Portal dedicated to the gambling sector from a social and legal point of view, such as lesgilación, CSR and initiatives against gambling addiction.
The Gambling Policy Council, headed by Alberto Garzón, presented on July 14 an agreement to interconnect the national and regional registers of interdiction of access to gambling. This is an additional measure that seeks to strengthen government tools to promote responsible gambling in New Zealand. [...]
The AstroPay online payment method is not unknown to e-commerce users. Founded in 2009 as AstroPay Card, the company achieved almost immediate success in the United States, which allowed it to expand in Latin America and Asia. Now he has just presented his strategy as [...]
On August 9, the public information period closed to gather comments and opinions from interested parties on the content of the new draft Royal Decree, designed to strengthen the precepts of Article 8 of Law 13/20211. The Ministry of Consumer Affairs and the DGOJ continue to work [...]
Bookmaker sponsorships in Spanish sport are banned from September 1. This is provided for in the Royal Decree that regulates the commercial communications of gambling operators in our country. This situation mainly affects football clubs, [...]
They're everywhere on the internet. The social casino has multiplied in recent years. It is not really a real money game like in an online casino but its mechanics are that of a game of chance, very similar to reward boxes or loot boxes [...]
It was a pending issue in Chile, but the draft law that would regulate online gambling and betting in the South American country would be soon for approval in parliament. Así lo habrían indicado fuentes de la Undersecretaría de Hacienda y de la Superintendencia de Casinos [...]
Colombia and Mexico are the two gambling jurisdictions in Latin America that, despite their deficiencies in regulatory, tax and market integration, have sufficiently demonstrated the advantages of a regulated online market. With the online expansion of gambling and sports betting, [...]
The creditors reached an agreement and the Codere group announced that the Codere Online division was merging with DD3 Acquisition Corp. II with the aim of going public. DD3 is a Spac, a company whose main purpose is the rapid capitalization of another company for its acquisition or sale...]
The postponed UEFA Euro 2020 European football championship that is taking place across the continent has put the issue of advertising by sports betting operators back on the table. The position of the Spanish government is firm and the commercial communications of [...]
Just a week ago the popular president of El Salvador Nayib Bukele announced that the country was in the process of adopting bitcoin as legal tender. The Salvadoran president, who has broad popular support, submitted the law for approval by Congress. The law has many [...]
The tenth anniversary of Law 13/2011 of May 27 on the Regulation of Gambling comes at one of the moments of greatest friction between the online sector and the current government for the approval of the Royal Decree on advertising. It's been a decade in which the [...]
The agreement signed between the Spanish Association of Digital Gambling (Jdgital) and the International Association of Integrity in Betting (IBIA) seeks to strengthen the mechanisms of safe gambling and fair betting in the regulated betting market with a high channeling of consumers in the context of the evolution of the market...]
The difficult economic situation that the well-known Spanish bookmaker Codere is going through predates the economic crisis caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic, although the drastic cut in revenues that has caused the closure of face-to-face betting shops throughout the year...]
During the month of April the Spanish Federation of Rehabilitated Gambling Players (Fejar) organizes a seminar dedicated to the analysis and training about comorbidity in gambling and video games. The objective of the seminar is to provide specific knowledge that allows professionals to intervene in addictions from [...]
The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal filed by the Information Media Association (AMI) against the Royal Decree on Commercial Communications of Gambling Activities promoted by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs. The Spanish media association had requested a moratorium on the advertising ban [...]