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The Dutch National Information Centre for Gambling Players (Slicks) has set up a new support hub for problem gambling victims in Amsterdam.  This comes as  part of a new pilot project funded by the Addiction Prevention Fund (VPF), exploring the benefits of a localised targeting support strategy.  VPF is managed by the Netherlands’ gambling authority Kansspelautoriteit (KSA), and was set …

Kindred Group has responded to allegations by Dutch lawyer Benzi Loonstein that its Unibet brand has “deliberately sabotaged” customers from accessing account data stored on its platform. The allegations form part of a legal challenge by law firm Loonstein Advocaten, representing customers seeking compensation from Unibet for historical losses. In August 2024, the District Court of The Hague ruled that …

Kansspelautoriteit (KSA), the Netherlands’ gambling authority, has issued a €1.275m (£1m) fine to Winning Poker Network (WPN) for bypassing local licensing rules. According to the regulator, WPN owns several online domains through which it offers unlicensed gambling to Dutch consumers. A warning had been previously issued by the authority about the illicit activities, but the breaches persisted – hence the …

Seven new cases of advertising violations have kept the Dutch gambling regulator busy in the first weeks of the new year.  Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) reported that the issued violations were in relation to marketing campaigns that had the potential to influence young people – a target group the KSA closely guards due to a higher risk of problem gambling among its …

The Kansspelautoriteit (KSA), the Gambling Authority of the Netherlands, will adopt stricter scrutiny of duty-of-care interactions by licensed operators with young customers (under 24s). This demand headlines the ‘Supervision Agenda 2025’, which sets out the regulatory objectives of the KSA and its oversight of Dutch gambling and licensed entities. The agenda adheres to the KSA’s long-term supervisory principles, initiated in …

The Kansspelautoriteit (KSA), the Gambling Authority of the Netherlands, has issued a €1m fine to the Curaçao-licensed online gambling group Alimaniere Sociedad De Responsabilidad Limitada, which operates as Alimaniere Ltd. The €1m fine relates to Dutch players gambling on the unlicensed website time2spin.com, which is recognised as a subsidiary of Alimaniere Ltd. Despite the website being IP-blocked, a KSA investigation …

As of 1 January 2025, Dutch gambling licences will be governed by a new ‘General Policy of Fines’, as mandated by Kansspelautoriteit (KSA), the Gambling Authority of the Netherlands. As stated by the KSA: “The New General Policy of Fines aims to ensure penalties are appropriate and serve as punitive and preventive measures. It seeks to deter violations and promote …

Kansspelautoriteit (KSA), the Netherlands Gambling Authority, has authorised a request by LiveScore Malta and Tombola International to revoke their Dutch ‘KOA’ online gambling licences. The request was authorised on Monday, 23 December, as the KSA terminated the Dutch online gambling licences for the brands LiveScore Bet and Tombola.nl. Markets were informed: “This means that from now on, LiveScore and Tombola …

The Dutch gambling authority, Kansspelautoriteit (KSA), has issued a €400k fine to Optdeck Service Ltd, otherwise known as Unibet.  According to the regulator, the betting brand had allowed the signing up of players who were listed on the Netherlands’ national self-exclusion registry CRUKS.  The scheme works in the same way as other similar projects throughout Europe, where once a player …

The Dutch gambling authority, Kansspelautoriteit (KSA), has launched a new advertising campaign that raises the awareness of player self-exclusion.  Bearing the motto “Pack your life again, take a gambling stop’, the initiative is a continuation of KSA’s pilot self-exclusion marketing of the national CRUKS register from last year. The primary target group of the new campaign is young adults who …