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 [...]
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 [...]
