A.J. Koehn

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 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..

Two offshore operators have been hit with major fines by the Dutch gambling regulator, Kansspelautoriteit (KSA), over illegally targeting the domestic market.

The culprits are Fortaprime SRL and Novatech, which have allegedly provided Dutch players and unobstructed access to their platforms despite not having a licence in the Netherlands.

KSA agents were reportedly able to freely create a player account, deposit funds and play on multiple domains hosted by both offshore operators. A number of other severe breaches were noted by the regulator, such as a lack of visible age verification in place and the option to pay in crypto – a major red flag when it comes to facilitating money laundering.

Dishing out the fines, the regulator has based the amount on the turnover of both parties, adding that they would’ve been much higher if it wasn’t for the current maximum cap of 10% on turnover set within Dutch legislature.

Fortaprime has been handed a bill for €1.8m (£1.6m), while Novatech was..

Greece will enact sweeping reforms to its criminal and gambling laws to enable the government and authorities to prosecute illegal gambling operators and their respective criminal networks.

The mandate, pledged by Minister of National Economy and Finance Kyriakos Pierrakakis, introduces a draft framework of “interventions required to strengthen the Greek state and economy against the threats of black market gambling”.

Presenting the bill, Pierrakakis stated: “Illegal gambling deprives the Greek state of significant public revenue, undermines licensed businesses and exposes citizens – especially young people – to environments without protection or transparency. This intervention strengthens the institutional shield of the country.”

Kyriakos Pierrakakis

As previously cited by the FM, government data indicates that nearly 800,000 citizens engaged in illegal gambling in 2024, generating an estimated €1.67bn in turnover and depriving the state of approximately €400m in annual revenues.
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TonyBet has once again found itself in hot water after the Kansspelautoriteit (KSA), the Dutch Gaming Authority, contacted the operator due to a marketing incident where advertising was displayed to vulnerable groups.

The Lithuania-based business, whose sponsored adverts on YouTube were pulled by the Irish Advertising Standards Authority (IASA) just over a week ago due to a breach in regulations, encountered a system error and mistakenly sent promotional emails to young adult customers on two separate occasions.

Betcity and Kansino were also in breach of marketing rules, after the former displayed a marketing message through its gaming interface to all players, including young adults, and the latter was found to have displayed gambling advertisements within mobile gaming applications.

Under Dutch gambling regulations, operators are prohibited from targeting vulnerable players, including young adults aged 18-24 and individuals exhibiting signs of risky gambling behaviour.

The rule..