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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Montana has become the ninth US state and first this year to legalize sports betting. Governor Steve Bullock signed a bill H 725, which allow the state lottery to oversee a system of wagering through kiosks and mobile applications. Gov. Bullock’s approval means that for the next seven years lottery …
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Spelinspektionen, the Swedish gambling regulator, has issued warnings to a number of operators that were found to have offered certain betting options on a football match featuring players under the age of 18. The regulator said that several operators offered bets on the Allsvenska (top-tier men’s football division in Sweden) …
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The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has issued a warning about a series of scam phone calls and emails seeking non-existent gambling debts from consumers. Lootsma & Partners, Deurwaarder Smits & Co and Inter Payment Service have all been named as collection agencies that are contacting consumers over …
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The Malta Gaming Authority (MGA) has decided to suspend Wish Me Luck Ltd’s gaming licence (no. MGA/B2C/342/2016) with immediate effect. The brand has to suspend all gaming operations, also no longer can register new players or accept any deposits. The company was notified on April 24 that all its operations …
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Vietnamese police have arrested 22 people in connection with a 1.3-billion-dollar gambling ring, local media reported on Saturday. Authorities are describing it as one of the biggest ever in the country. State-owned Thanh Nien news outlet reported that Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security had arrested 22 individuals suspected of involvement …
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Switzerland’s first four online casinos could be launched in July, a year after Swiss voters backed the nation’s new gambling law. This week, Swiss media reported that the Federal Gaming Board (ESBK) had received casino license applications from four of the country’s land-based casino operators: Grand Casino Baden AG, Grand …
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New Jersey is currently the second-largest sports wagering market in the US only behind Nevada. State governor Phil Murphy believes New Jersey can “overtake it and its decades-long head start” as early as 2020. In the 10 months that New Jersey has allowed legal sports betting, gamblers have wagered more …
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