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Bookie Racing Sponsorship Down 17% a Year After Tax Rise
New analysis published by the Racing Post this week shows that bookmaker sponsorship of British horse racing has fallen sharply in the year since…
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Informa’s £2.24bn Deal for ICE Owner Clarion: What It Means
Informa, the London-listed events and publishing group, has agreed to buy Clarion Events, the company behind the ICE gambling trade show, in a deal…
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Winvia’s £19m Buyout Exposes Prize Draw Sector’s Grey Area
Winvia Entertainment, the London-listed group behind the Best of the Best competition site, has agreed to buy two rival UK prize-draw businesses, The Online…
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Ex-UKGC Policy Chief Tim Miller Lands Role at Spectrum Gaming
Tim Miller, who spent a decade as the UK Gambling Commission’s executive director of policy and research, has added a role as senior regulatory…
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Gibraltar Regulator Hits Back as UK Tax Rises Trigger Job Cuts
Gibraltar’s gambling commissioner has moved to reassure the industry that the territory is not facing a “terminal decline”, after a string of redundancy announcements…
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MGM Takeover U-Turn: What It Means for BetMGM UK Players
Barry Diller’s media group People Inc has walked away from its $18bn plan to take MGM Resorts International private, confirming this week that the…
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Brazil’s Betting Ban: What It Means for UK-Listed Firms
Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has signed an order banning the entire licensed online betting and casino sector from operating in the…
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Badenoch Warns Gambling Tax Rises Risk ‘Doom Loop’
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has waded into the debate over gambling taxation, warning that further increases to gambling duties risk pushing licensed operators…
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Ex-UKGC Policy Chief Launches Global Anti-Black Market Firm
Tim Miller, who spent a decade as the Gambling Commission’s executive director of policy and research before leaving the regulator this month, has launched…
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Merkur Casino UK Hires Ex-Regulator as Compliance Chief
MERKUR Casino UK has confirmed that Dan Whitlam, a former Gambling Commission director of compliance, will take over as the operator’s Head of Compliance…