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Liverpool City Council has joined the Coalition to End Gambling Ads (CEGA), becoming the latest local authority to back calls for tighter restrictions on gambling advertising as part of its wider strategy to reduce gambling-related harm.

The move follows the launch of the council’s Reducing Gambling Harms Action Plan earlier this year, which sets out measures to improve early intervention, increase access to support services and reduce residents’ exposure to gambling marketing.

According to the council, around one in six young adults in Liverpool experience gambling-related harm, with men and people facing financial disadvantage considered most at risk.

It said gambling-related problems can contribute to debt, poor mental health, relationship breakdown, homelessness and contact with the criminal justice system.

The council said joining CEGA would strengthen its efforts to address what it described as the normalisation of gambling through widespread advertising across television, s..

A day that much of the industry had been awaiting with trepidation is set to arrive today, as the Gambling Commission confirms plans for the implementation of Financial Risk Assessments.

The first stage of implementation will see FRAs implemented by the largest operators, where there is high spend of multiple thousands of pounds over a 24-hour period. For most, this means £5,000 net deposits in a rolling 24-hour period, with it being predicted that only 0.5% of customers will hit these thresholds.

Once fully implemented in due course, Financial Risk Assessments will be applied to customers aged 25 years or older with net deposits exceeding £1,000 in a rolling 24-hour period or £3,000 over a rolling 90-day period; for those under 25, these thresholds will be reduced to £750 in a rolling 24 hours or £2,000 in a rolling 90-day period.

Furthermore, the GC has also underpinned that although the White Paper was put forward during a previous government, it has the full backing of the late..

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Stakelogic has been ordered to pay a £122,835 regulatory settlement to the Gambling Commission (GC) for breaching responsible product design standards related to the speed of slots.

Minimum online slot speeds have been in place for UK iGaming operators since 2021 and were part of several measures implemented to reduce the overall intensity of gameplay and protect consumers from harm, as research showed fast game cycles were associated with increased player risk.

The iGaming supplier was found to be running its slots faster than the minimum 2.5 seconds time gap. Stakelogic reported to the commission that its Tiger Temple 88 title was breaching minimum time gap standards as it was operating with 1.97 seconds between spins. Tiger Temple 88 was non-compliant from 28 May 2025 to 30 May 2025.

An investigation was then launched by the GC, to which Stakelogic re-tested its entire GB games portfolio, discovering a further 15 games breached the minimum time gap, varying between 0.001 seconds ..

The Conservative Party’s Nick Herbert has joined the long list of figures to hit out at the Gambling Commission’s affordability checks for the UK.

Speaking at the House of Lords, the former MP for Arundel and South Downs and Baron of South Downs called on Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy to revisit the “ill-targeted policy, which, after all, was not the government’s in the first place”.

With the speech, he has become another member of what seems to be an ever-growing list of people making noise to prevent these checks from coming into place, which includes gambling reformist James Noyes and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.

The Gambling Commission are set to meet regarding the implementation of Financial Risk Assessments (FRAs) tomorrow, the second and most stringent level of its affordability check solution, but Herbert has urged for a halt on this.

“On Thursday, the Gambling Commission will decide whether to approve the roll out of affordability checks on online betting,” he said.

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