by Brian Taylor | Jun 10, 2026 | News
News · Industry figures The headline number £4.5 billion Total gross gambling yield for October to December 2025, up 2.27% on the same quarter a year earlier. A green number, then. Possibly the last one the industry sees for a while. The Gambling Commission has...
by Brian Taylor | Jun 3, 2026 | News
News & opinion M&A UK gambling Bally’s seems to have looked at the UK gambling market, seen tax pressure, regulation, debt, nervous investors and squeezed operators, then decided this is exactly the moment to go shopping. That’s either clever, brave, or a bit...
by Brian Taylor | May 27, 2026 | News
News & opinion UKGC Financial checks The Gambling Commission has delayed its decision on financial risk assessments. Officially, this is a pause while the board completes its assessment of the evidence. Unofficially, it feels like the regulator has walked up to...
by Brian Taylor | May 20, 2026 | News
The UK government has now set out the terms of reference for its Illegal Gambling Taskforce, and on paper, it’s aimed at exactly the right weak points: payments, advertising and enforcement. My worry is not that the targets are wrong. My worry is that black market...
by Brian Taylor | May 6, 2026 | News
The Gambling Commission has tried to calm one of the loudest fears around new financial risk checks: that players will suddenly have to hand over more bank statements, payslips or extra ID documents because they’ve hit a regulatory trigger. Tim Miller’s recent...
by Brian Taylor | Apr 29, 2026 | News
That phrase carries some weight. Once politicians start calling gambling advertising a public health issue, the debate shifts. It stops being only about whether an individual advert is misleading, annoying or badly placed. It becomes a question about population-level...
