Online gambling regulation

Dutch Court Rules That Two Online Casinos Refund EUR 217,000 to Gamblers

A Dutch court has ordered two online casino operators to reimburse a total of EUR 217,000 to players having lost money with these gambling websites while online gambling was illegal in the Netherlands. Illeg...

Georgian Prime Minister Raises Tax Rate For Gambling Businesses In Georgia To 15%

Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili has raised taxes on the gambling industry and reported that the level of gambling in the country is "catastrophic." Rise of the gambling turnover: During his b...

Governor Kevin Stitt Unveils New Plan To Legalize Sports Wagering In Oklahoma

Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt has revealed his plan to help officially legalize sports wagering in Oklahoma. The idea, which would enable Oklahoma residents to wager in-person at gambling locations managed by f...

Shape Games Partners With SunBet For South African Expansion

Shape Games, an award-winning B2B provider to the iGaming industry, has entered a partnership with SunBet, a leading South African online gaming operator and a vertical of the Sun International Group to mark a ...

Lottomatica’s Vertical Acquires 100 percent of the SKS365’s Share Capital

Following the Italian lawmakers' announcements of the regulatory changes proposed to channel almost $1 billion of the illegal online gaming revenues to legal gambling operating streams, the major online gaming ...

Italian Gambling Market Loses EUR 1 Billion In Annual Revenues To Illegal Gambling Websites

The European Gaming & Betting Association (EGBA) reveals that the illegal online gambling market in Italy generates annual revenue of around €1 billion. The Association indicates that the figure is equal to...

Brazil Reveals Crucial Demands For Operators Looking To Enter Newly-Launched Online Gambling Market

After the country’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva officially legalized sports wagering in July this year and signed the Provisional Measure (PM), which applied the 2018 law, Brazil has now decided to debu...

India’s Government Requests US$12 Billion In Taxes From Gambling Operators For FY 2018

India’s governmental body Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council has sent out a notice to the country's land-based casinos and online gaming platforms to make payments of the goods and services tax for the financ...

Oklahoma’s Joint Committee Rejects Two Tribal Compacts Over Casino Proliferation Concerns

Gov. Kevin Stitt’s request made on 25 October 2023 to approve two gaming compacts with two indigenous nations have been rejected by The Joint Committee on State Tribal Relations as the committee considers that ...

Online Casinos Delude Players And Motivate Immoderate Gambling, Consumentenbond Claims

Consumentenbond, the Consumers Association of Netherlands, asserts that leading online casino operators are deceiving players and motivating immoderate gambling. The claims are supported by the inquiry of the a...

Kentucky Hits Nearly $250 Million Sports Betting Handle Since September 7 Launch

Kentucky governor Andy Beshear revealed on 23 October 2023 preliminary data on the sports wagering handle in the state since the September 7 launch. As reported, Beshear announced that almost $250 million has b...

Sikkim High Court Allows Interim Stay On US$76 Million Tax Demand Against Delta Corp

Delta Corp, India’s only listed hospitality and gaming firm that owns and manages hotels and casinos, stated that Sikkim High Court had given it an interim stay on a GST demand notice received from the Director...