Regulation & Law

Philippine gambling regulator reveals new app will roll out by the end of this year.

Zitro Digital, the online division of leading gaming supplier Zitro, has announced a new agreement with Novusbet, a leading iGaming platform provider and content aggregator. Through this alliance, Novusbet’s operator network will gain access to Zitro Digital’s diverse portfolio of slots and Video B…

Australia’s latest move to restrict gambling advertising will eventually see wagering brands removed from professional sports uniforms, but existing sponsorships will be allowed to run for several more years. Australian Lawmakers Criticize Long Transition for Gambling Jersey Bans Politicians and ga…

An algorithm aimed at predicting the risk behavior of online casino gamblers based on their actual behaviour while gaming has been developed by the researchers from University of Amsterdam (UvA). The model was developed by Charles de Leau, a PhD candidate at University of Amsterdam, with the guidan…

The directors of Evolution have recommended shareholders to not to accept the mandatory cash offer of Candle Lake Limited of SEK695 ($72.89) per share on the grounds that the bid has not fairly represented the true value of the gaming supplier. This recommendation was made by the board on Monday, a…

A business group in Sasebo (pictured), in the northern part of Japan’s Nagasaki prefecture, is calling for a revival of the effort to bring an integrated resort (IR) with casino to the community. In December 2023, Japan’s national authorities chose not to approve a proposal for a casino resort on l…

The Philippine gaming regulator is to launch before year-end a software application to help consumers ensure they are accessing only licensed and regulated online gaming platforms. That is according to comment by Alejandro Tengco, chairman and chief executive of the Philippine Amusement and Gaming…

PAGCOR plans to launch an app by year-end after estimating that half of the online gaming sites accessed in the Philippines are illegal. The post Half of online gaming sites accessed in Philippines are illegal: PAGCOR first appeared on Asia Gaming News | AGB - Asia Gaming Brief.

The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp (Pagcor), the nation’s gaming regulator, expects its total income to decline by about 18 percent year-on-year in 2026, to nearly PHP86.95 billion (US$1.41 billion), amid weaker gaming activity in the country. The forecast compares with PHP106.03 billion in i…

Entain has informed Australian customers who lost money using its Fast Code betting service that they have been automatically included in a class-action lawsuit alleging the service broke the country’s gambling laws. The online gambling giant has denied its Fast Code feature, which allowed gamblers…

A volunteer dive team has arrived in West Virginia to search for a woman who vanished 19 years ago after she was last seen at an area casino. Karen Adams was 54 years old when she disappeared without a trace in the early morning hours of Monday, March 12, 2007. The Federal Bureau of Investigation […

DraftKings (NASDAQ: DKNG) stock could catch tailwinds if various courts overtly rule against prediction market operators’ quests to continue offering sports event contracts. That’s the take of Mizuho analyst Ben Chaiken who in a report out Monday, theorizes that sports derivatives– currently the la…

The British Betting & Gaming Council (BGC) has issued a grim forecast for the new English Premier League season, saying that it expects players to wager as much as GBP 800 million with illegal operators during the tournament. Illegal Operators Poised to Capitalize on the Premier League As illegal g…

Booming Games (Malta) Limited has been found to have breached rules regarding auto-play functionality in Ontario, Canada, and, as a result, the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) has ordered the company to pay a CAD 70,000 (about $50,000) fine. What Exactly Was the Issue? AGCO’s invest…

Nebraska voters will decide in November whether to expand sports betting to the internet, with the statewide ballot set to include a referendum on online sports wagering. On Friday (Aug. 21), Nebraska Secretary of State Robert Evnen (R) announced that his office had certified the online sports bett…

Two Nebraska sports betting petitions have cleared the required signature and county-distribution thresholds and are slated for the 3 November general election, the Secretary of State’s office confirmed Friday. The office must certify the full ballot by 11 September. The constitutional petition rec…

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), under President Donald Trump’s second administration, claims it’s leading the “New Frontier of Finance” by embracing “responsible innovation in lawful derivatives.” According to CFTC Chairman Michael Selig, that includes trading on politics, sports,…

Vlad-Cristian Soare has been abruptly dismissed from his role as President of ONJN, the Gambling Office of Romania. His dismissal comes just over a year after he took over an organisation plagued by high-profile fallouts that has seen the organisation’s existence come under political scrutiny. In a…