Tag Archives: Lithuania

European bookmaker Tonybet has revealed that UKIP leader Nigel Farage did not accept Antanas Guoga’s (Tony Guoga) €1 million charity bet on Britain remaining in the European Union. The €1 million bet personally wagered by Guoga, would have capped off a victorious night for Farage as the ‘Leave’ camp won a nail-biting EU Referendum taking 52% of the votes. Guoga the …

ESSA and the Gaming Control Authority under the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania have agreed an information sharing agreement to guard against betting related corruption. The cooperation arrangement will see the exchange of information concerning any suspicious betting identified on ESSA members’ regulated markets within the Lithuanian regulator’s operational remit, in a move which further increases ESSA’s international information …

Scientific Games has announced that it will bring its lottery instant games to consumers in Belgium. Following a competitive process, in which the company replaced Loterie Nationale, Scientific Games signed a one-year contract with the option to extend the agreement for an additional three years. The $80.4 billion global instant game category is expanding across Europe with an average of …

Lithuania’s Gaming Control Authority (GCA) has publically criticised Stockholm-listed European online betting operator Unibet, for allegedly breaching its online gambling policies. The GCA who under the authority of Lithuania’s Ministry of Finance issued a blacklist in January, detailing Unibet, William Hill and Betway amongst European operators deemed to have breached national gambling laws, stated that Unibet had breached laws by …

Following its industry warning issued at the start of January 2016, Lithuania’s Gaming Control Authority (GCA) has begun to implement its strict internet controls, restricting national consumer access to unlicensed operators. The GCA’s actions have been granted by the Lithuanian Parliament, who in January asked the body to draw up a blacklist of operators deemed to be targeting Lithuanian consumers …

Lithuania’s Gaming Control Authority has asked for national internet service providers’ to block user access to unlicensed online gambling operators. The Authority under instructions from the Lithuanian Parliament is reported to have drawn up a blacklist of international operators, deemed to be breaching national online gambling laws. The websites of Betway, Unibet and William Hill are reported to be the …

Under orders of the Ministry of Finance, the Lithuania Gambling Control Authority has announced that it will take severe action against unlicensed gambling operators deemed to be illegally targeting Republic of Lithuania consumers. Releasing a statement this morning, the Gambling Control Authority stated that it had increased its monitoring of unlicensed gambling companies operating wagering services within the region. The …

Following an internal business review, Latitude Digital Marketing, a Callcredit division, is restructuring its business across its offices in Cheshire, London and Kaunas in Lithuania, to focus on its strength and capability in paid and earned media channels. As a result of the review, Rick Lamb has been appointed Head of Digital Operations and joins Latitude Digital Marketing from iProspect, …

Attendees from across the gaming ecosystem can find out all the latest news about developments in some of the continent’s major emerging markets at the World Regulatory Briefing Eastern Europe in two weeks’ time. The event takes place in Bucharest, Romania on Wednesday, December 2 with a number of the Top 50 operators present. Keynote speakers will explain the latest …

With the growth of the esports the betting market is expanding accordingly, with evermore operators realising the opportunities of getting in on the act early. TonyBet has offered esports betting for some time, and has announced that it will now include further live markets for certain tournaments. A TonyBet statement said: “We believe that this market has a lot of potential.” …