Financial Sector Called to Take Active Role in Detecting Gambling Harm
The data showing financial deterioration linked to problem gambling often arrives at a bank before it arrives at an operator.…
Author: Sophie Hale
Centralised Self-Exclusion Platform Launches Covering All Licensed Operators
The design question most self-exclusion schemes have not answered is this: what happens when a person in crisis has to…
Regulator Extends Deposit Limit Implementation Deadline by Three Months
The extension is welcome for operators under implementation pressure. It is also the worst possible timing, and most product teams…
Gambling Industry Threatens Judicial Review of Financial Risk Check Framework
The operators who have signalled legal challenge to a financial risk assessment framework are not primarily making a legal argument.…
Independent think-tank calls for pause to financial risk check rollout pending independent evaluation
The industry body’s opposition to mandatory affordability checks was always going to be read as a commercial objection. That framing…
Mandatory financial risk check framework begins national rollout amid industry and political opposition
Two numbers define the argument around mandatory financial risk checks for gambling customers, and neither side is being dishonest. The…
Four simultaneous regulatory changes compress operator adjustment window in major online gambling market
Four regulatory changes arrived simultaneously on the first day of April 2026 in one of the world’s most prominent regulated…
Major wagering market announces landmark advertising reforms; government analysis projects 0.8% spend reduction
The government announced its gambling advertising reform package as landmark action. Six days later, it published its own regulatory impact…
European regulator imposes record fine on operator for unlicensed market access
A European gambling regulator imposed its largest fine to date on an operator that had been accepting customers from its…
Industry opposition to affordability checks intensifies ahead of May implementation
Two months before a major regulated market’s financial risk assessment framework is due to go live, the industry coalition and…