Newsletters

October 2018

Top stories this month include: Our Responsible Gaming Day on 4 Dec The launch of our Online Gambling Focus The upcoming 2019 European elections & recent regulatory news from several member states! Check it out here.

October 2018

We hope you all had a brilliant summer break. And what a great summer it was: the weather was superb and we all got to enjoy a fantastic World Cup! Congratulations to France on winning a thrilling tournament which had plenty of goals, drama, and upsets. This all contributed to a terrific spectacle. The World Cup is prime time for the betting sector, it’s our raw material and what we and many of our costumers – as sports enthusiasts - look forward to. But for some costumers it can be a difficult time, filled with the temptation to bet.

June 2018

With the 2018 World Cup just around the corner, public attention over the next few weeks will be focused on the football in Russia. Global sporting events of this kind capture the global public imagination and are extremely popular but they also provide a good moment to consider and showcase what sports stakeholders are doing to prevent corruption in sports, and in particular match-fixing.

March 2018

Electronic identification is the focus of our first EGBA news of 2018. More and more consumers are seeing the benefits of using electronic identification when shopping online or accessing public services. But maintaining trust and security are two fundamental factors for ensuring  consumers and businesses continue using electronic identification methods.

December 2017

Online content governance is the focus of the last issue of 2017. Content and services online are undeniably getting more and more attention in the public debate. How to implement responsibility on online content is a priority for the regulated EU online gambling industry, online  platforms as well as regulators.

September 2017

How can the gambling offer be sufficiently attractive to channel consumers to the regulated offer? In this edition of EGBA news, we aim to answer this crucial question by sounding the views of both politicians and academics.