Betting

Norwegian Gaming Authority (NGA) has pledged to start controlling and sanctioning operators who offer skin betting services. Skin betting is a method of wagering a game’s purchasable add-ons, primarily virtual weapons, on the outcome of the game itself. Following the UK Gambling Commission’s example, the NGA will begin to crackdown on unauthorised skin betting operators […]

ts betting platform, Dafabet has announced that it will now be available in the Kenyan market, joining other industry players such as Sportspesa, Betway, Betin and mCheza. The launch is an important milestone in the company’s plan for global expansion. The sports betting platform will now offer Kenyan citizens the opportunity to bet on over

ralia’s federal government has passed the Gambling Amendment Bill 2016 in order to close a number of regulatory loopholes, in turn placing a ban on online poker and live sports betting. The Australian Senate has been reviewing the propositions of the Amendment Bill since November 2016. The Interactive Gambling Amendment Bill 2016 was introduced back

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.