Crucial Compliance deepens player protections with monitoring system Share
Gibraltar-based safer gambling consultancy,
Crucial Compliance, is enhancing player protection through the launch of its behavioural-based monitoring system for player protection.
Crucial Player Protection (CPP) is designed to enable gaming companies to traverse regulation and build a safer gambling environment in one package.
Uniting player behaviour monitoring through advanced modelling, including full suite player management, the launch seeks to provide tools to provide compliance teams with the information to manage and interact with players at scale.
Paul Foster, CEO at Crucial, said: “We see a shift in the global gambling industry towards a more sustainable way of conducting business. Player protection is no longer a ‘nice to have’ but an essential part of any business model. With regulators often retrospectively changing their expectations, it is important that operators have an easy sol
NEW online gambling laws come into force from October 31 – here is what is changing. The clampdown comes as part of a wider review that has been brought into sharper focus by rises in online gambling during the Covid-19 pandemic. Gambling Commission data shows lockdowns have led to a surge in uptake of online gambling platforms. The platforms had been growing anyway with a rise of 25 per cent to 2.61 million players in March 2020 compared to the year before. It also showed a rise in the number of gambling sessions that lasted more than an hour once the first lockdown kicked in, rising from 1.92 million in March to 2.27 million in April.
Nevertheless, the number of active players decreased to 2.55 million in April and to 2.44 million in May, with a marginal increase the following month, according to Gambling Commission figures.
However, as the pandemic rumbled on, player numbers rebounded and had jumped to 2.8 million by November, in a month when nearly £177 million was spent on slots.
Despite the initial decrease in player numbers, total bets soared over the same period as people spent more time on platforms.
The number of bets on online slot machines rose by 15.5% to 5.16 billion in April from the previous month as the first national lockdown continued.
Bets increased by 2.5% to 5.3 billion in May month-on-month.
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GC launches consultation to overhaul problem gambling research
8th January 2021
| By Robert Fletcher
The GB Gambling Commission has launched a new consultation into the research methodology it uses to collect data on both gambling participation and problem gambling among players in Great Britain.
Scheduled to run until 12 February, the consultation aims to help the regulator identify potential changes its current approach to ensure its research is accurate and relevant.
The Commission said it is seeking responses from licensees, consumers and consumer interest groups, charities, academics, and organisations with an interest in gambling research and regulation.
The core proposal set out in the consultation document is replace the health, telephone and online surveys with a single methodology that the Commission said would be more efficient, cost effective and timely.