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Prime Minister of Ukraine has accepted a Ministry of Finance letter promising to re-legalise gambling by 2018, almost eight years after it was outlawed. A previous legalisation proposal two years prior failed as operators felt that the tax rates and licensing fees were too high. Those regulations implied that if sports betting, lotteries, iGaming and […]

Australian federal government is poised to introduce new laws as early as next week to ban gambling advertising during live sports television broadcasts. According to The Australian, Communications Minister Mitch Fifield will put forward the proposal to the cabinet on Tuesday, after having met with AFL Chief Executive Gillon McLachlan and NRL Chief Operating Officer

British Horseracing Authority, the governing body of UK horseracing, have today confirmed the creation of the role of Head of Integrity Assurance and appointed Chris Watts to the new post. Watts is a former Detective Superintendent with the Metropolitan Police with over thirty years of service working in the homicide and serious crimes unit. Watts

ch gaming regulator ARJEL has revealed that online sports betting has increased year-on-year by 23% for the first quarter of 2017, setting a new record.The amount being wagered increased from €516m in Q1 2016 to €633m in the first four months of 2017, while the overall number of gamblers who made at least one online

ongress today unveiled The Gaming Accountability and Modernization Act (GAME), a draft of legislation seeking to lift the federal ban on sports betting.Released today by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the GAME Act aims to remove federal barriers, outline consumer protection and allow states to legalise and regulate sports betting, including fantasy sports.Significantly, Section

ts betting provider Sportech has today announced that it will complete the sale of The Football Pools to private equity firm OpCapita next month, in a deal worth an estimated £83m.Under the terms of the deal, OpCapita’s newly set up subsidiary company FP Acquisitions Limited was required to obtain licences from the UK Gambling Commission,

ports bookmaker Ladbrokes may be subject to an investigation by the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) following the reported leak of customer information outside one of its branches in Glasgow. Confidential information about betting addicts including names, addresses and photos were discovered in a dustbin bag on a street outside the bookmakers shop by a passer-by.

et has been announced as Championship club Aston Villa’s main sponsor for the upcoming 2017/18 season.Part of Kindred Group, Unibet branding will feature on the home and away shirts of the Villans’ men’s and women’s teams.The first collaboration between Unibet and Aston Villa will see supporters offered the chance to play at the club’s Bodymoor

government of Slovakia has announced that it has already started monitoring the internet for illegal gambling sites – and it plans to release a list of banned sites on 17 July.Once this list is published, the country’s Financial Administrator has revealed that it intends to give weekly updates on the progress of their crackdown on

ish bookmaker and sports betting operator Betfred has become the second company to agree a media rights deal with The Racing Partnership (TRP) following the firm’s conclusion of an identical deal with Ladbrokes Coral last month. Under the terms of the deal, racing from 15 Arena Racing Company (“ARC”) owned racecourses and seven independent racecourses