The Black Market Problem Nobody’s Talking About | Martin Lycka's Safe Bet Show

Are tighter gambling regulations always better for player protection or could they push players towards the black market?

In this episode of The Safe Bet Show, Martin Lycka is joined by Scott Burrows, Director of Technical Compliance at Super, to discuss UK regulatory changes, black market risk, technical compliance and the future of safer gambling.

The conversation explores the mood at the Ethical Gambling Forum, the impact of tax changes, financial checks and promotional restrictions, and why regulation needs to be carefully calibrated if it is to protect players without driving them to offshore operators.

Scott also explains why compliance should be treated as a commercial function, not just a cost centre, and how technical compliance sits between regulation, product and engineering.

In this episode:

✅ Why the UK gambling industry feels cautious right now
✅ How regulatory changes could impact the black market
✅ Why compliance can enable business rather than block it
✅ Super’s approach to technical compliance across multiple markets
✅ How to translate legal requirements into product and engineering
✅ Why responsible gambling technology matters
✅ Why automated pop-ups are not enough
✅ The importance of human intervention in player protection
✅ How newer markets like Brazil need responsible gambling education
✅ Why “tech finds them, people help them” should guide safer gambling

As Scott puts it, technology is a brilliant early warning system but a terrible carer. The operators that get safer gambling right will use technology to identify risk and humans to intervene when it matters most.

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