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By Ameana Jones

Apple Extends Gambling App Conversion Deadline Again

March 31, 2020

Last year, tech giant Apple issued a directive that required that all of the mobile apps on its App Store be fully native to iOS, its mobile operating system. This was, of course, quite a big change for quite a number of the gambling operators particularly because most of them were reliant on HTML5 games […]

By Alexander Palmer

Credit Card Gambling Banned in the United Kingdom

January 14, 2020

From April 2020, gamblers in the United Kingdom will no longer be allowed to place bets using their credit cards. This is part of the United Kingdom Gambling Commission’s efforts to protect consumers amid rising concerns over increased cases of problem gambling. Once the ban is enforced, the gamblers will only have two options whenever […]

By Grant Mahon

ASA Bans Casino Game Ad That Encouraged Underage Gambling

May 6, 2019

The United Kingdom’s Advertising Standards Authority has recently banned an advert for Monopoly-themed online casino game citing concerns that the ment might appeal to children. This online promotion, therefore, breached the authority’s code by having a design that was very likely to appeal to young people. According to the ASA’s rules, all gambling-related ads should […]

By Tomas Medon

UK’s Self-Funded Problem Gambling Charity Comes Up Short

May 6, 2019

Last Friday, the GambleAware charity announced that its voluntary contributions from gambling operators in the United Kingdom over the 12 months ending March 31 totaled £9.6m. Even though this amount was “marginally more” than the amount that the charity had received in the previous 12-month period, it was well below the £10m target that the […]

By Ameana Jones

UK Government Under Fire for Failing to Back Betting Levy

April 29, 2019

The government of the United Kingdom is under fire for supposedly failing to back a mandatory levy on betting firms. Proposed by a conservative MP, this mandatory levy is supposedly meant to increase funding for addiction treatment. What the Proposal Entails In a PoliticsHome post, Richard Graham the MP for Gloucester and the main proponent […]

By Elaine West

UKGC Unveils New Strategy to Fight Gambling-Related Harm

April 28, 2019

Last Thursday, the United Kingdom’s government through the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) unveiled its brand-new National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms. The three-year program which, as its name suggests, is aimed at reducing the potential harms of gambling and it will involve a “firm regulatory enforcement approach” towards the county’s existing gambling operators. The new […]

By Tomas Medon

UK Gambling Commission Introduces New Online Gaming Rules

February 11, 2019

In a bid to make online gaming safer and fairer, the UK Gambling Commission has recently unveiled a new set of rules that its licenses will be required to adhere to. Published after an open consultation with various industry stakeholders, the new rules which are set to go into effect on May 7 will not […]

By Tomas Medon

Tighter Regulatory Measures Coming to UK’s Gaming Industry

January 14, 2019

Gambling regulation and consumer protection are among the most vastly debated issues in the United Kingdom. The country has been grappling with lots of issues pertaining to problem gambling and gambling addiction with a number of measures being introduced to curb the issue of the past few years. Unfortunately, as much as there has been […]