How Betting App Push Notifications Fuel Gambling Addiction

Downloading a betting or casino app on your phone exposes you to frequent push notifications that can be specifically designed to trigger habitual gambling behavior. Gambling firms design sports betting apps to be addictive. One of the ways they encourage habitual gambling is through push notifications, sometimes called push alerts. These notifications appear on your…

Sensible sports betting: A policy framework

Contents Introduction Two competing narratives The growth of the sports betting industry Who bets on sports? A typology What are the financial and social effects? Policy approaches to reducing financial and social harm Key policy issues to watch in 2026 Conclusion Introduction Over the last eight years, legal sports betting has transformed from a niche…

How to make 2026 the year you get out of debt

Some people love the New Year – the idea of a fresh start, a blank canvas, a reset. Others are less enthused – feeling it more as a sense of pressure, the risk of unmet aspirations, last year’s same old problems still hanging over their heads. In the world of household finances, these alternative mindsets…

Bangkok Post – Bangkok Commercial Asset Management proposes adding small firms to debt relief scheme

Bangkok Commercial Asset Management Plc (BAM) has proposed the Bank of Thailand expand the “Clear Debt, Move Forward” scheme to cover the non-performing loans (NPLs) of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), leveraging a mechanism of private asset management companies to manage the debt. After Sukhumvit Asset Management Co Ltd, the country’s second-largest AMC under central…