Former Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes has issued an apology to the Football Association (FA) after being fined £8000 (€8,995) for breaking betting rules while holding the position of director of Salford City. Scholes was alleged to have placed a total of 140 bets on games between August 17, 2015, …
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SafeEnt, which runs the online casino brand Ninja Casino, has lost its Swedish licence for online games and betting after local gambling regulator Spelinspektionen discovered “serious deficiencies” in business practices. SafeEnt, the holding company of Global Gaming, must now cease Swedish operations immediately. It had been running both its Ninja …
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The European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA), alongside Entercash payments processor, brought a case against the Norwegian Ministry of Culture in Oslo District Court over the Norwegian government’s policy of seeking to block online gambling payments. The case is a consequence of multiple unsuccessful attempts by EGBA to persuade the …
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Bet365, Betway, and CodereLatAm have become the latest overseas gaming operators to make a move on Buenos Aires in the hopes of scaling their operations in Argentina and South America. All three companies have all entered into joint ventures with local operators and registered to file a licence application. Bet365 …
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Rene Jansen, the chairman of the Dutch gambling regulator, Kansspelautoriteit (KSA), has suggested that a new country’s regulated online gambling market will launch in January 2021. Jansen has told attendees at the local iGaming conference that KSA is targeting July 1, 2020, for the country’s new Remote Gambling Act to …
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The Illinois House and Senate have approved a massive gambling expansion bill. Governor J.B. Pritzker has already announced his intention to sign it into law. Senate Bill 690, sponsored by Indian Creek Democratic Senator Terry Link, which originally focused on changes to property tax rates has been expanded significantly through …
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Swedish national gambling regulator Spelinspektionen has revealed that 40 per cent individuals signed to local gambling self-exclusion register (spelpaus.se) are between the ages of 25 and 34 years old. According to Spelinspektionen, the total number added to the register has surpassed 35,000. In May alone, more than 2,800 people signed …
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Wynn Resorts Ltd. has announced paying $35.5 million (€31.8) in fines to Massachusetts Gaming Commission (MGC) to ensure their 671-room Encore Boston Harbor casino resort opens on schedule next month. Wynn Resorts had until May 31 to decide if they would pay or appeal fines placed on the company for …
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Advertising of online casino services and gambling products will no longer be broadcast across Belgian TV networks starting on this Saturday (June 1). Changes were approved in November of last year, and are part of the effort to protect children from the ill-effects of all forms of gambling. The measure …
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Despite having made clear his opposition to expanding gambling in the US state, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee returned the sports betting bill without a signature, which allows the bill to become law in his state. The governor explained his decision on Twitter. “I am letting House Bill 0001 become law …
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After a lengthy process marred by multiple delays Italy’s ‘Agenzia delle dogane e dei monopoli’ (ADM) has finally granted the concessions for the provision of online gambling services in the county. ADM, the governing body overseeing Italian gambling laws, has revised Italy’s online gambling laws and settled on sanctioning 67 …
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Casino operator MGM Resorts has been fined $100k (€89.4k) for falling short in its efforts to keep people under 21 from gambling or drinking alcohol. On Thursday, the Massachusetts Gaming Commission (MGC) announced imposing a $100k “civil administrative penalty” on the MGM Springfield casino for multiple instances in which individuals …
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New Zealand’s Racing Minister Winston Peters has announced a repeal of the betting levy paid by the racing industry to the Crown. Peters confirmed in a pre-Budget announcement that payment of the levy to the government will be phased out over a three-year period, with freed-up funds to be redirected …
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Irish Minister of State David Stanton has revealed that work on developing a new framework for regulating gambling in the country will take up to 18 months. This includes establishing a new regulator with powers to impose fines, issue licenses and address previously unregulated areas such as spread betting. Responding …
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Mandalorian Technologies and Betway have become the two latest gaming companies to be fined by the Swedish regulator, Spelinspektionen. Both operators were found to violate bonus offer rules and received six-figure fines. Licensed operators in Sweden can only offer players a bonus when they first sign up to their online …
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Placing a bet on your favourite sports team is officially legal in Iowa. Governor Kim Reynolds signed legislation allowing gambling on professional, collegiate and international sporting events, and Iowa has become the third state to approve legal sports betting in 2019 after Montana and Indiana. It took about a week …
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Indiana has become the latest US state to legalise sports betting after Governor Eric Holcomb signed off on House Bill 1015. It brings the total number of states with legal wagering to ten. Approved by both the House and Senate last month, HB1015 allows betting both in-person at licensed state …
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Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is ready to reject any gambling bill that might come across her desk. Her position appears to be almost identical to the former governor, Rick Snyder, who left his post on New Year’s Day. On May 2, a bill targeting online gambling ran into opposition while …
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The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), a United Kingdom media watch dog, has decided that online promotion of a Monopoly-themed online casino game breached a rule of gambling adverts not to be designed to appeal to an underage audience. The advert, which was appearing on the Mirror Online website, had used …
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The Norwegian Gaming Authority Lottstift has ordered the Kindred Group subsidiary, Trannel International, to cease its operations in the country immediately. The regulatory body states that the Trannel has been operating a number of sites illegally, including Unibet, Maria Casino, Storspiller and BingoLottstift. Norsk Tipping is the only operator licensed …
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