Lisbon, 28th January 2015 – Online sporting bets would generate €20M more revenue to the State until 2018 if the taxes were based on Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR). The current proposal based on betting turnover, and the revenue the Government will receive will remain at €17 million, until 2018. This conclusion was presented...

London/Munich, July 18, 2014 - The online gambling industry is more and more grown up, and like other industries, it now has to contend daily with increased competition and pressure on margins. Accordingly, ca. 75% of industry executives stated in a recent survey that the focus of their work in the future will be on improving existing operations...

Brussels, 15th May 2014: The regulated betting industry welcomes the main findings of a European Commission funded study on sports organisers’ rights in the European Union. The study (see link) finds that there is no legal basis nor rationale for an EU-wide right to consent to bets (i.e. “sports betting right”).

London/Munich, 28. January 2013 - In the gambling industry social media and networks as well as social gaming/gambling seem to be everywhere. No conference is without social media evangelists, no industry magazine without social gaming specials, ... Therefore it's time for an objective analysis of the relevance of social media/networks and their impact on state lotteries.

London/Munich, 15 October 2013 - The key online gambling industry conference EiG in Barcelona just closed its doors last week. MECN's researchers published their new Q3 Online Gambling Quarterly report to coincide with the annual industry roundup. This report again covers online gambling industry benchmarks...

A KPMG study, commissioned by The Remote Gambling Association (RGA), has concluded that HM Treasury’s place of consumption tax regime for online gambling is likely to fail to achieve its aims unless the rate of gross profits tax is no higher than 10% and it makes allowances for companies to offset costs associated with bonuses and incentives.

Barcelona/Munich, July 2013. The German federal states could generate additional tax revenue of more than 1.5 billion Euro between 2014 and 2017. This would require neither redistribution nor tax increases. It would merely be necessary to adjust the inter-state treaty on gambling (GlüStV), which has been in force for one year, to market realities.

London/Munich/Zurich, January 5, 2010 - Currently, the French liberalisation plans are probably getting most of the industry's attention. But in the background, at times almost neglected, several other countries, such as Switzerland, are setting about liberalising parts of their gambling market. Switzerland heads for market liberalisation even though there is no pressure from external parties, such as the European Commission or the WTO. This is a unique situation and makes Switzerland a potential role model for other non-EU markets (e.g., US).

Washington, DC – The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members nationwide, today commended the release of a study by Harvard Professor Malcolm Sparrow showing that the best way to address the risks of Internet gambling is through regulation, not a prohibition. The study, commissioned by Wired Safety, a leading Internet safety non-profit, was released during the House Financial Services Committee hearing...

London/Munich – Exactly four years after the first edition, MECN is now issuing the long awaited 2nd and updated version of its landmark report “Privatisation of State-Controlled Gambling Operators”. In this report, MECN and co-authors, such as investment bank Sal. Oppenheim, analyse the topic of privatisation in unprecedented depth and detail.

Casinos are a terrific source of good-paying, benefit-rich, blue-collar jobs, the Labor Resource Center of the University of Massachusetts at Boston has found. The center’s new report - “Gaming in Massachusetts: Can Casinos Bring ‘Good Jobs’ to the Commonwealth?” - finds that for workers without a college education, casinos and their related enterprises pay higher salaries and provide more generous benefits than non-gaming jobs.

Bermuda could get its own lottery, along with hotel casinos, after Government confirmed today they are taking a serious look at the island's gambling laws. Making a formal announcement this morning, Premier Ewart Brown appeared to acknowledge that he may be putting himself on collision course with the church lobby. However, he also said that many Bermudians would welcome being able to gamble on the island, rather than having to make gaming trips to the States.