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Responsible Gambling

Data reveals shocking rise in size of UK black market

The size of the gambling black market in the UK has more than doubled in just two years, from 220,000 users of unlicensed sites to [...]

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Entain

Entain joins Global Gaming Alliance to raise standards and player protection

Entain has joined an alliance of gaming and technology companies calling for higher standards and safeguards to better protect people who enjoy gaming. 

Entain has joined with [...]

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NIESR aims to model cost of gambling harm in Britain

Britain’s Gambling Commission has commissioned the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) to measure the cost of gambling harm.

The research will be funded [...]

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BGC

UK operators to trial Single Customer View problem gambling tool

Britain's Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) will trial a new system that aims to prevent problem gamblers hopping from one site to another.

The ‘Single Customer [...]

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New York Problem Gambling bill aims to establish Advisory Council

Lawmakers in New York have revived efforts to establish a Problem Gambling Advisory Council amid the ongoing expansion of the state’s gambling market.

Similar legislation has [...]

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Spain

Spanish online gambling self-exclusions climb 14% in 2021

New data from Spain’s gambling regulator has revealed a 13.6 per cent increase in the number of people self-excluding themselves from online gambling during 2021.

The [...]

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DraftKings

DraftKings to fund 35 state councils across US to support responsible gambling

New York-listed sports betting operator DraftKings has made a multi-year financial commitment to assist state councils across the United States with their responsible gambling efforts. [...]

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AGLC simplifies access to Self-Exclusion system

Canadian provincial gambling regulator Alberta Gaming, Liquor & Cannabis (AGLC) has introduced changes to simplify its self-exclusion programme. 

Players who want to exclude themselves from the [...]

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Finland

Finland gambling reforms set to come into force on 1 January

The Finnish Government has approved amendments to the country’s Lotteries Act to reduce the negative effects of gambling and strengthen the state monopoly more effectively, [...]

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Netherlands

Netherlands lawmakers agree to gambling advertising curbs

The Netherlands House of Representatives adopted a number of motions Thursday aimed at curbing gambling advertising and increasing consumer protections.

Lawmakers considered 10 gambling-related motions, seven [...]

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Buzz Bingo

Buzz Bingo hit with £780,000 fine for AML and social responsibility failings

Online and retail bingo operator Buzz Bingo has been fined £780,000 by Britain’s Gambling Commission.

The fine relates to Buzz Bingo’s social responsibility and anti-money laundering [...]

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Unibet and SEF collaborate to enhance safer gambling

Kindred Group will provide player responsibility and safer gambling training to one thousand active professional football players and coaches in Sweden as part of its [...]

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