Company Reports

Today, the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) made an announcement to officially name Allwyn Entertainment Ltd as its preferred applicant for the fourth operating licence of the National Lottery. As Casino Guardian already reported, the UK National Lottery is among the largest lotteries on a global scale. Its current operating licence is set to expire in 2024, so the country’s gambling regulator has been expected to announce its choice for the fourth licence holder. Since its official launch in 1994, the players of the National Lottery have collectively accounted for over…

The news that the betting sector will once again play an important part in the Cheltenham Festival came as no surprise to anyone. The Jockey Club has revealed that 250 bookmakers are expected to be on site of one of the largest events in the sector in 2022. Back in 2019, bookmakers from Coral projected that the market would generate approximately £500 million in the same year. But while many people see the Cheltenham Festival as a reason to have some fun while betting, the annual premier horse racing event…

Flutter Entertainment has revealed it will become the first gambling operator in the UK to link employee payments with its new global responsible gambling initiative, called Play Well. The measure that is using a holistic approach across all of the gambling operator’s brands to tackle harmful and dangerous gambling behaviour. As part of the initiative, players will be able to use information, tools and support enabling a positive, entertaining and safe experience so that the negative effect on customers is minimised as much as possible. As revealed in an interview…

The main advertising regulator in the UK scolded Paddy Power for an ad featuring an unclear and unintelligible voiceover announcement of the terms and conditions of its offer. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a radio ad for the Flutter Entertainment-owned sportsbook services heard on December 12th, 2021. The advert promoted the Bet Builder offer of Paddy Power but, according to the complainant, the voiceover covering the terms and conditions of the offer at the end of the ad was too quick and at a low volume that made…

Today, the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) announced that the online gambling operator Bonne Terre Limited, which trades as Sky Betting and Gaming, will have to pay a monetary fine of £1.17 million because it found the operator to have been sending emails promoting its services to customers who had self-excluded from gambling or chose not to receive marketing materials. The UKGC’s investigation showed that on November 2nd, 2021 the online gambling company distributed a promotional offer for its Sky Vegas brand to a total of 249,159 customers who had chosen…

Mansion Group announced a decision to suspend its operations in the sports betting vertical so that it becomes more focused on its online gambling products and content available to customers. The brand is set to make a move forward and focus primarily on running casino brands after fully withdrawing its presence from the sports betting market by ceasing all sportsbook operations it currently runs, including MansionBet, which has been one of its flagship products. The gambling company officially revealed that its MansionBet online gambling platform will close down on March…

The Perth Casino Royal Commission, which got established in 2021, has delivered its final report about a year later. No matter what recommendations are made by the Commission, the Government of Western Australia has yet to decide when it will make the findings of the report public. The report of the Perth Royal Commission comes 4 months later than its original deadline in November 2021, which was extended after the three commissioners – Leville Owen, Colin Murphy and Lindy Jenkins – requested for such an extension, citing the pressure of…

The largest casino operator in Australia – Crown Resorts – has been taken to court by the country’s financial watchdog over allegations of serious and widespread violations of counter-terrorism financing and anti-money laundering legislation. The CEO of the Australian Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC), Nicole Rose, issued a statement associated with the claims that the aforementioned breaches were systemic, alleging that the staff of the Australian gambling giant overlooked suspicious transactions initiated by so-called VIP customers, as affluent high-rollers are also known. In its claims, the country’s Transaction regulatory…

A British online gambling operator is set to pay a massive £9.4-million fine after the country’s gambling regulatory body found it had violated some social responsibility and money laundering laws. The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) reported that it has held an investigation that found money laundering and social responsibility failures which were the reason why 888 UK Limited is facing the aforementioned monetary fine. The company, which currently operates 78 online gambling platforms, has also received an official warning from the gambling watchdog and is set to undergo an extensive…

One of the frontrunners for the operating licence of the UK National Lottery has pledged to double the amount redirected as donations to charity organisations that have been made by Camelot over the past decade. Allwyn, which is currently one of the fastest-growing euro lottery companies and a gambling market leader in the Czech Republic, has made a promise to donate a total of £38 billion to good causes in the following 10 years in case the UK gambling regulatory body grants it the operating permit for the National Lottery.…