The Cambridge Health Alliance’s Division of Addiction has announced a new course entitled ‘The Gambling & Recovery Podcast Science Accelerator Course’. It is a free educational opportunity for allied health professionals who are interested in learning about the experience of gambling-related harms through research and lived-experience insight. ‘The Gambling & Recovery Podcast Science Accelerator Course’…
The Betting and Gaming Council has released an International Best Practice Guide laying out key policy objectives for global operators and regulators.
Compiled by professional consulting firm Alvarez and Marsal, BGC’s best practices guide compares regulatory approaches across each market around the world, offering a single body of evidence to critically analyse each and every strategy.
Grainne Hurst, BGC CEO,explained: “For the first time, the BGC has brought together the lessons, both positive and negative, which have been learned by operators and regulators around the world when it comes to the online gaming sector.”
“This sector will no doubt continue to grow internationally, offering huge potential benefits to existing markets and those which are currently developing.
“Through effective regulation of this new growth sector, governments can achieve their core priorities of raising tax, boosting growth and jobs, while delivering high standards for player protection.”
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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…
A new language guide has been published for anyone working on gambling harm prevention and for anyone who writes or speaks about gambling harm in information they publish or share with others.
The After Gambling podcast was set up by Jamie Salsburg as a resource to help address the growing issue of compulsive gambling. It’s not only for those struggling with gambling addiction personally, but also for loved ones and others that help compulsive gamblers as therapists or advocates.Episode Synopsis: As I say at the end of…
Canadian operators have been waiting for months to see the outcome of the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario’s new advertising regulations, and now they have their answer. In a similar move to the one taken by the UK, but perhaps going even further, AGCO have ruled for no more athletes, celebrities or influencers that…
Following its Spring publishing, the recommendations and reforms of the Gambling Review’s White Paper have been put to a summer consultation.Yet amongst all disciplines referred, be it affordability, KYC, customer care, consumer redress stands the reform of the industry’s existing framework on Research, Education and Treatment (RET) – as the most politically charged element of…
Last week witnessed Ivan Toney, the Premier League striker who plays for Brentford Football Club, handed an eight month suspension after admitting 232 breaches of the Football Association’s betting rules.On Tuesday’s episode of iGaming Daily, sponsored by SBC Summit Barcelona, James Ross is joined by Insider Sport and Payment Expert Editor Joe Streeter, as well…
A recent study found that 75% of consumers cannot or are unsure if they can differentiate a legal from an illegal gambling website. Furthermore, many don’t understand the safeguards in place that legal sites provide. Consumer education on these risks ensures that customers play responsibly and those who require help can access the resources they…
This short paper summarises the execution and evaluation of the ‘Let’s Open Up About Gambling’ stigma reduction campaign launched by GambleAware on the 13 April 2023. Key takeways Original Source: Gambleaware