Commission's warnings may signal more pain for industry

The speech may have been made in the United States, but there was a stark warning for the British gambling industry from the Gambling Commission this week.

The regulator's executive director Tim Miller told an industry event in New York that the sector's future was at risk if it did not meet society's expectations.

Bookmakers have been making efforts to introduce social responsibility measures such as the betting shop self-exclusion scheme known as MOSES and its online equivalent NOSES, along with the messaging introduced on gaming machines.