Following Bermuda Premier Emil Brown’s announcement that the island nation is considering modeling itself as a base for online casinos, another politician has issued a warning. Finance Minister Bob Richards is worried such a move could anger the United States. Brown stated reasons for welcoming Internet gambling sites to operate from Bermuda would be a major boost in jobs and revenue, and establish economic growth based on more than just tourism.

Among the programs and ideas expressed on the site is a pledge to protect the Internet from censorship and government interference, a promise which brightens the prospects for the online gambling industry. President-elect Obama and his advisers have established a website at change.gov listing their plans for governing after his inauguration. Among the programs and ideas expressed on the site is a pledge to protect the Internet from censorship and government interference, a promise which brightens the prospects for the online gambling industry.

In a huge victory for the Caribbean nation of Antigua Wednesday, it was announced online gambling companies based there can now advertise their services in the United Kingdom. Antigua and Barbuda has successfully attained white list certification from the UK Department of Culture, Media and Sport, according to Aarati Jagdeo of the Antigua Sun. By attaining this white list status, remote gaming operators based in Antigua and Barbuda will, as of 21 Nov., be allowed to advertise their services to consumers in the UK...

A great number of public assisted to the conference: “Online Gaming, current situation in the region”, held last October 16th in Puerto Salguero, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, which counted with the presence of operators, software developers and experts in legislation. Speakers were: Estela Varsavsky (Consultant of 137bet), Federico Fortunati (Director-Manager of Legal Affairs, Codere Argentina), Zacarías Leone...

The ongoing persecution of Internet gambling sites by the United States Department of Justice may be nearing an end after several years of acrimony. Word spreading throughout the online casino industry is that a large fine that will still not bankrupt the companies involved may be the settlement. Online casinos such as SportingBet and PartyGaming and their executives have been pursued by US law enforcement since the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act in 2006.

Antigua Finance Minister Errol Cort revealed that Antigua and Barbuda has not reached any closer to a settlement with the US on the gaming dispute. “We had a series of discussions in an effort to advance the settlement talks; but, today we have not been able to agree on or finalize those discussions,” he said in a press conference this week. When contacted, Mark Mendel, Antigua’s attorney at the World Trade Organization (WTO)...

The effort to roll back an Internet gambling ban has reached the Senate, with a bill by Senator Robert Menendez that calls for licensing and regulating online poker and other "games of skill" instead of outlawing them. Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, intends to introduce the bill today, according to the Poker Players Alliance, which lobbies against the 2006 ban.

Der neuste Versuch sichere Rahmenbedingungen für Geschicklichkeitsspiele (wie z.B. Poker) auf nationaler Ebene zu schaffen, wurde vor kurzem mit der Vorstellung des Internet Skill Game Licensing and Control Act, S. 3616 unternommen, welcher von Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) präsentiert wurde. Der Gesetzentwurf wurde geschaffen, um sichere Rahmenbedingungen für die Lizenzierung...

Frankfort, Kentucky - A judge yesterday declined to order 141 gambling Web sites forfeited to the state, saying he needed more time to understand the complexities of what experts call an unprecedented effort to crack down on illegal Internet gambling. Instead, Franklin Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate ordered attorneys representing both sides to file briefs on some of the issues and scheduled a hearing for Oct. 7.

For now, though, it’s illegal in most forms offered on your PC, writes Andrew Gillingham. The National Gambling Amendment Act is set to open the door for companies to apply for online gambling licences. Online gambling operations based outside the country have been targeting South African punters, but anyone in South Africa who uses unauthorised, unlicensed online gambling is committing an illegal act that could leave them facing criminal prosecution.

Washington (Reuters) - A dispute over U.S. enforcement actions against European Union online gambling companies could be headed to the World Trade Organization soon, an European industry group said on Wednesday. "It looks very much as if this matter will ... be sent to the WTO at the end of the commission's investigation," Lode Van Den Hende, outside counsel for the Remote Gambling Association...

A bill that would relieve a significant burden on US financial services companies forced to implement a ban on Internet gambling passed a critical hurdle in Congress today. The Payments System Protection Act (H.R. 6870), approved by the House Committee on Financial Services, would direct the Department of the Treasury and Federal Reserve System, in consultation with the Attorney General.