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The Australian Federal Court upheld an appeal against the long-discussed merger between the local betting company Tabcorp Holdings and the lotteries operator Tatts Group. If successful, the deal, which was estimated to about AU$11 billion, would create a betting giant that would hold a massive share of the Australian gambling market. Now, the two companies’ plans for their multi-billion merger have suffered a serious blow, with the Federal Court rejecting the proposed deal. The two operators’ proposed deal is now uncertain, as the Court ruled in favour of the local…

Fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs) – the machines that offer a large variety of casino games and some of the highest stakes in the industry – have been a controversial topic over the last few years. The machines have been put under a lot of criticism since almost day one, with many Members of the Parliament, as well as charity organisations blaming them for the large stakes offered and their addictiveness which ended up in ruining people’s lives. According to some researchers, uninterrupted machine play that can be very dangerous for…

As reported by Casino Guardian, UK gambling operators, advertisers and broadcasting companies have offered the Government to take part in its addiction awareness campaign funding. The campaign is being coordinated by the Industry Group for Responsible Gambling (IGRG) and is worth about £8 million. At first, the willingness of betting companies to join the gambling addiction awareness campaign seemed like an act of nobility, but is it really so? Does the fact operators made their proposal at a moment when the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is…

It seems that UK betting companies and broadcasting operators are becoming more engaged with problem gambling behaviour, as they have offered the country’s Government to fund an addiction awareness campaign that is worth £8 million. The proposal comes after the Labour Party warned that such a step would not come as an attempt to manipulate competent authorities and make them lift some of the restrictions on betting adverts. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is expected to publish its review of the UK gambling industry in only…

The Scottish National Party Member of the Parliament for Aidrie and Shotts Alexander Neil called for some measures to be taken in order for the Government to deal with the negative effects of fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs). As reported by Casino Guardian on multiple occasions, FOBTs have brought massive contradiction across the UK gambling industry, with the machines being blamed for massive amounts of money lost as well as for the increasing number of gambling addicts in the country. Campaign for Fairer Gambling Statistics Mr. Neil urged the authorities to…

For a few years now, rumours that some UK gambling operators have been involved with illegal activities have been roaming across the industry. Considering the fact that online gambling is related to huge money transactions and enormous Internet traffic generated on a daily basis, makes such concerns even more disturbing, not to mention the fact that competent authorities seem to have not been aware of the problem, or even worse, to be keeping their eyes shut on certain acts of cybercrime. For quite some time, hackers have been hitting various…

Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) issues seem to be brought to the state of Wisconsin once again thanks to an initiative of the State Representative Tyler Vorpagel, E-Plymouth. The truth is that the status of daily fantasy sports in Wisconsin requires more clarity. Currently, the legality of DFS in the state is more of a matter of interpretation. As a matter of fact, the local players are given the opportunity to access daily fantasy sports such as DraftKings, but such operations have never been made officially legal within the state. As…

It came to Casino Guardian’s knowledge that the Australian Government could soon lift online poker restrictions thanks to the efforts of the Liberal Democrat Senator David Leyonhjelm. At the beginning of August, the federal Government of Australia approved the Interactive Gambling Amendment Bill 2016, under which stricter regulatory regime on the country’s gambling market was imposed. The new piece of legislation also limited online gambling operations to sports betting only. New Feasibility Study This, however, could change as a result of months of lobbying by the Australian Online Poker Alliance…

As Casino Guardian has previously reported, the Polish crackdown on illegal online gambling in the country caused massive turmoil in the local market, after making it almost unbearable for operators to survive. In December 2016, the local Government adopted an amendment to the Polish Gambling Act, which was signed by the country’s president and came into force on April 1st, 2017. The new amendments were aimed to be made to the Polish gambling legislation in order to change the regulatory and operating environment of the local online gambling industry. However,…

UK authorities, as well as some social networks and search engines, have been recently focused on protecting local customers by guaranteeing transparency. However, the problem with so-called “fake news” has escalated, as such news are used in various directions as they usually guarantee quick success to marketing and advertising campaigns. Over the last few years, the number of gambling operators using fake news as part of their native ads policy in order to attract new players has increased. What is more, fake news seem to play an even more important…