In this fast-changing world during the current coronavirus pandemic, it seems like every other week, lawmakers across the globe are bringing out new restrictions on online gambling. The latest raft of changes and advice comes from the UK’s Gambling Commission (UKGC). Since the pneumonia-causing disease first began spreading from Wuhan in China last year, it …

Scheduled for many months now, the estimated £12 billion ($14.4 billion) merger between the Canadian-based Stars Group and Europe’s Flutter Entertainment went ahead on Tuesday the 5th of May. The two companies will now operate under the name FLTR. Flutter Entertainment, not long ago known as Paddy Power Betfair, owns Betfair, Paddy Power, Adjarabet, and …

Shay Ben-Yitzhak, a multimillionaire entrepreneur and one of the four co-founders of 888, one of the world’s oldest and most recognizable gambling brands, died last week in a light aircraft crash in Israel at the age of 52. His 11-year-old son was also in the aircraft with him at the time but survived with only …

This week, a group of some of the biggest international license holders in the (relatively) newly regulated Swedish market warned the government that they are close to leaving the market completely—driving even more customers to unregulated or even black market sites. On Thursday, April 30th, the local gambling association Branschföreningen för Onlinespel (BOS) posted an …

Countries around the world have been scrambling to deal with the ongoing and wide-ranging effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in recent weeks, with many governments decreeing their less-than-positive views on the gambling sector. Many countries have restricted gamblers in some form, and a few others have banned online betting completely for the duration of the …