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iGaming Daily: Regulators leave High 5 hanging in Connecticut

In the latest episode of iGaming Daily, brought to you by Optimove, Ted Menmuir, SBC’s Editor-at-Large, sits down with Managing Editor, Jessica Welman and iGaming Expert’s Business Journalist, Christian Lee, to delve into the legal proceedings against High Five Casino. State regulators in Connecticut are pressing more than 1,000 criminal charges against sweepstake gaming state…

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iGaming Daily: Influencers beware! Brazil’s bill to crackdown on illegal gambling ads

iGaming Daily rounds up the week as the Noticias Brasil team return from their carnival celebrations to update our listeners on the importance of responsible gambling and marketing strategies following updates from the Brazilian Congress. Joining SBC Noticias Senior Journalist, Fernando Noodt, are joined by SBC Noticias Brasil’s Editor, Ricardo Assis and Business Journalist, Ana…

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Dan Waugh fearful of “openly prohibitionist” OHID

Regulus Partners’ Dan Waugh has expressed significant concerns over the mandate and funding of the Office for Health Improvement and Disparity (OHID), which he described as a prohibitionist department.

At the time of the OHID appointment, Waugh raised concerns over the intent of the department – suggesting that they had touted developing ‘tobacco-style’ plain packaging for gambling, including no colours, images or logos on any gambling products.

Speaking to iGaming Expert at the Deal Me Out conference, he stated: “That’s a clear statement of prohibitionist intent. So we should be very worried that they have been given a mandate and pot of money to go out and pursue this.”

Waugh was also scathing of OHID’s previous research into gambling, describing the department as having “low standards of quality and arguably low ethics in producing statistics on serious matters like suicide, with no real care or attention to what people might think is accurate”.

He did state that the ability t..

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