London’s Westminster City Seeks to Clamp Down on Gambling

Westminster City, a borough of London, U.K. is the first in the nation to introduce a policy aimed at protecting the vulnerable by cutting hours of operation and creating...

Published November 21, 2022

Multiple PM Turnovers have Hurt U.K. Gaming Industry

With three prime ministers this year, including the latest, Rishi Sunak (l.), and eight ministers overseeing gambling regulations since the government began the effort, the industry is understandably uncertain...

Published November 21, 2022

U.K. Lifts LEBOM License Suspension

The U.K. Gambling Commission has lifted the week-long suspension on LEBOM, a football predictions app, after the company integrated GAMSTOP, a self-exclusion program. The integration of the program has...

Published November 14, 2022

Cyprus Casinos Q3 Activity Beats Pre-Covid Levels

Cyprus Casinos is experiencing volume in gaming activities that exceed levels the company achieved before the pandemic. Of those activities, gaming machines are the most popular and profitable, according...

Published November 14, 2022

PokerStars Ordered to Pay Back Pre-Treaty Losses by German Court

The highest court in the German state of Nordrhein-Westfalen has ordered PokerStars to reimburse a man who lost €58,000 over six years before such gaming was legal in Germany....

Published November 14, 2022

U.K. Could Soon End Uncertainty on Stake, Deposit Limits

The U.K. gaming giants are hoping that when the white paper recommending changes to the 2005 Gambling Act is released that it will propose standards that are industry-friendly while...

Published November 14, 2022

U.K. Changes Design of ‘Young People and Gambling’ Report

It was 2020 when the U.K. Gambling Commission last published “Young People and Gambling.” During the Covid-created interim, UKGC reviewed its survey and decided to do it differently than...

Published November 7, 2022

KSA Warns Against Advertising “Bombardment” During World Cup

The Dutch gambling regulator KSA Chairman René Jensen (l.) warns online betting operators that they risk bringing parliamentary wrath down on their heads if they insist on back-to-back advertising...

Published November 7, 2022

France to Restrict Bonuses to “Excessive” Gamblers

The French gaming regulator l’Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ) has issued a series of binding and non-binding guidelines and recommendations for operators. They include a ban on offering bonuses...

Published November 7, 2022

Ho Family Retains Control of Portugal’s Casinos

Macau’s Ho family has retained its concessions of the two largest casinos in Portugal, in spite of being outbid by the online casino operator Bidluck. What apparently killed the...

Published November 7, 2022

New Obstacle for Long-Awaited Hard Rock Project in Spain

A casino development near Barcelona by Hard Rock International has undergone several delays over the past 10 years and now has a new obstacle it must overcome. The company...

Published November 7, 2022

Euro. Commission Raises Threat Level for iGaming Money Laundering

The European Commission has raised the threat of money laundering among online casinos to the highest level, calling it “very high.” The commission is asking for the strongest AML...

Published November 7, 2022

Spain Reforms Gaming Law

Spain’s Senate has passed a reform bill of the Gambling Law of 2011. It further curtails advertisements and seeks to “improve controls on sports manipulations, betting fraud and expand...

Published November 7, 2022

New U.K. Minister Will Oversee Gambling Act Review

After unsuccessful attempts from four previous U.K. undersecretaries for tech and the digital economy, the country may finally have the undersecretary to carry the review of the Gambling Act...

Published November 7, 2022

Ireland Introduces Sports Betting Kiosks

Paddy Power will install at least one betting kiosk at each of its 620 betting shops. The device offers states and tips along with pricing. Newer ones will include...

Published October 31, 2022

Swedish Gaming Association Urges Breakup of State Monopoly

BOS, Sweden’s gaming trade association, is urging the new minister for financial markets, Niklas Wykman (l.), to break up the state gaming monopoly Svenska Spel. It is also calling...

Published October 31, 2022

MPs Call for Football League to Stop Profiting on Bettors’ Losses

U.K. lawmakers are rebuking the practice of sportsbooks giving a cut of bettors' losses back to teams in the English Football League. A stern letter has called for cease...

Published October 31, 2022

Money Laundering Causes Glasgow Casino to Become Nightclub

A former casino in Glasgow, Scotland has closed as a casino to be reborn as a nightclub. The change came about after the U.K. Gambling Commission last year fined...

Published October 31, 2022

Gibraltar Delays Action to be Removed From “Gray List”

The government of Gibraltar isn’t falling over itself to correct anti-money laundering failures that caused the Financial Action Task Force to add it to its “gray list.” That list...

Published October 31, 2022

UFC Fighters Banned from Betting on Sport

The UFC recently announced it wanted to protect the sport from any possible impropriety and said they were banning its fighters from wagering on all UFC fights.

Published October 24, 2022