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Online Gaming Lobby Lost on the Beltway

JamesK — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:27:56 +0000

This week’s Gambling Compliance podcast looks at how recent events have proved once again how hopes of even tiny steps in the US with regard to online gaming can be stymied by a political process little understood outside of the Washington DC Beltway – and how the industry’s California dreaming will likely turn out to be just that.

Olympics Betting Draws IOC Concern

JamesK — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:19:33 +0000

This summer’s Olympic Games in Beijing will attract the attention of the world’s media for a range of reasons, but the International Olympic Committee has already taken steps to reduce the risk of potentially damaging betting scandals becoming one of them.

Bodog Walks The Wire As US Targets Payments Partners

JamesK — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:38:45 +0000

Court filings in Baltimore show that federal authorities have seized at least $14m in funds from one of Bodog's US payment processing partners so far this year. But they also hint at sophisticated, and presumably ongoing, investigations into the company's US activities, further underlining the liability faced by those online gaming companies still active in the US market.

Sports Betting, Las Vegas-style

joethompson — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:40:14 +0000

America’s gambling capital has generally enjoyed a confused relationship with sports-betting, but one gaming industry veteran is now banking on a new, European-influenced offering dragging Vegas's sportsbooks into the 21st century.

FOBTs in The Republic

AndrewG — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:20:55 +0000

This week saw the publication of the Irish Casino Committee’s ‘Regulating Gaming in Ireland’ report. It was a report whose release had been delayed more times than the 7.25 into Paddington.

Tennis Betting Growth Provokes Corruption Concerns

JamesK — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:13:32 +0000

Last weekend's classic Nadal-Federer Wimbledon final may have showed tennis at its very best, but the signs are that addressing the astronomical rise of tennis betting will remain a top priority for the sport's authorities who remain concerned about corruption scandals to have dogged the sport in recent months.

Tin Hat Time - Gambling Investors Run For Cover

JamesK — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:12:37 +0000

For an industry that once boasted of its recession-proof credentials, gambling stocks in the UK are beginning to show their sensitive side this week as wider economic and market woes weighed on their valuations.

Moralism Holds Sway In Politics Of Internet Gambling

scottl — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:44:21 +0000

The early defeat last week of Barney Frank’s anti-UIGEA legislation underlines how moral arguments continue to dominate debate over internet gambling in Washington DC. GamblingCompliance asks where pro-online gaming lobbyists go from here.

France's Online Gambling Liberalization

JamesK — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:35:30 +0000

Analysts and the mainstream media may consider the proposed liberalization of France's online gambling market to be a fait accomplit, but certain sections of the private industry are warning that operators may continue to face barriers to market entry once new legislation is presented in the autumn.

Euro 2008 Betting

JamesK — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:23:58 +0000

Germany may be the bookies' favourite to win the tournament, but England's absence from the Euro 2008 championships will have European-facing operators sizing up other markets as they look to cash in on the year's biggest betting event.