Dan Waugh of Regulus Partners has spotted a change in the public policy discourse on gambling. The Good Law Project’s complaint to the Charity Commission has sparked something of a rebellion on social media, as those in the lived experience community grow tired of the anti-gambling lobby’s dirty tricks
The Buckeye State’s Amanda Blackford of the Ohio Casino Control Commission talks about how the state has adapted since the launch of sports betting one year ago, including expanding education at all levels. Blackford also delves into how the OCCC has developed a process that integrates stakeholder feedback at every level and how that has…
The first academic paper on the use of psychedelics to assist gambling addicts has been published by academics from Universities in Gibraltar, Budapest and Amsterdam. The paper studies the use of psychedelic-assisted therapy to deal with other mental disorders and concludes that it could be used to deal with gambling disorder. “This paper is setting…
Ahead of an expert panel session this Friday, Digital Wellness Centre CEO Dr Mary Donohue offers up this thought-provoking blog. The online industry, she warns, faces a challenge in showcasing its proactive strides towards safeguarding player well-being and enhancing the overall gaming experience. In the ever-evolving landscape of technology and digital entertainment, the online gaming industry stands at a pivotal crossroads.…
Getting the Saturday Night Live treatment is generally an indicator that a person, a business or an industry has fully infiltrated the mainstream. This past weekend, sportsbooks were the target of a spoof commercial on the program. SNL aired a fake commercial for fictitious operator Rock Bottom Kings, a sportsbook that allows you to wager on the problematic…
Expert lawyers say Gambling Commission remains vague on definition of “frictionless” checks The UK Gambling Commission announced its next steps for the introduction of financial risk checks, yesterday (February 23), in a blog from Gambling Commission Executive Director of Policy Development Tim Miller. The hugely controversial move will be debated in the House of Commons…
Gambling Commission CEO Andrew Rhodes made a plea for reasonableness, when addressing the crowd at ICE
The board of trustees of GamCare has announced that the Safer Gambling Standard will be revised to work under a new structure outside of the gambling treatment, support, and intervention charity.
GamCare trustees detailed that the decision had been taken in December 2023, instructing the charity’s leadership team to undertake a strategic review of the Safer Gambling Standard, with recommendations to be announced in due course.
The Safer Gambling Standard is an independent quality standard accredited by UKAS, charged with evaluating the protection measures UK licensed gambling operators have in place to protect consumers from experiencing gambling-related harm.
Recent developments have seen the Safer Gambling Standard raise concerns about the player protection deficiencies outlined by the £6m regulatory fine imposed on the online gambling operator Gamesys.
Gamesys remains under review to see whether there have been any breaches of the Safer Gambling Standard requirements.
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Following on from the New York Times articles on the industry’s advertising practices, operators, and the industry as a whole in the US have been under fire as sportsbook advertising becomes more and more ubiquitous across the states. How accurate is this reporting? And what, if any, responsibility should the industry take over this? In…
A message from SBC Managing Director Andrew McCarron:Hello and welcome to the soft launch of the Player Protection Hub, something which we will hope will build into a central resource for the industry all over to discuss and learn best practice around problem gambling and player protection. Given the amount of content that SBC produces…