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 [...]
So, here’s a thing. On April 1st this year a seismic event (probably an 8 on the Richter scale) took place in the UK gaming industry. The maximum stake on FOBT/B2 gaming machines was reduced by a factor of 50, from £100 a spin down to £2 a spin. This essentially removed the B2 machine [...]
Let’s prioritise prevention before cure Peter Hannibal, CEO of the Gambling Business Group, which brings together the gambling verticals into a single strategic cross-sector body, argues that calls in the British Medical Journal for a mandatory tax on the industry miss the point and why the voluntary levy should be redirected from academic research [...]
Peter Hannibal, CEO of the cross industry strategic body, the Gambling Business Group, urges operators to show why applying an algorithm to tracked play data is unnecessary as well as being a very bad idea. Whoever crafted the phrase ‘the devil is in the detail’ could well have been referencing the current outlook and [...]
These days I do believe that consultants offer a spontaneity, originality and cost effectiveness which is of huge benefit to all businesses but in particular SMEs where costs are tightly controlled and management need access to senior management experience experience but can't necessarily afford (or need) to recruit someone on to their permanent staff. Three [...]
When it comes to the demise of cash, Peter Hannibal, chief executive of the cross industry strategic body, the Gambling Business Group, believes it’s down to the industry to develop its own cost-effective solutions pointing out that some are already available. From a low stake gaming perspective do you think the issue of contactless/non-cash [...]
Recently I was listening to Sandy Toksvig on the radio. She is of course incredibly witty and engaging and is clearly one of those people who, if you sat next to her at a dinner party would quickly make you feel like an intellectual pygmy (although many other people also have that effect on [...]
Peter Hannibal, CEO of the cross sector strategic body, the Gambling Business Group, looks back on ICE 2019 and questions the fuzzy logic behind the Gambling Commission’s decision not to attend and asks what message its ’no show’ policy sends the industry and all of those genuinely interested in consumer protection.Last week saw the world’s [...]
Talking on ICE Peter Hannibal, CEO of the cross industry body, the Gambling Business Group, looks ahead to next week’s ICE London and represents the number one meeting place for all GBG members as well as the world’s regulators (or most of them at least!) ICE London is now the most international gaming expo [...]
This article appeared in this week’s edition of Coin Slot. Nick Harding, head of Merkur Management Services in the UK, outlines what he believes lies ahead for the industry this coming year. On the up with the Gambling Commission, there’s a downer with charity GambleAware and a government that really should show this industry [...]