Tim Miller, former Executive Director at the Gambling Commission, has become the latest ex-senior figure from Britain’s betting and gaming regulator to enter consultancy work. Miller, who announced his resignation from the Commission in late June 2026, has set up GamReg Consulting, a global specialist advisory firm focused on supporting “governments, regulators and others”. It is unclear whether the “others”…
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has revealed that it has arrested four people overnight following reports of illegal gambling operations.
Four warrants and enforcement activity were conducted in Manchester City Centre last night, which resulted in two men being arrested on suspicion of immigration offences, one man being arrested on suspicion of money laundering and breaching the Gambling Act, and one man being arrested on suspicion of licensing offences.
The latter two are suspected to have provided gambling facilities without authority and ran a late-night takeaway without a licence respectively.
GMP has seized over £20,000, as well as mobile phones and gambling-related equipment. The raid is reported to have been made possible due to intelligence gathered after a similar scenario occurred in May.
Incidentally, the two people arrested during the May operation – Wing Suet Mak and Tsz To Kwok – are scheduled to appear at Manchester and Salford Magistrates court this time next week..
Lithuania’s gambling authority has blocked Polymarket following the predictions platform’s attempts to “circumvent restrictions on illegal remote gambling”.
The operator is the first in its sector to be restricted by Lošimų priežiūros tarnyba (LPT) as the regulator views its operations as a cover for illegal gambling.
It’s far from the first jurisdiction to restrict access to Polymarket, though.
Last month, South Korean authorities moved to block access to the platform following a dispute and review that lasted for over a month.
Polymarket’s presence in Europe has been massively minimised as several jurisdictions’ regulators have forbidden citizen access.
Countries including France, Spain, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands, to name a few, have taken action against the operator.
European hopes for the US giant may rest in Gibraltar, where a regulated prediction markets framework has been established, and the UK, with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) set to review whether c..
Ladbrokes Coral owner Entain is set to cut up to 400 of its 2,000 customer care roles across the UK, attributing what it calls the “simplification” of this division to new tax burdens. The LSE-listed company has simultaneously stepped up lobbying efforts ahead of the Autumn Budget, hoping to avoid another increase in taxes as Chancellor of the Exchequer, John Healey, reportedly…
Members of the House of Lords are calling for a full scale crackdown on gambling advertising across the UK in the latest political push against the sector. It comes just days after the Local Health and Global Profits (LHGP) research consortium made the same pleas as the UK public continues to show concern around the promotion of the gambling sector.…
With only two months remaining for EU leaders to seek a settlement on the Union’s next budget, Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland has called on member states to consider a bloc-wide gambling levy as a “serious economic proposal”.
The former President of the European Council (2014 to 2019), becomes the highest-profile figurehead to support calls for the EU to fund its 2028–2034 budget cycle through new “own resources”, reducing its dependence on direct national contributions.
Speaking following a meeting of Visegrád Group leaders in Bratislava, Tusk said the EU would need more resources to respond to its changing responsibilities but argued that the additional burden should not fall on citizens and workers.
“As the European Union, we need to spend more money because there are new challenges,” Tusk explained. “I would like these increased resources not to burden people.”
The Polish premier urged leaders to give serious consideration to proposed EU taxes on major digital platforms, ..
The UK Gambling Commission has flipped the consumer insights playbook around, publishing its first study on what players understand as ‘informed choice’.
Introduced by Commission Strategy Manager Donna Bateman, the Behavioural Insights Team report forms part of the UK regulator’s 2024-2027 strategy to nurture a better gambling landscape in the digital age, which includes the collection of wider data sets focusing on consumer voices.
Contrary to the Commission’s current regulatory framework, which defines informed choice in relation to the transparency and fairness of operators, Bateman and her team have instead looked through the opposite side of the lens to understand how consumers themselves interpret the ‘informed choice’ concept when gambling.
The study analysed 53 sources, three deliberative focus groups, and four in-depth interviews with players at higher risk of gambling harm. One detail that consistently popped up across the insights team’s work was that participants identif..
The Chair of the Netherlands’ gambling regulator has urged European nations to collaborate as the continent continues to fight against the illegal gambling market.
Michel Groothuizen, Chair of the Kansspelautoriteit (KSA), lamented the problems that the EU nation continues to face in a blog released on the back of the Netherlands’ annual gambling committee debate.
“Illegal gambling is, in fact, an unprecedentedly large and complex problem. Of every euro a Dutch person gambles away, half goes to the illegal market,” he said.
“Anyone examining this industry will see that the turnover of the global illegal gambling market exceeds the GDP of any country, with the exception of the US and China.
“The public often holds the image of foreign companies with sound business practices that, thanks to the freedom of the internet, occasionally attract a Dutch player. We must abandon that image.”
Michel Groothuizen, Chair of the KSA. Credit: LinkedIn
Groothuizen added that achieving meaningfu..
Stake has reportedly blocked access to Irish consumers following consultation with the Gambling Regulatory Authority for Ireland (GRAI), according to national media.
It comes two months on from the GRAI’s new licensing system being implemented as the regulator, which took over responsibility for the gambling sector from Ireland’s Revenue Commissioners, works towards a new system focused on integrity and player protection.
Stake has previously implemented strict geo-fencing measures for UK users after the removal of its licence in March 2025 and will do the same for consumers in Ireland.
The GRAI told the Irish Times that “operators, including two major prediction markets and a major international online gambling platform, have geo-blocked their services, which means that they have voluntarily restricted access to their platforms for users from Ireland”, though it did not confirm which three platforms this is in reference to.
However, Stake has continuously referred to itself as ..
Despite its monopoly status as the state-owned operator, Veikkaus is all for opening the Finnish iGaming market to commercially licensed operators, so long as it boosts player protection and combats the black market, which has become increasingly prevalent.
Finland’s iGaming market is set to open up and become a licence-based system from 1 July next year. The National Police Board of Finland, Poliisi, reported back in June that its gambling administration had received 50 licence applications, as appetite for market share reaches fever pitch.
Olli Sarekoski, Chief Executive Officer of Veikkaus, spoke to Lottery Daily about the transformation as he warned that currently in excess of 1,500 gaming companies target Finland, with over half of 2024’s total gaming volume taking place outside the regulated market.
The CEO noted: “The key point is the channelisation rate. A lot of gaming is outside the official channels. What is the point of the monopoly if this is the case?”
While Veikkau..