Events & Reports

Denmark Gambling Authority Warns Operators Over Bonus Offers Wording

Denmark Gambling Authority Warns Operators Over Bonus Offers Wording

by April 16, 2019

Denmark’s gambling regulator urges operators to comply with advertising rules and avoid misusing the term ‘free’ in bonus offersThe Danish Gambling Authority, Spillemyndigheden, warned Monday locally licensed gambling companies over the use of the word ‘free’ when advertising ...

Iowa Gaming Regulator to Review Catfish Bend Casino’s Sportsbook Plan

Iowa Gaming Regulator to Review Catfish Bend Casino’s Sportsbook Plan

by April 13, 2019

An Iowa casino is gearing preparations to build a sportsbook as state lawmakers are debating the legalization and regulation of sports bettingLocal television station KCRG reports that the state Racing and Gaming Commission is set to review two contracts next week that, if ap ...

Florida Senate President “Encouraged” by Progress of Gambling Deal Negotiations

Florida Senate President “Encouraged” by Progress of Gambling Deal Negotiations

by April 12, 2019

Florida Senate President Bill Galvano said earlier this week he is “encouraged” by the progress of talks between the state Legislature and the Seminole Tribe on a new gambling dealSen. Wilton Simpson has been tapped as the lead negotiator in the ongoing discussions with triba ...

Kansspelautoriteit Hits Casino.com’s Owner with Six-Figure Fine… Again

Kansspelautoriteit Hits Casino.com’s Owner with Six-Figure Fine… Again

by April 10, 2019

Five years after its first fine from Kansspelautoriteit, ONISAC is served a fresh course of good old regulatory wrathThe owner of Casino.com has once again fallen foul of the Netherlands Gambling Authority. Kansspelautoriteit said Tuesday that it has imposed a €450,000 fine o ...

EGBA Urges Portugal to Nix “Discriminatory” Online Gambling Tax Regime

EGBA Urges Portugal to Nix “Discriminatory” Online Gambling Tax Regime

by April 9, 2019

EGBA calls for a flat tax rate based on gross gambling revenue as the popularity of the unregulated market grows among Portuguese gamblersThe European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA) has urged the government of Portugal to review the nation’s gambling tax regime as the ...

Finnish Gambling Monopoly Plans Multi-Million Digital Reshuffle

Finnish Gambling Monopoly Plans Multi-Million Digital Reshuffle

by April 8, 2019

Veikkaus to invest between €4 million and €8 million in digital gambling reshuffle to blunt competition from offshore operatorsVeikkaus, Finland’s state-run gambling operator, is planning to invest up to €8 million into adding new online casino games as part of an ongoing ref ...

Sri Lanka Casino Entry Fee to Only Apply to Nationals

Sri Lanka Casino Entry Fee to Only Apply to Nationals

by April 7, 2019

The government of Sri Lanka has clarified that a previously proposed $50 casino entry fee would only apply to nationals, Finance Minister saysInternational visitors would not be required to pay the levy in order to be admitted to the nation’s casinos.News about Sri Lanka ...

Florida Lawmakers, Seminole Officials Hold Talks over New Gambling Compact

Florida Lawmakers, Seminole Officials Hold Talks over New Gambling Compact

by April 6, 2019

Florida legislators are holding behind-the-scenes talks with the Seminole Tribe in a bid to agree a new gambling compact between the state and the tribe, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reportsA key provision in the agreement between the Seminoles and Florida from 2010 expired ne ...

Study Reveals “Worrying” Surge in Female Gambling Addicts in Sweden

Study Reveals “Worrying” Surge in Female Gambling Addicts in Sweden

by April 5, 2019

The majority of Sweden’s gambling addicts are women for the first time ever, a recent survey by the nation’s Public Health Agency (Folkhälsomyndigheten) showsThe report found that the overall number of problem gamblers has dropped since 2015, when the last such study was rele ...

Ladbrokes Coral to Shutter Tel Aviv Office

Ladbrokes Coral to Shutter Tel Aviv Office

by April 4, 2019

Ladbrokes Coral is set to close its Tel Aviv office by the end of the year, putting around 140 marketing, tech, and other jobs at riskLadbrokes Coral is putting up the shutters of its Tel Aviv office, a spokesperson for the gambling operator’s parent company GVC Holdings told ...

Smile-Expo Debuts Zurich iGaming Affiliate Conference This June

Smile-Expo Debuts Zurich iGaming Affiliate Conference This June

by April 3, 2019

It’s already been a busy year for Smile-Expo, and the event organizer is now gearing up preparations for yet another brand-new iGaming affiliate eventAfter the Prague iGamiing Affiliate Conference and the Minsk iGaming Affiliate Conference, both slated to take place later thi ...

Puerto Rico Looks to Tap Into Lucrative Sports Betting Field

Puerto Rico Looks to Tap Into Lucrative Sports Betting Field

by April 2, 2019

Puerto Rico is looking to tap into the lucrative sports betting field with a new bill that aims to legalize the practice on the island, news outlet the Caribbean Business reportsThe Governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rosselló, announced Monday that a bill calling for the legali ...

Casumo Falls Foul of Dutch Gambling Regulator

Casumo Falls Foul of Dutch Gambling Regulator

by April 2, 2019

The Malta-based and licensed online casino has been slapped a hefty fine for targeting Dutch gambling customers without a local licenseCasumo has become the latest online gambling operator to be punished by the Netherlands Gambling Authority, Kansspelautoriteit, for servicing ...

Buenos Aires Regulates Online Gambling

Buenos Aires Regulates Online Gambling

by April 1, 2019

The re-organization of the online gambling market of Buenos Aires can finally begin after a recently approved decree was published Friday in Boletín Oficial, the Official Gazette of ArgentinaAfter several years of heated discussions, the Argentinian province of Buenos Aires f ...

Bucharest Official Calls For Gambling Halls Ban

Bucharest Official Calls For Gambling Halls Ban

by April 1, 2019

A Bucharest official has proposed the relocation of all operational gambling halls to a place outside the Romanian capitalBucharest could relocate its gambling halls to a “neighborhood of gambling” located outside the Romanian capital, if a proposal by a general council survi ...