This episode explores the recent developments in the UK illegal gambling task force, its objectives, and the ongoing battle against the black market in iGaming. Experts discuss regulatory challenges, the effectiveness of the task force, and strategies to combat illegal gambling activities. Key Topics:
Affordability has dominated headlines in Western gambling markets, notably as one of the most controversial mandates in the UK market.
Speaking on iGaming Daily, SBC Media’s Editor-at-Large, Ted Menmuir, revealed that financial risk checks were being billed as the highest technical safeguard and generational change as a result of a new era brought about by the White Paper implementation.
Whilst Menmuir acknowledged that this tagline is incredibly enticing as UK gambling embarks on sweeping changes, the test pilot has continued for several years. Menmuir noted that the feedback has been very limited to stakeholders, with efficiency and viability around the project still being unknown.
He outlined that this feels like an urgent vulnerability to the successful implementation of one of the key steps of the white paper. What has been established is that affordability and predicting or projecting an individual’s affordability is an ‘acute science’.
Menmuir cautioned that there has be..
Prediction markets have become one of the most disruptive forces in global betting, and Brazil has just drawn a clear line. In today’s episode of iGaming Daily, Fernando Noodt is joined by Leonardo Biazzi and Ana Maria Meneses to break down Brazil’s move to restrict prediction markets, block platforms and treat event-based derivatives as part…
In today’s episode of iGaming Daily, SBC Media Manager Charlie Horner is joined by iGaming Expert Editor Joe Streeter and special guest Duncan Garvie, CEO of BetBlocker, as the trio unpack the significance of its recent OHID funding win, the future of safer gambling provision in the UK, and the wider debate around regulation, scrutiny,…
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In today’s episode of iGaming Daily, SBC Media Manager Fernando Noodt is joined by SBC Media Director Martyn Elliott and iGaming Expert Editor Joe Streeter as the trio discuss whether current regulation, taxation and industry practices are unintentionally fuelling the growth of the gambling black market, and what needs to change to stop it. Tune…
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…
In today’s episode of iGaming Daily, host and SBC Media Manager Charlie Horner is joined by SBC Editor-at-Large Ted Menmuir alongside a special guest, Tamsin Blow, Partner in the Litigation and Arbitration Group at CMS and a member of the International Masters of Gaming Law (IMGL), to break down the landmark Betfair Court of Appeal ruling…
In today’s episode of iGaming Daily, SBC Media Manager Charlie Horner is joined by SBC Editor-at-Large Ted Menmuir and SBC News Editor Ted Orme-Claye as the trio delve into the Betting and Gaming Council’s latest research on declining advertising spend, unpacking what it reveals about operator confidence, political pressure and the wider impact on the…
In today’s episode of iGaming Daily, SBC Media Manager Charlie Horner is joined by SBC Editor-at-Large Ted Menmuir and iGaming Expert Editor Joe Streeter as the trio discuss the UK government’s latest crackdown on illegal gambling and what it really means for the fight against the black market. Tune in to today’s episode to find…