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.

Betting and Gaming Council calls for the creation of a gambling ombudsman

In the United Kingdom and the influential Betting and Gaming Council lobby group has called on the government to establish a gambling ombudsman so as to make it easier for land-based and online players to raise...

Entain to premiere immersive ‘sports club’ entertainment experience

British land-based and online sportsbook operator Entain has announced that it will be piloting a new virtual reality experience later in the year that has been designed to allow fans of multiple sports ‘to pla...

Aspire Global inks wide-ranging partnership with soon-to-launch Stake.co.uk

Maltese online casino and sportsbetting platform innovator Aspire Global has announced the signing of a deal that is to see its complete proprietary offering made available to users of the soon-to-launch domain...

Peers for Gambling Reform advocating for United Kingdom iGaming overhaul

In the United Kingdom and a cross-bench group of House of Lords parliamentarians has reportedly declared that the country’s iGaming industry should be extensively overhauled via the implementation of 50 recomme...

Entain expresses an interest in the non-American assets of William Hill

British land-based and online sportsbook operator Entain has reportedly expressed an interest in buying at least some of the non-American assets of William Hill following this brand’s recent purchase by casino ...