Betfred has agreed a £3.25 million regulatory settlement with the Gambling Commission over anti-money laundering and social responsibility failures at its betting shops in the United Kingdom.
The bookmaker was found to have breached regulations between January 2021 and December 2022 by failing to conduct appropriate risk assessments and failing to [...]
Entain’s Ladbrokes brand has fallen foul of UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) rules for the second time in as many weeks.
In a ruling published today, the ASA said that Gibraltar-based LC International breached rules that are designed to prevent gambling marketing from having a particular appeal to people under the [...]
Flutter Entertainment-owned Betfair International has been reprimanded by the Danish Gambling Authority for breaches of the country’s anti-money laundering (AML) regulations.
The regulator has given Betfair three orders and a reprimand for breaching section 7(1) of the AML Act on risk assessment, section 8(1) of the AML Act on business procedures, [...]
Sweden’s gambling regulator has threatened payment processor Zimpler with a significant fine if the company continues to facilitate unlicensed online gambling in the country.
Regulatory authority Spelinspektionen will impose a SEK25 million (€2.1m) fine on Zimpler if it does not end payment processing services for unlicensed operators in the Swedish market [...]
The Seminole Tribe of Florida have been handed a win by the Court of Appeals in Washington DC, which ruled Friday against a lower court verdict that blocked the tribe’s gaming compact with the state of Florida.
The gaming compact agreed with Governor Ron DeSantis in 2021 gave the Seminole Tribe [...]
Sweden’s Administrative Court has overturned the decision by gambling regulator Spelinspektionen to issue a warning and a SEK6 million fine to ATG for alleged anti-money laundering failures.
The operator was issued with a warning and a fine in November 2022 following an investigation by Spelinspektionen into ATG's anti-money laundering processes.
According to [...]
Glitnor Group has been fined by Malta’s Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIAU) for failing to effectively minimise the risk of money laundering.
The online gaming operator must pay an administrative penalty of €236,789 for failures identified in a compliance review carried out in 2019.
The FIAU review found that the company failed [...]
The Hellenic Gaming Commission continues to expand its blacklist of illegal online gambling sites with the addition of more than 800 website domains.
The 37th update to the iGaming blacklist brings the total number of blocked domains to 5,836.
The latest update includes various sites relating to brands such as 21grandcasino, admiralbet, [...]
The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) has issued bans to ten Chinese professional snooker players for various offences relating to the manipulation of snooker matches.
The case followed an alert in August 2022 from the International Betting integrity Association (IBIA), with the WPBSA Integrity Unit working closely with Sportradar [...]
Dutch gambling regulator Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) has imposed a €400,000 fine on locally licensed operator Bingoal for advertising to players aged 18 to 24.
The KSA launched an investigation following media reports that a number of licensed operators were not complying with the country’s gambling advertising regulations.
The investigation focussed on all licensed [...]
Entain, the London-listed betting and gaming operator, is in negotiations with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in England over an alleged breach of the Bribery Act.
The company is negotiating a deferred prosecution agreement with the (CPS) and working to resolve an ongoing investigation by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) into [...]
Dutch lottery and gambling regulator Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) is threatening to issue weekly penalties of up to €1 million to two popular nationwide lotteries that offered players access to a number of unauthorised games.
The KSA found that Novamedia's Postcode Lottery (Nationale Postcode Loterij) was offering a number of games to players [...]