Events & Reports

Uruguay May Block Online Gambling Websites

Uruguay May Block Online Gambling Websites

by July 26, 2017

The government of Uruguay is pondering the possibility of introducing a new legal framework that would prevent internationally licensed iGaming operators from targeting local players, local news outlet El Observador has reported.Pablo Ferreri, Uruguay’s Undersecretary of Eco ...

UK to Tax Online Casino Freeplays from August 1

UK to Tax Online Casino Freeplays from August 1

by July 25, 2017

A broadly discussed tax on freeplays and related discounts used by UK-facing online gambling operators to acquire and retain customers will be imposed as from August 1, 2017, despite previously being removed from the Finance Bill 2017, according to media reports from last week. ...

ARJEL Publishes First Shared Online Poker Liquidity Instructions for Interested Operators

ARJEL Publishes First Shared Online Poker Liquidity Instructions for Interested Operators

by July 24, 2017

The French online gambling regulator – ARJEL – has published initial instructions for France-facing online poker operators interested to participate in the shared liquidity project.The move comes two weeks after the responsible regulatory bodies of France, Italy, Spain, and P ...

Skrill Tempts Potential Casino Players via Email Marketing While Promoting Rogue Casino on Its Website

Skrill Tempts Potential Casino Players via Email Marketing While Promoting Rogue Casino on Its Website

by July 21, 2017

The provision of online payment services has been yet another area to have been catalyzed by the general application of digital technology. More and more people have been looking for means to move funds quickly, effortlessly, and relatively cheaply, and have been embracing the co ...

Tennis Integrity Unit Investigates Three Wimbledon Matches after Suspicious Betting Alerts

Tennis Integrity Unit Investigates Three Wimbledon Matches after Suspicious Betting Alerts

by July 20, 2017

Three Wimbledon and one Roland-Garros matches will be investigated by the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) due to alerts for suspicious gambling patterns, the London-based anti-corruption body has revealed in a year-to-date briefing note.The TIU has not specified which exact matc ...

Aria Resort & Casino and Poker Central Partner for Poker Masters High Roller Series

Aria Resort & Casino and Poker Central Partner for Poker Masters High Roller Series

by July 19, 2017

Aria Resort & Casino and Poker Central have joined forces to debut the Poker Masters high roller poker festival this September. The week-long series will run from September 13-20 and will feature four $50,000 buy-in events as well as a $100,000 buy-in one.Featured and fi ...

Overregulation Will Harm Japan’s Casino Industry, Analysts Warn

Overregulation Will Harm Japan’s Casino Industry, Analysts Warn

by July 18, 2017

Analysts warn that too strict regulations may produce the exact opposite of what the gambling industry expects from Japan’s recently legalized casino market.Japanese lawmakers are in the middle of a process of crafting a second casino bill that would regulate the country’s i ...

Connecticut Passes Sports Betting Bill While Mississippi Backs Off from Previous Legalization Push

Connecticut Passes Sports Betting Bill While Mississippi Backs Off from Previous Legalization Push

by July 17, 2017

After the Supreme Court of the United States decided to hear New Jersey’s sports betting legalization case, the topic began making its way in the Legislatures of several other states.Generally speaking, New Jersey, a major casino hub with its Atlantic City-based venues, call ...

Belgium Seeks to Raise Minimum Online Gambling Age

by July 14, 2017

A month after it became known that Belgian politicians were planning to introduce a bill that would aim to curb gambling advertising on local television, news about a separate legislative piece have emerged, that one targeting another aspect of the country’s existing gambling reg ...

What Lured Gambling Boss Teddy Sagi Into Buying London’s Camden Market?

by July 13, 2017

Londoners woke up Monday morning to the news that a massive fire hit Camden Market. A building located next to the market hall area of the popular marketplace was reported to have been engulfed in blaze shortly before midnight on Sunday.A total of 70 firefighters fought well ...

Pennsylvania Legislature Adjourns Without Any Significant Online Gambling Talks Progress

by July 13, 2017

Online gambling legalization talks once again reached a stalemate in the Pennsylvania Legislature after lawmakers adjourned before coming to an agreement on an omnibus gambling bill.Legislators approved late last month the state’s $32-billion spending plan for the 2017-2018 ...

US Senator Urges Attorney General Jeff Sessions to Ban Online Gambling

by July 12, 2017

Another US lawmaker has joined the company of politicians to be openly and vocally opposing a 2011 memo of the Department of Justice that practically gave the green light to each individual state to legalize and regulate online gambling within its borders.Political journalis ...

Amended Online Gambling Bill Emerges in Michigan

by July 11, 2017

Earlier this year, Michigan emerged as one of the states that were considering the legalization of online gambling. S 203, sponsored by Senate Majority Floor Leader Mike Kowall, appeared on the Senate floor in March and was quickly approved by the Senate Regulatory Reform Committ ...

Residents of Sydney Area Gamble A$8 Billion on Poker Machines

by July 11, 2017

Sydney’s Fairfield Council has requested a freeze on slot machines, or poker machines as they are known in Australia, after news emerged that the amount of A$8 billion was spent on these in the 2015/16 financial year by residents of the south-west Sydney local government area. ...

Vietnam’s New Casino Rules to Benefit the Country’s Gambling Industry

by July 10, 2017

American real estate specialist Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) said in a recent report on the future of the Vietnamese gambling industry that major international casino operators have been eyeing the local market.According to the real estate firm, the recent lifting of a ban that ...