European Union Updates Country List for Stricter AML Checks
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  The European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union (EU), has updated its list of high-risk countries, from which players should be subjected to stricter customer checks by gambling operators. Based on Directive (EU) 2015/849, Article 9, the Commission identifies any high-risk third countries that have strategic deficiencies in their regime on anti-money…

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ComeOn Group secures Ontario gambling licence
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  ComeOn Group announced that their registration with the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario was successfully granted, expanding the group’s footprint into the North American market. An exciting phase for ComeOn, as Ontario with its open regulatory model, is expected to be one of the largest regulated markets in North America. ComeOn Group will…

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Nevada Gaming Control Board: Notice 2022-18 Gaming Device Transaction Reporting
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  The Nevada Gaming Control Board’s Enforcement Division announces changes, which will take effect on May 31, 2022, pertaining to the submission of Gaming Device Transactions, a reporting requirement under Regulation 14. The Board has developed an electronic version of Gaming Device Transaction Form ENF-126, within the GCB Apps portal. Beginning May 13, 2022, the…

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AUSTRIAN FEDERAL CRIMINAL POLICE TO WORK WITH SPORTRADAR ON ANTI-DOPING
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  Memorandum of Understanding with Sportradar from 2015 extended to include Anti-Doping Services Sportradar Integrity Services, a unit of Sportradar (NASDAQ: SRAD), the leading global sports technology company, supplying sports integrity solutions to more than 150 sports federations, leagues, law enforcement, and state authorities, today announced that Anti-Doping Services have been included in an extension…

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MGCB Authorizes Soaring Eagle Gaming as 15th Internet Gaming and Sports Betting Operator
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  The Michigan Gaming Control Board (MGCB) authorized Soaring Eagle Gaming, the Saginaw Chippewa tribe’s gaming arm, to launch internet gaming and sports betting as the state’s 15th operator. Operating under the brand name Eagle Casino and Sports, Soaring Eagle Gaming has partnered with platform provider GAN. They have met Michigan’s regulatory requirements for licensing,…

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U.S. Integrity Receives Strategic Investment from Las Vegas Sands
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  U.S. Integrity, a technology and data-driven analytics company that monitors for match-fixing, game manipulation, and other unethical or illegal sports betting-related activity for the largest professional sports leagues and collegiate properties in the U.S., as well as licensed sports-betting operators and regulators, announced it has received an investment from Las Vegas Sands, the world’s leading developer…

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NorthStar Gaming Registered as Online Gaming Operator in Ontario
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  NorthStar Gaming has announced that it has been registered as an online gaming operator by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO). This registration represents one of the last significant milestones in NorthStar Gaming’s journey into Ontario’s regulated online gaming industry and the launch of NorthStar Gaming’s Ontario gaming platform is now imminent.…

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AGA Urges Department of Justice to Crack Down on Illegal Gambling
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  The American Gaming Association (AGA) has called on the US Department of Justice to crack down on illegal, online sportsbooks and casinos and unregulated “skill game” machines in a new letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland. “While the challenge of illegal gambling is not new, the brazen and coordinated manner in which it occurs—both…

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