By 
Robert Johnson ·
The Constitutional Court of Belgium annulled on Thursday a 2016 constitutional amendment under which online gambling operators were required to pay a 21% value-added tax on their Belgian operations. Belgium…
By Robert Johnson ·
The UK Court of Appeal rejected an appeal lodged by Ladbrokes in relation to the gambling operator’s decade-long £71-million tax avoidance battle with HM Revenue and Customs, City A.M. reports.…
By 
Terry Davis ·
The Philippine Department of Justice has announced today that it has issued an Immigration Lookout Bulletin Order against Japanese businessman Kazuo Okada. The order was prompted by two criminal complaints…
By Robert Johnson ·
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…
By Robert Johnson ·
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…
By Robert Johnson ·
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,…
By Robert Johnson ·
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…
By Terry Davis ·
SPS Betting France Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Malta-based Kindred Group, and Betclic Enterprises Limited became the latest online poker operators to be granted a shared liquidity license from…
By Robert Johnson ·
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…
By 
Anthony Huber ·
The State of Massachusetts has collected $5.5 million from slot taxes in February, 82 per cent of which is intended for the Local Aid fund. In its monthly revenue report…
By Robert Johnson ·
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.…
By Robert Johnson ·
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…
By 
Susan Sutton ·
An antipsychotic drug sold in the United States triggers compulsive behavior, including gambling, a lawsuit filed last week in Nevada claims. According to the plaintiffs, the maker and the distributors…
By Robert Johnson ·
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…
By Terry Davis ·
Irish bookmaker Paddy Power expects that more than £1 billion will be wagered during the Cheltenham Festival this year in what could become “the biggest betting week in sporting history.”…
By Robert Johnson ·
Italy should apply the terms of the shared online poker liquidity agreement it signed with France, Spain, and Portugal last summer in Rome, Pier Paolo Baretta, the outgoing Undersecretary of…
By Robert Johnson ·
Online sports betting has been holding the largest share in Sweden’s unregulated online gambling market over the past decade, according to recent data from H2 Gambling Capital and Lotteriinspektionen, the…
By Terry Davis ·
Brazilian politicians from the Senate Constitution and Justice Committee rejected on Wednesday a bill that would have legalized the provision of a number of gambling services within the country’s borders.…
By Anthony Huber ·
Fixed-odds betting terminals, or simply known as betting machines, are apparently extremely popular among gambling fans in Birmingham. Players in the city have spent more than £30 million on these…
By Robert Johnson ·
Representatives for Las Vegas casino operator Caesars Entertainment Corp. met with Brazilian politicians on Tuesday to discuss the state of Brazil’s tourism industry and what reforms would be needed to…
By Terry Davis ·
James Packer has reportedly severed ties with UBS Australia CEO Matthew Grounds, who has long been one of the closest advisers of the Australian businessman. Local news outlet the Australian…
By Robert Johnson ·
Europe’s gambling regulatory scene has been very dynamic over the past several months, as some countries are crafting their new regulations, while others are struggling with the consequences of adopting…
By Robert Johnson ·
This week’s major poker events include exciting festivals in Europe, South Africa, and the United States. The WPTDeepStacks series will kick off two stops on its 2018 schedule over the…
By Terry Davis ·
Brazil’s years-long push to legalize different types of gambling is at serious risk of failure, after a separate legislative proposal has emerged in the country’s legislature somewhat surprisingly. Under the…
By Terry Davis ·
If there were any doubts that Winamax was very serious about its expansion across Europe, the French online poker room has been doing its best to clear these completely. It…
By Robert Johnson ·
Italy may be a step closer to joining the shared online poker liquidity project, according to local news outlets. As reported earlier, the Italian government was conducting the required technical…
By Terry Davis ·
This week’s poker tournaments overview includes events that are set to take place in Pennsylvania, Florida, Nevada, California, and the Czech Republic, all equally exciting destinations and all promising equally…
By Terry Davis ·
Sweden’s regulated market was worth SEK17.07 billion (approximately $2.09 billion) in 2017, latest figures released by the Swedish Gambling Authority, Lotteriinspektionen, show. Regulated gambling operations recorded a 1% decrease from…
By Robert Johnson ·
Portugal may have to wait several more weeks before making its entry into Europe’s shared online poker liquidity scheme, despite last week’s publication of the required technical requirements in the…
By Robert Johnson ·
International VIP players have flocked back to Crown Resorts’ Australian casinos, the company said in a Thursday filing to the Australian Securities Exchange. The major casino operator reported a 40%…