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.
Europe’s first ever integrated casino, hotel, shopping, conference, cinema, and entertainment complex opens today with a “coming to life” daytime-only shopping experience. The entertainment and event center sta...
Genting Group's highly anticipated Resorts World Birmingham will begin a phased opening of their £150 million property in the populous city on October 21st. The company has mega-resorts in Manila, Singapore, Ge...
Ladbrokes has sealed a £1.35 billion debt facility with several banks in order to provide financing ahead of the merger with Gala Coral. The merged company is going to be the biggest bookmaker in the United Kin...
Resorts World Birmingham has announced a phased roll out launch beginning with retail store grand openings on October 21, and casino gaming beginning on Monday the 26th.
Doors will open at 10am and patrons w...
According to a filing on Bursa Malaysia (formerly Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange) this week, Genting Malaysia Bhd will acquire all shares of Genting Alderney Ltd for US$10.9 million, streamlining its UK gaming bus...
Genting Casinos is getting ready to host an exclusive poker tournament next week at the Palm Beach Casino, located in the Mayfair district of London. The special tournament is a Super High Roller event and will...
Unibet Group Plc has finalized the purchase of online gambling business, Stan James Group Plc after having satisfied the contractual requirements of the GBP 19 million sale today.
The Stan James Group Plc wi...
The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) recently completed an investigation into Grosvenor Casinos' (Rank Group) anti-money laundering policies and found them to be weak. The broader investigation was spurred by look...
Ireland’s gambling authority has released 27 remote gaming licences that allow operators to offer their services to Irish players. All licences are valid for two years and after that period licensees will have ...
A merger agreement between Ireland’s largest bookmaker, Paddy Power and Betfair, one of the United Kingdom's largest online gaming operators, will create an online betting and gaming company that will be one of...
Resorts World Birmingham has been playing their cards very close to the chest and not releasing an opening date for the £150m integrated leisure and entertainment complex due to premiere "sometime mid-2015". Bu...
Rank Group has increased its profit thanks to a rise in sales at both its land based bingo clubs and Internet gaming websites. The company that operates 58 casinos and 90 Mecca bingo clubs announced a pre-tax p...
Opening a sportsbook won’t be part of daily fantasy site DraftKings broad range of overseas expansion plans according to its Chief Executive Officer Jason Robins who said, “We know what we do, and that’s daily ...
Manchester United has formed a partnership with Donaco International Limited, according to an August 19, 2015 announcement. Donaco is a casino resort company located in Asia. It is the first official partnershi...
According to the legal response filed on Friday, the Borgata admits to destroying the playing cards integral to the lawsuits and counter-lawsuits between Phil Ivey, his co-defendant, and the Atlantic City casin...