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With less than 2 weeks to go until online gambling gets the green light in Sweden, their main regulator, Lotteriinspektionen, has made it clear that no temporary licences will be distributed to those who have failed to gain a proper licence before the deadline. Online gambling goes live on January 1st in Sweden with only operators who have been granted licence prior to […]

The UK based bank, Barclays, have launched a new feature that will allow problem gamblers to block payments made to certain outlets. The bank actually has 5 categories that their customers can “turn off” any attempted payments to. On the list are, groceries, restaurants, petrol, premium rate websites and phone lines, and gambling websites. The new initiative has […]

Some of the biggest gambling firms in the UK have met and made the voluntary decision to stop advertising on TV during live sporting broadcasts. The pressure is on gambling companies in the UK just now as more and more reports find their way onto the front pages of newspapers damning the industry for the impact it is having on children and problem gambling in the […]

With Sweden set to launch into online gambling next year, Lotteriinspektionen (One of Sweden’s regulators) have issued their first set of licences to allow operators to compete within the market. Lotteriinspektionen, which will rename itself Spelinspektionen next year when online gambling goes live in Sweden have recently announced the names of 16 companies who will […]

It has been revealed that UK betting firms now spend much more on online advertisements than they do on any other advertising medium. GambleAware, released numbers this weekend showing that gambling operators spent £1.5 billion on advertising in 2017, which sees the amount spent on marketing rise by well over 50% in the previous 3 years. £747 million was spent on […]

Three online casinos have been fined by the Uk’s regulatory body, as the Gambling Commission looks to implement “effective safeguards” within the industry. In total, nearly £14m has been taken from the three companies as concern continue to grow in the UK over the impact of online gambling. Daub Alderney has been asked to hand over £7.1m, with Casumo having […]

The biggest names in the UK gambling industry met today to discuss measures that are being considered to curb the airtime that their advertisements can receive. The proposed measures seek to ban all pre-watershed advertising on TV; to reduce the number of advertising advertisements to 1 per break; and a complete ban on in-play advertising during live sport. The RGA, […]

Today was always going to be a difficult one the UK’s Prime Minister, Theresa May. The proposed Brexit deal, described by Jeremy Corbyn as a “botched deal” has left the Tory Party split down the middle, with cries for a vote of no-confidence echoing through West Minster. At the time of writing the 48-letter threshold needed to call a vote of No Confidence […]

Despite claiming to have “never gambled on football”, Daniel Sturridge has been charged by English Football’s governing body over allegations of betting offences. The England star spent much of lasts season on loan at West Bromwich Albion as he recovered from a long-term injury and now sees himself back on the fringes of a Liverpool team that is riding high in […]

Sky TV, have promised to dramatically cut down the number of gambling advertisements that will appear between TV shows as of August 2019, just in time of the start of the new Premier League season. As of next year the TV giant will air a maximum of one gambling advert during each add break. Right now, there are currently up to 4 gambling adds being aired during breaks […]