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8 April 2020

GAMSTOP, Prophet and Sportito – A Cautionary Tale

GAMSTOP is a multi-operator self-exclusion scheme which enables players to restrict their online gambling by self-excluding from online operators with...

Lucy Paterson

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7 April 2020

Consultation on LCCP Information Requirements, Regulatory Returns and Industry Statistics

Gambling Commission licensees are required to report certain information to the Gambling Commission in accordance with the Licence Conditions and...

Jessica Wilson

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6 April 2020

Banks Tackling Gambling-Related Harm

Last year the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (“DCMS”) ministers met with banks and gambling operators to discuss...

Lucy Paterson

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3 April 2020

No Love in the Time of Coronavirus

On 1 April 2020 the Gambling Commission published its annual business plan for 2020-2021. Inevitably this was drafted prior to...

Julian Harris

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2 April 2020

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”

Training means “the action of teaching a person or animal a particular skill or type of behaviour”. It has specific...

Bahar Alaeddini

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2 April 2020

Update on Gambling Commission Industry Working Groups

On 2 October 2019, Neil McArthur, CEO of the Gambling Commission, delivered a speech at a CEO Breakfast Briefing in London in...

Bahar Alaeddini

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31 March 2020

Productivity in This Time of Crisis

The widespread closure of land-based gambling businesses, coupled with the impact of a hiatus in sport may, however undesirably, present...

David Whyte

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31 March 2020

PMLs: Maintenance or Renewal?

We have encountered some misunderstanding, not least on the part of the Gambling Commission (the “Commission”), as to the nature...

Julian Harris

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27 March 2020

Government Help for Gambling Businesses

In an effort to help businesses struggling in the face of the global coronavirus pandemic, the Government announced, on 17...

Francesca Burnett-Hall

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27 March 2020

Betting Without Sports & Product Diversification

Following the recent cancellation of almost all sporting events, and with future cancellations and postponements looking inevitable, licensees may be...

Lucy Paterson

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