Spain's gambling regulator is about to issue an undefined number of new casino licenses in the attempt to help the national online gambling regulated market to grow.
Read More . . .Hong Kong-listed gaming investor Amax International Holdings plans to offer live-dealer online gambling to high-rollers on the island of Vanuatu. Amax announced this week it had agreed to acquire 60% of Forenzia Enterprises Ltd., a British Virgin Islands company that holds a local online gambling license.
Read More . . .Operators move to cut links with Singapore-registered customers after Parliament passes the Remote Gambling Act.
Read More . . .Fantasy sports have become a mainstream social activity and an integral part of North American sports culture. The League, a half-hour comedy centred around a fantasy football league and its members, recently entered its sixth season.
Read More . . .Japan intends to restrict initial access to its planned new casinos to foreigners-only. Japanese legislators are currently debating passage of a casino study bill that would revise the country's constitution to permit development of casinos.
Read More . . .Charles Coppolani, the president of French gambling regulator ARJEL, has agreed to sit down with a delegation of poker players to discuss the future of the country's online poker industry.
Read More . . .Italian Finance Minister Pier Carlo Padoan has unveiled a series of new measures to help keep consumers in the country safe from illegal gambling operations.
Read More . . .In Sweden, poker players are not taxed on winnings from sites licensed inside the European Economic Area, but those players gambling at poker rooms not part of the EU are required to declare their winnings and pay regular taxes on them.
Read More . . .Online gambling operator Bet365 said that its internet gambling operations in China are breaking no laws despite the country having outlawed betting in all but a number of controlled scenarios.
Read More . . .Online gambling growth in Britain is looking good. Despite the much-feared Government point-of-consumption (PoC) tax, turnover for the industry is well on pace to surpass £3bn in the next two years.
Read More . . .Singapore: Members of Parliament have said a proposed bill to clamp down on gambling activities via the Internet, telephone and other modes of communication is timely given the proliferation of handheld devices.
Read More . . .The PokerStars Spain subsidiary of the Amaya Gaming-owned online poker brand will begin offering blackjack and roulette games.
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