• daily_news
    4 December 2019

    Study claims one in six Australian 16-17 year-olds gamble

    Just under one in six Australians aged 16-17 gambled in the past year, according to the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children's (LSAC) annual statistical report.

  • daily_news
    28 October 2019

    ACT survey: 14% of population affected by gambling harms

    Researchers in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) have warned the state needs to have a serious discussion about the role of gambling in society after estimating that as much as 14% of its population has been negatively affected by gambling.

  • daily_news
    14 August 2019

    Lottery offsets wagering weakness for Tabcorp in FY results

    Australia’s Tabcorp has reported revenue of AUD$5.5bn (£3.08bn/€3.32bn/$3.71bn) for its financial year ended 30 June, 2019, strong growth in lottery revenue offsetting a decline in revenue from its Wagering & Media division over the year.

  • daily_news
    31 July 2019

    Pow to oversee gambling and horse racing at DCMS

    Rebecca Pow has been reappointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Arts, Heritage and Tourism at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), with responsibility for gambling, lotteries and horse racing.

  • article
    11 July 2019

    RP iGaming Index: Consolidation provides welcome boost

    This month’s edition of the RP iGaming Index sees Regulus Partners’ Paul Leyland cautiously optimistic about an upswing in the performance of igaming stocks. Market consolidation, meanwhile, has boosted a number of constituent companies.

  • daily_news
    4 July 2019

    Puerto Rico legislature passes sports betting bill

    A bill to regulate sports betting in Puerto Rico is headed to Governor Ricardo Rosselló Nevares to be signed into law after passing the unincorporated US territory’s legislature. 

  • daily_news
    2 July 2019

    Sportech appoints Richard McGuire as chief executive

    Betting technology provider Sportech has named its interim executive chairman Richard McGuire as its new chief executive officer.

  • daily_news
    26 June 2019

    Sportech overhauls B2B management team

    Sportech has made a number of changes to the leadership of the betting technology provider’s B2B division, which sees a number of staff from the recently acquired ilottery business Lot.to take on key positions.

  • daily_news
    19 June 2019

    US Representatives move to defund Wire Act enforcement

    An amendment to a federal bill that determines funding granted to the Department of Justice seeks to block the money from being used to enforce its revised stance on the 1961 Wire Act. 

  • news_analysis
    2 May 2019

    State of the Union: Tennessee, Indiana, Colorado and more

    This week’s State of the Union, in partnership with Segev LLP, sees a bill to legalise sports betting in Indiana head to Governor Eric Holcomb for ratification, while a Colorado bill is racing through the state legislature. Elsewhere, Nevada and Mississippi’s legal sports betting markets enjoyed strong months, driven by activity around basketball, and Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has suggested he will allow a bill to pass into law without his signature.

  • news_analysis
    25 April 2019

    State of the Union: Pennsylvania, Delaware North and more

    This week's State of the Union, in partnership with Segev LLP, sees Pennsylvania set a launch date for igaming, while Delaware North has taken legal action in the wake of its sports betting struggles in West Virginia. Elsewhere, Iowa is one step away from legal igaming and a bid to regulate sports betting is underway in Colorado.

  • news_analysis
    25 April 2019

    Latin America: a work in progress

    While a number of countries in the region have taken steps towards sustainable regulated igaming markets, there is still a lot of work to be done, says Layla Ali

  • daily_news
    18 April 2019

    ATG dominates Swedish igaming market in Q1

    Sweden’s newly regulated igaming market has generated total turnover of SEK3.29bn (£271.3m/€313.8m/$352.8m) in the first quarter of the year, with former horse racing monopoly AB Trav och Galopp (ATG) dominating the channel. Svenska Spel Sport & Casino and ATG accounted for 50% of online market turnover over the three month period.

  • news_analysis
    18 April 2019

    State of the Union: Pennsylvania, NJ, Indiana and more

    This week's State of the Union, in partnership with Segev LLP, looks at the performance of the regulated Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania markets, as well as the progress of bills in Indiana and North Carolina.

  • news_analysis
    11 April 2019

    State of the Union: Wire Act, Indiana, WV and more

    This week's State of the Union, in partnership with Segev LLP, covers the latest twist in New Hampshire's challenge to the revised Wire Act opinion, Indiana closing in on legal wagering, West Virginia's first six months of legal sports betting and more.

  • daily_news
    11 April 2019

    IGT hands senior PlayDigital role to Freeman

    International Game Technology (IGT) has appointed Ian Freeman as vice president of global business development and commercial at its PlayDigital division.

  • daily_news
    4 April 2019

    Three sports bills progress in Montana

    A trio of bills that would regulate sports betting in Montana have progressed through the state legislature, with just weeks left of the state’s regular session. Two of the three have been passed by the House and transferred to the Senate, while one was approved by the Senate and transferred to the house earlier this week.

  • news_analysis
    28 March 2019

    State of the Union: Wire Act, RI and Virginia and more

    This week’s State of the Union sees the Department of Justice hit back at New Hampshire’s challenge against its revised Wire Act opinion. Elsewhere Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo has ratified mobile wagering legislation, and Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has set the state on the path to legal casino gaming.

  • daily_news
    7 March 2019

    Connecticut committee chair files sports betting proposal

    The chairman of the Connecticut House Public Safety and Security Committee Joe Verrengia has filed a proposal to regulate online and land-based sports betting in the state.

  • daily_news
    4 March 2019

    DoJ set to extend Wire Act non-enforcement window

    The Department of Justice (DoJ) is set to extend the window in which it will not enforce its revised interpretation of the Wire Act, according to sources close to the matter.

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