Events & Reports

Turkish Gaming Sector Breaks Export Volume Record in 2017 on Its Way to Further Growth

Turkish Gaming Sector Breaks Export Volume Record in 2017 on Its Way to Further Growth

by May 9, 2018

The gaming sector in Turkey remains focused on boosting its export volume to $1 billion in 2018, having won a number of prestigious awards recently. The export of Turkish game developers rose by 40% in 2017 in comparison to the 2016 result, reaching $700 million.Now, the sec ...

Central Bank of Russia Hints Binary Options Could Be Regulated as Gambling Instruments

Central Bank of Russia Hints Binary Options Could Be Regulated as Gambling Instruments

by May 8, 2018

At a time when a number of countries in Europe and on a global scale have been making decisions to impose effective ban on binary options offering to retail clients, the Russian competent authorities seem to be taking a slightly different path.According to the 2017 Annual Re ...

Industry Stakeholders Call Norway’s New Gambling Rules “Pure Symbolism”

Industry Stakeholders Call Norway’s New Gambling Rules “Pure Symbolism”

by May 8, 2018

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 monopoly in the country.However, the new rules might not produce the desire ...

Has Portugal’s Ridiculously High Turnover Tax Blocked Its Gambling Market’s Growth?

Has Portugal’s Ridiculously High Turnover Tax Blocked Its Gambling Market’s Growth?

by May 7, 2018

It has been a little over three years now since Portugal adopted its new gambling law, obligating interested remote gambling operators to obtain a license from the local regulator Serviço de Regulação e Inspeção de Jogos (SRIJ), and it has been nearly two years since the first on ...

China’s Exploding Middle Class Set to Shape Asia’s Casino Gaming Landscape (Infographic)

China’s Exploding Middle Class Set to Shape Asia’s Casino Gaming Landscape (Infographic)

by May 7, 2018

Tourism statistics from the past decade indicate that there has been an exponential growth in the number of outbound trips from China. While a growth of a massive scale is always attributable to a complex set of factors, it should be noted that the country’s exploding middle clas ...

RGA Provides Detailed GDPR Guidance for iGaming Operators

RGA Provides Detailed GDPR Guidance for iGaming Operators

by May 4, 2018

The largest iGaming trade association on a global scale, the Remote Gambling Association (RGA) has published a guidance aimed at helping licensed gambling companies act in line with their obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).The GDPR, also known as ...

Unregulated Online Gambling Operations Account for 54% of Sweden’s iGaming Market

Unregulated Online Gambling Operations Account for 54% of Sweden’s iGaming Market

by May 3, 2018

Sweden’s gambling market was worth SEK5.63 billion (approximately $631.9 million, €528.4 million) during the first quarter of 2018, up 2.8% from the same three-month period a year ago, the latest figures released by the country’s gambling regulator Lotteriinspektionen show.H ...

partypoker Shared Online Poker Liquidity Launch Set to Happen Any Day Now

partypoker Shared Online Poker Liquidity Launch Set to Happen Any Day Now

by May 3, 2018

Partypoker, the online poker brand of gambling giant GVC Holdings, seems to be quickly inching closer toward joining the shared online poker liquidity project that officially launched early in 2018.The operator said at the end of April that it was updating its .es website to ...

Victorian Government Fails to Provide Detail about Point of Consumption Tax on Betting in New Budget

Victorian Government Fails to Provide Detail about Point of Consumption Tax on Betting in New Budget

by May 2, 2018

There was no mention of the potential implementation of a point of consumption tax on corporate bookmakers in Victoria in the Australian state’s 2018-19 budget, which was introduced on Tuesday, May 1.Victorian lawmakers indicated in last year’s budget that they could impleme ...

Consolidation Wave Strikes Global Gambling amid Regulatory Pressure and Heavy Competition

Consolidation Wave Strikes Global Gambling amid Regulatory Pressure and Heavy Competition

by May 1, 2018

The first several months of the year turned out to be quite eventful within the gambling field. And probably the most important event witnessed by industry peers was the wave of consolidation that struck globally and involved some of the world’s largest gambling companies.GV ...

Ocean Resort Casino Owner Promises Difference-Making Experience upon Property’s Reopening

Ocean Resort Casino Owner Promises Difference-Making Experience upon Property’s Reopening

by April 30, 2018

Days after reports emerged that Ocean Resort Casino, formerly Revel, will open doors on June 28, the property’s owner, Bruce Deifik, revealed important details about their plans of how to prevent it from failure.The former Revel launched in 2012 to much fanfare, but survived ...

Lawmakers Appear Unaware of VICI’s Option to Buy New Orleans Casino amid License Extension Talks

Lawmakers Appear Unaware of VICI’s Option to Buy New Orleans Casino amid License Extension Talks

by April 29, 2018

A real estate investment trust can buy Harrah’s New Orleans Casino but Louisiana lawmakers seem to be unaware of a potential transaction at a time when they are considering a bill that would extend the venue’s license for 30 years, local media outlet The Advocate repo ...

Norwegian Scholar to Review Whether Loot Boxes Constitute Gambling

Norwegian Scholar to Review Whether Loot Boxes Constitute Gambling

by April 27, 2018

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 to review the in-game items after the gambling regulators of the Netherland ...

Ocean Resort Casino Opening Reportedly Set for June 28

Ocean Resort Casino Opening Reportedly Set for June 28

by April 26, 2018

Ocean Resort Casino, formerly Revel, might be targeting a June 28 opening, local news outlet The Press of Atlantic City reported on Wednesday citing unnamed sources. The date is the same one Hard Rock International has selected to reopen the former Trump Taj Mahal casino resort a ...

Three Video Games with Loot Boxes Violate Belgian Gambling Law, Regulator Finds

Three Video Games with Loot Boxes Violate Belgian Gambling Law, Regulator Finds

by April 25, 2018

At least three video games featuring loot boxes have been breaching Belgian gambling laws, an investigation by the Belgian Gaming Commission has shown. The news about the regulator’s position on the widely publicized issue comes shortly after its Dutch counterpart released its ow ...