Dutch gambling licence holders have been informed of new guidelines to ensure that marketing campaigns comply with ‘targeting rules’ set by the Kansspelautoriteit (KSA).

Since July 2023, the KSA has imposed a ‘ban on untargeted mass-market gambling advertising’, a policy applied across all Dutch media channels.

The ban formed part of the first revisions to the Remote Gambling Act (KOA), the legislative framework that launched the Netherlands’ regulated online gambling market in October 2021.

Under strict orders, licence holders must ensure that marketing campaigns target audiences aged over 24 years old, with campaigns required to demonstrate a minimum 95% compliance threshold.

Operators must also show evidence of age-gating, audience segmentation and protective algorithms, with clear instructions that campaigns should be terminated when these compliance tools are deemed insufficient.

Since 2023, the KSA has issued penalties of €400,000 to operators, including Bingoal, Hillside ..

Finnish gambling operator Paf has reduced its mandatory annual loss limit from €16,000 to €15,000, meaning it has now halved its original €30,000 annual loss cap introduced in 2018.

The move marks the latest step in a multi-year strategy to curb high-intensity play and shift towards “more sustainable revenues”.

Paf has previously stated an ambition to lower the annual loss limit further to €8,000 per year, though no timeline has been confirmed.

“We are extremely proud that, through concrete measures and long-term investments in responsible gaming, we have now managed to halve the first loss limit that was introduced in 2018,” said Christer Fahlstedt, CEO of Paf.

“It clearly shows that we are serious about our ambition to be a sustainable entertainment company. We have been clear about our ambition to take a strong stance on responsibility as a gaming company and to drive development towards a better gaming market.

“Unlike many other operators in the industry, we are also prepared..

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has delivered its opinion that insolvency proceedings should enable EU states to freeze the bank accounts of non-European licensed online gambling operators.

The legal opinion, published on 5 March, was delivered by Advocate General Rimvydas Norkus in his review of Case C-716/24.

The AG was tasked with examining the interaction between “EU cross-border debt recovery and insolvency proceedings” and how certain mechanisms can be applied to offshore gambling operators operating outside of the EU’s remit.

The decision has been fuelled by a claim brought by a German player seeking to recover approximately €57,000 in online gambling losses from an operator incorporated in Curaçao. After obtaining a default judgment in Germany, the claimant applied to freeze bank accounts believed to belong to the operator in the member state of Cyprus using the European Account Preservation Orders (EAPO).

The EAPO scheme was created to enable creditors ..

The Faculty of Education at the University of Trnava has been enlisted to develop a new programme aimed at raising awareness of gambling risks and harms among the public, institutions and authorities of the Republic of Slovakia.

The project has been launched through a ‘memorandum of cooperation’ agreed by the university and the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Slovakia (URHH), with the aim of bringing “professional knowledge and academic training” into Slovakia’s education and government systems to minimise exposure to gambling harms.

The new initiatives will provide the faculty with access to national gambling data, enabling it to develop an educational framework for both lecturers and students.

The programme will examine key areas including gambling regulation, addiction prevention, the risks posed by digital environments and the emergence of new online gambling formats.

Academic fix

Upon completion, the University of Trnava will publish professional consultations and academic ..

For the second time this week, Novatech has come under fire – this time, it’s the Swedish Gambling Authority, Spelinspektionen, which has hit out at the operator.

Spelinspektionen initiated its case against Novatech for providing unlicensed games to players, with the regulator ruling that the operator would be immediately banned from operating in Sweden. It determined that several of its websites were targeting the domestic market without holding a Swedish licence.

The regulator has cited player protection concerns as the main reason behind its decision.

The ban follows an inspection conducted between 23-25 February 2026, during which Spelinspektionen reviewed a number of domains operated by the company, including qbet.com, mangacasino.com, slotexpress.com, 55bet.com and 30bet.com.

According to the regulator, players that were accessing the sites from Swedish IP addresses were presented with the Swedish country code by default during registration.

The regulator also found that..