International Gaming Law Summit

2011-2012 is once again a big year for gaming in Europe, with big changes to the regulated markets. The European Commission has recently published a Green Paper which is the first step towards harmonization, whilst Spain, Germany and Greece have become the latest hotspots for operators looking to increase there customer base.

With betting operators such as Partygaming and Bwin combining forces, M&A has been revived as a strategy to increase liquidity and profitability, whilst the numbers of smaller successful operators are growing daily. This is an exciting time for the gaming industry, the legal issues are huge, but with them bring big commercial opportunities. Market entrance strategies for European operators entering the US market and vice versa are on the tip of everyone’s tongue, and Eastern Europe and the emerging markets looks certain to be the one subject where the whole industry will be looking at with anticipation and impending opportunity.

Join us once again at C5’s highly acclaimed annual International Gaming Law Summit 2011, where you will hear senior heavyweights of the gaming industry discuss, debate and strategise for the coming year ahead. Build your business strategy by hearing directly from the experts at the once conference your colleagues – and competitors – need to attend during the shakeup of gambling laws and regulations across Europe.

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EGR: Breaking news: EC approves Schleswig-Holstein law

By James Bennett, published at egrmagazine.com

The European Commission has ruled Schleswig-Holstein’s draft gambling law as compliant with EU law, giving Germany’s northernmost state the green light to pass a bill this summer and the licensing process to begin as early as this autumn, eGaming Review has learned.

A Betfair spokesman called the Commission’s approval a “decisive step” and told eGaming Review it would apply for a licence there if and when the bill was passed. bwin.party’s co-chief executive Norbert Teufelberger told this publication last month the newly merged business would apply for a licence, while John Shepherd, director of corporate communications, said: “Our position has not changed. If the Schleswig-Holstein law is passed, we will apply for a licence.” … Continue Reading

ITALIAN REGULATORY UPDATE – Q01/11

By Quirino Mancini*

It could hardly be disputed that when it comes to remote gaming (such notion including Internet, mobile and interactive tv), the Italian market is at present the most, and probably also the best, regulated gaming environment across Europe. So much so, that the basic principles of the Italian regulatory model combining the possibility to offer quite a wide range of remote gaming services to the requirement of doing it only and strictly under the scope of a locally-granted licence, have been replicated also across the Alps by other jurisdictions (notably France and Denmark) … Continue Reading

GamingIntelligence: Schleswig-Holstein ready to break German State Treaty

By Steve Hoare, published at GamingIntelligence.com – 19.04.2011

The closure of the biggest US-facing online poker sites by the Department of Justice has been grabbing the headlines in recent days, but European operators may soon have more good news to cheer closer to home as the German state of Schleswig-Holstein looks set to force through its Gaming Act, a move that would leave the rest of Germany with no gaming legislation.The gaping chasm between the viewpoints of Schleswig-Holstein and the likes of Bavaria makes a compromise unlikely. Talks between the 16 state presidents over a new State Treaty to govern online gaming are ongoing but have been characterised as a “hard fight”. … Continue Reading

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