Online gambling regulation

888 Holdings receives Michigan online sportsbetting green light

The gambling regulator for the American state of Michigan has announced that it has awarded a local subsidiary of prominent iGaming operator 888 Holdings with a license to run the jurisdiction’s latest online s...

FanDuel Group enters new Kansas retail and online sportsbetting market

American sportsbetting giant FanDuel Group has announced its entry into another domestic market following yesterday’s premiere of a new retail sportsbook within the Kansas Star Casino venue operated by Boyd Gam...

Entain facing High Court case over Ladbrokes problem gambling allegations

Only two weeks after being hit with a record-setting Gambling Commission fine of £17 million ($20.4 million) and British land-based and online casino and sportsbetting behemoth Entain is reportedly back in the ...

Ontario iGaming market posts impressive opening handle and revenue figures

In Canada and the recently-liberalized iGaming market of Ontario reportedly chalked up aggregated handle of approximately $3.05 billion in the twelve weeks following its April 4 launch to produce some $123.79 m...

IGT to co-found $415 million fund to settle DoubleDown Casino class-action lawsuit

Multinational gaming machines, lottery, sportsbetting and iGaming innovator International Game Technology (IGT) has announced that it is to help establish a special fund to settle the class-action federal lawsu...

More support for Florida’s disputed sportsbetting-friendly gaming compact

The Attorney General for Florida has reportedly come out in support of the state’s ill-fated gaming compact with the Seminole Tribe of Florida by urging a federal appeals court to overturn a November ruling tha...

Gambling Commission fines SpreadEx Limited to the tune of £1.36 million

In the United Kingdom and the Gambling Commission regulator has announced that iGaming operator SpreadEx Limited is to pay a fine of £1.36 million ($1.61 million) for numerous social responsibility and anti-mon...

California Republicans join Democrats in opposition to online sportsbetting

Members of the Republican political party in the western American state of California have reportedly followed their Democratic counterparts in coming out against an upcoming local constitutional referendum tha...

Australian watchdog continuing unlicensed iGaming domain crackdown

In Australia, the nation’s media and communications watchdog has announced that it has asked local Internet service providers to block customers from accessing six more unlicensed online casinos and associated ...

Online and retail sportsbetting to go live in Kansas from next month

The governor for the American state of Kansas, Laura Kelly, has reportedly announced that sportsbetting aficionados in ‘The Sunflower State’ will be able to begin placing legal retail and online wagers from ear...

Gauselmann Group receives German approval for its Merkur-Spiel.de domain

In Germany and local gaming machines giant Gauselmann Group has announced that it has been granted a license to offer its collection of video slot games to local aficionados via the new domain at Merkur-Spiel.d...