NOTÍCIAS

The UK Gambling Commission has written to operators to warn them about facilitating betting on television programmes and other novelty markets. The regulator said that there had been repeated instances of operators offering markets on pre-recorded TV programmes such as Great British Bake Off, Strictly Come Dancing, and other...

South Korea’s gambling tax revenue rose by 4 percent in 2015 amid persisting weakness in the Asian gambling sector. Thanks to the gambling sector’s increased sale, the Asian country bucked the regional downward trend of gambling tax revenues and posted a KRW2.42 trillion (US$2.06 billion) profit in 2015 from...

Nos primeiros cinco meses do ano (1 de janeiro a 31 de maio), os portugueses apostaram 161 milhões de euros no Placard, o mais recente jogo com a chancela da Santa Casa. Em média, os portugueses gastaram mais de um milhão de euros (1 059 210 euros) neste portefólio:...

The state of South Australia has introduced a 15% interstate tax on gambling, based on the place of consumption. All bets placed in South Australia with Australian-based betting companies will now be liable for the tax, Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis said. The tax will raise AU$9.2 million ($7 million) a...

Another week brings another round of Euro 2016 betting busts by Asian law enforcement. Our first stop takes us to Hong Kong, where police are busy tallying the score of their Operation Crowbeak anti-betting crackdown. Police say they’ve arrested over 50 individuals and confiscated around HKD 130m (US $16.7m) in...

The referendum that marked a historic time for Britain and Europe was a momentous event for punters too. Brexit vote broke the record for gambling on non-sporting events in the UK—eclipsing even the widely popular Royal baby and previous elections in the country—with punters putting down an estimated £120 million...

Brazilian lawmakers have introduced new legislation which would establish a regulatory framework for gaming in Brazil, although it explicitly bans any form of betting including online. The bill has similar provisions to those of Senate Bill 186/2014 – another bill introduced this year to legalise various forms of gambling including online...

Police have busted a remote gambling syndicate believed to have received more than S$200,000 in soccer bets in the past two weeks, in the midst of the ongoing UEFA European Championship from Jun 10 to Jul 10. In a news release on Sunday (Jun 26), the Singapore Police Force...

Novadic-Kentron, in collaboration with E-ASSYST, agog and Janshen-Hahnraths-Group / Fair Play Casinos (FPC) developed an app for the prevention of gambling problems. This app is based on the already existing Prof. treatment model Dr. Peeters (Radboud University Medical Centre Nijmegen). The app has been developed for a wide range...

Players from French first-division club Nice have been suspended and fined for betting on French league games. Top-scorer Valere Germain, center halves Kevin Gomis and Olivier Boscagli and forward Alexandre Mendy were handed two-game suspensions with one game suspended by the French football league’s disciplinary committee. They were each fined...

Ladbrokes has admitted that betting markets got the EU referendum outcome completely wrong and will have to “face up to some tough questions”. As the polls closed on Thursday night, Ladbrokes was offering 4-1 on an out vote, with its betting suggesting that a remain verdict was a 90%...

UK voters deciding to leave the European Union with a 51.9% majority vote brings about another possible exit discussion: Is it time for gambling companies to leave Gibraltar? Gibraltar is the buzzword that pops up in various discussions about the impacts of Brexit on the UK. The people of...

Last night, the Dutch Lower House debated the country’s long-awaited remote gaming bill, which would allow operators to enter the online market in the country for the first time. The debate is set to continue on Thursday, June 30, while a vote is expected the following week. Will the...

The state government of South Australia has announced a new place of consumption tax to be levied on betting companies offering services in the state. To be included in next month’s state budget and commenced from 1 July 2017, the 15% tax is Australia’s first interstate gambling tax, and...

The EU referendum will be the largest political betting market in history, with about £100m expected to be gambled on the outcome. Around a third of those stakes are predicted to be placed when voters go to the polls on Thursday, as punters starved of any Euro 2016 matches...