The Major Division of Colombian Soccer (Dimayor) has fired 15 professional soccer referees for their alleged participation in sports betting schemes. These include match referees, assistant referees, and members of the VAR team. Former referee and current analyst José Borda shared the news on his social networks, referring to it as “the largest sweep of referees in the last…
In the midst of a wave of complaints against gambling and betting due to the participation of minors in Argentina, the Association of Argentine State Lotteries (ALEA) and the Argentine Chamber of Casinos, Bingos and Annexes (CASCBA) launched a campaign specific and reported 254 unlicensed sites. The reported platforms, with international servers, allow the creation of users without extensive…
Today’s episode of iGaming Daily, supported by Optimove, comes from the Canadian Gaming Summit in Toronto. Ted Orme-Claye, editor of Insider Sport and Payment Expert, is joined by Jessica Welman, Editor of SBC Americas, and special guest Martin Lycka, SVP American Regulatory Affairs and Responsible Gambling at Entain, to talk through their first day at the event. To start the show the trio recap Martin’s interview with…
The UK Gambling Commission CEO Andrew Rhodes told an audience of industry representatives that the NHS Health Survey is “outmoded” and needs to be improved but that any hike in numbers from the new methodology being used in the Commission’s Gambling Survey for Great Britain need not lead to a “lurch in regulation”. Rhodes was…
It’s day one of the Neosurf takeover of iGaming Daily, supported by Optimove. To kick things off Andrea McGeachin, CEO of Neosurf, is joined by Shelley White, CEO of the Responsible Gambling Council (RGC), to discuss the work of the RGC, responsible gambling practices in the payments industry and her imminent retirement from the organisation. After recapping the recent RGC Discovery Conference,…
As idPair prepares to launch a national self-exclusion tool for the entire US market, City University of London is drafting global standards of best practice
Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp Director Aaron GlynWilliams spoke at the Player Protection Symposium, New York about a tricky balancing act
The Game Safety Institute co-founders Simo Dragicevic and Sarah Ramanauskas say operators need more than a responsible gambling ad campaign to avoid a regulatory clampdown With the legalization of online sports betting (OSB) in 38 of 50 US states and the growth of an online gambling market that is expected to reach $40bn by 2028,…
Keith Whyte, the Executive Director of the National Council on Problem Gambling, delivers a refreshingly frank interview on the state of responsible gambling in the US
This paper explores how diverse forms of sports wagering are related to engagement in and symptoms of addiction to a variety of behaviours and substances. What are the associations between various forms of sports betting frequency (ie. traditional fantasy sports play, daily fantasy sports play, traditional sports betting, and e-sports betting) and frequency of various…