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FATF’s First Gambling AML Report Echoes UK Risk Warnings
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global body that sets anti-money laundering standards, has published its first detailed report on how criminals exploit…
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Ex-Tory Campaign Chief Guilty in Election Betting Case
A former Conservative Party campaign chief and his wife have become the latest defendants to admit criminal gambling offences in the long-running inquiry into…
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ASA Bans Casino Affiliate Ad Shown to Gambling Help Searchers
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a complaint against Smart Gravity Ltd, the company behind the casino comparison site top10onlinecasinoreviews.co.uk, after one of…
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Leicester AGC Fined £150k for Self-Exclusion Failure
The Gambling Commission has fined a Leicester adult gaming centre (AGC) operator £150,000 after finding it failed to give customers access to a self-exclusion…
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QuinnBet to Pay £609,000 Over AML and Player Safety Failures
QuinnBet (Gibraltar) Limited has agreed to pay £609,104 to the UK Gambling Commission after an investigation uncovered a string of anti-money laundering (AML) and…
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Evolution Compliance Failures Surface Months After £4.75m UKGC Fine
A document that Evolution tried to keep private for years has finally become public, and it doesn’t make comfortable reading. The internal report, produced…
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Darts Star’s Prize Draw Deals Expose Regulatory Gap
Darts player Stephen Bunting has come under fire this week after brand deals he holds with two prize draw firms were queried in the…
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New Gross Deposit Limit Rules Land at UK Casinos From 30 Sept
From 30 September 2026, every UK Gambling Commission-licensed online casino must offer players a “deposit limit” that means exactly that: a cap on money…
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bet365 Cuts 340 Jobs as Gambling Tax Rises Bite Industry
bet365 has announced it is cutting around 340 jobs across its operations in Stoke-on-Trent, Gibraltar and Malta, a reduction of roughly 3% of its…
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Study: Black Market Growth Puts Affordability Checks in Spotlight
A new industry-commissioned study has found that Europe’s illegal online gambling market has tripled in size since 2019, reaching an estimated €12 billion in…