Events & Reports

Ninja Casino Owner Losses Swedish License over AML, KYC Deficiencies

Ninja Casino Owner Losses Swedish License over AML, KYC Deficiencies

by June 17, 2019

Spelinspektionen, the Swedish gambling authority, has cracked the whip on a major player in the local regulated Internet gaming space over anti-money laundering deficiencies and other violations.In a statement from earlier today, the regulator announced that it has revoked t ...

Sports Betting Coming Soon at Presque Isle Downs & Casino

Sports Betting Coming Soon at Presque Isle Downs & Casino

by June 15, 2019

More than four months after being granted a license by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, construction work at Presque Isle Downs & Casino in Erie indicates that the property will soon be ready to go live with sports betting.The state gaming regulator approved the cas ...

Sunset Station Hotel & Casino Workers Vote to Unionize

Sunset Station Hotel & Casino Workers Vote to Unionize

by June 15, 2019

Another Station Casinos property approves overwhelmingly its proposed unionization, company yet to negotiate contracts at other propertiesSunset Station Hotel & Casino in Henderson, Nevada has become the fifth Station Casinos property whose employees have voted to unioniz ...

Marina Bay Sands Settles S$10 Million Gambling Debt Lawsuit

Marina Bay Sands Settles S$10 Million Gambling Debt Lawsuit

by June 14, 2019

Marina Bay Sands, one of Singapore’s two casino resorts, has dropped a S$10 million lawsuit against an Australian high roller who failed to pay a gambling debt he amassed at the property five years ago.Local news outlets reported earlier this week that Marina Bay Sands filed ...

Online Casino PlayOJO Cuts Swedish TV Ads

Online Casino PlayOJO Cuts Swedish TV Ads

by June 10, 2019

Online gambling operator PlayOJO has revised and reduced its advertising activity in Sweden in order to protect underage members of the country’s population from exposure to its products and from the risks associated with gambling.The SkillOnNet-powered online casino’s TV ad ...

Dutch Gambling Market Reorganization Likely to Happen in Early 2021

Dutch Gambling Market Reorganization Likely to Happen in Early 2021

by June 10, 2019

The Netherlands’ regulated online gambling market will “hopefully” open on January 1, 2021, René Jansen, Chairman of the country’s gambling regulator, Kansspelautoriteit, said during last week’s Gaming in Holland Conference.The reorganization of the Dutch market was originall ...

First Swiss Online Casinos Get Federal OK

First Swiss Online Casinos Get Federal OK

by June 9, 2019

Grand Casino Baden, Casino Davos, Grand Casino Luzern, and Casino Pfäffikon receive Federal Council approval to launch online casinosThe Swiss Federal Council gave last week much-needed approval to the first four online casino license applications submitted with the nation’s ...

Wynn Resorts Has the Perfect Marketing Plan for Boston Casino

Wynn Resorts Has the Perfect Marketing Plan for Boston Casino

by June 8, 2019

Wynn Resorts’ Encore Boston Harbor is expected to annually attract 8 million visitors and the Las Vegas gaming and hospitality giant believes it has devised the perfect plan to achieve that goal.During a presentation on Thursday, property officials presented the Massachusetts ...

Wire Act Delays Mobile Betting Launch in West Virginia

Wire Act Delays Mobile Betting Launch in West Virginia

by June 7, 2019

Server issues and the provisions of the Wire Act have delayed the return of mobile betting to West Virginia, the state Lottery announced earlier this weekDraftKings was expected to launch its mobile betting app in partnership with Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races last w ...

New App Store Guidelines Spell Trouble for Gambling Industry’s Mobile-First Approach

New App Store Guidelines Spell Trouble for Gambling Industry’s Mobile-First Approach

by June 5, 2019

The latest update of the App Store Review Guidelines is here and it can be said with a fair degree of certainty that it would spell quite some trouble for the gambling industry.Apple has been pretty clear how it feels about gambling apps in the past, but the most recent upda ...

Israeli Crypto Exchange Wins Legal Dispute Against Local Bank

Israeli Crypto Exchange Wins Legal Dispute Against Local Bank

by June 4, 2019

An Israeli cryptocurrency exchange scored a major legal victory after the country’s Supreme Court ruled in its favor in a confrontation with a local bank that had blocked its accountThe Israeli Supreme Court sided this week with crypto exchange Bits of Gold, ruling that Bank ...

Ray of Hope as Federal Judge Strikes Down DOJ Opinion on Online Gambling

Ray of Hope as Federal Judge Strikes Down DOJ Opinion on Online Gambling

by June 4, 2019

A federal judge has struck down the expanded prohibition on interstate gambling under the Interstate Wire Act of 1961, saying that the provisions of the law only applied to interstate sports betting.US District Judge Paul Barbadoro issued his 60-page ruling on Monday in New ...

Spelinspektionen Fines Two More Operators for Bonus Offer Failures

Spelinspektionen Fines Two More Operators for Bonus Offer Failures

by June 3, 2019

Two more operators have been fined for violating Sweden’s strict bonus offer rules after Betway and Mandalorian were slapped SEK14 million in fines last monthSpelinspektionen has lived up to its promise to punish severely those who violate Sweden’s newly enforced gambling law ...

Illinois Legalizes Sports Betting, Expands Casino Gambling

Illinois Legalizes Sports Betting, Expands Casino Gambling

by June 3, 2019

The Illinois Legislature has finally passed a sweeping overhaul of the state’s gambling industry after multiple previous unsuccessful attempts. Over the weekend, the State House and then the State Senate voted in favor of a comprehensive legislation that, among other things, woul ...

More Than 35,000 Swedes Sign Up To Gambling Self-Exclusion Registry

More Than 35,000 Swedes Sign Up To Gambling Self-Exclusion Registry

by June 2, 2019

Sweden’s self-exclusion registry for people who want to ban themselves from gambling for a certain period of time has passed the 35,000 mark, the nation’s gambling regulator said last weekSweden re-organized its gambling market on January 1, 2019 when its new gambling law ca ...