United Kingdom

If you count the thousands of betting shops along with the casinos, the United Kingdom offers more gambling facilities than the United States, the country with the most casinos in the world. The United Kingdom Gambling Commission (UKGC) administers one of the world's largest and most robust regulatory and enforcement frameworks in existence, so the Gambling Commision features prominently in our reporting about the UK. London is also home to some of the most important conferences and trade shows for online and terrestrial casinos so were cover those as well.

Mergers and acquisitions occur in Great Britain with greater regularity as the industry consolidates and big fish eat smaller fish. Not all partnerships result in one of the entities being consumed, so we stay on top of news about UK-based and licensed online casino game developers as software agnostic platforms dominate the industry.

Entain facing High Court case over Ladbrokes problem gambling allegations

Only two weeks after being hit with a record-setting Gambling Commission fine of £17 million ($20.4 million) and British land-based and online casino and sportsbetting behemoth Entain is reportedly back in the ...

BetDex Labs Incorporated hails Monaco Protocol utilization

British open-source blockchain technologies firm BetDex Labs Incorporated has announced that its BetDex Exchange-branded sportsbetting application will soon launch utilizing the permissionless and decentralized...

Gambling Commission fines SpreadEx Limited to the tune of £1.36 million

In the United Kingdom and the Gambling Commission regulator has announced that iGaming operator SpreadEx Limited is to pay a fine of £1.36 million ($1.61 million) for numerous social responsibility and anti-mon...

Pragmatic Play continues global expansion strategy via new multi-vertical iGaming deals with sports betting operators Hollywoodbets and Smashup

In its latest two birds with one stone move, Pragmatic Play has inked separate multi-vertical agreements for its Slots, Live Casino and Virtual Sports portfolios on two different continents with two sports bett...

Push Gaming unleashes new highly immersive post-apocalyptic video slot via Mad Cars

Vroom, vroom! You'll want to buckle up for Push Gaming's new post-apocalyptic online slot release, Mad Cars, where modified vehicles with spikes and machine guns compete in what has become known to those in the...

Norwich City pledges to forever ditch ‘betting brand’ shirt sponsorship deals

In the United Kingdom and Championship football club Norwich City has reportedly announced that it will ‘never again have a betting brand’ serve as the principal sponsor of its match-day shirts and now intends ...