The local regulatory body Provincial Institute of Games and Casinos (IPJyC), together with the government of the city of Mendoza, announced that it will block unauthorized online gambling sites. According to the provincial regulator, it will send a list of illegal sites to the capital city municipality so that it can block access to them through public…
Experts at the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) have urged the federal government to create a nationwide strategy for addressing potential gambling harms
New research from GambleAware in the UK suggests that over two-thirds of people believe there is too much gambling advertising and that more regulations are needed to control it. Sixty-seven percent of respondents to the survey by Ipsos said there is too much gambling advertising, with 72 percent supporting more regulations around television advertising and…
The Massachusetts Gaming Commission (MGC) will consider a set of recommendations to limit advertising of gambling in the state. The recommendations from Dr Rachel Volberg, a Research Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, form part of the Social and Economic Impacts of Gambling in Massachusetts (SEIGMA) project. Volberg said her team “heartily endorses” the…
idPair has signed an agreement with the California Council on Problem Gambling that allows gamblers to self-exclude from California’s 60-plus card rooms using the newly-launched National Voluntary Self-Exclusion Program. Gamblers will be able to self-exclude online, unlike in the previous system where they had to do it in-person or by mail. The California deal follows…
The Major Division of Colombian Soccer (Dimayor) has fired 15 professional soccer referees for their alleged participation in sports betting schemes. These include match referees, assistant referees, and members of the VAR team. Former referee and current analyst José Borda shared the news on his social networks, referring to it as “the largest sweep of referees in the last…
In the midst of a wave of complaints against gambling and betting due to the participation of minors in Argentina, the Association of Argentine State Lotteries (ALEA) and the Argentine Chamber of Casinos, Bingos and Annexes (CASCBA) launched a campaign specific and reported 254 unlicensed sites. The reported platforms, with international servers, allow the creation of users without extensive…
Today’s episode of iGaming Daily, supported by Optimove, comes from the Canadian Gaming Summit in Toronto. Ted Orme-Claye, editor of Insider Sport and Payment Expert, is joined by Jessica Welman, Editor of SBC Americas, and special guest Martin Lycka, SVP American Regulatory Affairs and Responsible Gambling at Entain, to talk through their first day at the event. To start the show the trio recap Martin’s interview with…
The UK Gambling Commission CEO Andrew Rhodes told an audience of industry representatives that the NHS Health Survey is “outmoded” and needs to be improved but that any hike in numbers from the new methodology being used in the Commission’s Gambling Survey for Great Britain need not lead to a “lurch in regulation”. Rhodes was…
It’s day one of the Neosurf takeover of iGaming Daily, supported by Optimove. To kick things off Andrea McGeachin, CEO of Neosurf, is joined by Shelley White, CEO of the Responsible Gambling Council (RGC), to discuss the work of the RGC, responsible gambling practices in the payments industry and her imminent retirement from the organisation. After recapping the recent RGC Discovery Conference,…