Events & Reports

Switzerland to Ban Foreign Gambling Operators as Voters Thumb Up Proposed Gambling Act Reform

Switzerland to Ban Foreign Gambling Operators as Voters Thumb Up Proposed Gambling Act Reform

by June 11, 2018

Swiss voters backed the proposed nationwide ban on remote gambling operations yesterday. The final results of the June 10th referendum showed that the majority of local voters came out in favor of suggested Switzerland’s gambling law overhaul.A total of 72.9% of the country’ ...

More Details Shed on Hard Rock’s €2-Billion Tarragona Casino Resort Project

More Details Shed on Hard Rock’s €2-Billion Tarragona Casino Resort Project

by June 11, 2018

Hard Rock International’s Tarragona, Spain integrated resort will occupy a 745,000-square-meter site and will cost the developer the amount of €2 billion, according to the latest rollout of information regarding the mega-scheme.It was announced late last month that the Govern ...

Japanese Diet’s Lower House Likely to Vote on IR/Casino Bill on June 12

Japanese Diet’s Lower House Likely to Vote on IR/Casino Bill on June 12

by June 10, 2018

Japanese lawmakers postponed on Friday a vote on the Integrated Resort Implementation Bill to avoid backlash ahead of and during today’s Niigata gubernatorial election, local news outlet Japan Times reported citing sources familiar with the matter.The bill that sets ou ...

Sweden Votes Through Gambling Market Re-Organization Bill, Law Takes Effect January 2019

Sweden Votes Through Gambling Market Re-Organization Bill, Law Takes Effect January 2019

by June 8, 2018

Sweden’s national legislature, the Riksdag, approved Thursday a proposed legislation for the re-regulation of the country’s gambling market. The law is set to take effect on January 1, 2019 and will make it possible for international remote gambling operators to apply for a licen ...

YouTube Blocks Gambling Channels under Latest Rule Changes

YouTube Blocks Gambling Channels under Latest Rule Changes

by June 7, 2018

Gambling channels have been terminated under YouTube’s Arbitrary Moderation Process.The video-sharing website YouTube seems to have started closing users’ gambling channels, The Atlantic reported. Brian Cristopher, a user and channel owner, revealed that his account got surp ...

Caesars CEO Says Sports Betting Is Huge Win for US Gambling

Caesars CEO Says Sports Betting Is Huge Win for US Gambling

by June 6, 2018

Caesars Entertainment Corp. CEO Mark Frissora said in an interview with Yahoo Finance that sports betting is a huge win for the US gambling industry, referring to the recent decision of the US Supreme Court to lift a federal ban on the provision of sports betting services.Fo ...

Norway’s New Gambling Regulations Now Submitted for EC Review

Norway’s New Gambling Regulations Now Submitted for EC Review

by June 5, 2018

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 reject or approve the measures.The Norwegian supreme legislature, the Stort ...

partypoker Finally Merges French and Spanish Player Pools to Join Poker Liquidity Project

partypoker Finally Merges French and Spanish Player Pools to Join Poker Liquidity Project

by June 4, 2018

Online poker operator partypoker is set to merge its French and Spanish player pools today to finally enter the shared online poker liquidity scheme more than four months after PokerStars gave the official start to the project that is hoped to save the game across Europe’s segreg ...

Japanese Prime Minister Reiterates Need for Transparent Casino Location Selection Process

by June 3, 2018

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has once again stressed on the importance of a fair selection of locations for the country’s first integrated resorts with casino floor.Mr. Abe talked about the crucial step of conducting fair, unbiased, and transparent screenings whe ...

CrownBet Could Rebrand as Sportingbet after William Hill Australia Takeover

CrownBet Could Rebrand as Sportingbet after William Hill Australia Takeover

by June 1, 2018

Australian online sports betting operator CrownBet might rebrand as Sportingbet after buying William Hill’s Australian business, local news outlet The Australian reports. CrownBet was recently acquired by Canadian gambling giant The Stars Group, the parent company of online poker ...

UK Gambling Industry GGY Increases According to UKGC Report

UK Gambling Industry GGY Increases According to UKGC Report

by May 31, 2018

Today, the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) published its latest six-month update to the local gambling industry statistics. The main regulatory body in the UK revealed some details about the market changes and latest trends in the sector, as well as about players’ activity in the p ...

Swiss Voters Seem to Support Foreign Online Casinos Ban

Swiss Voters Seem to Support Foreign Online Casinos Ban

by May 30, 2018

A nationwide opinion poll in Switzerland has shown that plans for a gambling law amendment are making progress ahead of the vote scheduled for June 10th.Only a few weeks before the changes in the existing gambling legislation takes place, the leading polling and research ins ...

Scots Clinic to Treat Cryptocurrency Addicts

Scots Clinic to Treat Cryptocurrency Addicts

by May 28, 2018

A Scots clinic will be offering residential treatment to cryptocurrency aficionados who have got hooked on digital currencies trading, The Times reports.Castle Craig Hospital in Peeblesshire, Scotland has launched a residential treatment course to help “crypto addicts” recov ...

GVC Shareholders Rage Against CEO’s “Excessively Disproportionate” Pay

GVC Shareholders Rage Against CEO’s “Excessively Disproportionate” Pay

by May 28, 2018

Gambling company GVC Holdings is facing a shareholder backlash over what has been described as an “excessively disproportionate” pay to the company’s CEO, Kenny Alexander, The Guardian reports.Mr. Alexander has been at GVC’s helm since 2007. He has concluded two important ac ...

Illinois House to Discuss Gambling Expansion Deal, Springfield Developer Rekindles Downtown Casino Talks

Illinois House to Discuss Gambling Expansion Deal, Springfield Developer Rekindles Downtown Casino Talks

by May 27, 2018

A Springfield, Illinois developer has once again put forward a plan for the construction of a downtown casino and the addition of video gaming terminals at the state fairgrounds as House legislators are set to discuss a gambling expansion bill this Monday.It was on Friday wh ...