facing UX, certain messaging or player incentives.

The assessments will cover all corners of bookmaker activity from websites to mobile apps, including the terms and conditions when entering an agreement with a customer.

Any shortcomings will be flagged by UOKiK’s system, which incorporates artificial intelligence that is trained to detect relevant issues.

Another major aspect that will be put..

The protection of Generation Z and Alpha audiences from gambling-related harms and risks has been established as the cornerstone of a new research partnership in Slovakia.

The Slovak Gambling Regulatory Authority (URHH) has launched its new “Safer Digital Future” mandate, to develop a comprehensive strategy for protecting young people from gambling risks and disorders.

The initiative has been established through a memorandum of cooperation with the Department of Digital Games at the Faculty of Mass Media Communication of the University of St Cyril and the research agency of Methodius in Trnava (FMK UCM).

Through the partnership, URHH and the university will gather evidence on the risks that emerging digital products and behaviours pose to younger audiences.

Research will focus particularly on the growing convergence between video gaming and gambling through features such as loot boxes, skin betting and randomised reward systems.

URHH warned that the traditional boundaries separati..

The Dutch gambling authority is utilising an algorithm developed to estimate the risk of online casino players based on their actual gambling behaviour.

Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) describes the algorithm as an ‘independent, transparent tool for the early detection of high-risk gambling behaviour’, based on machine learning that looks at a player’s actual behaviour to calculate a risk score.

Calculating the risk score involves analysing an individual’s patterns of how much or how often they gamble, at what times and frequency they wager, as well as how winning and losing streaks change their gambling habits.

KSA noted that the model can be used by licensed operators to improve their own duty of care, but the regulator highlighted that it offers ‘no guarantees; it can only serve as a supplementary component of duty of care measures’.

The algorithm is designed by researchers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) – PhD candidate Charles de Leau and Professors Reinout Wiers (Psychology)..