by Brian Taylor | Oct 21, 2026 | News
▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼ News Enforcement The company behind All British Casino and six other UK sites will pay £900,000 after the Gambling Commission found it held up customers’ withdrawals, missed obvious signs of harm and didn’t follow its own money laundering checks....
by Brian Taylor | Oct 14, 2026 | News
News Exchanges Mergers & deals Two of the oldest names in exchange betting are now one. Matchbook has bought Betdaq, Betdaq’s own exchange shuts for trading next week, and British punters have one fewer place to bet against each other rather than the house....
by Brian Taylor | Oct 7, 2026 | News
News Enforcement The owner of Grosvenor Casinos will pay just over £5 million after the regulator found anti-money laundering and safer gambling failures across 51 venues. It’s the biggest settlement we’ve seen this year, and the first big one to land...
by Brian Taylor | Sep 30, 2026 | News
News Bingo & licensing Walk into some high-street “bingo” venues, and you’ll struggle to find the actual bingo. New figures show slot machines now earn almost twice what bingo itself does across the sector, and one campaigner has called the whole...
by Brian Taylor | Sep 23, 2026 | News
News The high street Fred Done has written an obituary for the British bookie four years early, telling the Financial Times that by 2030 there’ll be none left at all. It’s the starkest warning yet in the great tax war of 2026. It’s also contradicted...
by Brian Taylor | Sep 16, 2026 | News
News Tax & the Budget The Treasury is weighing a doubling of Machine Games Duty in next month’s Budget, and Entain has written to the Prime Minister forecasting shuttered shops and sixteen thousand lost jobs. Somewhere between the Chancellor’s...
