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Sep 24, 2024 | 
jci.org | Vicki Stylianou |Kirstie M. Bertram |Van Vo |Elizabeth Dunn |Heeva Baharlou |James Elhindi | +8 more
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Simon Hembt |Toby Bond |Elizabeth Dunn |Callum Granger
It is no secret that the gambling industry is undergoing a period of prolonged and unprecedented regulatory change, with a combination of previously unregulated or restricted territories introducing domestic point of consumption regulation, and those pre-existing regulated territories increasingly implementing new requirements, standard and restrictions.
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May 23, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Mikkel Taanum |Pia Ek |Maria Karpathakis |Simon Hembt |Georgina Parkinson |Manuela Cox | +8 more
Bird & Bird’s International Gambling Group were delighted to host our inaugural online Global Gambling webinar on 8 May 2024. Over the course of the morning, specialists from across our international offices delivered sessions on some of the key issues shaping the industry including the UK White Paper, international regulatory updates, mass consumer claims, tax, AI and much more.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Elizabeth Dunn |Callum Granger
Millions of transactions are conducted at a distance every day, and the use of digital identity verification technologies have emerged as a means of combatting the risk of fraud associated with these transactions and allowing people to access certain good and services by proving their age and identity. Here we examine the progress of digital identities in the UK to date and consider what regulatory milestones lie ahead. What are digital identities?
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
today.westlaw.com | Callum Granger |Elizabeth Dunn
(March 22, 2024) - Callum Granger and Elizabeth Dunn of Bird & Bird analyze the Advertising Standards Authority's finding that a gambling ad featuring a retired football player strongly appealed to U.K. youth and implications for future scrutiny by the independent regulator. The ASA has handed down its latest ruling on the use of footballers in gambling ads, this time examining an ad featuring footballer Adebayo (the Beast) Akinfenwa.
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Mar 10, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Elizabeth Dunn
Marc Lore, the entrepreneur behind Diapers.com and Jet.com, would like to disrupt food delivery. But he really wants to build a brand that actually lasts. When Marc Lore, the e-commerce billionaire, left his position as the chief executive of Walmart.com in 2021, he began to dabble in a variety of long-odds attempts to change the world. He backed a nuclear fusion start-up, and another designing flying taxis.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Andy Danson |Elizabeth Dunn |Callum Granger
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (“DCMS”) has announced that new limits for online slot gaming will be introduced from September 2024. BackgroundFollowing the publication of the gambling white paper in April 2023 (“White Paper”), multiple stages of consultation have been launched by the DCMS and the Gambling Commission to test the proposals set out in the white paper and drive policy forwards.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Elizabeth Dunn
Eight straight weekends of rain have pushed the pick-your-own orchards toward financial disaster. It was a beautiful Friday afternoon in the Hudson Valley, 70 degrees in October and not a cloud in the sky: perfect weather for apple picking. All over the 175 acres of Barton Orchards, in Poughquag, a town about 20 miles east of Beacon, moms and dads in T-shirts were pulling apple-laden carts down the orchard avenues, or staging photos of their children gleefully toddling around a pumpkin patch.
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
finance.yahoo.com | Elizabeth Dunn
The Best Brain Foods to Help You Stay Focused All Day LongYou could be working smarter. Snack your way to improved mental clarity and defeat the dreaded 3 p.m. crash.
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May 17, 2023 | 
bnanews.bna.com | Elizabeth Dunn
“We’ve been trying to be very quiet about it, because it’s not proven out, and we don’t want to promise anything.” Nathaniel Ru, Sweetgreen’s co-founder and chief brand officer, is standing inside a soon-to-open location of the bougie salad chain. He’s talking about a steel-and-glass contraption the size of a 1960s computer mainframe that’s looming behind the front counter.
