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MLA Sinn Féin: “Gambling Laws in Northern Ireland Are Out of Date”

Recently, MLA Sinn Féin representative Sinéad Ennis has announced that gambling laws in Northern Ireland should be modernized based on new technologies and types of gambling. According to her, the main problem is that ...

UK Gambling Commission to Issues New Rules

The British regulator made a statement regarding its partnership with Twitter with the aim of creating rules helping customers who wish to introduce limitations to gambling content on the platform. UKGC regulations...

Ukraine Adopts Gambling Bill in the First Reading

The bill number 2285-д, which was put forward to the vote during the regular session of Verkhovna Rada, finally got the green light. Therefore, gambling legalization in Ukraine moved to the next stage. The voting was...

Only Three Organizations have Received Approval For Problem Gambling Funding in the UK

The UK’s gambling regulatory body has introduced the list of approved organizations to which companies engaged in this field are allowed to make financial contributions proving they are socially responsible in order to...

Australia Prepares the National Self-Exclusion Register

The Australian authorities have confirmed the fact that new legislation will be introduced in order to create a national register of self-exclusion for the country’s citizens. In accordance with the new regulations,...

Ukrainian Government to Release Gambling Bill Text

The Ukrainian authorities have recently presented the full text of the document aimed at gambling legalization in the state including iGaming and online betting. According to the draft bill, the list of legal types of...

New Gambling Regulations Come into Force in the UK

Changes to the UK gambling Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice (LCCP) have entered into force on October 31. Their aim is to make gambling safer and fairer for customers. The Gambling Commission, which has ...

The Czech Ministry of Finance Is in Favour of Gambling Tax Increase

The Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic has defended the decision concerning the introduction of the higher taxes on some gambling activities after concerns regarding its possible negative consequences were ...

Ukraine’s Finance Minister Claims Legalization of Gambling will Bring a High Revenue

Oksana Markarova, the Minister of Finance of Ukraine, communicated with the journalist representing an online magazine Levyi Bereg (Левый берег) and claimed that legalization of gambling would bring the revenue...

Slot Association Formulated Suggestions regarding New German’s Gambling Regulations

The Deutsche Automatenwirtschaft (DAW), an association of Germany’s gaming machine institutions, has named a list of the most important problems that must be covered since the country’s authorities are going to hold ...

Swedish Regulator Absolved Four Operators of Guilt in Underage Betting

Swedish gambling regulatory body Spelinspektionen has dropped the charges against four operators that were suspected of offering betting on sports events where most participants were underage. The country’s ...

Swiss iGaming Blacklist Extended

The list of online gaming domains banned on the territory of Switzerland added sixteen more items. The reason – according to the recent survey, gambling on the internet provokes addictive behavior. On October 8, ...

New Gambling Authority to Be Launched in France

France has decided to replace the current gambling regulatory body with a new one – the National Gambling Authority (ANJ). This measure has been taken at the forefront of the French lottery group (FDJ) privatization....

YGAM and Betknowmore join forces to ‘drive greater social impact’ through authentic training

The UK-based charity, Young Gamers and Gamblers Education Trust (YGAM), has partnered with gambling support service Betknowmore UK to deliver a ‘purposeful, authentic and genuine’ approach to their training ...

Panama will Cancel Tax on Gambling

La Junta de Control de Juegos (JCJ) intends to cancel a 5.5% tax on gambling and other betting activities. Thus, the authorities are trying to attract more foreigners. In the first eight months of 2019, gambling in ...

The Central Bank Chief: Online Gambling Ban Would not Affect the Philippines

According to the Philippines Central Bank Governor Benjamin Diokno, the online gambling ban would not strongly affect the country’s economy. China has put pressure on the Philippines for allowing online offshore ...

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