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With the USA still struggling to come to terms with the events of Black Friday back in April, the European Union is taking steps to bypass individual state laws to produce a unified law that will be adopted across the economic block.Jurgen Creutzmann, a German MEP (Member of the European Parliament), drafted the report and recommended that a common and accepted collection of laws supporting consumer protection be put in place in relation to online gambling.This is a curious development,...
Speaking at the Business in Sport and Leisure conference in London, Harman received a hostile reception and barracking from an audience including Britain's biggest bookmakers and trade representatives from the gambling sector.Harman, appointed Labour's culture spokesperson in October, raised concerns over what she described as a proliferation of betting shops in hard up areas such as her constituency in Peckham, south London.One thing I've done since I came into this post is focussed on what's happening on the high streets...
Macau, the only place in China where casino gambling is legal, has seen gambling revenue soar since the end of 2009, and is poised to rake in more than five times the gambling revenue of the Las Vegas Strip this year.Gambling revenue in the Chinese territory rose to 26.85 patacas (US$3.36 billion) in October, up from 18.87 billion patacas in the same month a year earlier, data from Macau's Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau showed.October's revenue haul beat the territory's...
Following its recent accreditation as a full testing agency by the Italian regulator AAMS, eCOGRA has announced on October 31 that it has achieved similar status with the new Spanish gambling regulator. eCOGRA has been approved to test and certify both online gaming software and information systems security for the Spanish market. The Director General of Gambling Regulation in Spain recently emphasised the importance of comprehensive and professional testing as a prerequisite for a stage one Spanish licence. He said...
Так, Genting Poker — одна из витрин сети iPoker — объявила о прекращении предоставления услуг для жителей 10 стран. В чёрный список сайта попала в том числе и Россия. По официальной информации, действия представителей Genting Poker связаны с изменениями в политике государственного регулирования онлайн-гэмблинга, куда в большинстве стран относят и покер… Известно, не так давно президент Медведев потребовал от чиновников разобраться в правовой сфере, связанной с онлайном, и в том числе с играми на деньги, если они осуществляются третьими сторонами....