Commission Has Global Reach

Tim Miller, Executive Director at the Gambling Commission, has said that the UK Commission is responsible for 85 per cent of all enforcement action worldwide.

Miller was speaking to delegates at the G2E trade show in Vegas when he claimed, “One leading operator recently told us from their own research that 9 out of 10 of the largest enforcement penalties worldwide and 85 percent of all enforcement action in gambling worldwide has been carried out by the British Gambling Commission.”

He added, “I don’t tell you these statistics as some sort of brag. From one perspective, having to take enforcement action at all shows that something has gone wrong. But our willingness to use the weight of the powers granted to us by Parliament is leading to operators reassessing how they behave and perform in our jurisdiction and how seriously they take compliance with our rules.

However, whilst we are having results domestically, gambling is a global business. Leading operators are now multi-nationals. As more North American jurisdictions open up to online gambling or sports betting, we see more and more large British or European operators looking to establish themselves here, in your markets. And that’s why we think international collaboration is so vital between gambling regulators. Increasingly we regulate the same companies; we address the same risks; we face the same challenges.

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11 October 2023

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