Britain’s Gambling Commission has been cleared to formally award the next National Lottery licence to its preferred applicant, Allwyn Entertainment.
Allwyn was selected by the Gambling Commission as the preferred applicant for the fourth National Lottery licence in March following a protracted bidding process, beating incumbent operator Camelot, which subsequently turned [...]
The Federal Court of Switzerland has upheld the legality of blocking access to unlicensed online gambling websites.
The judgment was issued in May and published by the Federal Court on June 28.
It upholds the Intercantonal Gambling Supervisory Authority’s right to use DNS blocking to prevent Swiss players from accessing gambling websites [...]
The Danish Gambling Authority has filed a police report against betting operator Tipwin for failing to effectively manage the risk of money laundering.
The regulator has also ordered Tipwin to correct deficiencies in its risk assessment, business processes and staff training within three months.
The regulatory action relates to the risk of [...]
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has requested that Australian internet service providers (ISPs) block access to illegal gambling website thepokies.net.
The request marks one of the most significant websites to be blocked since the ACMA first started using site blocking in November 2019. Payments to the site are estimated to [...]
Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a TV advertisement for Paddy Power which was found to have depicted gambling behaviour that was socially irresponsible.
The TV ad for Paddy Power aired in the UK in March and showed a young man using his phone to gamble on Paddy Power’s ‘Wonder [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 National Gambling Regulator of France (ANJ) has exercised powers for the first time to ban a TV and online commercial by online gambling operator Winamax.
The regulator has ordered Winamax to withdraw the commercial from all media within one month or face further action.
The commercial, “Tout pour la Daronne”, has [...]
Flutter Entertainment’s Sky Betting and Gaming has been fined £1.17m by Britain’s Gambling Commission for sending promotional emails to customers who had self-excluded or opted out of receiving marketing material.
The emails were sent in November to 41,395 self-excluded customers and 249,159 customers who had unsubscribed from the operator’s marketing emails, [...]
London-listed betting and gaming operator 888 Holdings has been fined £9.4m by Britain’s Gambling Commission for social responsibility and money laundering failures.
The fine relates to failings in the operator’s historical safer gambling and anti-money laundering policies and procedures in the United Kingdom, which were discovered during the Commission’s compliance assessment [...]
Gibraltar-licensed online gaming and betting operator Onisac, a part of the Mansion Group, has agreed an £850,000 regulatory settlement with the Gibraltar Gambling Commissioner.
The settlement relates to historical anti-money laundering deficiencies within the operator’s international (Non-EU and UK) business, which were discovered during an onsite assessment of its due diligence [...]