iGB: Can prediction markets crack Europe’s regulatory wall?

By Martin Bjoerck (iGB) As prediction markets boom in the US, European regulators move swiftly to block them, exposing a widening a transatlantic divide over whether they are considered financial innovation or simply unlicensed gambling. In 2024, as Americans placed billions of dollars on the outcome of their presidential election, a curious new financial spectacle […]

Global Gaming Expo (G2E) 2023

Host: American Gaming Association Location: Las Vegas, California, USA Date: 9 – 12 October 2023 https://www.globalgamingexpo.com/

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THE GAMINGLAW.EU FOUNDERS – LEADERS IN THEIR FIELD: The member firms of GamingLaw.eu act, whether individually or collectively, as the first port of call and reference for C-level executives, boardrooms and in-house legal counsels. The member firms of Gaminglaw.eu are advisors to the entire spectrum of companies active in the gaming “ecosystem”: land based and remote gaming […]

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iGaming North America / 3rd – 4th of May 2011

January 17, 2011 Events

Date: 3. – 4. Mai 2011
Location: Las Vegas, USA
Link: http://www.igamingnorthamerica.com/

C5 Gambling Technology 2011 / 5th – 6th of April

January 17, 2011 Events

Date: 5th – 6th of April 2011
Location: Le Méridien Piccadilly, London, UK
Link: http://www.c5-online.com/GamblingTech.htm

World Gaming Executive Summit 2011 / 5th – 7th of July

January 17, 2011 Events

Date: 5th – 7th of  July 2011
Location: Madrid, Spain
Link: http://www.terrapinn.com/2011/wges/

EGR: Germany a deeply divided market

December 23, 2010 News & Reports

By Stephen Carter, published in eGaming Review magazine, issue January 2011, p. 14

20.12.2010

Recent court rulings by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and German judges has further shaken the fragile foundations of the country’s gaming monopoly based in its State Gambling Treaty.
These ructions began late last year when respective CDU and FDP parliamentary group leaders Hans-Jörn Arp and Wolfgang Kubicki in the German state or Länder of Schleswig-Holstein announced that in 2011 remote gambling operators would be able to obtain online sports betting, casino and poker licences based on “the Danish model” – a 20% gross profit tax – and be able to operate when the current Treaty lapses from 1 January 2012 onwards. (…) … Continue Reading

Romania to promulgate the on-line gaming bill. Online operations not authorized in Romania illegal.

December 23, 2010 News & Reports

On November 16, the project of the law on the organization and operation of gambling games for the first time regulating online gaming and betting and declaring illegal and punishing online operations not authorized in Romania has been approved by the Chamber of Deputies (decisional chamber) with 171 votes pro, 1 against and 4 abstentious (176 MP’s present), following a tacit approval by the Senate on the 19th of October. On November 24, the law has been sent to the Romanian Presidency for promulgation. Promulgation is expected any day now.
As forecasted, the law has been approved with very few changes in respect of the criticism of the EC. To the point, the concessions made concern: … Continue Reading

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