Shares in Webis Holding soared by more than 13 per cent in London Tuesday after the operator’s WatchandWager subsidiary was granted approval to launch online in West Virginia.
The new Advanced Deposit Wagering (ADW) licence from the West Virginia Racing Commission allows WatchandWager to accept online horse wagers from state residents.
“We [...]
Dutch gambling regulator Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) has imposed a €440,000 fine on Raging Rhino’s LuckyDays.com site for targeting Dutch players over a three-month period last year.
An investigation by the regulator found that the Curacao-licensed site allowed players from the Netherlands to gambling using Dutch payment processor iDEAL, and referred to an [...]
Australian casino operator Crown Resorts could be allowed to open its Sydney venue by the end of this year after reaching an agreement with the New South Wales Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority (ILGA).
Following an investigation by the ILGA, headed up by Commissioner Patricia Bergin, Crown had been found “unfit” [...]
ID verification platform provider IDnow has agreed a deal to integrate its customer identification and verification solutions with Greentube’s German-facing consumer brand StarGames.de.
Supporting the operator’s entry into the German iGaming market, the integration ensures that Stargames.de is compliant with newly enacted responsible gambling and anti-money laundering regulations.
The site will utilise [...]
Britain’s Gambling Commission has suspended the operating licence of Nektan (Gibraltar), which went into administration last year.
The suspension follows an ongoing review into the operator, after the regulator suspected that Nektan had breached conditions of its licence, was unsuitable to carry on with its licensed activities, and that the licensed [...]
Live dealer specialist Vivo Gaming has secured approval from the Isle of Man Gambling Supervisory Commission to launch its games with licensed operators in the jurisdiction.
Three of the supplier’s live casino studios in Colombia, Bulgaria and Cambodia have been successfully audited by Gaming Laboratories International (GLI), enabling the company to [...]
Swedish gaming operator ATG has received a warning and SEK2m penalty fee from gambling regulator Spelinspektionen for offering customers unauthorised online bingo bonuses.
Players who bought bingo cards were able to get free bingo cards for additional games at no extra cost, contravening Swedish gaming regulations which only allow licensed operators [...]
Swedish gambling regulator Spelinspektionen has issued LeoVegas with a warning and a SEK2m penalty fee for breaching certain due diligence routines with respect to its Swedish customers.
The decision relates to shortcomings in the operator’s anti-money laundering policies in 2019, the first year of Sweden's regulated iGaming market.
Under Swedish regulations, licensees [...]
The UK Government is launching an independent review into the collapse of BetIndex’s Football Index.
The review will examine the circumstances surrounding the collapse of Football Index, and also assess the action taken by the Gambling Commission, which suspended the operator’s licence last month after the company entered into administration.
The government [...]
Dutch gambling regulator Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) has so far received 28 applications from gaming companies seeking a licence to operate online in the Netherlands.
It follows the opening of the regulator’s licence application process at the beginning of April, having been postponed from 1 January due to the impact of the Covid-19 [...]
UK National Lottery games will no longer be available to players under the age of 18 from next week.
The changes will prevent 16 and 17-year-olds from buying any lottery games from Thursday 22 April, in line with other gambling products in the UK, although they will be allowed to claim [...]
Leading online betting and gaming operator Entain is increasing security and speed of checks for customers through a new partnership with Synalogik.
The company will utilise Synalogik’s automated processing Scout solution to strengthen its identity, financial and credit checks for customers.
Entain is the first major operator to adopt Synalogik’s technology, which [...]