{"id":1273,"date":"2019-12-03T14:39:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T14:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2026-04-24T09:45:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:45:02","slug":"online-gambling-uk-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/online-gambling-uk-falls","title":{"rendered":"Online gambling in the UK falls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Total gambling revenue in the UK in the full year to March 31 was down by 0.3%, and it is the first time it has registered such figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UK.- The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has revealed that the online gambling market in the country has posted its first-ever revenue decline. The total gambling revenue in the UK was down 0.3% year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The financial results are for the full year ending March 31, 2019. The total gambling revenue was \u00a314.3 billion, while remote gambling revenue fell 0.6% to \u00a35.3 billion, the UKGC reported. Remote betting yield also declined 10% to \u00a32.3 billion, even though stakes rose 2.7%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The most popular sport in the sports betting industry in the UK was football. Handle declined 1.5% despite the fact that June-July 2018 featured the men\u2019s World Cup. Total yield was \u00a3991.2 million. Horse racing was the second most popular modality with \u00a3522.1 million in yield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gross gaming yield (GGY) from gaming arcades increased by 1.8%, while adult arcades registered a 3.2% increase. Land-based casinos, bingo and National Lottery\u2019s GGY all declined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>UKGC signs MoU with&nbsp;<\/strong>Swedish gambling regulator<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Spelinspektionen<\/em><\/strong>, the gambling regulator from Sweden, and the\u00a0<strong><em>UKGC<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0have announced that they have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that seeks to enhance and build cooperation between the organisations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/ukgc-spelinspektionen-mou-gambling\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>MoU<\/em><\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;aims to support closer communication between Spelinspektionen and the UKGC and the sharing of best practice on areas like regulatory policies and procedures. The agreement came into force on November 11, 2019.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Total gambling revenue in the UK in the full year to March 31 was down by 0.3%, and it is the first time it has registered such figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The UK gambling market experienced its first-ever revenue decline, with total gambling revenue down 0.3% to \u00a314.3 billion for the year ending March 31, 2019, primarily driven by a 0.6% fall in remote gambling revenue. Concurrently, the UK Gambling Commission and Sweden's Spelinspektionen signed a Memorandum of Understanding to foster regulatory cooperation and best practice sharing.","focusai_entities":"UK Gambling Commission (UKGC), Spelinspektionen","focusai_location":"UK, Sweden","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (1.0), affiliate_publisher (0.7), product_ux (0.7), marketing_crm (0.8), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"UK Market Decline Drivers","query":"What specific regulatory changes or macroeconomic factors contributed to the first-ever decline in UK gambling revenue, particularly in remote betting, despite increased stakes?"},{"label":"MoU Impact on Compliance","query":"How will the UKGC-Spelinspektionen MoU specifically influence the harmonization of B2B\/B2C licensing requirements and regulatory compliance frameworks for operators active in both jurisdictions?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16331,2234,163],"tags":[229,757,3019],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elsewhere-news","category-emea","category-finance-news","tag-gambling","tag-online-casino","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777010391,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions\/777010391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}