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…
Bally’s Corporation has joined the Responsible Online Gaming Association (ROGA), becoming the eighth founding member of the independent responsible gambling trade association.
Bally’s joins bet365, BetMGM, DraftKings, Fanatics Betting and Gaming, FanDuel, Hard Rock Digital and PENN Entertainment as the founding members of the group.
ROGA aims to promote responsible online gaming through methods such as funding independent peer-reviewed research, developing evidence-based responsible gaming best practices and driving consumer education and awareness. The association is led by Executive Director Dr. Jennifer Shatley, the President of the Nevada Council on Problem Gambling, a member of the National Council on Problem Gambling and Co-Chair of the Compliance Review Board for the American Gaming Association‘s Responsible Marketing Code for Sports Wagering.
“We are thrilled to welcome Bally’s to ROGA — further demonstrating the collaborative effort of the iGaming and online sports betting..
Gambling regulators across Europe have recently come together to discuss several gambling regulatory issues, including scratchcards and the jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice.
The gambling regulators of Austria, France, Germany, Portugal, Spain and Great Britain met in Vienna on June 11-12 to discuss these topics and what must be done to make sure players are protected.
Collectively, the regulators have released a statement – via the Spanish regulator Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego and French regulator Autorité Nationale des Jeux – making a declaration on how the issues of scratchcard regulation and the jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice should proceed.
In the statement, the regulators said that, regarding the ECJ’s preliminary ruling running in various countries, although the EU guarantees establishment and service-providing freedoms, the court recognises that member states “may impose proportionate restrictions on these freedoms to regulate gamb..
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…
The Council of Ministers of Spain has appointed Andrés Barragán Urbiola as Secretary General of Consumption and Gaming.
Urbiola will oversee Spain’s ongoing federal overhaul of gambling laws, a directive led by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs.
The appointment of a dedicated minister to oversee gambling reforms, had been requested by Pablo Bustinduy, Spain’s Minister of Consumer Affairs and Social Rights.
Leadership changes in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs have Bustinduy taking over the remit of gambling reforms, previously managed by Alberto Garzon, who opted not to serve in Spain’s new ‘progressive left’ coalition government.
Since 2020, under Garzon’s leadership, Spain has reorganised its gambling laws to develop unified standards and centralised controls for online and land-based gambling.
Garzon authorised the “Royal Decree on Gambling Advertising,” reshaping Spain’s gambling landscape by banning betting sponsorships and restricting gambling advertisements to late-night ho..
An arrest warrant issued by the FBI has led to the apprehension of a British man allegedly tied to a cyberattack on BetMGM.
Spanish police have arrested an unnamed UK resident in Palma de Mallorca for his alleged involvement in a cyberattack scheme that saw fraudulent accounts created on BetMGM. The accounts, many using the personal information of pro poker players, executed unauthorized bank account withdrawals of up to $10,000 per transaction.
The British suspect is accused of SIM-swapping, a type of account fraud that exploits two-factor authentication systems through the seizure of one-time passwords. The suspect’s SIM-swapping allegedly provided access or the ability to create new BetMGM accounts.
The investigation by Spanish police found that the British suspect made his way to Spain in May by first making a stop in Barcelona before the probe led to his location in Mallorca.
Authorities were able to apprehend the suspect as he boarded a flight to Italy. Spanish police confisc..
New mandatory playing limit safeguards will be applied to the Dutch KOA market from 1 October 2024.
The announcement sees the Dutch government conclude its consultation, initiated in December 2023 by outgoing Legal Protections Minister Franc Weerwind on new safeguards and preventative measures of the Remote Gambling Act (KOA Act).
The safeguards form part of a ‘new protective scheme’, in which operators must ensure that customers have set their individual limits on gambling spend.
Headline measures will see KOA-licensed operators impose mandatory checks on monthly deposit limits of €350 on player accounts above the age of 25. For player accounts under-25, operators must ensure checks of deposit limits of €150 per month.
The consultation applied the recommendation of Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) – the Netherlands Gambling Authority- to impose a maximum deposit limit of €700 for adult accounts and €300 for under 25s.
Players who choose to apply the maximum deposit threshold must have a..
Svenska Spel will begin publishing new data revealing its revenues generated from customers with a low-risk gambling profile.
The new leadership team, CEO Anna Johnson and Chairman Erik Strand, has pledged to sustainable reporting figures as a commitment from Sweden’s state-owned gambling firm.
Reporting will start at the end of August, with Svenska Spel revealing its sustainable percentage revenues for April to June 2024.
Svenska Spel will base its sustainability metrics on the risk models of its proprietary Playscan tool, developed with the safer gambling studio Sustainable Interaction as an independent party.
CEO Anna Johnson stated: “We are reporting our share of healthy revenues and our efforts to counter gambling problems to show that it is possible to run a gambling company sustainably.
“It is an important step to increase trust in the gaming industry in general.”
2023 figures by Spelinspektionen, Sweden’s Gambling Inspectorate, show that 75% of Swedes engaged in some form..
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…
The Senate of Brazil has advanced plans to modernise laws governing the gambling disciplines of land-based casinos, bingo, horseracing, and the sale of jogo do bicho (instant win games).
On Wednesday, the much-delayed Bill No. 2,234/2022 was approved by the Senate’s Constitution and Justice Committee (CCJ), securing 14 votes in favour and 12 against, advancing a federal project to modernise land-based gambling laws.
Following two years of delays in its mediation, Bill No. 2,234/2022 will progress to the State Plenary for further revisions of how land-based gambling modalities can be applied to federal law.
Abreu revives marginalised Bill
The passage of the Bill is credited to Senator Irajá Abreu (PSD-TO), who picked up the project from the shadows, stating: “After studying this issue in depth, it is impossible that the whole world is wrong and only Brazil is right in not addressing and not establishing criteria and limits with this so important, necessary, and present project in th..