The story of UIGEA is such a large one for the online casino industry that it is quite easy to forget that it is not the only regulatory battle in town. There is no doubt that the coming year will be a very interesting one for the online casino industry and that regulatory conditions will [...]

The business of predicting future events is both dangerous and seductive. Dangerous in the regard that it is virtually impossible not to look a bit silly when one’s predictions are looked at with the benefit of hindsight, and seductive in the regard that it is a basic part of human nature to have a tilt [...]

There has certainly no shortage of optimism surrounding the online casino industry in the last few months. One of the main driving factors in this equation is the possibility of a full repeal of UIGEA in the United States and the introduction of a regulated market there. The optimism from the possibility seems to have [...]

For people within the industry, the daily cut and thrust of what is happening with regulations in different jurisdictions or following company news can be all consuming. When this kind of perspective is combined with the somewhat claustrophobic atmosphere created by the industry, it is easy to forget that in the greater scheme of things [...]

It would be fair to suggest that of all the problems that the online casino industry has experienced over the last couple of years that the shifting sands of the regulatory environment in various different jurisdictions has been the largest. There is no doubt that it has been a massive problem. The coming year certainly [...]

Just a couple of days ago we did a story here on live dealers and real-time gaming. This has long been a topic that has generated much discussion. One possible way that the area could develop in the coming year is through an online extension of traditional casinos. This is basically a situation that would [...]

Rage Against The Machine beating out Joe McElderry did not turn out to be as sore for the bookmakers as it could have been. In the last few days of the race there was a massive surge of betting on the band beating the X Factor winner to the Christmas number 1 spot. This surge [...]

The business of predicting the future has always been at best a very precarious one. I’m sure at some stage almost everybody will have seen predictions from the 1950s or 1960s where we are all supposed to be traveling in flying cars by now and have personal domestic robots. There are far too many reasons [...]

Ladbrokes is in the process of getting ready to enter the Italian online poker market in a serious way in the new year. The Amministrazione Autonoma dei Monopoli di Stato is the state regulation authority in Italy and has granted a license to Ladbrokes to operate in the domestic online poker market. The market in [...]

One of the main topics that keeps the minds of people in the online casino industry well exercised is online gambling ban in the United States. Currently, we have a delay in the introduction of the full force of the ban and it might appear to some outside the industry that there is nothing else [...]