The gambling industry in the UK is very prosperous, including the popular traditional national lottery and the historic horse racing betting, which is renowned worldwide for its horse betting culture. Additionally, the UK has many legal casinos that offer a variety of gambling activities. The govern
The UK Gambling Commission has announced that the implementation deadline for the second phase of the new deposit limit regulations has been postponed from June 30 to September 30, giving licensed operators an additional three months to meet new technical and compliance requirements. This decision s
The UK Gambling Commission has put the brakes on financial risk assessment. After the board meeting on May 21, the UKGC's statement to iGB was restrained—having received a lot of evidence, but the assessment is not yet complete, and further communication will follow. This translates to: the controve
Playtech CEO Mor Weizer described the company's performance in the first four months before 2026 as an "excellent start" in a trading update released this week. The Americas segment has become the core engine of this growth momentum—with the return on investment in the US market accelerating, and th
Evoke and Bally's Intralot's ongoing acquisition negotiations have been extended by another three weeks. On Monday, just as the original deadline expired, Evoke announced that the final deadline for Bally's Intralot's acquisition offer was extended from May 18 to June 8 at 5 PM (British Summer Time)
htmlThe UK's remote gambling tax has doubled from 21% to 40% six weeks ago, and many people's previously feared avalanche-like collapse has not yet appeared in the public financial reports. Leading operators speak cautiously but do not show signs of collapse—Entain is cautious, Evoke acknowledges t
A group of 19 bipartisan MPs recently wrote directly to Culture Minister Lisa Nandy, requesting an urgent suspension of the financial risk assessment plan that the UK Gambling Commission is set to launch later this month. The letter, obtained and made public by the "Racing Post," represents MPs from
The UK Gambling Commission recently released an analysis that has uncovered a long-neglected group—those who do not gamble themselves, but are caught in the whirlwind of gambling behavior by those around them. According to the analysis of the 2024 UK gambling survey data, nearly 9% of adults (about
In the past six months, the UK's regulated online casino market has faced a true perfect storm. New regulations that landed in January—a 10x betting turnover cap and a ban on mixed product promotions—combined with a 40% remote gambling tax that took effect on April 1st, have hit the entire industry
The UK government officially unveiled the largest independent gambling harm research institution in the country on Thursday. Named the "UK Gambling Harm Research Evidence Centre," the new institution is funded by 20% of the statutory gambling levy provided by UK Research and Innovation, with a grant
The UK government's interdepartmental framework to combat illegal gambling has officially surfaced. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport recently disclosed online the priorities and membership of the much-anticipated Illegal Gambling Task Force, locking this temporary measure, set fo
The UK's cross-party gambling reform group recently issued a strongly worded report, recommending a complete ban on gambling advertising—prohibiting placements before 9 PM, ending sports sponsorships, limiting influencer marketing, and forbidding the embedding in children's games. Each point sounds
htmlThe moment the UK remote gambling tax doubled from 21% to 40%, the fate of Evoke was rewritten. This gambling group, which owns brands like William Hill, 888, and Mr Green, is now discussing a sale with Bally's Intralot at a price of about 0.5 pounds per share, whereas not long ago, just the no
On May 7th, Sarah Gardner, the acting CEO of the UK Gambling Commission, attended the annual conference of the Bingo Association and released a series of signals for increased regulation. Among the most notable was a new stringent regulation—starting from July 29, 2026, all offline gambling venues m
British gambling giant Entain issued a sharply worded open letter to the independent football regulatory body on Thursday, demanding an official ban on top league clubs such as the Premier League from accepting sponsorships from unlicensed gambling operators in the UK before the start of the 2026-27
A mobile application designed to help gambling players monitor their behavior in real time and reduce compliance friction for operators is set to debut in the UK market. Named GamScore, the app is co-developed by former Betfair executive Josh Apiafi and Phill Adams, founder of the AI-driven licensed
The UK raffle market has long been seen as a semi-alien existence on the edge of the gambling industry—part lottery, part e-commerce spectacle, and part social media advertising experiment. Traditional gambling executives once regarded it as informal, volatile, and a fringe category parallel to real
