Europe

UK gambling operators have come together to support the recent launch of the Association of British Bookmakers (ABB)  Code for Responsible Gambling and Player Protection. The code will come into action on the 1st of March 2014, and will look to bring new best practices for better protection of  UK betting and gambling customers. The newly designed code implemented by the ABB, …

The Belgian Public Prosecution Office (PPO) has seized €600,000 of French igaming operator – Betclic funds. The PPO claim the operator had directly broken Belgium law and policy regarding igaming wagering and transactions. The PPO claim that they are acting under Belgium financial law, which allows them to directly confiscate funds associated with Belgium non regulated igaming operators. This is …

Finland’s Cabinet Committee of Economic Policy shed outlines of new measures designed to strengthen the country’s gambling state monopoly. New measures are set to be implemented in order to deter and punish unregulated operators targeting the Finnish market and breaching the current rules and regulations of the Finnish Lotteries Act. The Committee are set to have a special emphasis on …

Richard Glynn CEO of Ladbrokes was  awarded 192,080 shares worth £290,000 under long-term share incentive plans tied to his contrat signed in 2010, the payout represents a quarter of the potential maximum of the share awards set in 2010. News of the payout — which is much lower than last year,comes days after the bookmaker reported sharply  falling annual profits …

William Hill  announced the appointment of Sir Roy Gardner as an independent Non-executive Director, with effect from 3 March 2014. He will serve as a member of the Audit and Risk, Remuneration, Nomination and Corporate Responsibility Committees, and will take over as Senior Independent Non-executive Director when David Edmonds retires from the Board at the 2014 Annual General Meeting. Sir …

Bulgaria’s State Gambling Commission (SGC) has granted approval to sports betting operator EuroFootball and betting exchange Betfair to allow Bulgarian betting transactions and  promotion of betting services to Bulgarian citizens. The SGC will allow both operators to promote sports betting services through .bg access url’s. The license further grants the operators will the inclusion of promoting online casino and poker …

Bwin.Party has received a consensus rating of “Hold” from the fourteen ratings firms that are currently covering the stock, although there is some variation in how the analysts are viewing the company’s prospects. According to American Banking and Market News, three investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, two have given a hold rating and nine have …

The 86th US Academy Awards (The Oscars – to you and me!) are upon us, for this week’s cultural sections of the media have been debating the pros and cons of such heavyweight dramas such as current favourite Twelve Years a Slave and its contenders American Hustle, Gravity and Dallas Buyers Club. No doubt they are all worthy candidates to …

Graham Wood, director of the iGaming Consultancy, looks at the task facing ARJEL’s new President. French punters may be hopeful that a change at the top of the country’s gaming authority ARJEL could mean a change of direction, but it is likely that they will be disappointed. Jean-François Vilotte, the outgoing President is likely to have left because he failed …