Firstly it would be churlish of me not to wish everyone a Happy New Year. I do hope that 2020 is a successful and prosperous year for all of you and I look forward to catching up with some of you at the ICE show in London in February. Last year I suggested that a [...]
The 2019 edition of ICE London (5-7 February, ExCeL London, UK) will feature exhibitors from a total of 66 nations (65 in 2018), making it the most complete representation of international gaming on the world calendar. Outside of the United Kingdom (138 exhibitors), Malta tops the league table of exhibitor nations with 60, followed by [...]
A gambling review is now inevitable so we can't let the opportunity slip, urges GBG’s Peter Hannibal Peter Hannibal, CEO of the strategic cross sector Gambling Business Group (GBG), is urging the industry to start preparing for what he believes is an ‘inevitable' overhaul of gambling legislation and for the low stake retail sector [...]
What happened to freedom of choice? Peter Hannibal, chief executive of the cross industry strategic body the Gambling Business Group, argues that when it comes to the regulation of gaming we are losing our sense of proportionality When commentators start quoting acts of Parliament the natural response for many people – myself included – [...]
So, like the Monolith in Arthur C Clark’s 2001 a Space Odyssey the UK Betting and Gaming Council has suddenly appeared on the UK gambling industry landscape and like the Hominids in the film we are now all running around wondering what it is and how it will shape our evolution... Drawing together UK [...]
Betting on the future William Hill has taken a progressive step to reposition the gambling experience and it’s not a moment too soon, states Peter Hannibal, CEO of the influential strategic body, the Gambling Business Group A recent headline in Marketing Week, a publication which could be described as the marketing industry's equivalent of [...]
I wrote this article for the UK Coinslot magazine and as I realise that some of you may not be on copy for that worthy tome I thought that I would reproduce it here as a blog. Which might seem a bit lazy, but I am keen to get the message out. The 'Low [...]
Let’s put low stake gambling back on the agenda and not allow it to get consumed by Brexit! Nick Harding, chairman of the cross-sector strategic body, the Gambling Business Group and a former bacta National President, argues why the low stake sector should get on the front foot in pursuit of a more dynamic [...]
Nick Harding, Chairman of the influential strategic body, the Gambling Business Group, applies some straight thinking to the seemingly circuitous debate on Research Education and Treatment in a post B2 worldSo, here’s a thing. On April 1st this year a seismic event – probably registering around an eight on the gambling industry Richter Scale - [...]
Cross-sector strategic body, the Gambling Business Group (GBG) is trialling a powerful new initiative which enables organisations to share information on the pattern of emerging machine frauds while remaining within the terms of April 2018’s GDPR regulations. The system, which has been developed in conjunction with the security team at Gamestec, is being launched initially [...]