The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) is reaching out to the gaming industry for consultations on its much anticipated, and long delayed, gambling reform white. Input from gambling stakeholders is the next step in a process that's dragged on since before the Pandemic and whose contents will have a very significant impact on how operators conduct…
Denver Broncos' defensive end Eyioma Uwazurike was suspended earlier this week for betting on NFL games. Uwazurike is the latest in a string of high profile cases of NFL players who simply do not understand how seriously the league takes its gambling policies since the onset of regulated sports betting. Uwazurike was found by the…
888 Holdings has named gaming industry veteran Per Widerström as their new Chief Executive. Widerström brings more than 17 years of international gaming industry experience to the position and is taking one of the UK's larges - a company that is known for massive success and few recent missteps. Widerström's most recent position was as…
The situation at PlayUp went from bad to worse late last week when the New Jersey Department of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) revoked the site's transactional waivers. That move completely halted PlayUp's abilities to accept wagers and put an official stamp on actions the site's operators had already taken. Though PlayUp is officially still in business…
Earlier this week, officials at the New Jersey Department of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) revoked PlayUp's rights' to accept wagers in the Garden State. The move comes after PlayUp officials failed to provide requested financial information to the DGE in the wake of missing a June 29. It's an unusually severe move by New Jersey regulators…
Loot boxes are a feature of modern video games that allow players to win in-game prizes by blindly buying "boxes" that may or may not contain valuable prizes. While video game players love loot boxes, and their slot machine energy, critics have pointed out that they are a likely pathway to problem gambling and want…
At the Gambling.com Group Limited, the idea of "if it isn't broke, don't fix it" is something of a way of life. That might be one of the reasons the operators of Gambling.com are looking to another one-word domain, Casinos.com, into a premium online gaming site. Executives from the Gambling.com Group announced the new site…
Done Bros., trading as Betfred, have been hit with a massive £3.25 million ($4.26 million USD) fine by the Great Britain Gambling Commission (GBGC) for a variety of social and anti-money laundering (AML) violations. It's the latest example of how England's gaming regulators are holding operators to a very high standard, and imposing severe penalties…
Norsk Tipping, Norway’s government-run gambling monopoly has a lot of market advantages that traditional operators could only imagine. The state operator recently said the quiet part about monopolies quite loudly when it recently announced that it will be cutting its overall advertising budget by 20 percent. The order to cut out a fifth of Norsk…
Massachusetts gaming regulators have rejected a request from DraftKings to offer regulated wagers on the controversial, Saudi government-backed LIV Golf. Members of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission were unanimous in their decision and did not mince words when it came to describing exactly why events in the upstart golf tour will not be available to Massachusetts…
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