Alabama lottery bill ‘running out of time’ as deadline draws nearer
Plans to push through a lottery bill vote in Alabama are likely to be delayed as further obstacles emerged this week. As reported by the...
Swedish Ombudsman loses appeal to investigate Svenska Spel/TV4 partnership
Konsumentombudsmannen (KO), Sweden’s Consumer Ombudsman, has lost an appeal to scrutinise a contract between Svenska Spel and TV4 AB regarding their existing arrangement to...
Kentucky Lottery ‘proud’ of ‘strong’ FY2022 sales amid regulation challenges
The Kentucky Lottery has announced its sales and net income for the 2022 fiscal year are higher than during the same period last year.Sales...
Nigeria government pledges to ‘transform’ lottery as operators face licence revocations
The federal government of Nigeria is clamping down on errant lottery operators, threatening to revoke the licence of those that do not pay all...
Gambling Minister accused of ‘bluster’ as Allwyn-National Lottery concerns circle
Further questions have been raised in Parliament regarding the UK Gambling Commission’s (UKGC) decision to name Allwyn as the ‘preferred applicant’ for the fourth...
Costa Rica shelves lottery prizes tax project
The Legal Affairs Committee of the Congress of Costa Rica has unanimously decided to shelve the bill that aimed at imposing a tax on...
Camelot fined £3.15m for mobile app failures
The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has imposed a fine of £3.15m on the National Lottery operator Camelot as a result of ‘failures linked to...
New Alabama lottery bill passes House committee vote as merger mooted
A new proposal that would create a lottery in Alabama has been approved, following on from Senator Greg Albritton’s lottery and casino bill.On Thursday,...
KSA prevents ‘dozens’ of illegal online lotteries in 2021 amid major industry reform
René Jansen, Chairman of the Kansspelautoriteit (KSA), has lauded the “important and major step” that the Netherlands took regarding the reform of its gambling...
NHS problem gambling clinicians demand statutory levy on industry revenues
Two of the NHS’ senior clinicians on problem gambling have urged the UK government to impose a statutory levy on gambling industry revenues to...