Updated 3/2/2026: [UK Gambling Commission] The operating licence of Deadheat Racing Limited has been suspended by the Gambling Commission pending a review under section 116 of the Gambling Act 2005.
The UK Gambling Commission has confirmed it will phase in Financial Risk Assessments, beginning with the largest operators and the highest-spending customers, after a pilot found that 97% of affected accounts could be checked without friction or any impact on credit scores. The first stage triggers at a £5,000 net deposit and will touch fewer than 0.5% of customers.
The Gambling Commission has penalised the operator of betfred.com after social-responsibility gaps allowed a single customer to lose £17,900 in 24 hours, with the regulator branding the shortcomings "unacceptable".
Entain has struck a deal to sell an initial fifth of its Central and Eastern European unit to joint-venture partner EMMA Capital, valuing the business at about €2.1bn and beginning a full withdrawal. The proceeds will go toward cutting group debt.
Bally's Intralot has struck a roughly £243.1 million all-share deal for Evoke, the operator behind William Hill and 888, in a consolidation play sharpened by the steep rise in [British gambling taxes](/regulatory-map) landing over the next two years. The terms hand Evoke shareholders a 77% premium and hand the enlarged group a place among the United Kingdom's largest online operators.
Flutter Entertainment will cancel its London listing on 3 August 2026 and trade only on the NYSE, formalising a pivot to a US business that now supplies 41% of group revenue. The exit lands amid a brutal UK tax squeeze, but Flutter's own filings suggest growth and investors, not duty rises, are what pulled it west.
A High Court of England and Wales judge has ruled that foreign law and earlier Georgian judgments must be weighed in SPRIBE's intellectual property battle over the Aviator crash game, blocking Aviator LLC's attempt to fast-track the ownership question. The procedural win decides nothing on the merits, with trademark and copyright issues deferred to a full trial.
A cross-party group of MPs has gone directly to the Culture Secretary with a stark warning about what proposed affordability checks could do to British horseracing. With the Gambling Commission set to decide this month, the political pressure is intensifying.
After years of complaints about gambling research being influenced by industry funding, the UK has set up its largest ever independent research centre. The new body is built explicitly to break free of those concerns.
A cross-party group of UK lawmakers says current gambling advertising rules have failed children and vulnerable people. With the industry spending up to £2 billion a year on promotion, they want sweeping restrictions and they want them now.
