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July 2023

  • Luke Ashton, who took his own life in April 2021 after accumulating £18,000 in debts and placing as many as 100 bets a day.

    Coroner warns more could die as a result of betting firm’s ‘inadequate’ safeguards

    Flutter’s safer gambling tools ‘do not amount to any meaningful interaction’ with customers, says coroner in suicide of gambler

June 2023

  • Luke Ashton

    Coroner criticises Betfair for failing to act before man’s suicide

    Gambling disorder cited as a contributory cause in the death of Luke Ashton, who was not identified as a high-risk customer

May 2023

  • A Paddy Power shop.

    Paddy Power fined after push notifications sent to people self-excluding from gambling

    PPB Counterparty Services to pay £490,000 for breaching social responsibility rules

August 2022

  • Online gambling firm 888 website

    UK gambling firms’ revenue falls, but cost of living crisis not deterring punters

    888 and Flutter, which owns Paddy Power, Sky Bet and Betfair, say they have taken hit from safer gambling initiatives

December 2021

  • Lottery balls

    Flutter enters contest to run national lottery via Italian takeover

    Deal struck to buy Italian gambling company Sisal, one of four firms bidding for licence to run UK lottery

August 2021

  • Roulette wheel

    Observer business agenda
    Some bets are safe despite upheaval in the British and US gambling industry

    The Covid lockdown bonanza may be ending for big gaming firms but the smart money is on boom times ahead

June 2021

  • Betfair logo

    Betting firms won £1.3m in stolen money from gambling addict

    Andy May convicted of fraud in case that highlights need for industry reform, say campaigners

March 2021

  • Phone showing Betfair app

    UK betting companies report profits in 2020 as US market opens up

    Rise in online gambling during lockdown also boosts profits, with only William Hill struggling

January 2021

  • Betfair’s market on the US election was the biggest in the exchange’s history.

    Betfair apologises after keeping punter £100,000 out of pocket for months

    Betfair has apologised to one of its customers after he was left out of pocket for many weeks when an attempted deposit of nearly £100,000 to place bets on the US election was taken from his bank but did not credit to his account

August 2020

  • Roulette being played on a smartphone

    Observer business agenda
    Gambling recovered from Covid, but could now be laid low by legal hurdles

    Top performer Flutter will update this week, but all UK players could be hit as the regulatory pendulum swings back

June 2020

  • Woman playing online roulette

    Influential group of MPs calls for total ban on gambling advertising

    Exclusive: report proposing far tighter regulation for industry could shape government review

January 2020

  • Denise Coates poses with her CBE medal.

    Bet365 founder Denise Coates tops list of UK's biggest taxpayers

    Entrepreneur Stephen Rubin and James Dyson are second and third, says Sunday Times

November 2019

  • A branch of Paddy Power

    UK betting firms commit to five pledges for safer gambling

    Ten groups agree voluntary measures in attempt to avoid regulations being imposed

October 2019

  • Paddy Power.

    World's largest online betting firm created by Paddy Power owner

    Flutter Entertainment to buy The Stars Group, owner of Sky Bet, in £10bn deal

September 2019

  • Greg Wood

    Sportblog
    Going with the crowd is now the way to seeing the future with better odds

    Greg Wood
    Betfair’s revolutionary system of exchange betting has fine-tuned the accuracy of betting odds as a guide to likely outcomes to a remarkable degree

May 2018

  • Betfair website

    Regulator unconvinced by industry problem-gambling measure

    Gambling Commission ‘yet to see proper evidence of the effectiveness’ of GamStop

October 2017

  • A man feeds a £20 note into a fixed-odds betting terminal.

    Gambling charity warns betting firms are failing to fund addiction treatment

    Betting companies are failing to honour pledge to donate to care, says leading charity GambleAware

September 2017

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Ryanair is in crisis, but Michael O'Leary is barely facing any City scrutiny

    Nils Pratley
    Even with 18,000 flights cancelled, almost nobody is asking if the outspoken chief executive is still the right person for the job
  • Sport changed ... Victoria Pendleton, Rio Ferdinand and Heather Moyse.

    Shortcuts
    Game changers: Rio Ferdinand and the stars who swapped sports

    The ex-Manchester United defender has taken up boxing – following in the footsteps of such sports multi-taskers as Victoria Pendleton, Ian Botham and Michael Jordan
  • Rio Ferdinand announces move into boxing – video

    Former Manchester United player Rio Ferdinand announces he will start training to become a professional boxer

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