Month: September 2025

The online casino industry is one of the most competitive spaces in iGaming. For decades, established operators such as Bet365, 888Casino and William Hill have dominated the UK market with their reputation, resources and loyal player bases. But in 2025, we’re seeing an interesting shift with more and more players trying brand new online casinos, they are not only entering the scene but also successfully…

For years, bonuses and promotions have been the foundation of online casino marketing. Free spins, reload bonuses, deposit matches, and loyalty schemes have been used to grab attention, boost deposits, and tempt inactive players back. But here’s the problem: players are becoming somewhat desensitised. With casinos not on Gamstop offering such hugely appealing offers, the standard offers at other casino sites lose their appeal…

The UK Gambling Commission has hit Maple International Ventures Limited who operate Lottomart.com after a diligent review which saw substantial weaknesses in its systems. The fine for the operator is £360,000.  The UKGC found various failings: weak risk assessments that ignored threats like mule accounts and organised crime, inadequate customer checks where unverified accounts were allowed to keep gambling above the set financial limits.…

The UK Gambling Commission has announced it will be closing the group that oversees its National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harm on the 19th September. The National Strategy was launched back in 2019 to help the UK’s approach to problem gambling but now a new body will be born which will have greater support, upcoming research and regulatory changes. The support group helped shape…

LiveScore Group has joined up with X (formerly Twitter) and its AI arm called xAI to use artificial intelligence and real time data to improve its betting services and sports media.  The new partnership means that Live Score will get access to X’s data and content APIs which allows the site to give you breaking news, real time conversations and fan sentiment. The new…

There has been a new CEO of the Gaming Compliance International (GCI) appointed and he is already a well known name in the sports integrity department. Matt Holt is the founder and former CEO of US Integrity (IC360) which is a company that spots suspicious betting activity. They would work with leagues, regulators and operators.  Holt has also previously worked as the COO of…

Malaysian officials are set for firm discussions with Meta (Facebook’s parent company) to debate the large rise in illegal gambling related ads on the platform. This is set for 22nd September. The key concern that Fahmi Fadzil stresses is Facebook allowing ads paid with credit cards even when the content is illegal in Malaysia. The vast majority of content removed from the platform us…

The UK Crown Prosecution Services (CPS) has charged a total of eleven leaders of GVC Holdings which is now called Entain. The charges are over business activities between 2011 and 2018 in Turkey. The charges people face are tax evasion, fraudulent trading and bribery. Kenny Alexander who was a former CEO of the group as well as having some well known racehorses and Lee…

The Dutch government will not bring in new policies, the tax state secretary Eugene Heijnen is expecting a fall in gambling revenue but that will not change anything currently.  The gambling taxes in the Netherlands changed on the 1st January 2025 to 34.2% from 30.5% and will increase again but not until 2026 which is expected to be 37.8%. The original forecast for revenue…