The rise and rise of the black market continued to dominate conversations on day two of the SBC Summit in Lisbon as operators, suppliers and lobbyists despaired about over-burdening regulation. Svenska Spel Chief Executive Officer Fredrik Wastenson sat on a panel with executives from Finland and Germany, which interrogated the affordability question. “The main problem…
Outgoing Entain chairman Barry Gibson set the tone for the day at the SBC Summit in Lisbon by unveiling a five-point plan to tackle illegal operators. Following the Betting & Gaming Council’s research on the scale of the black market, Entain has engaged Regulus Partners to find a way of dealing with the issue. The…
Regulatory policies around gambling advertising are evolving at a faster rate than the accompanying evidence base, according to new research from the Canadian Gaming Association (CGA). The CGA has teamed up with GP Consulting and Eilers & Krejcik to publish one of the most comprehensive research papers yet produced around gambling advertising and regulatory intervention.…
Safe Bet Show host Martin Lycka interviews Trilogy Group Founder Valerie Spicer for this month’s episode, which focuses on tribal gaming. The former Executive Director of The Arizona Indian Gaming Association is, she says, a “true believer” in the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and its power to promote self-sufficiency and spur economic diversity in tribal…
Anti-gambling activist Derek Webb and his Campaign For Fairer Gambling has released a fourth research paper with National Economic Research Associates (Nera) assessing the economic impact of online gambling. The paper has come in for criticism for its unconventional economic analysis, which concludes that the public’s expenditure on online gambling takes away revenue from “more…
The American Gaming Association (AGA) has launched a new Responsible Gaming Intervention Effectiveness Scale to evaluate responsible gambling messages. This scale provides academics, industry members and others interested in positive play with a research-based tool they can use to evaluate responsible gaming messages and serves as a stepping-stone to further research on how to best…
Yesterday, the Player Protection Hub teamed up with Affiliate Leaders for the SBC Digital – Affiliate Marketing day. Player Protection Hub Editor Steve Hoare hosted a fascinating conversation with four responsible affiliates debating how to adapt to the increasingly arduous regulatory rules around responsible gambling and advertising. With European countries increasingly turning to advertising bans…
The National Centre for Social Research has published a mostly positive review of Great Britain’s ban on credit card for gambling. Great Britain was the first country to pass a credit card ban when it introduced the regulation in April 2020. The Gambling Commission’s Executive Director of Research and Policy commented: “We are pleased that…
Researchers highlighted the lack of robust methodologies, a lack of consistent terminology for gambling outcomes, and a lack of studies that compared problem gamblers and non-problem gamblers, when studying the literature around the effects of near-wins on the brain. The study carried out at the University of Porto, Neurophysiological Correlates of Near-Wins in Gambling: A…
New research into the use of loot boxes on the popular Steam platform has shed new light on their legality and gambling regulators’ failure to prosecute supposedly illegal operators. The paper from video gaming law specialist Leon Xiao of the Center for Digital Play, IT University of Copenhagen, concludes that paid loot boxes with random…