Britain’s Gambling Commission has confirmed the permanent appointment of Andrew Rhodes as chief executive.
Rhodes has served as interim chief executive since joining the Commission in June 2021, originally for an 18-month period, having held a number of senior roles at private and public sector organisations including Swansea University, the Department [...]
The Danish Gambling Authority has reprimanded bet365 for breaching the rules on customer due diligence measures in the Anti-Money Laundering Act.
The operator let a young player deposit about DKK190,000 ($27,400) to his account during a period of just over a year without having sufficient knowledge of whether the player’s funds [...]
Sweden’s gambling regulator has fined online gaming operators Mr Green and Evoke Gaming for failing to report accurate information to the authority.
The two online operators, which are in the process of being sold by Caesars Entertainment to 888 Holdings, will pay a combined SEK1.45m (approx. €138,000) penalty for breaching Swedish [...]
Toronto-listed supplier Bragg Gaming has been granted licence approval to enter Pennsylvania’s regulated iGaming market.
The approval from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) enables the supplier to enter the Commonwealth’s burgeoning iGaming market, and also marks the final regulatory approval needed for Bragg to complete its acquisition of Spin Games [...]
Two operators will pay a combined £675,000 to Britain's Gambling Commission for social responsibility and anti-money laundering failures.
Jumpman Gaming, operator of 243 online gaming websites, will pay £500,000, while Progress Play (201 websites) will pay £175,718, both for failures relating to anti-money laundering (AML) and customer interaction compliance.
“We will always [...]
The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) has issued its first fines less than a month after the opening of the regulated market.
BetMGM and PointsBet received fines of CA$48,000 ($37,400) and CA$30,000 respectively for breaking Ontario’s new rules on public advertising of bonuses or other gambling offers.
A statement from [...]
Netherlands gambling regulator Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) has placed two operators under investigation and warned the rest of the market to raise their anti-money laundering (AML) compliance standards.
The KSA’s initial investigation has concluded that operators are not complying with the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Prevention) Act.
Primarily, it has found that operators [...]
The Belgian Gaming Commission continues to expand its blacklist of unlicensed online betting and gaming operators with another 31 domains added to the list.
The second update to the iGaming blacklist in 2022 takes the total number of unlicensed domains blacklisted by the regulator to 380.
Most of the new additions to [...]
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has launched civil proceedings against two individuals and one company involved in providing online poker to players in Australia.
The legal action follows an investigation by ACMA which found that the accused offered online poker games to Australian players in breach of Interactive Gambling [...]
Dutch gambling regulator Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) has revealed that it currently has 30 applications pending for online gaming licences, although it doesn't expect all applicants to be successful.
The regulator received 14 new application in the last week of March, adding to the 16 licence applications previously pending, with the recent influx [...]
Ontario opened its regulated online betting and gaming market today (4 April) with 13 operators going live in the Canadian province on day one.
The launch follows the establishment of a new online gaming framework for private operators, with iGaming Ontario working with the Government of Ontario and the Alcohol and [...]
The gambling regulator of Belgium has teamed up with the country’s communications regulator to improve efforts to block access to unlicensed online gaming websites.
The Belgian Gaming Commission and Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications (BIPT) have signed an accord to collaborate on the issue of illegal online betting and [...]