Legal

- May 23, 2018 By Oliver Young -

A business catastrophe is looming over the world’s most popular gambling city as thousands of employees are threatening to walk away from their jobs during any time in June. The authorization of a city-wide strike came last night after two sessions of voting by nearly 25,000 members of the Culinary Union in Vegas.  If the […] Continue Reading

- May 22, 2018 By Riley Wilson -

In order to generate more money for the state coffers, the Greek government decided to legalize land-based gambling operations. Even though the legalization process was a bit slow, the results show the legalization did help to earn the much needed cash, especially through video lottery terminals. According to media reports, one of the biggest names […] Continue Reading

- May 21, 2018 By Oliver Young -

Online gambling in one of the world’s biggest gambling states, Nevada, is a strictly regulated sector where there’s no room for offshore operators who aren’t licensed with the local regulatory body. But one locally-licensed land-based casino operator was found in breach of the state’s gaming regulations by not running an unlicensed online business itself but […] Continue Reading

- May 10, 2018 By Riley Wilson -

The Swedish gambling watchdog, Lotteriinspektionen, has revealed the numbers for 2017, which clearly show that foreign unlicensed operators had a far more successful year than the domestic ones. According to available data, the domestic regulated market generated a revenue of $2 billion, which was roughly the same as in 2016. On the other hand, internationally […] Continue Reading

- May 3, 2018 By Riley Wilson -

It looks like the Italian online gambling market is becoming more and more popular with foreign-based operators. According to the country’s gambling watchdog, the Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli (ADM), their number has gone up recently. Popularity Increasing ADM has announced that more than 80 gambling companies based outside of Italy have applied for […] Continue Reading

- May 2, 2018 By Oliver Young -

Still strongly dedicated to creating a safer and fairer online gambling environment for UK consumers, the UK Gambling Commission has now issued a penalty to LeoVegas for marketing and advertising failings. Misleading advertising as well as bad handling of users after the expiration of their self-exclusion period are provided as reasons for the fine. On […] Continue Reading

- April 25, 2018 By Oliver Young -

In another step that experts have widely characterized as protecting the state gambling monopoly, rather than protecting Norwegian problem gamblers, Norway has announced strict online gambling restrictions. Namely, the Norwegian Gaming Authority has started a consultation period on the freshly proposed restrictions that would provide even less competition to the Norsk Tipping and Norsk Rikstoto […] Continue Reading

- April 24, 2018 By Riley Wilson -

Slovenia has tried to regulate its online gambling market, but the proposed bill failed to receive the necessary parliamentary support. The country’s lawmakers had been working hard on Slovenia’s new online gambling framework through 2017. Market Needs Modernization ASAP Their opinion was that the current law introduced back in 1995 was outdated and could not […] Continue Reading

- April 3, 2018 By Riley Wilson -

The Dutch gaming authority, Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) has been focused on creating a safe and fair gambling market since it was established in 2012.  Recently, the KSA has been trying hard to get the country’s Senate to pass a new gambling bill since it feels the existing one is out of date and cannot regulate the […] Continue Reading

- April 2, 2018 By Oliver Young -

Legalisation of online gambling in the New York state has faced another setback as the lawmakers trying to include Internet gaming into the state budget have failed in their attempts. This means that now those that want to see online gambling legalised in New York would have to rely on passing a stand-alone solution, something […] Continue Reading