On Thursday, the Northern Territory Racing Commission (NTRC) issued a ruling on a dispute involving Sportsbet and an undetermined number of punters who’d placed wagers on whether any Australian Football League player would have 40 or more disposals – moving the ball legally to another player – during round 10 of the 2019 AFL season.
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Google and Apple have purged a slew of “chameleon” gambling apps from their stores, many of which were aimed at the illegal Chinese market and disguised as applications offering anything from weather-trackers to entertainment content.
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The regulator said it believed the move would be a boost to the country’s tourism sector and would attract more international players. In addition, the JCJ, a subdivision of the country’s Ministry of Economy and Finance, announced that it would introduce a new electronic auditing system, and hire more auditors to better handle tax collection.
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Hillary Clinton is favored to be the next president of the U.S. when voters take to the polls in 2020. At least, that’s what U.K. bookmakers are finding is the prediction of British gamblers, despite the fact that she’s not even in the running.
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Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said on Wednesday that while he was not a fan of online gambling he was unwilling to ban the business, as China has called for, because of the harm that would do to the country’s economy.
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Germany seems determined to restrict online wagering to sports betting but their licensing situation is far from resolved and nothing is moving forward.
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Initially launching RushBet.co in May of last year, with Colombia the first South American country to legalise and regulate internet gambling nationwide, the move was lauded as an “exciting and dynamic market” by the firm.
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Cambodia said on Sunday it is banning online gambling, which helped propel a wave of Chinese investment in casinos in the country, saying that the industry had been used by foreign criminals to extort money.
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Why do bonuses offered by gambling companies get more scrutiny than other businesses and should they be banned, as many anti-gambling groups are calling for?
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Gateway Casinos has agreed a duo of new agreements alongside the National Football League in Canada, promising a series of exclusive experiences across its 27 gaming properties.
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Flutter Entertainment plc, formerly branded Paddy Power Betfair, has posted its interim financials for the six-month period ended June 30, 2019. A drop in pre-tax profits of 24% to $98m took some of the shine off an otherwise healthy 18% increase in overall revenue to $1.24bn.
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On Monday, Brazil’s Economic Ministry published an official notice of an electronic public consultation on how best to set up a regulated online and land-based fixed-odds sports betting market.
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