Back in 2018, the trendy online banking app, Monzo, created a gambling block that enabled its customers to bar themselves from spending money on gambling products. A few years later, and the feature has had plenty of time to be tested, with the company claiming it was switched on over 275,000 times and less than…
Back in August I wrote about a potential £100 monthly betting limit that had been tabled by a cross party think tank called the Social Market Foundation. This figure was partly based on a report by Dr James Noyes, and the idea seems to have been adapted somewhat by the UKGC and turned into a…
Back in February, popular online betting exchange, Matchbook, had it’s license to trade suspended following some pretty significant failures when it came to customer safety and anti money laundering measures. That was six months ago, and on the 7th August the UKGC announced that the suspension had been lifted, meaning that the company were free…
If you don’t recognise the acronym, it stands for the Gambling Related Harm All Party Parliamentary Group, and they have been reviewing the gambling industry for the past 12 months and the final report is in. It calls for some pretty big changes to be made across the whole industry and, if implemented, could change…
It seems like this is all I ever write about at the moment, but the conduct of yet another big bookie has bee called into question today after Betway landed a fine of £11.6 million. That’s going to leave a mark. The UKGC had been investigating the online bookie for failures in anti-money laundering and…
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…
