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Spillemyndigheden’s June gambling reporthas revealed an increase in gambling gross revenue across all four game sectors – online casino, land-based casino, gaming machines and betting.

According to data from the Danish gambling authority, betting saw the biggest increase year-over-year, rising by over 75%, but online casinos led the way in GGR with more than DKK 300m.

Publishing the market’s figures for June, Spillemyndigheden stated that total GGR for the month stood at DKK 703m (€94.2m), a 37% increase on the same period last year (June 2023: DKK 513m).

Although growth occurred across all four game sectors, the gambling authority noted that the overall increase was “mainly driven by an increase in the gambling spend of bets, although it should be noted that the repayment proportion for bets was lower in June 2024 compared to June 2023”.

June 2024’s total GGR of DKK 703m was also higher than the DKK 571m reported by the gambling authority for May.

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Brazil’s Secretariat of Prizes and Betting (SPA) has published Ordinance No. 1,231, which sets out the rules and guidelines gambling operators must adhere to regarding responsible gaming as well as communication, advertising, publicity and marketing actions.

Published in the Official Gazette of the Union, the document also regulates the rights and duties of bettors and operators that must be respected to operate legally in the country.

Responsible gaming is defined in the ordinance as a set of rules, practices and activities aimed at ensuring the economic exploitation, promotion and healthy and socially responsible advertising of this modality and prevention and mitigation of individual or collective harm resulting from the activity.

The ordinance states that operators must prevent and mitigate the negative impacts gambling can have on a person, including mental health due to addiction, compulsion, mania or any other associated disorder, such as pathological or abusive gambling; on ..

Casino operators in Pennsylvania have issued a petition to the state’s Supreme Court to reassess its taxation laws in relation to slot machines, skill and hybrid games.

Filing the petition on 29 July, casinos such as Stadium Casino, Chester Downs, Rivers Philadelphia, Parx Casino Shippensburg, Wind Creek and Greenwood Gaming have requested “declaratory and injunctive relief” after considering the state’s lack of taxation on unlicensed operators and machines as “unconstitutional”.

The petition has named the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue, along with its Secretary Patrick M Browne, and the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board as respondents, demanding that taxes be “uniform, upon the same class of subjects”.

Casinos have issued the petition after considering the Pennsylvania Gaming Act’s “substantial” ~50% tax on slot machine revenue as “unconstitutional” due to the lack of taxation on unlicensed gaming operators offering skill and hybrid games.

In 2023 alone, licensed operators ..

Dutch Gambling Authority Kansspelautoriteit’s new Chairman Michel Groothuizen has stressed that “continuity and inevitability” will be at the forefront of Dutch gambling reforms, despite government changes.

Writing his first post in his new position, Groothuizen underlined his commitment to concluding the reforms of the Remote Gambling Act – the KOA – regardless of the Netherlands’ new coalition government.

Having served a full month as Chairman since taking office on July 1, Groothuizen will oversee the remaining phases of the KOA review under the new government.

KSA agents, despite governmental changes, remain in place to finalise a near three-year process to overhaul KOA laws, which helped launch the Netherlands online gambling marketplace in October 2021.

According to the Chairman: “The new ministers will also use largely the same underlying structure in the departments. And civil servants will support them, enthusiastically or not, but above all loyally, and provide them wit..

Kansspelautoriteit, the Dutch gaming authority, has emphasised the importance of compliance with the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Prevention) Act (Wwft) with the publication of a past designation for Holland Casino.

In 2019, Holland Casino was handed a designation by the KSA as an investigation discovered the operator “did not properly comply” with certain Wwft provisions. The KSA concluded that Holland Casino did not “sufficiently check the gambling behaviour of the players and the origin of the money used”.

An instruction was issued by the KSA at the time to Holland Casino demanding the firm become compliant with the Wwft, which the authority said the operator “complied with all the given guidelines within the time limits set at the time”.

The KSA noted that the publication of the designation and the decision on the objection “took into account” the decision of the College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven – Administrative Court of Appeal for Trade and Industry – made..