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Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has completed the formal appointment of executives who will form the government’s founding ‘Ukrainian Gambling & Lottery Commission’ (UGLC). Through the appointments, the Commission will establish its leadership structures as Ukraine prepares to launch the application and licensing process of the federally approved ‘Ukraine Gambling Law’ in 2021.  As previously disclosed by cabinet leader Oleg Nemchinov, …

Gaming Innovation Group (GiG) has agreed a new long-term contract with Latvia’s SIA Admirāļu Klubs. Under the terms of the agreement, which will run for an initial three-year period, SIA Admirāļu Klubs will benefit from GiG’s platform, sportsbook and front-end development to launch its new digital operation in the regulated Latvian market. Commenting on the partnership, a spokesperson for SIA …

Mixed martial arts organisation UFC has struck a new partnership with Low6, the developer tasked with building the new UFC PICKS app Promising to deliver ‘a new second screen experience that puts the fan at the center of the action’, UFC PICKS will give users the chance to pit their knowledge against each other and create custom tournaments based on …

Free-to-play (FTP) sports game provider SportCaller has joined forces with Romanian betting operator Superbet, in a new CIS-facing partnership. The deal will help the free-to-play (FTP) game supplier expand its reach into the central and Eastern European markets through the Superbet Group, which already has a footprint in the market. On the other hand, the multichannel sportsbook will benefit from …

Ahead of the government’s impending review of the 2005 Gambling Act, two Conservative MPs have accepted jobs with the gambling industry to advise on ‘responsible gambling and customer service’. The MPs roles and daily fees were revealed by parliamentary disclosure, reported by The Guardian, and criticised by opposition MPs as a ‘clear conflict of interest’. Laurence Robertson (MP for Tewkesbury) …

Sweden’s Branscheforenigen för Onlinespel (BOS) has urged the government to withdraw its proposals to extend current restrictions on the online gaming industry. Yesterday, the Minister for Social Insurance Ardalan Shekarabi highlighted his concerns of ‘continued risks in the area of ​​gambling’, confirming that the government has opened a consultation on extending the ‘temporary restrictions’ on the industry until 30 June …

The UK government’s upcoming review of the ‘2005 Gambling Act’ will be fundamental to ensuring that industry legislation keeps pace with technological advances according to Peter Jackson, CEO of Flutter Entertainment. Jackson stated that a review was urgently needed to bring UK gambling into a ‘digital era’, in which reforms should focus on the wider use and impact of technology …