Compliance Updates

The most recent compliance updates of the online and land based gaming industry in the European Union, Asia, Russia and Americas

Spin Games Granted Pennsylvania Conditional I-Gaming Manufacturer License

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  License Enables Company to Offer its I-Gaming Products to its Existing Pennsylvania Customers   Spin Games LLC, a leader in Remote Gaming Server technology and interactive content, announced today that the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board(PGCB) has granted the Company a Conditional Interactive Gaming Manufacturer license enabling Spin to deploy its proprietary and third-party i-Gaming…

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Eldorado Resorts Gets Permanent License for Tropicana Casino

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  New Jersey Casino Control Commission has approved Eldorado Resorts’ application for a permanent casino license. Eldorado Resorts is a gaming and hospitality company with strong ties to the gaming industry that acquired the Tropicana casino in Atlantic City eight months ago. The company already operates in 12 states via casino hotels. The company has…

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OPAP Freezes the Roll-out of VLTs in Greece

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  OPAP, the leading gambling company in Greece, has frozen the roll-out of video-lottery terminals in Greece until the country settles a “procedural” regulatory issue. OPAP currently operates 20,091 video-lottery machines and have to add an additional 4900 by the end of 2019 to complete the installation of a total of 25,000 machines under an…

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UKGC: Gamesys to pay £1.2m for social responsibility and money laundering failures

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  Online gambling operator Gamesys (Gibraltar) Limited will pay £1.2m for failing to prevent gambling harm and breaching money laundering regulations. The Gambling Commission launched an investigation into the operator’s processes after police investigations revealed three individuals had spent stolen money with the gambling business. It was discovered that despite customers displaying behaviour that could…

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U.S. District Court Confirms Federal Wire Act Applies only to Sports Betting Activities

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  NeoPollard Interactive LLC and New Hampshire Lottery have been thrilled by the U.S. District Court decision which confirms that the federal Wire Act applies only to sports betting activities. This decision is important for the U.S. lottery industry as a whole as it alleviates concerns pertaining to the transmission of lottery data over the…

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Russia to Clamp Down on VPNs Enabling Online Gambling

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  Russia is going to crack down on virtual private networks (VPN) used by local bettors to access internationally licensed online gambling sites. Alexander Zharov, the head of Russia’s telecom watchdog Roskomnadzor, has announced plans last week to block access to nine VPN companies that refused to connect their operations to the government’s Federal State Information…

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