Author: Paul Brooks

In a press release on 17th December, developer and supplier of casino and betting content NYX Gaming Group and the Manitoba-based private investment company Pollard Equities announced that the latter backs NYX takeover by Sci Games, a leading provider of products and services for the gambling industry. The announcement came […]

PokerStars has become the first operator to obtain a license to offer its services within the upcoming European shared online poker liquidity project. On Friday last week, the poker fans woke up to the news that the French online gambling regulator Autorité de régulation des Jeux en ligne (ARJEL) issued […]

Canada is in the top ten of the world’s biggest gamblers. According to various statistics, more than 75% of the Canadian adults have been involved in at least one form of gambling. Lottery and scratch and win tickets are among the most favorite games in the country. In April this […]

Sports betting industry is a rapidly-growing business in the U.S. And the trend seems to be growing even more with every passing day. Unfortunately, a number of old-fashioned regulations still have a massive impact on the US gambling market. The problem is that these fail to meet the needs of […]

Sports betting is a rapidly-growing industry, but it is also a highly-controversial one. On multiple occasions, Casino Reports highlighted the complex regulatory gambling framework in America that is governed by three sets of gaming regulations, including local, state, and federal regulations. Sports betting has turned into a hot topic in […]

In the world of entertainments, there are new gaming options springing every day. Some of them are more successful than others, but all of them are typically accepted with a good portion of controversy. Daily fantasy sports (DFS) is a thriving industry, which has become a red-hot topic in America. […]

At the North Carolina Education Lottery Commission’s regular quarterly meeting that took place on Tuesday this week, officials discussed the possibility to further expand the online sales by allowing North Carolina’s lottery to offer online scratch-off instant win lottery tickets. According to reliable sources, the talks have broken off quickly […]

The British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC) is being given more authoritative power to impose fines and revoke casino operators’ licenses in a fight against money laundering activities. The British Columbia recently-elected government agreed to reorganize the regulator’s responsibilities and give it more power to oversee B.C. gambling operations and impose […]

Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), known to be the security regulator of the Canadian province of Quebec, submitted a new court filing prior to the insider trading trial against Amaya Gaming’s ex-CEO David Baazov and his two other associates. According to AMF’s allegations, David Baazov and his two other accomplices […]

The 2011 Department of Justice’s decision on the Federal Wire Act that allowed the individual US states to legalize the provision of online gambling services created an unabating buzz. According to the latest news, two members of the Senate warned about the hidden threat of gambling-related issues and asked the […]