Regulation & Law

The Betting and Gaming Council forcasts £20m on the opening weekend.

The gambling monitoring authority in Sweden, Spelinspektionen has found out technical irregularities among various lottery ticket service providers in terms of providing proper information in relation to physical lottery tickets and to ensure compliance with technical specifications. Spelinspektion…

The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) is reportedly developing a new app that will help online gamblers tell licensed operators from illegal gaming platforms. PAGCOR App Set to Strengthen Player Protection in the Philippines PAGCOR Chairman and CEO Alejandro H. Tengco told the Ho…

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The customers of Australian gambling companies Neds and Ladbrokes have set in motion a class action lawsuit against the operator of both companies, Entain, for compensation against lost live bets that the customers claim do not comply with the Australian legislation. In Australia, live betting is r…

Denmark has restricted the activities of Polymarket on grounds of the ongoing operation against gambling services which do not have the necessary licenses. Following the decision of the Frederiksberg Court which determined that the site is providing gambling services to citizens of Denmark without…

The proliferation of sports betting has raised mixed responses in people, with some seeing the activity as innocuous, others welcoming it as a chance to replace seedy offshore websites, and others still – echoing the words of Vice Admiral Jerome Adams, who served as Surgeon General of the United St…

Sweepstakes today announced the official launch of its revamped independent casino comparison review platform, delivering data-driven operator reviews, regulatory insights, and market analysis for the rapidly expanding sweepstakes and social casino industry. The launch addresses a significant shift…

Gaming Laboratories International LLC (GLI) says it has been officially listed by the Uzbekistan regulatory agency responsible for gaming as an accepted testing and certification laboratory in the country. The recognition by the National Agency of Perspective Projects of the Republic of Uzbekistan…

GLI certification reports can now be used by operators and suppliers seeking to launch gaming products in Uzbekistan. The post Uzbekistan adds GLI to approved gaming laboratory list first appeared on Asia Gaming News | AGB - Asia Gaming Brief.

Gaming Laboratories International (GLI) has been officially recognised by the National Agency of Perspective Projects of the Republic of Uzbekistan (NAPP), securing a place among the testing laboratories whose certification reports are accepted within the country's newly established gaming regulato…

Marshall Gramm, the Rhodes College economics professor and racehorse owner accused of improperly accessing confidential veterinary records, has voluntarily suspended himself from horse racing while he fights charges brought by the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA). Gramm teaches The…

Bally’s recently filed a 10-Q with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), but Citizens analysts Jordan Bender and Isabelle Slavin have argued that the operator’s current pipeline of projects is ambitious. Citizen Analysts Warn About Bally’s Somewhat Precarious Position According to the analy…

Irish police searching for a possible breakthrough in the case of an Icelandic poker player who went missing in Dublin seven years ago have identified a “person of interest” – but they say he’s refusing to talk. Jon Jonsson, a 41-year-old taxi driver and father of four, vanished on February 9, 2019…

Don’t bet on Boyd Gaming (NYSE: BYD) partnering with Bally’s (NYSE: BALY) or coming to that company’s rescue on the Las Vegas Strip. Following a post by Vital Vegas and Casino.org reporting indicating that Boyd is rumored to be a potential replacement for Bally’s in developing the Strip site that w…

A report from the Atlantic County Economic Alliance (ACEA) identifies five key pressures facing the future of Atlantic City and the nine casino resorts that drive the local economy. The ACEA, a nonprofit economic development corporation established in 2017 for business attraction, retention, and ma…

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, now a strategic advisor to the American Gaming Association (AGA), believes Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Michael Selig lied to President Trump about the regulator’s legal tussles with states on the prediction market issue. Selig was appo…

PointsBet has called on the Australian government to restrict payment channels to illegal offshore bookmakers and enforce faster removal of unlicensed gambling ads, citing enforcement models used in Canada and New Zealand. Group CEO Andrew Catterall outlined the proposals at the company's annual ge…