The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has issued a warning to Australian commercial free-to-air television networks, Seven Network and Nine Network, for breaching gambling advertising rules.
An ACMA investigation found that throughout July and August 2021, Seven aired 49 betting promotions during its Olympic coverage on its Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, [...]
London-listed gaming operator Entain held its second annual sustainability and ESG showcase event in London on Thursday, where the company revealed the impact of its ARC Safer Gaming programme.
The ARC programme (Advanced Responsibility and Care) is currently available in 22 of Entain’s international markets, including the UK, and has been [...]
MGM Resorts-owned LeoVegas Group has agreed a new collaboration with Stockholm’s Karolinska Institutet’s Department of Clinical Neuroscience, one of the world's leading medical universities.
The four-year research project will aim to increase understanding of gambling problems and improve methods for identifying and preventing them by studying the operator’s customer data
LeoVegas, which [...]
GGPoker has become the latest online casino operator to be fined by Britain’s Gambling Commission.
NSUS, which trades as GGPoker, has been fined for failing to identify and interact with customers who may be at risk of experiencing harms associated with gambling.
The operator also failed to take all reasonable steps to [...]
The American Gaming Association (AGA) has expanded its executive team with the appointment of Maureen Beddis as senior vice president, membership and events.
Beddis will join the AGA on 31 October after serving 16 years at The Vision Council, a non-profit trade association for manufacturers and suppliers of the US optical [...]
Six leading US sports betting and iGaming operators have come together to agree new industry-led responsible gambling standards across the United States.
The 12-point pledge is a commitment to principles of responsible online gambling and are recommended as the principles for an industry benchmark, to coincide with this month’s Responsible Gaming [...]
The Australian government has launched an inquiry into online gambling and its impacts on people with gambling problems.
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs will examine a number of issues, including the effectiveness of existing consumer protections aimed at reducing online problem gambling, the definition [...]
Lottery supplier Scientific Games has secured a new long-term contract to provide its gaming systems technology to Latvia's National Lottery operator Latvijas Loto.
Scientific Games has worked with the lottery for the past 20 years, and will provide its new technology as part of a plan to drive responsible growth and funding to [...]
Swedish betting and gaming operator ATG has been fined SEK2m for an error which prevented certain customers from registering on the national gambling self-exclusion register.
The error occurred between 13-28 January 2022 and was self-reported to the Swedish gambling regulator Spelinspektionen.
During that time, customers who logged onto the ATG website using [...]
Ontario’s gambling regulator has fined Kindred Group’s Unibet brand for marketing violations.
The Ontario Alcohol and Gaming Commission (AGCO) has imposed a financial penalty of CAD$48,000 on the operator for alleged infractions of internet gaming standards over a four-day period in May.
During this time, Unibet is said to have posted or [...]
Financial spread betting and sports betting operator Spreadex has become the latest gambling business to fall foul of Britain’s anti-money laundering and social responsibility regulations.
Spreadex will pay £1.36m to Britain’s Gambling Commission for the breaches, which allowed some players to deposit significant funds and gamble without the operator conducting adequate [...]
Swedish gaming operator Svenska Spel is allocating SEK42m to support research into problem gambling over the next five years.
Svenska Spel has already donated more than SEK60m to this area of research since 2010 and will now continue to fund the work of the independent Research Council, as well as Anders Håkansson's [...]