Events & Reports

Growing Opposition Threatens Lottoland’s Lottery Betting Future in Australia

Growing Opposition Threatens Lottoland’s Lottery Betting Future in Australia

by September 22, 2017

The past several days have brought news from different parts of Australia that Lottoland, the Gibraltar-based lottery betting operator, could face a ban in at least three states due to its business model that has been attacked for hurting locally-run traditional lottery operators ...

Dutch Government Introduces Temporary Gambling Tax Hike

Dutch Government Introduces Temporary Gambling Tax Hike

by September 21, 2017

The multiple delays in the introduction of the Netherlands’ new gambling regulatory framework have taken their toll, as the Dutch government announced earlier this week plans to implement a temporary rise in the current gambling tax rate.Regulated gambling operators currentl ...

Bookmakers Cluster Betting Shops and FOBTs in UK’s Most Deprived Areas, Multiple Studies Find

Bookmakers Cluster Betting Shops and FOBTs in UK’s Most Deprived Areas, Multiple Studies Find

by September 20, 2017

The UK Government’s triennial review of the nation’s gambling industry is due to be published late next month, or precisely a year after it became known that measures to curb the highly controversial B2 gaming machines would finally be considered and would likely be introduced. ...

Betway Head of PR Alan Alger Talks Responsible Gambling while His Company Acquires Players through Notorious Hacker

Betway Head of PR Alan Alger Talks Responsible Gambling while His Company Acquires Players through Notorious Hacker

by September 19, 2017

The UK gambling industry has been under serious media fire over the past several weeks. And the heat from the growing media blaze has become more and more scorching ahead of the upcoming publication of the Government’s triennial review of the nation’s gambling market, both land-b ...

Saxony-Anhalt Finance Minister Urges Speedy Implementation of Germany’s Interstate Treaty on Gambling

Saxony-Anhalt Finance Minister Urges Speedy Implementation of Germany’s Interstate Treaty on Gambling

by September 18, 2017

Germany’s long-time online gambling legalization effort could eventually fail, if its 16 federal states do not implement the Interstate Treaty on Gambling hastily, André Schröder, Finance Minister Saxony-Anhalt has warned. His statement was also supported by the Deutscher Lotto- ...

Sweden’s Unregulated Gambling Market Sees Double-Digit Growth in H1

Sweden’s Unregulated Gambling Market Sees Double-Digit Growth in H1

by September 15, 2017

Sweden’s gambling market saw a 3% increase in revenue during the first half of the year, figures released by the country’s gambling regulator, Lotteriinspektionen, showed. An important highlight from the authority’s half-year report was the fact that Sweden’s unregulated online g ...

Gambling Operators Betway and 888 Work with Hackers for Years to Grow Their Playerbase

Gambling Operators Betway and 888 Work with Hackers for Years to Grow Their Playerbase

by September 14, 2017

Online gambling, among other things, involves the daily movement of huge amounts of money and the fact that it has oftentimes been targeted by hackers probably does not strike as such a big surprise. However, it is rather surprising and even shocking that particular iGaming-relat ...

Italy to Launch Call for Online Gambling License Applications Next Week

Italy to Launch Call for Online Gambling License Applications Next Week

by September 14, 2017

It was two years ago when it first became known that the Italian online gambling market would be expanded significantly. Back in 2015, the Southern European country’s government agreed to award 120 online gaming licenses to interested operators, but a tender for those same licens ...

French Online Gambling Regulator Sprinkles Optimism on Shared Online Poker Liquidity Project’s 2017 Realization

French Online Gambling Regulator Sprinkles Optimism on Shared Online Poker Liquidity Project’s 2017 Realization

by September 13, 2017

France has made significant progress in preparing the necessary documentation for the completion of the shared online poker liquidity project, Clément Martin Saint Léon, Head of Consumer Protection at ARJEL, revealed on Tuesday during the 2017 World Regulatory Briefing: Responsib ...

Gambling-Unfriendly Pennsylvania House Budget Deficit Plan May Get First Vote on September 12

Gambling-Unfriendly Pennsylvania House Budget Deficit Plan May Get First Vote on September 12

by September 12, 2017

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives returned from its summer recess on Monday. House lawmakers as well as their counterparts from the Senate are faced with the task of putting an end to a prolonged budget stalemate.During the Monday session, Republican Representatives h ...

Australian Lottery Retailers Condemn Lottoland’s Lottery Betting Practices

Australian Lottery Retailers Condemn Lottoland’s Lottery Betting Practices

by September 11, 2017

Three Australian states may soon ban the operations of Gibraltar-based lottery betting company Lottoland, Victorian news outlet Herald Sun has reported. The reports emerged after the Australian Lottery and Newsagents Association voiced concerns that Lottoland’s services harm the ...

More Casino Operators Fleeing and New Betting Taxes Mark Latest Changes in Australia’s Online Gambling Landscape

More Casino Operators Fleeing and New Betting Taxes Mark Latest Changes in Australia’s Online Gambling Landscape

by September 9, 2017

Codeta has become yet another online gambling brand to join the mass departure of international iGaming operators from the Australian market. Online gambling affiliates promoting the casino have been informed that Codeta will shut its doors for Australian players from September 1 ...

WPT Borgata Poker Open Tournaments Offer $7 Million in Guaranteed Prizes

WPT Borgata Poker Open Tournaments Offer $7 Million in Guaranteed Prizes

by September 8, 2017

The WPT Borgata Poker Open Championship, held at the Borgata Hotel, Spa and Casino in Atlantic City, provides players will multiple opportunities to hit it big, with $7 million in guaranteed cash prizes. The tournament series will run between September 5 and September 22, 2017 an ...

Universal Championship of Poker to Run September 10 to September 24

Universal Championship of Poker to Run September 10 to September 24

by September 7, 2017

The Microgaming Poker Network (MPN) announced the third annual Universal Championship of Poker (UCOP III) is to kick off September 10, 2017, with an impressive number of 59 events scheduled for the month. Participants in the annual poker festival will have the opportunity to win ...

Brazil’s Gambling Legalization Effort Gains More Public and Political Support

Brazil’s Gambling Legalization Effort Gains More Public and Political Support

by September 6, 2017

A very slight majority of Brazil’s population supports the legalization of brick-and-mortar casinos and bingo halls in the country, a recent report compiled by local research firm Paraná Pesquisas and published by news outlet JD1 Notícias showed.About 45.7% of all surveyed B ...