When Michael Dugher, the chief exec of the Betting and Gaming Council (BGC), warned the government they risked “sleep walking into a black market disaster” if regulations were tightened too severely, it created quite a stir. Anti gambling campaigners accused him of exaggerating the risk posed by black market gambling websites in order to influence…
If someone offered you £8.1 billion for your business would you sell it? Entain (the new brand name of GVC) wouldn’t. MGM Resorts yesterday put the huge offer on the table, but were knocked back by the owners of brands such as Ladbrokes, Coral, and Betdaq. Entain believe the offer, representing £13.83 per share, does…
Well that’s a turn up for the books! When he was deputy leader of the Labour party, Tom Watson was severally critical of the gambling industry, calling for serious change on a number of occasions. Now, just a year after resigning due to not getting along with Jeremy Corbyn, he has signed a contract with…
Comparing odds before choosing where to place your bet is an integral part of the betting process for many punters, and Oddschecker is a site that allows them to do just that. All of the big brands are on there, or at least they were until July 9th, because GVC have pulled three of their…
It’s only been a few weeks since a group of cross-party MP’s looking into gambling related harm began a campaign to reduce online gambling stakes to a maximum of £2 – to match the regulations imposed on FOBT’s earlier in the year – and already the gambling industry has responded. 10 of the UK’s most…
It hasn’t been a good week at GVC Holdings HQ. The holding company that owns both Ladbrokes and Coral has been found by the UKGC to have failed to carry out social responsibility interactions going back to 2014. The worst part for them is that they didn’t even run the two bookies until 2017 so…
