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.
The pastime of placing a bet is alive and well in the United Kingdom with strong numbers indicating that all manner of betting activity is going strong in the regulated market. The industry not only provides a ...
Lottery players from across the United Kingdom have taken to social media this week to express their anger at a coming 25% price increase for tickets into the bi-weekly EuroMillions lottery draws.
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New Jersey legalized online poker back in 2013 and is one of the three states in America to have regulated online poker. The revenue generated from the online poker market in the Garden State has not come anywh...
Attendance and other factors signifying a successful exhibition have been audited and analyzed showing ICE, which was held in London last February, has clocked some impressive numbers.
Fusion, a research fir...
Reputable Australian gaming group Tatts revealed that the company sealed an A$210 million deal with well-established Austrian gaming provider Novomatic for its UK subsidiary Talarius. The company’s UK slots bus...
Grosvenor Casino Portsmouth, located in Portsmouth, in the Gunwharf Quays retail outlet, will soon be revealing its £600k facelift received from the Rank Group Plc. (RNK:LN).
The Grosvenor Casinos and Mecca ...
British bookmaker Betfred has reached a settlement with the Gambling Commission regulator that will see it pay a fine of over $1.15 million for failing to observe proper anti-money laundering procedures.
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Earlier their week, Grosvenor Casinos decided to launch a new casino cab, calling the experience the smallest traveling casino in the world. In efforts to promote the brand’s online gambling options as well as ...
Players of the National Lottery in the United Kingdom will soon be able to check their lottery numbers instantly via a mobile device once a new QR product being created by Camelot is complete. The operator of t...
Grosvenor Casinos in the United Kingdom have been waiting to add a new casino management system known as Neon, provided by Playtech Retail, a gaming software supply company who recently finished adding Neon to ...
This week, two top United Kingdom betting firms, Gala Coral, and Ladbrokes are expected to hear if the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will allow the proposed merger of the two companies.
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Only days after seeing his 5,000-to-1 Leicester City soccer side claim the English Premier League title, Thai retail mogul Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha won a multi-million prize at a local casino.
The founder an...
With fifty five gaming venues located across the United Kingdom, the Rank Group is the largest chain operator of casinos in the country. Operating the Grosvenor Casinos, the Rank Group has now partnered with Pl...
SkyCity Entertainment Group, a New Zealand and Australia casino operator, says it won’t instigate talks but would consider a takeover by Aussie rival The Star Entertainment Group conditional upon the lead being...
The new owners of Les Ambassadeurs Club, London’s high-end gaming venue, plan on focusing even more of the business on the Asian high-roller market.
Hong Kong-listed Landing International Development Ltd (05...