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.
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...
In 2015 seven states in the U.S. considered legalizing online gambling, none of the bills got off the floor. Currently online casino games and poker are only available inside the borders of three states and one...
Camelot announced today that the biggest single prize in the UK Lotto game's history has been claimed for £35,133,888. Although not as large a total prize as the previous record set in January of £66m, only one...
NYX Gaming Group has managed to come to an agreement with OpenBet and confirmed it will be taking over the company for $270 million; the betting technology outfit is currently owned by the hedge funders Vitruvi...
Now that the €10 billion merger of Paddy Power and Betfair has been completed and the company had enough time to do calculations, the new entity, Paddy Power Betfair, revealed plans to cut around 10% of its wor...
A competition to earn the right to create a new casino along the Royal Pier Waterfront of Southampton has finally come to an end, with the Aspers group being named the winner. For years, companies vied for the ...
Online casinos and bingo rooms licensed in the United Kingdom may need to adjust their budgets and promotions to take into account a 15% general betting duty to be levied on them beginning August 17, 2017. Chan...
UK’s biggest bookmaker William Hill has reportedly teamed up with NYX Gaming Group to buy betting technology provider OpenBet. According to information that hit the public, OpenBet owner requests $300 million f...
Rather than jail time, suspended sentences were given to three men who were part of a gang that cheated the Grosvenor Victoria Casino out of thousands of pounds.
The Evening Standard reported that the gang n...