The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) is reporting a sizable drop in gambling activity across the country as the COVID-19 quarantine drags on. The August 2020 dip suggests that gambling critics were a bit off base in their predictions about what would happen to locked down punters. Overall, August 2020 gambling activity was down across the…
The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has had its eyes on VIP programs for quite a while and had, in recent years, seemed as though they may ax the popular marketing schemes entirely. Fortunately for UK-facing gambling operators, the UKGC has decided that they can retain VIP programs but there are some important restrictions that could…
The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) is, seemingly, fighting back against accusations that it is a "toothless" organization by suspending Genesis Global's UK gambling license. The action, which was announced Monday and is effective immediately, impacts at least a dozen gaming sites associated with the global brand. It's a big move thatcould cause big problems for…
Stephen Cohen has been approved to serve another four-year term as the Commissioner of the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC). That's great news if you like getting a full response to your crazy-pants complaint about gambling advertisements, but not as great if you're in charge of running a UK-facing gambling operation. Cohen's re-commission to the UKGC…
The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) is, once again, throwing down a new set of rules and regulations designed to help problem gamblers from getting in over their heads during the country's months-old COVID-19 lockdown. The new rules include some pretty onerous requirements surrounding reverse withdrawals, bonus offers, and player monitoring. These new guidelines were introduced…
The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) is slapping Betway, an online gambling operators, with a record £11.6 million ($14.6 million USD) fine for a series of compliance failures that included accepting funds from dubious sources. It's not the UKGC's first multi-million dollar fine but it does show, once again, that the Commission is very serious about…
Stakers Ltd., a Swiss-based gambling operator working under a UK gaming license, has its license suspended by the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) this week. It's the third time this year the increasingly aggressive UKGC has taken such an action concerning one of their licensees. Details of the Stakers Ltd. suspension are currently pretty vague and…
The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) is easily one of the busiest governmental agencies in the world when it comes to doling out fines to scofflaw gambling operators. To wit, this week the UKGC handed out a massive £3 million ($3.86 million USD) fine to an operator called Mr. Green for what it described as massive…
The day the UK-facing gambling industry has long feared has finally arrived. Starting April 14, the use of credit cards for almost all gambling transactions will be banned by order of the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC). To say that this will have a major impact on UK gambling operators is something of an understatement. The…
Are UK gambling operators addicted to the free spending problem gamblers in their respective VIP programs? That's the conclusion of a secret report by the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) that was recently reported on by the Guardian Newspaper. According to the Guardian, the UKGC recently took a deep look at VIP gamblers at a number…
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