Reino Unido

The gambling industry is increasingly using artificial intelligence to predict consumer habits and personalise promotions to keep gamblers hooked, industry insiders have revealed. Current and former gambling industry employees have described how people’s betting habits are scrutinised and modelled to manipulate their future behaviour. “The industry is using AI...

A empresa de apostas envolvida no incidente “piegate” do ano passado viu a sua licença para oferecer jogos de fortuna ou azar na Grã-Bretanha ser revista pela Gambling Commission. As investigações da Comissão revelaram que a Tabcorp UK Limited, que opera sob a designação de Sunbets, não conseguiu gerir...

The government’s Gambling Commission should pressure Camelot to change the way it runs the national lottery to ensure more money goes to good causes amid rising profits for the company, a cross-party committee of MPs has said. The current lottery licence, which runs until 2023, is overly long and too inflexible,...

A empresa de jogos de fortuna ou azar Skybet vai pagar uma multa de 1 milhão de libras por não ter protegido os consumidores vulneráveis. As falhas dizem respeito a clientes da Skybet que se autoexcluíram do jogo de fortuna ou azar. A autoexclusão é uma ferramenta utilizada pelos...

The Gambling Commission is considering banning people from using their credit cards to place bets. The regulator said on Monday gambling on credit cards “increases the risk that consumers will gamble more than they can afford” and it would “consider prohibiting or restricting the use of credit cards” in order to...

When the Gambling Commission published its long-awaited review of gaming machines and social responsibility measures last week, the final document ran to nearly 50,000 words. Yet the news reports and analysis that followed concentrated almost exclusively on a number, £30, which was taken by some at least to be the...

“Iself-excluded from the major online casinos but there was always a new company I could open with and some of them don’t make it easy to self-exclude,” says Michael, a bricklayer from Glasgow, who started betting on football and greyhounds when he was 15, before developing a serious gambling...

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has given the green light to the Ladbrokes Coral GVC deal after the competitions watchdog said “the deal does not give rise to competition concerns”. It added that they are not close rivals and there are many other providers of betting and gaming...

Thinktank trials scheme to teach children about problems that can ‘wreak havoc on people’s lives’ Lessons about the risks of gambling have been trialled in secondary schools in an attempt to address high levels of gambling among school-age children. Around 25,000 children in the UK are currently classed as problem gamblers, with one...

O fracasso sistémico da gestão a nível de topo na proteção dos consumidores e na prevenção do branqueamento de capitais fará com que o William Hill Group (WHG) pague uma multa de, pelo menos, 6,2 milhões de libras. Uma investigação da Gambling Commission revelou que, entre novembro de 2014...

O operador também recebeu uma advertência formal da Comissão por não ter assegurado que a pessoa responsável pelo marketing da empresa tivesse uma licença de gestão pessoal. Em 17 de agosto de 2016, a Autoridade para as Normas Publicitárias (Advertising Standards Authority) apresentou uma queixa contra a ElectraWorks na...

The takeover of Ladbrokes Coral by GVC, the Isle of Man-based firm behind Foxy Bingo, could trigger up to 1,600 job losses, the companies said, as they published fresh details of a deal worth up to £3.9bn. Online casino company GVC and bookmaker Ladbrokes said up to 6% of their combined 26,800 workforce...

The Co-op is taking on the National Lottery with the launch of its own scratchcards, which will give as much as four times to good causes. The member-owned business says a minimum of 20% from the sale of each of its own-brand cards will go to “local good causes”....

The Competition and Markets Authority has branded online gambling bonus offers as potentially “unfair” and “misleading”. UK.- Online gambling operators have suffered a setback as the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that some bonus offers’ terms are “likely to be unfair, in breach of consumer protection law, and...

Five online casino companies could lose their licence to operate, after industry regulator the Gambling Commission warned they were not doing enough to stop criminals using their websites to launder money. The commission has written to 17 online casino companies, flagging up the “serious nature” of its findings on their controls...