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@x@nter has put his finger on something more important than the reskin question, so let me fill in why the UK build looks like that. Feature buys have been prohibited for UK-licensed operators since 31 October 2021. Studios stripped them out of UK builds and the same title ships with them...

I wouldn't state either figure with confidence. The settlement names 51 across the three entities and the closures happened after the review period, but whether the 51 was current at publication or carried forward from the assessment isn't something the notice makes clear. It matters less than...

Worth being accurate about what the Commission actually found, because it isn't only the £50,000 case that's being quoted around. Three Rank entities settled - Grosvenor Casinos Limited, Grosvenor Casinos Limited and Gaming Group Limited. £5,012,261 to the Consolidated Fund, plus a third-party...

They'd have run a search. It would have returned a Curaçao licence in good standing, because that is exactly what the register said. That's the actual scandal in one sentence. The paperwork was correct. The paperwork was also worthless. Nobody outside the regulator could tell the difference...

I'd put it more bluntly than Bill. A regulator that leaves a licensing portal open for nine months has failed at a task considerably more basic than the one it's charging fees for. The method is a real question. It's also the smaller one.

He's right and it still isn't the revelation people think it is. Anyone who has worked anywhere near this industry has known for fifteen years that Curaçao licensing was a rubber stamp. The old master licence model meant four private holders issued sub-licences to anyone with a company and a...

Careful with that, because the conclusion runs the wrong way. A complaint service that only mediates for casinos it approves of is worthless. The players who need help most are at the worst operators, by definition. Refusing 1xBet customers would mean those customers get nothing at all...

The irritating part is that he's half right and can't show it, which makes it harder for the people who can. Listing sites make money one of two ways. Casinos pay for placement, or the site takes a revenue share on players it sends. Almost everyone in this industry does the second one, and that...

Which site, which fortnight, and what was the banner? And look I'm not being difficult. If you've actually watched that happen it's a genuinely useful data point and I'd like to look at it.

Warnings generally precede enforcement rather than replace it. The Commission tends to publish the expectation, then act against licensees who ignore it, and the second part takes considerably longer than anyone wants. That's not a defense of the pace. It's how the sequence works.

Both things are true at once, which is why it's taken this long to get addressed. Commission's criticism was aimed squarely at operators deferring verification until withdrawal, and it told them to fix onboarding rather than leave it to the exit. That's the regulator agreeing with @BillThornes...

Careful with the comparison. BetNinja holds an Anjouan licence, not a UKGC one, and the two situations aren't equivalent. On a UKGC site the Commission has been explicit that terms allowing an operator to void winnings at their own discretion are likely unenforceable under consumer law, and you...

One will.

Not for a good while. The app might get better eventually, which would be a first. Longer term it depends whether rival books stay on the platform or move off it. Fewer independent suppliers means fewer distinct pricing models across the market, and that has never once worked out well for the...

Licence conditions and information barriers, audited by the state racing authorities. That's the formal answer and it's a real one. The commercial answer is that it doesn't matter whether they would. It matters whether rival books believe they might, because that belief alone is enough to start...

They're the plumbing. Tote pool systems, racing data, pricing feeds, the platform other people's bookmakers run on. You've very likely bet through their infrastructure without their name ever appearing on your screen. Which is why this deal is more than a small-cap tech buy. Tabcorp runs Sky...

No, and that's one of the more uncomfortable parts of how this works. Settlements of this kind are normally directed toward socially responsible causes - research, prevention, treatment - rather than to affected customers. The individual whose losses formed part of the evidence gets nothing from...

@nataly.k the safety premium is still real even with rtp compression. UKGC dispute resolution, verified software certification, licensed payment processing, mandatory responsible gambling tools. Regulatory framework has value even if the product quality has declined. Main question is whether...

Honestly not surprising if true. Bet365 is not alone. At least two mid-tier operators have taken similar decisions this year - scaling back UK-specific product development while waiting to see how the regulatory economics settle. Operators who move first on new UK product launches right now are...

Trademark dispute isn't about the game mechanics being identical. It's about brand ownership and whether Spribe properly registered the "Aviator" trademark. So the mechanics of crash games aren't novel. Aviator brand itself is what's contested. Spribe says they created the game and own the...