Report
Prohibition of gambling on credit cards
This report focuses on research conducted around the prohibition of gambling on credit cards
Contents
- Executive summary
- Background and approach
- Methodology and limitations
- Operator Implementation and customer behaviour
- Credit cards and digital wallets
- Deposits prior to the introduction of the ban
- Displacement to other high-cost credit sources
- Displacement to illegal sources of funds
- Bypassing the ban through other behaviours
- Displacement to unlicensed gambling sites
- Inconvenience to leisure gamblers
- Conclusions and next steps
- Appendices
Appendix 1: ToC Participating Organisations
The following organisations kindly contributed to the development of a Theory of Change in a workshop session held in January 2020 and hosted by the Gambling Commission:
- Citizens Advice
- Illegal Money Lending Team
- Money and Mental Health Policy Institute
- Stepchange.
In addition, the Advisory Board for Safer Gambling provided input by correspondence.
Next sectionAppendix 2: Online Tracker Survey Questions
Last updated: 19 November 2021
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