Malta Yanks Licensing of Mafia-Linked Phoenix International Sports Betting Sites Go back to Blog The Malta Gaming Authority [MGA] has yanked the regulatory license of several sports-betting sites operating there after the sites were linked to a major Mafia-controlled structure…
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Malta Announces Pending Debut of World’s First Blockchain Regulatory Framework Go back to Blog The Meditteranean island nation of Malta has announced that it will soon launch what it describes as the “world’s first legal framework” for the creation of…
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RGA-Commissioned Study Declares Portugal Regulatory Regime an Abject Failure Go back to Blog As the truism goes, no matter how bad you think you have it, somewhere else, somewhere has it worse. That’s the story being told today as the…
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Germany Online Sports-Betting Regulatory Plan Fails Again Go back to Blog Germany’s plans for overseeing its prominent online sports-betting and gambling markets have returned to a virtual square-one this week, following the announcement of the country’s northern state of Schleswig-Holstein…
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Famed US Sports Bettor Billy Walters Sentenced to Five Years in Insider Trading Case Go back to Blog One of the most famous sports bettors in the United States has been sentenced to five years in prison in a case…
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CJEU Again Nixes Germany’s Sports-Betting Market Restriction Plans Go back to Blog As expected, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) will again issue an opinion against Germany’s plans to implement an arbitrary and numerical restriction on the number…
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Minimum 5-Year Sentence for Celeb US Tout Adam Meyer in Extortion Case Go back to Blog One of the more bizarre news stories we’ve been monitoring here at SBO over the past couple of years has finally reached its apparent…
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Famed US Sports Bettor Billy Walters Seeks Dismissal of Insider-Trading Case Go back to Blog One of the strangest sports betting-related court cases in history just took another step into the land of the bizarre, where one of the most…
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The ‘Trump’ Question and Sports Betting in America Go back to Blog It’s time to take a look across the Atlantic, where the United States of America is just a few weeks away from doing the globally unthinkable: inaugurating Donald…
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DDoS Attack Staggers William Hill Online Services Go back to Blog Leading European bookmaker William Hill has acknowledged that extended downtime for its online service portals is the direct result of a sustained DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack. The…
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