By 
Jovana Vukovic ·
Himanshu Gulati, a senior representative of Norway’s Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet, FrP), has indicated a significant policy shift in the country’s gambling sector. Addressing the annual Spillkonferansen conference, Gulati asserted that…
By Jovana Vukovic ·
Norway is on the verge of becoming Europe’s last country with a gambling monopoly, as debates intensify over whether to introduce a licensing system for betting operators. While proponents argue…
By 
Filip Radulovic ·
Norway’s Conservative party (Høyre) has called for the end of the country’s state-run gambling monopoly. The party’s latest manifesto, published ahead of the September 2025 election, proposes a transition to…
By 
Terry Davis ·
On Monday, November 6th, 2021 a Norwegian football club in collaboration with Amnesty International as well as a former migrant worker decided to and they have announced that they are…
By Terry Davis ·
Norway’s Ministry of Culture has renewed its effort to unify the Scandinavian nation’s gambling laws into a single framework, while also cementing Norsk Tipping and Norsk Rikstoto as the only…
By Terry Davis ·
Australian online casino games maker Lightning Box has added a new market to the list of territories its content is available in as it looks to constantly grow its regulated…
By Terry Davis ·
Norway is looking to unify its gambling laws into a single framework, while cementing Norsk Tipping and Norsk Rikstoto’s future as the only two entities that are allowed to conduct…
By Terry Davis ·
Norway’s supreme legislature, Stortinget, has recently approved a measure that aims to prevent unlicensed online gambling operators from advertising their products to Norwegian customers via the Internet. The amendment enhances…
By Terry Davis ·
Norway’s Lottery Board, Lotterinemnda, has upheld a ban imposed on online gambling operator Kindred Group to target Norwegian gamblers. Lotterinemnda is an independent agency under Norway’s Ministry of Culture that…
By Terry Davis ·
International online gambling operators are calling for the introduction of a more liberal regulatory regime in Norway as the country prepares for the latest wave of restrictions that are aimed…
By Terry Davis ·
Norway is set to step up efforts to combat unauthorized gambling operations by closing a long-standing loophole in the portions of its advertising laws relating to gambling products, it emerged…
By Terry Davis ·
Norway will likely allow its oil fund to keep investing in the gambling companies it wants out of its online gambling field The Government of Norway is likely to allow…
By 
Robert Johnson ·
The European Gaming and Betting Association today issued a statement in response to recent media reports that Norway has blocked payments to and from bank accounts discovered to be used…
By Terry Davis ·
Norway has blocked transactions with six Malta-licensed online gambling operators, accusing those of illegally targeting Norwegian players, the Times of Malta reports Under Norway’s current law, gambling services can only…
By Robert Johnson ·
Popular television personality claims he has reached a verbal agreement entitling him to 3.4 million shares now worth NOK10 million Popular Norwegian TV presenter Hallvard Flatland says he is entitled…
By Robert Johnson ·
The European Gaming & Betting Association has once again urged Norwegian lawmakers to craft a “modern, open to competition” gambling regulation framework as a consultation on recently proposed restrictions in…
By Robert Johnson ·
Norway’s regulated gambling market was worth NOK43.7 billion (approximately $5.4 billion/€4.6 billion) in 2017, figures released today by the country’s gambling regulator, Lotteri- og stiftelsestilsynet, show. Unregulated online gambling operations…
By Robert Johnson ·
Norway’s Ministry of Culture submitted on Monday a recently introduced a set of online gambling-focused regulations to the European Commission. The Commission will now have three months to review and…
By Robert Johnson ·
Norway’s Storting, the country’s supreme legislature, adopted on Monday, May 7, a set of measures aimed to prevent foreign gambling companies from targeting local gamblers and to protect the gambling…
By Terry Davis ·
A Norwegian scholar will open loot boxes in video games to determine their nature and whether these constitute gambling, Norwegian media outlet Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK) reports. Norway is the next…
By Robert Johnson ·
A coalition of four Norwegian parties has presented the country’s legislature, the Storting, with a set of measures aimed at better protecting Norsk Tipping’s monopoly over the provision of gambling…
By Robert Johnson ·
Norway could divest its oil fund from gambling stocks, if a proposal from two opposition parties gains enough support in the Scandinavian country’s legislature, local business news outlet E24 reported…
By Robert Johnson ·
The European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA) today announced that it has urged the Norwegian Data Protection Authority to investigate a long-standing online payment blocking scheme that, according to the…
By Robert Johnson ·
A fresh wave of regulatory criticism towards gambling-related ads on Norwegian and Swedish media was unleashed earlier this week. State-run organizations are tasked with the provision of gambling services in…
By Terry Davis ·
Norway decided to retain the long-standing gambling monopoly model as it considered it was the one that would provide the safest environment for local players, Atle Hamar, Director General of…
By Terry Davis ·
Online gambling operator Kindred Group (recently re-branded from Unibet Group) announced the launch of its newest online casino. The Storspiller brand is live now and is intended for high roller…
By Robert Johnson ·
It has recently become known that Norwegian legislators have decided to implement certain changes in the country’s existing gambling regulations. Much to international operators’ dismay, they will still not be…
By Terry Davis ·
Gaming operator Genting Hong Kong has just announced that it will restart selling shares after it halted trading on March 5. The company is to sell shares in Norwegian Cruise…
By 
Anthony Huber ·
According to people, familiar with the Norwegian gambling affairs, authorities’ intention to make the existing rules and regulations, concerning live poker, less strict, are not going to lead to the…
By 
Susan Sutton ·
Almost a month ago, the Norwegian authorities have announced that they will refine the local gambling rules and regulations in order to make Norway a country whose residents are enabled…