In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Sweden’s government unveiled a set of proposals to limit gamblers’ possible exposure to harm. Health and Social Affairs Minister Ardalan Shekarabi has proposed a SEK5,000 (£400) as a maximum weekly deposit and a weekly SEK100 (£8) cap on bonus offers! The proposals will be …
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UK Gambling Commission had notified in January all licensed operators that from 31 March integration with Gamstop would be a mandatory condition to keep their existing licenses. Two operators however, failed to comply. The British gambling commission decided to suspend the licenses of Sportito and Dynamic! Since Sportito managed to …
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The Malta Gaming Authority (MGA) decided to cancel Pick Mister’s B2C gaming license (pickMister.com) , since the operator failed to pay the license fees for 2019. As a result of the license breach pickmister.com is no longer authorized to carry out any gaming operations, register new players or accept new …
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Danish gambling regulatory authority Spillemyndigheden reminded all licensed operators that the new marketing regulations for gambling are set to come into effect in Denmark on 1 April. According to those new marketing rules operators are required to incorporate new information and links in their gambling marketing. According to the regulator …
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The Swedish Gaming Authority (Spelinspektionen) imposed a heavy SEK 100m (£8.4m/€9.2m) penalty fee on Kindred Group for offering to players bonuses that were unauthorized and lotteries with no license! According to the Swedish regulator checks on the operator’s Unibet, Maria Casino, Storspelare, Bingo and iGame sites revealed a number of …
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UK Gambling Commission decided due to AML and social responsibility concerns to suspend the licence of lottery betting site Lotteries.com. The operator owned by Isle of Man-registered International Multi-Media Entertainments Limited, had its remote betting and casino licence immediately suspended, as the British regulator will review into the business. The …
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New iGaming regulations which will legalize online casino and poker from July 2021 were approved by German legislators. Also the new regulatory authority was decided to be based in Sachsen-Anhalt. The next step means that each of the German state parliaments must ratify the Glücksspielneuregulierungstaatsvertrag (GlüNeuRStv) bill, which intends to …
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Online gambling business Betway is ordered by the UK Gambling Commission to pay £11.6m, alongside implementing a package of measures, for a series of social responsibility and money laundering failings linked to dealings with seven of its high spending customers. The settlement consists of: £5.8m payment in lieu of a …
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Almost a week after the UK Gambling Commission has suspended Stakers Limited’s license, the Malta Gaming Authority took a similar decision. Stakers had been running its website under the Maltese license, but the MGA-enforced suspension means it it’s no longer authorized to carry out any gaming operations, register new players …
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Canadian politicians have made a third attempt to legalise single-game sports betting in Canada by introducing Bill C-218, otherwise known as the Safe and Regulated Sports Betting Act. The bill is sponsored by Conservative MP Kevin Waugh and New Democratic Party MP Brian Masse, whose two previous attempts to amend …
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The Colorado Limited Gaming Control Commission has awarded eight new sports betting licenses for the US state: According to the local commission Ameristar Casino, Lady Luck Casino, and Isle Casino Hotel, which are located in Black Hawk, Colorado, were issued with master sports betting licenses. Crown Gaming, in partnership with …
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The UK Gambling Commission has suspended Stakers Limited’s license. The Commission cited Section 116(2)(a) of the Act, which permits a review if the regulator “has reason to suspect that activities may have been carried on in purported reliance on the licence but not in accordance with a condition of the …
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The Betting and Gaming Council which represents betting shops, online gaming businesses and casinos, issued a warning over the UK government’s new proposed immigration laws and that they may have a severe impact on the gambling industry with negative consequences for tourism and gambling establishments. The council, which represents approximately …
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Last month Wyoming Representative Tom Walters and Senator Ogden Briskill introduced House Bill 0225, which focused on legalizing online and mobile sports betting opening a regulated marked till 1 January 2021. The bill though, failed to pass and was defeated by votes 27-32. According to Representative Tom Walters many of …
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A new bill has been introduced in Serbia’s National Assebly by Minister of Finance Sinisa Mali, which include a major tax increase for online gambling, from 5% gross revenue for all verticals, to 15% for online betting and 10 for other games. The new bill will replace the 2011 Gambling …
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Canadian Conservative Party Member of Parliament Kevin Waugh introduced a bill aiming to legalize single event sports betting in the North American country. “Let me be clear that single-event sport wagering already exists in this country, and if members do not think so, they are behind the curtains,” Waugh said …
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Casino Interlaken, a Swiss land-based casino located in the south of Bern and owned by Casinos Austria International, secured an online iGaming license from the Swiss gambling regulator Eidgenössische Spielbankenkommission (ESBK) and will be able to offer online casino games in Switzerland. Casino Interlaken got an initial approval from the …
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The Spanish government finally published its long-awaited overhaul of gambling advertising regulations aiming to reduce television gambling advertising by as much as 80% and ban companies from hiring celebrities to market gambling products and services. The regulations have been published as part of a consultation, with the government explaining that …
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The German association of German private media Vaunet called for a revision of the planned advertising restrictions on the iGaming industry claiming that those will impact broadcasters. Vaunet, which has over 150 TV, radio, streaming and online media companies among its members, said in a statement that it broadly welcomes …
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The UK Gambling Commission followed Gibraltar regulator and suspended the license of Addison Global and its sports betting site MoPlay, while conducting a review of the operator. The suspension means that Addison Global will be prohibited to offer gambling services to customers across the UK. The suspension comes as the …
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