Regulation & Law

Brazil’s Finance Minister Dario Durigan said President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva would have preferred to eliminate online betting altogether, as the government revealed that 6.2 million Brazilians have already been prevented from accessing regulated betting platforms. In an interview with Rádio Met…

A difficult year continues for Gentoo Media as an uplift in player activity during the World Cup failed to translate into meaningful revenue growth for the media group. Group revenue declined 9% year-over-year during Q2 to €22.9m (£19.6m) from €25m the year prior, following a 5% YoY decline during…

Casino review platform Sweepstakes has announced the official launch of Sweepstakes.io, a revamped, independent portal delivering data-driven operator reviews, regulatory insights, and market analysis for the rapidly expanding social casino industry. The post Sweepstakes.io launches to standardize…

Altenar has stated that it will oppose all attempts by Sportradar to relocate an ongoing lawsuit concerning the data rights and controls of US professional sports leagues outside the US District Court for the District of New Jersey. This morning, Altenar notified SBC that the Nasdaq-listed sports t…

Tabcorp Holdings‘ Chief Executive, Gillon McLachlan, has asserted that the company is “well positioned” to absorb any impact Australia’s newly approved gambling advertising reforms may bring. Speaking to ASX investors after the firm published its FY26 financial report, McLachlan described PM Anthon…

Kim Do-gyun, a former senior South Korean army officer, has been approved by shareholders as president and chief executive of Kangwon Land Inc, the only casino firm in the nation allowed to offer casino gambling to locals. His selection followed an extraordinary meeting of shareholders on Wednesday…

In Ukraine, the gambling regulator PlayCity has started the process of tendering for the creation of a software module to bar military personnel from availing themselves of gambling activities. This move is in line with the government initiative to limit the gambling activities among military perso…

The Betting and Gaming Council forcasts £20m on the opening weekend.

The gambling monitoring authority in Sweden, Spelinspektionen has found out technical irregularities among various lottery ticket service providers in terms of providing proper information in relation to physical lottery tickets and to ensure compliance with technical specifications. Spelinspektion…

The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) is reportedly developing a new app that will help online gamblers tell licensed operators from illegal gaming platforms. PAGCOR App Set to Strengthen Player Protection in the Philippines PAGCOR Chairman and CEO Alejandro H. Tengco told the Ho…

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The customers of Australian gambling companies Neds and Ladbrokes have set in motion a class action lawsuit against the operator of both companies, Entain, for compensation against lost live bets that the customers claim do not comply with the Australian legislation. In Australia, live betting is r…

Denmark has restricted the activities of Polymarket on grounds of the ongoing operation against gambling services which do not have the necessary licenses. Following the decision of the Frederiksberg Court which determined that the site is providing gambling services to citizens of Denmark without…

The proliferation of sports betting has raised mixed responses in people, with some seeing the activity as innocuous, others welcoming it as a chance to replace seedy offshore websites, and others still – echoing the words of Vice Admiral Jerome Adams, who served as Surgeon General of the United St…

Sweepstakes today announced the official launch of its revamped independent casino comparison review platform, delivering data-driven operator reviews, regulatory insights, and market analysis for the rapidly expanding sweepstakes and social casino industry. The launch addresses a significant shift…

Gaming Laboratories International LLC (GLI) says it has been officially listed by the Uzbekistan regulatory agency responsible for gaming as an accepted testing and certification laboratory in the country. The recognition by the National Agency of Perspective Projects of the Republic of Uzbekistan…

GLI certification reports can now be used by operators and suppliers seeking to launch gaming products in Uzbekistan. The post Uzbekistan adds GLI to approved gaming laboratory list first appeared on Asia Gaming News | AGB - Asia Gaming Brief.

Gaming Laboratories International (GLI) has been officially recognised by the National Agency of Perspective Projects of the Republic of Uzbekistan (NAPP), securing a place among the testing laboratories whose certification reports are accepted within the country's newly established gaming regulato…