The social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, has banned gambling firms from using their paid promotions offering. It means that betting operators will no longer be able to run targeted, paid-for ads on the platform. While they will still be allowed to advertise on X, all promotional posts must be ‘organic’ – i.e. […]
Paddy Power Joins Betting Shop ID Verification Scheme – But Is It a Back Door to Affordability Checks?
Paddy Power have signed a controversial partnership agreement with ClearStake, the banking verification specialists. As part of the agreement, Paddy Power shop staff will be able to verify the financial details of their retail customers via their banking apps. But critics of the deal claim that the Irish firm are simply bringing their detested affordability […]
Five Former Entain Employees Charged with Gambling Fraud in Turkey
Kenny Alexander, the former CEO of Entain, is one of eleven people that have been arrested and charged with a string of offences in Turkey. Those include fraud, bribery, income tax evasion and perverting the course of justice; each believed to be connected to gambling services that ran in the country between 2011 and 2018. […]
Alarming New Data Reveals Black Market Sites Took 71% of All Bets Placed in Europe in 2024
The illegal gambling black market poses one of the greatest threats to legitimate operators, new data reveals. In 2024, a staggering 71% of all bets placed in Europe went to black market operators. That, in pure financial terms, is a total betting handle of some €80.6 billion (around £70 billion) that unlicensed firms have taken […]
Could Gambling Act’s ‘Aim to Permit’ Be Outlawed to Tackle Surge of Adult Gaming Centres?
The Labour Party is coming under increasing pressure from within its own ranks to remove the statutory ‘Aim to Permit’ loophole from its updated take on the Gambling Act. Dawn Butler, the Labour MP for Brent East, has called upon her government to end Aim to Permit, which she believes allows betting firms to open […]