Nevada Casino Regulator Gives Go-Ahead to SLS Las Vegas Sale

Nevada Casino Regulator Gives Go-Ahead to SLS Las Vegas Sale

by March 23, 2018

Privately-held gaming company The Meruelo Group has received permission by the Nevada Gaming Commission to complete the acquisition of the struggling SLS Las Vegas Hotel & Casino.During a Thursday hearing, Alex Meruelo, Principal of The Meruelo Group, presented gaming co ...

CMA Greenlights Ladbrokes Coral Takeover by GVC

CMA Greenlights Ladbrokes Coral Takeover by GVC

by March 21, 2018

Gambling operators GVC Holdings and Ladbrokes Coral received a regulatory green light to complete their £4-million consolidation that could create a new gambling powerhouse within the field.In a statement from earlier today, UK’s Competition and Markets Authority announced i ...

Macau’s Galaxy Receives Casino License for $500-Million Boracay Resort

Macau’s Galaxy Receives Casino License for $500-Million Boracay Resort

by March 21, 2018

Construction work on a $500-million casino resort on the Boracay Island is slated to begin in 2019, developers Galaxy Entertainment and Leisure and Resorts World Corp. confirmed earlier today.The Macau-based casino operator and its Philippine partner signed today the provisi ...

Bulgarian Slot Machine Hackers Arrested after Pulling Off Sophisticated Scam

Bulgarian Slot Machine Hackers Arrested after Pulling Off Sophisticated Scam

by March 20, 2018

Four individuals have been detained in Bulgaria after an operation by the General Directorate Combating Organized Crime (GDCOC) uncovered that they had defrauded casinos and gaming halls across the country out of large amounts of money by hacking their gaming machines.The op ...

How Will Casino Resorts Change Japan’s Tourism Product? (Infographic)

How Will Casino Resorts Change Japan’s Tourism Product? (Infographic)

by March 20, 2018

The relaxation of visa requirements and the weak yen have unleashed the boom of Japan’s tourism, quadrupling the number of international visits over a five-year period and encouraging increased tourism spending. The country recorded 28,690,932 foreign visits last year, up 19.4% y ...

888 Contemplates Exit from Germany, Cites Tax and Regulatory Challenges

888 Contemplates Exit from Germany, Cites Tax and Regulatory Challenges

by March 20, 2018

Gibraltar-based online gambling operator 888 Holdings is considering its exit from Germany after a recent court ruling banned its operations in the country and due to uncertainty over a potential VAT bill for services it had provided to German customers prior to 2015.The oper ...

Italy’s Gambling Regulator Receives around 80 iGaming License Applications

Italy’s Gambling Regulator Receives around 80 iGaming License Applications

by March 20, 2018

Around 80 online gambling license applications were submitted to Italy’s gambling regulator, local news outlets reported on Monday citing sources from the regulatory body.Agenzia delle dogane e dei monopoli, the country’s regulatory body tasked with overseeing its gambling i ...

Affiliate Union Plan Surfaces to Help Affiliates against Predatory Gambling Operators

Affiliate Union Plan Surfaces to Help Affiliates against Predatory Gambling Operators

by March 19, 2018

Online gambling, over the course of its relatively short history, has often proved to be an industry that can be very hostile to the small ones. And iGaming affiliates have too often found themselves to be playing the role of the small ones, despite their numerous contributions t ...

RTÉ Admits Ryan Tubridy Show Listeners Should Have Been Informed about Paddy Power Sponsorship

RTÉ Admits Ryan Tubridy Show Listeners Should Have Been Informed about Paddy Power Sponsorship

by March 17, 2018

Irish national broadcaster RTÉ admitted that The Ryan Tubridy Show should have been more specific that the Wednesday programme, which was broadcast live from the Cheltenham Festival, was actually sponsored by gambling operator Paddy Power.It became known that the Dublin-base ...

Ladbrokes Coral and William Hill Probed by FCA over “False Market” Claims

Ladbrokes Coral and William Hill Probed by FCA over “False Market” Claims

by March 16, 2018

The Financial Conduct Authority is looking into allegations that Ladbrokes Coral and William Hill have created a “false market” by quoting certain pieces of information from a report on the impact of a significant cut of the maximum bet on fixed-odds betting terminals, and have t ...

Boracay Casino Plan Advances as President Duterte Wages War on the Island

Boracay Casino Plan Advances as President Duterte Wages War on the Island

by March 16, 2018

Macau gambling operator Galaxy Entertainment Group is moving forward with plans to build $500-million casino resort on the Philippine island of Boracay, despite recent threats by President Rodrigo Duterte that he would close the popular tourist hub over over-development concerns, ...

Melco Holds First Cyprus Casino Job Fair

Melco Holds First Cyprus Casino Job Fair

by March 15, 2018

Melco Resorts & Entertainment has announced that it will hold its first career fair for people interested in working at the casino operator’s integrated resort in the Republic of Cyprus.The first job fair is set to take place on March 16-17 in the city of Limassol, where ...

Google Cracks Down on Cryptocurrency Ads, Upgrades Advertising Policies for Skin Gambling

Google Cracks Down on Cryptocurrency Ads, Upgrades Advertising Policies for Skin Gambling

by March 14, 2018

Google will crack down on cryptocurrency ads as well as content advertising other “unregulated or speculative financial products”, Scott Spencer, Director of Sustainable Ads at the tech corporation, announced in a blog post from earlier today.The announcement comes shortly a ...

Bill Cutting Casino Tax Revenue Stirs in Delaware Senate

Bill Cutting Casino Tax Revenue Stirs in Delaware Senate

by March 14, 2018

The Delaware Senate Finance Committee could consider on Wednesday a bill that calls for a significant cut to the current tax the state’s three casinos are required to pay annually.Local media reported that Gov. John Carney met with the bill’s sponsors Tuesday to negotiate a d ...

Disney and Seminole Tribe Pour $700,000 into Florida Casino Amendment Initiative in February

Disney and Seminole Tribe Pour $700,000 into Florida Casino Amendment Initiative in February

by March 13, 2018

The Seminole Tribe of Florida and Disney Worldwide Services, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, contributed collectively the amount of $700,000 in February to Voters in Charge, the political committee behind the Voter Control of Gambling initiative.According to a repor ...