iGaming Business – Holland’s remote gaming bill should be presented to the country’s parliament before the Summer recess despite the coalition government cancelling a planned meeting to discuss provisions in the bill at the end of last week. The meeting was cancelled due to disagreements between different members of the governing coalition, which is made up of the Dutch People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy and the Labour Party. The Dutch parliament breaks up in early July and igaming and lottery reforms were due for discussion at last week’s meeting. Justin Franssen, partner at the law firm Kalff Katz &…

iGaming Business – US distributor KGM Gaming and gaming content developer Spin Games have successfully launched six new HTML games in the regulated New Jersey interactive gaming market. The six HTML5 games are part of the proprietary Video Poker Royale suite, which cinsists of Deuces Wild, Deuces Wild Elite, Double Double Regal Poker, Double Regal Poker and Regal Poker Deluxe. Under a previous deal with Caesars Interactive Entertainment, the two companies agreed to provide the land-based operator with a remote gaming server and game titles for its online gaming operations in the US state. The six new games are now…

The Costa Rica News – A detailed report released on Thursday in Paris, France, reveals that organized crime launders $140 billion annually through sports betting with 80% of transactions from illegal gambling. The document indicates that Costa Rica is one of the world’s havens with between 250 and 500 people doing trades, while”no sports betting licenses are granted. In fact, this activity is not legal in Costa Rica, despite past efforts that were made for taxing this activity. The bill that was under discussion, but got stuck. The extensive document is called Integrity Protecting of Sports Competitions, and was conducted…

Las Vegas Review Journal – New Jersey wants stricter licensing requirements for companies that handle Internet gambling deposits and payments, in the hope it would make banks more willing to let online bettors use credit cards. Banks’ reluctance to allow credit card use is one of the main things holding back the growth of New Jersey’s new Internet gambling industry. Speaking Tuesday at the East Coast Gaming Congress in Atlantic City, state Senator James Whelan, a former Atlantic City mayor, said a bill introduced in February would require payment processors to obtain a casino industry service license. Payment processors currently…

Gaming Intelligence – Divisions between members over the regulation of online gambling in the US have seen the American Gaming Association (AGA) withdraw from lobbying efforts to legalise iGaming. The association’s chief executive Geoff Freeman explained that it would no longer lobby in favour of online gaming and recommend that companies should work in their own separate coalitions. He said that the decision was taken “in keeping with the AGA’s core mission of bringing the industry together on issues of common cause.” FULL STORY (SUBSCRIPTION)

Poker Addict – Several regulated online gambling industry members have expressed to me that the affiliate arrangement in New Jersey was not working. The main complaint is that some affiliates that are promoting New Jersey sites are also advertising offshore sites on the same pages and websites. Some in the regulated New Jersey online gaming market believe that this is unfair competition from illegal sites and want to put an end to it. Gambling911 first reported what had been rumored for weeks. The New Jersey Attorney General’s office would start to enforce the promotion of offshore sites and affiliates could…