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14 February 2020

Betting and Gaming Council Call for Crackdown on Black Market

The Betting and Gaming Council (“BGC”), the single industry group which represents British-licensed gambling operators, has called for the Government...

Lucy Paterson

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5 February 2020

Changing Mindsets

After a marked absence from ICE, Neil McArthur, the CEO of the Gambling Commission, gave a keynote speech at the...

Francesca Burnett-Hall

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3 February 2020

Gambling Commission Consults on Remote Key Equipment Changes

All online gambling businesses providing facilities for gambling have remote gambling equipment, known as “key equipment”. This is recorded in Schedule...

Francesca Burnett-Hall

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20 January 2020

Advice to the Gambling Commission on Actions to Reduce Online Harms

The Gambling Commission’s independent advisers, the Advisory Board for Safer Gambling (“ABSG”) and the Digital Advisory Panel (“DAP”) were tasked...

Bahar Alaeddini

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19 January 2020

NHS Concerns Over Gambling

On 14 January 2020, the head of mental health services in England, Claire Murdoch, penned a bold letter to the...

Bahar Alaeddini

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17 January 2020

Raising Standards: Gambling Commission Working Groups

On 2 October 2019, Neil McArthur delivered a speech to CEOs at a breakfast briefing in London in which he...

Michelle French

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6 January 2020

New Year, New LCCP: RET Payments

A new version of Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice (“LCCP”) has been published, which came into effect on 1...

Michelle French

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6 January 2020

The Gambling Act 2005: “Analogue Legislation in a Digital Age”

The Gambling Act 2005, which came into force on 1 September 2007 before the digital development of smart phones, online...

Michelle French

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3 January 2020

John Hagan’s Interview @ G2E 2019

Jan Jeffcoat interviews John Hagan at the Play+ Media Booth at Global Gaming Expo (G2E) in Las Vegas on 16...

Harris Hagan

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