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Football Index, the betting platform that is now suspended, was always regarded as a risky unsustainable enterprise by the broader gambling industry.

William Hill has entered into preliminary talks about a purchase of Probability, the mobile gambling company.

Companies spend plenty of time, effort and money protecting their networks from hackers.

Following the recent consultation on society lotteries, the Parliamentary Committee on Culture, Media and Sport has published a report recommending that rules and regulations affecting society lotteries should be changed.

The EU's Consumer Protection Cooperation Network has initiated coordinated enforcement action against nine video games companies, focusing on in-game virtual currencies, loot boxes, and practices affecting vulnerable consumers. The action follows new Key Principles requiring transparent pricing, fair terms, and protection for children, with parallel investigations examining data collection, addictive design features, and account blocking practices.

The Office of Fair Trading has launched a consultation on proposals to provide protection for children in the marketing of online and app-based games.

This consultation has been long-awaited. It was announced in 2012 to take place in 2013. However, Minsters delayed its opening in order to widen its scope.

Online casino company ProgressPlay Ltd has been fined £1 million by the UK's Gambling Commission for failing to properly assess money laundering and terrorist financing risks.

German gaming group Löwen Play obtained sanction for a scheme of arrangement following a hearing in the High Court on 5 May 2022.

On 5 December 2023, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) entered into a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with Entain, a global online sports betting and gaming business...

Thanks to the generosity of ESL, on the weekend of 3 & 4 March 2018 I was lucky enough to spend time at Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) in Katowice in Poland - the world's largest esports event.

Earlier this year, the Commission asked stakeholders about the steps remote operators should be required to take to identify and protect customers at risk of harm.

Gambling companies Hillside (UK Sports) LP t/a Bet365 ("Bet365"), Coral Interactive (Gibraltar) Ltd ("Coral") and Petfre (Gibraltar) Ltd ("Totesport") were recently challenged by the UK advertising regulator...

This consultation, announced in 2012, had been long awaited. It was due to take place in 2012 to take place in 2013.

On 26 May 2009, Ofcom announced in a statement on the Regulation of Transactional TV Gambling Channels that all transactional TV gambling services or transactional gambling "windows" on TV that invite viewers to pay money to take part in gaming (such as roulette or bingo) or to place bets (for example, on virtual horse or dog races) will be treated as teleshopping.

The Premier League has announced that its member football clubs have collectively agreed to withdraw gambling sponsorship from the front of clubs' matchday shirts, becoming the first sports league in the UK...

Pokémon a fictional world filled with cute bouncy creatures. It's just for kids right? WRONG! If you're anything like me, you may have missed the Pokémon phenomenon when it first hit our screens in the mid-nineties.