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Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ), France’s unified gambling authority, has taken a significant step towards tackling growing concerns surrounding French sports sponsorships with gambling operators. Since the summer of 2022, an ANJ research unit has examined the landscape of French betting sponsorships in which it views a “notable 20% increase in sports partnerships with legal gambling operators – from 34m …

2022 saw French gambling achieve its highest-ever gross gaming revenues of €12.9bn, recorded across all licensed segments by l’Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ), the country’s unified gambling authority.  Yet, despite achieving peak GGR results, ANJ’s 2022 market report showcases the ‘disparities of French gambling’ made up of private enterprises competing against operators managing exclusive monopoly contracts.   FDJ and PMU dominate …

A preliminary plan has been presented to the French government, proposing the incorporation of iCasinos into the country’s gambling industry, which marks the beginning of a new phase in the French igaming landscape. The draft plan is sponsored by Philippe Latombe, an En Marche’s MP, who stated that “French gambling remains very restrictive and constrained”.  The Gambling Law of 2010 …

French operators have been warned to improve their AML and anti-fraud capabilities by l’Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ), the country’s unified gambling regulator.  The Authority (ANJ) has scrutinised the submitted action plans for “Combating Fraud, Money Laundering, and Financing of Terrorism” by licensed gambling operators and those possessing exclusive rights – FDJ and PMU. Despite operators conforming to ANJ’s requirements …

l’Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ), France’s unified gambling regulator, has intensified its regulatory actions against unlicensed operators, deemed to be illegally targeting French consumers. The French public have been reminded that France’s online gambling market is composed of 17 licensed operators and Francaise des Jeux (FDH) which serves as the government’s sanctioned national lottery operator. In March 2022, the French …

l’Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ), France’s unified gambling regulator, has ordered operators to prioritise reducing their percentage share of gross gaming revenues (GGR) generated from ‘problematic players’.  The initiative was called upon by ANJ’s board following its review of action plans on the “prevention of excessive or pathological gambling” submitted by licensees in 2022. Problematic gambling is recognised as “French …

Groupe FDJ states that it is back to its ‘intended Paris IPO trajectory’ following ‘very strong 2022 results’, benefitting from France’s post-COVID recovery and World Cup 2022 performance.  Publishing its full-year 2022 results, FDJ achieved corporate revenues of €2.49bn, up 9% on FY2021 comparative results of €2.2bn. The Paris EuroNext group hailed an “exceptional environment” for all units that achieved …

l’Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ), France’s unified gambling regulator, has stated that it is satisfied by the outcomes of its ‘World Cup assessment’, in which licensed operators observed its order ‘to reduce advertising pressure’.  As anticipated by ANJ, World Cup 2022 broke all previous French wagering records, as the event generated a total volume of €597m in stakes and €70m …

Sorare, the collectable NFT football game, will expand free-to-play access on its platform in response to concerns by French gambling authority l’Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ). Since March, ANJ had scrutinised Sorare due to concerns about its NFT platform’s legibility to maintain customer protections, underage gaming and money laundering risks.  Founded in 2018, Sorare is an Ethereum blockchain-built football game …