Africa is viewed as one of the great hopes for growth by the international gaming industry, but the spread of sports betting and online casino in markets across the continent brings with it player protection challenges. Drawing on insights from proprietary research by SBC Media and 1xBet for the International Player Safety Index, our expert…
Responsible gambling tools such as deposit limits have limited effects on curbing risky behaviour, according to a new study of more than 24,000 online sports bettors in Australia. Tools that merely raise awareness or set voluntary limits rarely change behaviour unless they directly restrict access to betting. The findings raise questions about whether current harm-minimisation…
Šimon Vincze, Head of Sustainable and Safer Gambling for Casino Guru, writes for Player Protection Hub’s sister publicartion iGaming Expert, addressing a subject that many shy away from, yet is of the utmost importance when it comes to strengthening safeguards for the industry. I remember when I first heard that we should publish a course on suicide…
The Charities Commission is investigating the UK’s oldest and most established gambling treatment provider Gordon Moody, after claims of racism and discrimination follow former CEO’s employment tribunal claim. Former CEO Monica Shafaq resigned from Gordon Moody in October last year after raising concerns of a regulatory nature with the charity’s Board of Directors, which she…
Key finding: Pairing repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) with real-time “symptom provocation” (poker videos) sharply reduced gambling cravings and depression in a 22-year-old man with severe gambling disorder – suggesting a new way to boost the brain-based treatment’s impact. That’s according to a case report published in the official journal of the TMS Society by…
Researchers in Italy and Germany reported a six-week course of high-frequency brain stimulation dramatically reduced gambling cravings and symptoms in a patient with severe gambling disorder – suggesting the therapy could work as a standalone, first-line treatment when medication or psychotherapy aren’t used. Why it matters: Gambling disorder has no standardized treatment and…
Kindbridge and Axis are looking to Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and esketamine to tackle gambling harm
In today’s episode of iGaming Daily SBC Media Manager Fernando Noodt is joined by SBC News Editor Ted Orme-Claye and iGaming Expert Business Journalist Christian Lee as the trio discuss Andrew Rhodes’ decision to step down as Chief Executive of the UK Gambling Commission, reflecting on his “tough sheriff” tenure, the regulatory transformation under his…
The Nordic gaming company Paf has dropped its mandatory loss limit from €16,000 to €15,000 per year for all customers. Paf is dropping its loss limit gradually. It is now half the first loss limit of €30,000 per year that was set in 2018 and it is aiming to hit an annual limit of €8,000.…
Better Gambling Forum Chair Shawn Fluharty is trying to reshape how the world thinks about regulated gambling. Interview by Steve Hoare