Those who tend to place bets on a regular or even semi-regular basis will no doubt have a solid idea of who the United Kingdom Gambling Commission are and what it is that they do. Many will be less clued up on the Betting & Gaming Council, however, not least of all because it has only been around since 2019 and is therefore relatively young.
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In a nutshell, the organisation is the single industry association that represents online gaming businesses, casinos and betting shops. Around 90% of betting companies fall under their jurisdiction and they attempt to champion industry standards to ensure a safer, fairer and more enjoyable betting experience for customers.
Formed By Combining Two Bodies
Many will be less clued up on the Betting & Gaming Council, however, not least of all because it has only been around since 2019 and is therefore relatively young. In a nutshell, the organisation is the single industry association that represents online gaming businesses, casinos and betting shops.
On the 1st of August 2005, the Association of Remote Gambling Operators and the Interactive Gaming, Gambling and Betting Association decided to merge to create the Remote Gambling Association. Based in London and Brussels, the newly formed body was there to represent the interests of the online gambling industry in Europe.
- The Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) believes that Chancellor Rishi Sunak and the HM Treasury must form an emergency rescue package to save thousands of jobs in the leisure and hospitality sector which are currently under threat due to the government’s new COVID-19 public restrictions.
- As the standards body for the regulated UK betting and gaming industry, excluding the National Lottery, we represent betting shops, casinos, online and bingo. We work with our members, large and small, to drive high ethical standards, create a culture of safer betting and gaming.
The whole purpose of the RGA was to offer a single voice for the gambling industry when it came to things such as legislation and regulation. It was specifically about representing online companies so as not to step on the toes of the Association Of British Bookmakers. The ABB, as the name suggests, was the representative body for land-based bookies.
Around 85% of bookmakers were part of the ABB, whose aim was to ensure that integrity and safety were two of the main watchwords for the organisation. Obviously there was a degree of crossover between the two bodies, given that they were both looking after the best interests of the two main sides of the gambling industry.
As time passed, the ABB became less and less relevant. This was because very few bookmakers only operated in real life without any sort of online presence. As a result, the two organisations risked standing on each others’ toes when trying to fight against legislation and regulation. The RGA was the more powerful of the two thanks to the proliferation of online betting, but it wasn’t that simple.
It soon became an inescapable fact that the betting industry as a whole would be best represented by a unified body rather than two separate ones. The former Chair of the Association of British Bookmakers, Paul Darling, said that he hoped the creation of the Betting & Gaming Council would allow for the ‘sharing of best practices across the industry’.
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The Aims Of The BGC
The betting industry employs more than 100,000 people and is worth in the region of £14 billion to the economy in the United Kingdom. It’s little surprise, therefore, that the industry as a whole feels that it needs an organisation that is there to ‘champion’ its causes. On top of that, the Betting & Gaming Council is also designed to ensure punters get the best experience possible.
Problem gambling will always be one of the chief issues facing the industry, so the BGC set that out as being one of the things that it wished to tackle upon its formation. By combining the effort of the various gambling firms it was hoped that the public’s trust in the industry would increase accordingly. In order to achieve that, the BGC set up a new ‘code of conduct’ for members.
The Industry Working Together
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As soon as the Betting & Gaming Council was set up, those behind its launch confirmed their plans to work as closely as possible with the rest of the betting industry. One of the biggest parts of the industry is, of course, its regulatory body: the United Kingdom Gambling Commission. Immediately they set out their desire to create a nationwide approach to combat problem gambling.
A big part of the plan was to work closely with the Young Gamers and Gamblers Education Trust as well as GamCare, the gambling support charity. With about 90% of the betting firms in the UK signed up to the organisation, the ‘enforceable commitments’ that it laid down were seen as a chance to bring the majority of the industry inline with the same aim of promoting the idea of safer gambling.
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Whether it be anti-money laundering aims or the need to live up to the code of the Industry Group for Responsible Gambling, the Betting & Gaming Council was created to ensure a united voice in the gambling industry’s approach to getting things right. Working alongside financial services and advertising bodies is also a key part of the BGC’s approach.
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UK gamblers doubled their use of internationally licensed online operators over the past year or so, according to a new survey by their UK-licensed rivals. On Thursday, the Betting & Gaming Council (BGC) issued a 66-page report that attempts to quantify the state of ‘unlicensed online gambling in the UK.’ The report (viewable here) was prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers and builds on the findings of a similar report issued one year ago. The report involved an online survey filled out by 2,363 active UK online gamblers in late-2020. These punters were queried on their awareness, usage of and spending with ‘unlicensed operators,’ as well as their motivations for seeking out these ‘unlicensed’ ruffians. Before we go further, we must point out that the report notes that it wasn’t interested in “UK licensed operators serving gamblers in foreign jurisdictions without a license.” Apparently, even acknowledging that the UK Gambling Commission-licensed online white knights behave abroad much like the UK-facing international rogues they so despise would tarnish their otherwise gleaming armor. But we digress…The report’s headline figures are that 4.5% of UK online gamblers copped to patronizing an international site, double the 2.2% in PwC’s 2018/19 report. That 4.5% equates to around 460k Britons who either don’t know or don’t care if a site bears the UKGC stamp of approval. The volume of stakes placed with unauthorized sites also nearly doubled from 1.2% to 2.3% of respondents’ total spending. Interestingly, while total web visits to unauthorized sites remained effectively unchanged from the 2018/19 report, the 11 sites included in both reports saw their traffic soar by 85% during that span. So, this appears to be a case of familiarity breeding respect, not contempt. International sites saw their percentage of Google search results (for 47 frequently used keywords) tumble from 12% of the first 10 pages in 2018/19 to just 5% last year. The biggest decline was felt in the first two pages of results, although changes to Google’s algorithm were fingered as the primary cause of this decline. The motivations behind UK gamblers seeking out unauthorized options reflect many of the restrictions imposed on UK-licensed sites in recent years, including the April 2020 credit card ban, restrictions on VIP programs and the six-point hike in the Remote Gaming Duty, the costs of which were inevitably passed on to consumers. Sure enough, reduced odds/payout rates were cited by 53% of gamblers as most likely to lead them to seek out international sites. Affordability checks such as those being proposed in the UK were cited by 30% of respondents, while monthly staking limits were of far lesser concern, notching only an 18% score. The BGC previewed the contents of the PwC report last month, resulting in pushback from UKGC CEO Neil McArthur, who claimed the findings were “not consistent with the intelligence picture.” McArthur added that the BGC was overegging the threat posed by unauthorized sites in order to temper the UK government’s enthusiasm for imposing even harsher restrictions after it concludes its review of the Gambling Act 2005. In an apparent response to McArthur’s finger wagging, BGC CEO Michael Dugher said Thursday that the PwC report’s findings were “inconvenient to those who seek to dismiss and play down the black market, but there is a real danger of complacency.” Dugher aimed other warnings at the government, saying the UK “risks sleep walking into changes where the main beneficiary is the unlicensed black market.”
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