"Regulation" Tag Results

By Elaine West

Old Tucson Movie Theater May Soon Be Turned into Casino

July 9, 2019

Known for being one of the places in the United States with some of the most lenient laws when it comes to gambling, the state of Arizona has over 20 land-based casinos and the number is still growing. The federally recognized Pascua Yaqui Tribe has reportedly begun pursuing an initiative that will see them launch […]

By Tomas Medon

Reorganized Swiss Online Gambling Industry Goes Live

July 2, 2019

On July 1, Switzerland’s legal online gambling under the new regulatory regime finally went live. The country’s new Money Gaming Act officially took effect on January 1, 2019, a development that opened the doors for the country’s 21 licensed land-based casino operators to offers online gambling products and services for the very first time. The […]

By Grant Mahon

Gaming Operators in India Under Fire Over GST Payments

May 1, 2019

India’s indirect tax department has begun questioning some of the country’s leading online fantasy and skill gaming companies such as Dream11 and others in a bid to ascertain whether there is a revenue leakage on of the methodology that these platforms use to calculate and pay the GST (goods and service tax). In other […]

By Ameana Jones

UK Government Under Fire for Failing to Back Betting Levy

April 29, 2019

The government of the United Kingdom is under fire for supposedly failing to back a mandatory levy on betting firms. Proposed by a conservative MP, this mandatory levy is supposedly meant to increase funding for addiction treatment. What the Proposal Entails In a PoliticsHome post, Richard Graham the MP for Gloucester and the main proponent […]

By Grant Mahon

Betsson Rebrands Its Dutch Facing Online Casinos Properties

April 26, 2019

Stockholm-listed online gaming operator Betsson AB has recently rebranded its two main Dutch-facing online casinos, Oranje Casino and Kroon Casino. As it turns out, this part of the company’s bid to distance itself from its “cowboy” past in the Netherlands. It has operated both online gaming properties in the country since 2014 when it acquired […]

By Ameana Jones

Swedish Gaming Regulator Fines Karamba Casino Owner

April 24, 2019

Sweden’s gambling regulator, Spelinspektionen, has recently slapped a third licensed online gambling operator with a fine for violating its self-exclusion rules. The gambling authority officially announced the move on its website where it states that Malta-based online gambling company AG Communications Limited, the owner of Karamba Casino, will be required to pay a SEK3 million […]

By Ameana Jones

New Zealand is Facing a Fake Gambling Site Problem

April 22, 2019

One of the biggest problems that the New Zealand gaming market has had to deal with is the growing number of unlicensed and unregulated international gaming websites that have been attracting the country’s residents for a while now. The country’s authorities have strived to battle these websites and just when it was beginning to seem […]

By Alexander Palmer

Japan Plans to Fight Gambling Addiction as Casinos Open

April 19, 2019

On Friday 19, March 2019, the Cabinet of Japan approved a plan that seeks to limit consumer access and the ban of the installation of cash machines at betting establishments. This is part of the Japanese government’s bid to curtail problem gambling ahead of the opening of a number of casino facilities. To see this […]

By Ameana Jones

Are Skill-Based Slot Machines About to Go Viral?

April 19, 2019

Slot machines have always been some of the most lucrative businesses for casino operators in the United States, Europe and many other parts of the world. In fact, in Europe and America, revenue from the one-arm bandits usually for close to two-thirds of the total taking of most casinos and the gaming industries as […]

By Alexander Palmer

Valve Sued Over Illegal Gambling by Native American Tribe

April 15, 2019

The Quinault Nation, a Native American tribe that operates the Quinault Beach Resorts & Casino in Ocean Shores, Washington has recently filed a lawsuit against Steam’s Valve Software for allegedly facilitating and encouraging illegal online gambling through skin betting. According to the Native American nation, the so-called “skin gambling” that Valve has supposedly turned a […]