Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has announced that he will not ban online gambling in the country despite strong pressure from China. Duterte announced it at a news conference upon his return from a five-day official visit to China, during which he met the country’s President Xi Jinping. “We decide to …
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Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia, has ordered a complete shutdown of all online gambling activities in the country. The decision has sparked a massive exodus of Chinese workers. The 67-year-old Prime Minister used an official government statement to declare that his nation must not rely on such iGaming licensing …
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The Swiss gambling regulator, Eidgeosssische Spielbankenkommission (ESBK) and Inter-Cantonal Lotteries and Betting Commission (Comlot) has released a first blacklist of foreign gambling sites. Comlot’s blacklist has launched with 65 domains, including multiple sites operated by a single company, with 39 on the ESBK list. However, there is a lot of …
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Malta-based online casino operator Videoslots.com has been awarded a license by the Danish Gambling Authority (Spillemyndigheden). The license adds Videoslots online casino offer to existing markets in Malta, Sweden and the UK. Danish players will now have access to Videoslots’ portfolio of over 3,500 games, including popular titles Battle of …
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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has directed his government to legalize gambling in an effort to combat the shadow economy and stimulate investment activity in the country. After winning a big victory in Ukraine’s presidential elections, Mr Zelensky, a former comedian, was inaugurated as the country’s top official in May. About …
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New Jersey’s State Senate passed a law that would enable Atlantic City’s Golden Nugget Casino to take bets on all NBA contests, aside from those that involve the Houston Rockets team which was acquired by the casino’s owner, Tilman Fertitta, in 2017. Under current rules, introduced last year, casinos that …
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Sports betting is now available in Indiana after three of the state’s casinos debuted their sportsbooks on September 1. Governor Eric Holcomb placed an inaugural bet at the Indiana Grand Racing & Casino in Shelbyville. Holcomb went with three $10 wagers – for the Colts to win the Super Bowl, …
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The Malta Gaming Authority (MGA) has established a new Sports Integrity Unit to gather and share intelligence on suspicious betting activity. The Integrity Unit will be serving as the MGA’ liaison to foreign regulatory authorities, law enforcement agencies, wagering monitoring systems and sports governing bodies combatting the manipulation of sports. …
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The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has instigated a review of the online gaming and betting license held by platform supplier FSB Technology and used for one of its licensees – Blackbet.co.uk. The website, offering casino and sportsbook, has voluntarily suspended all activities. Blackbet.co.uk has become the second issue for FSB …
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SKS365 Group, the operating company of Italian bookmaker PlanetWin365, has been charged by the Italian Financial Police of corporate tax evasion totalling €124 million. According to a statement by the Guardia di Finanza (GDF) of the Reggio Calabria region, a law enforcement body that handles financial crimes, SKS365 had failed to declare …
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Starting on October 21, German gamblers will no longer be able to use their PayPal accounts for online casino gambling purposes after a recent update of the payments giant’s German-language guidelines. After the government recently ordered the payment processor to stop facilitating unauthorized online casino activity, PayPal updated its German market …
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Kansspelautoriteit (KSA), the Netherlands Gambling Authority, has fined Stockholm-listed operator Kindred Group’ subsidiary Trannel International €470,000 for serving Dutch players without a local license. The company has already launched an appeal against it. The fine was issued under the current Dutch Gaming Act, which prevents online operators from securing a …
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The Cambodian Government has announced that it is to stop issuing new online gambling licences in the country with immediate effect. Existing online licences, estimated to be more than 150, will remain valid but won’t be renewed once they expire. As part of an effort to clamp down on illegal …
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Iowa became the 11th US state to launch regulated sports betting, with eight of the region’s 19 casinos debut on the first legalized day. The remaining casinos are expected to have fully operational sportsbooks in time for the beginning of the 2019 NFL season in the fall. Compared with other …
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The Global Football Report 2019 has revealed that suspicious betting patterns in the sport have decreased following a year-long data study which spanned 62,250 football matches played across 115 countries in 6 continents. The report, which was was released by the working partnership of Stats Perform’s integrity unit, Starlizard Integrity Services and TXODDS, found out that …
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Online gambling operator 1xBet has suspended its operations on the territory of the UK after an investigation held by ‘the Sunday Times’ into improper conduct. ‘The Times’ reported last week, that the major gambling regulatory body in the country, UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) had launched a probe into the activities of 1xBet, which had operated in the UK …
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The number of UK consumers complaining about gambling operators has increased almost 5,000 per cent over the last five years, according to Gambling Commission (UKGC) figures obtained by the BBC’s Panorama programme. Their number rose from 169 in 2013 to a record 8,266 in 2018. The rise in the number of …
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Dutch gambling regulator Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) has imposed a €350,000 fine on London-listed operator GVC Holdings for illegally targeting Dutch customers without a license. The fine has been issued to GVC subsidiary ElectraWorks after an investigation by the KSA found that the company was illegally offering online casino and sports betting …
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Global Gaming has failed in its latest attempt to overturn a mid-June decision to strip its SafeEnt subsidiary of its Swedish licence, with its plea for injunctive relief rejected by the country’s Supreme Administrative Court. The update sees Global Gaming governance overruled for the third time by Swedish administrative courts after SafeEnt, which operates …
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New Zealand’s Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) has launched a public consultation to ask the public to weigh on whether or not the online gambling options for the public in the country should be expanded. The country’s gambling laws date back to 2003, and since then internet technology has developed …
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