Category Archives: Betting

The Ministry of Finance of Estonia has declared that it will consider all economic risk elements before its signs-off on any tax cuts granted for online gambling. The statement follows a recent assessment by the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), which reported a growing number of anti–money laundering (AML) incidents linked to gambling operators, particularly those …

BETBY has become a Tier One anti-corruption partner of the Esports Integrity Commission (ESIC). The sportsbook solutions provider is now part of ESIC’s Anti-Corruption Supporter programme that unites betting operators and industry stakeholders in their efforts to detect, analyse, and investigate suspicious betting activity to protect the integrity of esports. Often this integrity is directly …

A new generation of gambling has swept the Romanian market thanks to Soft2Bet and its gambling-social media platform hybrid Swiper. Mobile-first, the offering combines social media-style swiping with iGaming and online betting that allows players to browse and choose their favourite games through an innovative UX experience. A new generation of product tailored for a …

Arno Rutte, the Dutch State Secretary for Justice and Security, has continued the Netherlands’ online gambling path towards reform by putting forward a list of evidence-based research to the Kamer (Parliament). Previously worked on by Teun Struycken, Secretary for Legal Protections, the reforms to the Netherlands online gambling framework under the KOA Act were dropped …

PointsBet Holdings has welcomed a new set of Board Directors coming from its now-parent company MIXI Australia. Sho Okuyama, Kanji Kobayashi, and Taishi Oba are now Non-Executive Directors of PointsBet Holdings, effective immediately. “PointsBet welcomes Mr Okuyama, Mr Kobayashi and Mr Oba to the Board and is looking forward to working with each incoming Director …

The odds of Rachel Reeves, Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, raising betting tax in some way or another in next month’s autumn budget now weigh considerably against the industry. Reeves and PM Keir Starmer have a big financial undertaking to complete, needing to raise billions of pounds for their various public investment projects. On top …

There’s no rest for the wicked and there’s perhaps few other examples that underscore that notion as the footballing calendar. The world’s elite players ended the 2024/25 season not by jetting off to the sunsoaked beaches of Dubai, but by heading stateside for the inaugural FIFA Club World Cup.  Next summer will be similar, as …