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 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...
iGaming Business - Finnplay has announced the launch of daily fantasy sports operator FantasyBet through the Finnish iGaming platform’s BillFold platform.
FantasyBet is targeting the growth in live fantasy s...
The Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act is expected to come into force on 1 October 2014. Offshore gambling operators – currently regulated overseas but transacting with consumers in Britain – wishing to ...
iGaming Business - Liga de Fútbol Profesional (LFP), the Spanish football league, has identified a suspected betting fraud involving a scheduled match that never took place.
The LFP said that the so-called ‘...
PRNewswire - Award-winning sports betting solutions provider, SBTech is pleased to announce they have signed an exclusive multi-year deal with TGP Europe Ltd. To provide a turnkey sports betting solution for th...
Playtech is delighted to announce the integration of Metric Gaming’s Rapid Fire Sports service into the IMS back office system, enhancing the gaming offering for Tier 1 licensee, Coral.
Rapid Fire gives Cora...
iGaming Business - Swedish online gaming operator Unibet generated gross winnings of £16 million (€20.2 million/$27.5 million) during football’s 2014 Fifa World Cup in June and July.
In announcing interim re...
iGaming Business - Gaming content supplier Realistic Games has become one of the first producers of slots and table games to be granted a remote gambling software operating licence by the UK Gambling Commission...
iGaming Business - Evolution Gaming, which specialises in video-streamed live dealer gaming, has struck a deal to launch Evolution Live Roulette on the mobile bingo service offered by Rank Group’s Mecca brand.
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iGaming Business - The Remote Gambling Association has admitted that the igaming industry in the UK needs to address concerns from politicians and the public about the proliferation of gambling advertising, its...