The UK Government is actively considering measures to require operators to ring fence player deposits, it confirmed last week, as part of its overhaul of UK gambling regulation expected to come into effect in 2014.
Read More . . .The regulated French online gambling market is continuing to grow, according to figures released earlier this week by ARJEL, the regulatory authority for online casino, poker and sports betting.
Read More . . .The state of Germany's online gambling industry is a mess, to put it lightly. The German state, or Land, of Schleswig-Holstein has announced that it intends to join the other 15 states in the State Treaty on Online Gaming.
Read More . . .Ahead of a planned gaming legislation overhaul next year, Sweden's Lotteriinspektionen regulator has named former Ladbrokes senior employee Joakim Ronngren as its new Communications Director.
Read More . . .Online financial services and spreadbetting firm London Capital Group Holdings has signed a 'white-label' deal to provide leading sportsbook operator Victor Chandler International Limited with a retail financial spread trading service.
Read More . . .Northern Ireland's Social Development Minister Nelson McCausland has announced that the Executive will introduce a new law to regulate gambling. The changes are not thought likely to affect online poker.
Read More . . .Australian Senator Nick Xenophon, persistent anti-gambling campaigner, has announced he will introduce legislation to close a loophole allowing gambling apps to escape classification, which could have future ramifications for gaming.
Read More . . .While many of us in other parts of the world do not pay much attention to the political scene in Australia there is a growing movement there that has a conflict of interest when it comes to online gambling.
Read More . . .The competition for the online gambling punter’s money has reached fever pitch in many jurisdictions but it is most intense at the top where Ladbrokes and William Hill gambling providers are trying to capture market share.
Read More . . .United States trade officials have decried attempts by Antigua & Barbuda to collect on an annual $21 million World Trade Organization (WTO) judgment in a recent statement to the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body, terming it “government-authorized piracy.”
Read More . . .Sportsbetting exchange and online casino operator Betfair has announced that it will launch its New Betfair Poker service later this month offering poker to players via the iPoker Network from software designer and supplier Playtech Limited.
Read More . . .The people of Denmark are considered some of the happiest on the planet. The country has laws that keep them that way and their recent liberalization of online gambling is no exception.
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