World Casino News brings you complete coverage of the European gaming markets, openings and closings, regulatory changes, mergers & acquisitions, and finance. You'll find coverage of major industry events and trade shows, as well as casinos for sale from Malta to Riga and beyond.
Much of the news in this section comes out of the UK, due to the mature gambling market and robust licensing requirements there. We also cover partnerships and game distribution deals in the online sector so players will know where to find their favorite games, and industry executives can follow emerging and continuing trends.
The latest round of underage gambling test purchasing conducted by local authorities in partnership with the Commission continues to demonstrate that many operators have inadequate controls for preventing under...
iGaming Business - Silverline Interactive Technologies, operator of independent online poker service PokerCent, has had its licence suspended by the UK Gambling Commission.
According to the Pokerfuse.com web...
iGaming Business - The Czech Republic Supreme Audit Office (NKÚ) has announced that the country is losing about K600 million (€21.6 million/$28.3 million) each year due to illegal online betting.
According t...
Playtech, the international designer, developer and licensor of software and services for the online, mobile, TV and land-based gaming industry, has entered into an agreement with global content and systems pro...
SBTech signed an exclusive deal with BetFIRST to provide its powerful sports betting platform for the regulated Belgium market
Industry leaders, SBTech will provide BetFIRST, Belgium's leading online and lan...
iGaming Business - Swedish gambling regulator Lotteriinspektionen has reported that the country’s regulated market shrunk by more than 3% during the first half of 2014.
Total revenue for the six-month period...
iGaming Business - Camelot has been fined £100,000 by the UK Gambling Commission after the regulatory body ruled that the company had breached its licence to operate the country’s National Lottery.
The penal...
iGaming Business - Swedish gaming operator Cherry has cited the success of its online gaming division as the driver of a jump in revenue over the six months through to June 30, 2014.
Group turnover for the f...
iGaming Business - Finland’s national gaming operator Raha-Automaattiyhdistys (RAY) has launched the live casino solution from online gaming software giant Playtech.
The new service will be broadcast from RA...
The Gibraltar Betting and Gaming Association {GBGA) has filed a legal challenge against a law introducing a new gambling licensing regime in the UK.
The GBGA argues that the new regime, introduced through th...
iGaming Business - Switzerland’s Conference of the Cantonal Directors in Charge of Gambling and Lotteries (CDCM) has announced its support for the regulation of the country’s online gambling market.
The news...
iGaming Business - Irish bookmaker Paddy Power is to remove its social sports betting game BetDash from its gaming product inventory.
According to various reports, the BetDash.com website has been ‘down for ...
Ladbrokes have geared up for the start of the new Premier League season by introducing an innovative football accumulator tracker in their mobile platform.
Ladbrokes app users will be able to view their sing...
PRNewswire - It's the stuff that you only see in the movies: one incredibly lucky online French casino gamer recently won a jaw-dropping $74k just from playing the highly entertaining games that the WinPalace O...
iGaming Business - English Premier League football clubs Southampton and Leicester City have signed up betting companies as new commercial partners.
UK bookmaker William Hill has become the new official bett...