Recent content by bill_collins

Must admit that advice is more important than it sounds. The measure explicitly permits the transactions needed to close operations and refund bettors. So an operator refusing to pay out isn't shielded by the ban - the ban carves out exactly the payment they're refusing to make. @Luciana.29 if...

That's a reasonable reading and it may also just be procedure. En banc is the normal next step and skipping it can count against you. New Jersey has already petitioned the Supreme Court from the other direction, and Justice Alito extended their filing deadline back in July. So the question is...

Legally it turns on one word: swap. A prediction market sells you a contract that settles at $1 if an event happens and $0 if it doesn't, and you trade that contract with other users on an exchange. The exchange takes a fee rather than a margin. Kalshi's position is that these are swaps under...

A £50 test proves the site can pay £50. It tells you nothing about £5,000, because the thresholds that trigger enhanced verification sit well above test amounts. That's not an argument against doing it. It's an argument against concluding much from it passing.

The second study is the uncomfortable one and it's had the least coverage. 29,724 students aged 15 and over were surveyed. 28% of the 15 to 17 year olds had gambled in the previous twelve months, in a country where it's illegal for them to do so at all. For the over-18s it was 39%. The...

The number's real but it's been mangled in the retelling, and the actual figures are worth having straight. The Dutch regulator looked at 15,761 newly opened online accounts that had betting activity in May 2025 and tracked them for three months. Of those, 5,244 belonged to people aged 18 to...

Gross means every deposit counts, with net winnings taken out of the calculation entirely. Say your limit is £100 a month. You deposit £100, win £60, withdraw it, then deposit that £60 back. Under a net calculation some operators treated you as having deposited £100 overall, so you could keep...

Well it matters more than you'd think and the Commission put out a warning about this three weeks ago. More than a quarter of all complaints to its Contact Centre are about identity verification. It's also one of the most common things going to ADR. The finding was that a number of licensees...

The bonuses shrank because remote gaming duty went from 21% to 40% in April. Promotional spend is the first line anyone cuts when the tax on the margin nearly doubles. Disclosure rules cost a developer a fortnight.

One correction to something up-thread, because it matters if anyone acts on it. The five material terms now have to be visible at the point you claim, not buried behind a link. Wagering requirement, maximum bet while the bonus is live, eligible games and their weighting, the time window, and the...

That's not what I said. He got £150 out of a £50 bonus. Under the old rules he would have been three quarters of the way through £2,000 of turnover and still holding bonus funds he'd never convert. The offer got worse relative to what it looked like. It got better relative to what it actually was.

Unfortunately the cap is legal and it's disclosed, so there's nothing to complain to anyone about, which I appreciate isn't what you want to hear. What happened to you is the predictable consequence of the January rules. The Commission capped the wagering multiplier at 10x. It did not cap...

Two numbers from the results that put chapman's shop in context. Group revenue was £887.5 million, flat year on year, but up 2% once you adjust for the closure of 270 William Hill shops. So the remaining estate is trading slightly better and the headline only looks flat because there's less of...

@ak47 the vote is Evoke's shareholders deciding whether to accept the Bally's Intralot offer. It's a scheme of arrangement under Gibraltar law, so it needs a court meeting and a general meeting. If it passes, completion is expected Q4 this year or Q1 next, subject to regulators. If it fails, the...

Remote gaming duty went from 21% to 40% on 1 April. That's the whole answer to most of this. It applies to online casino and slots, not sports betting yet. Sports goes to 25% next April, and bets on UK horse racing stay at 15%. So the free bets and price boosts disappearing on the sportsbook...