The Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) is the standards body and trade association for Britain's regulated betting and gaming industry, formed in 2019 from the merger of the Association of British Bookmakers and the Remote Gambling Association, representing betting shops, online operators, casinos and bingo clubs. It negotiates with government and the Gambling Commission on regulation, ran the industry's voluntary safer-gambling commitments including the whistle-to-whistle advertising ban, and publishes economic and employment data for the sector.
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The Ladbrokes owner says up to a fifth of its 2,000 customer care roles could go, weeks after an H1 that beat expectations and days after its chief executive wrote to the Prime Minister about machine games duty. The cuts are global; the argument is aimed at 28 October.
Six years after the Gambling Industry Committee asked for a public health approach to advertising, the Lords Liaison Committee has followed up and found the recommendations "largely unaddressed". Its answer is a ban, and it says the black-market argument against one did not convince it.
Euromat puts Europe's illegal online market at €12 billion and says it has tripled since 2019. The Betting and Gaming Council promotes a separate report putting the global figure at $50 billion. The two numbers cannot be compared, both were commissioned by interested parties, and both reach the same conclusion about what enforcement is doing wrong.
Flutter has put a number on the retail review it declined to quantify in August. Up to 100 of 506 shops go before the end of the year, with about 400 jobs at risk, and the company names the Budget.
The European Gaming and Betting Association changes leadership on 1 September, with Maarten Haijer stepping down after 13 years as Secretary General. His successor has named the illegal market as the priority.
Grainne Hurst wrote to warn that unlicensed bookmakers will take £800 million in Premier League bets this season, reaching £1 billion a year by 2027/28. The numbers are arguable. The government's own impact assessment conceding the mechanism is not.
The UK Treasury has pushed back against claims that its Remote Gaming Duty and employer National Insurance increases are driving a wave of Betfred shop closures, as the operator and the government trade blame over the future of the high-street betting estate.
Money paid by operators to settle regulatory cases will now flow into the government's Consolidated Fund for discretionary use, rather than being ring-fenced for gambling-harm work, a decision that lands just months after the charity GambleAware wound down.
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.
$60 billion in legal wagers, and potentially more flowing through the black market. Flutter International chief executive Dan Taylor has used the eve of the 2026 World Cup to deliver one of the industry's clearest warnings yet about the scale of the offshore threat.
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.
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