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Aleksey Evchenko, the adviser on tourism at the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine, is a new speaker of Ukrainian Gaming Congress, which will be held on 29 September 2015. He is also the founder and director of ArtBuild Hotel Group. Within his speech at Ukrainian Gaming Congress, the expert will talk about the structure of the Ukrainian …

The Department of Economic Development has announced that Peter Greenhill is leaving his role as Director for e-Business Development following the conclusion of his 2 year contract to take up a role within the private sector in the Isle of Man. The Isle of Man is considered to be one of the leading locations in the world for e-Gaming companies …

Independent bookmaker Howard Chisholm believes that staff training is one of the most important parts of the business these days. In an interview in this month’s Betting Business interactive, Chisholm revealed that the constant evolution of the betting shop environment means that staff need to be kept up to speed. Director of North East betting chain Chisholm Bookmakers, Chisholm explained: …

Event organiser Gaming In Holland has announced  that representatives of the major operators of the State lottery De Lotto and the National Postcode Lottery, shall be debating pending regulatory changes in the lucrative Dutch lottery market at its June conference. Until recently, the Netherlands lotteries market was regulated by the Netherlands Gaming Control Board, but from April 2012 this responsibility …

Culture Secretary Sajid Javid has appointed three new Gambling Commissioners to the regulator’s 10-strong board.  Alison Hastings and Trevor Pearce CBE have both been given 4 year terms, while Jonathan Scott has been given 5 years. Alison Hastings is a Non-executive Director and Vice President of the British Board of Film Classification, a Press Complaints Commissioner, a Non-executive Director of …

Thomas Smallwood, CEO of SKS365 Group GmbH – parent company of Planetwin365, believes that national regulators should be taking their lead from the gambling industry’s customers if it wants to successfully regulate the product in this cross-border age. Cross border betting and gaming remains a hot topic in many countries and cries come from various quarters regarding how best to …

It’s two years since Phil Parry became CEO at Iforium, and he hopes that 2015 will see the firm’s Gameflex and Wagerflex solutions taken up by more operators than ever before. What has your company and its services and operations learned from 2014? 2014 proved a year of rapid progression and growth for Iforium. It saw Iforium expand the team, …

The Gambling Commission has been named as the competent authority for Alternative Dispute Resolution Entities who handle disputes relating to gambling under Europe’s Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Directive which will be implemented by July 2015. This means that all ADR entities that handle, or wish to handle, gambling disputes will have to: demonstrate to the Commission that they meet the …

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has broken ranks from the rest of the US sports fraternity again and called for sports betting to be legalised and regulated. In an Op-Ed piece for the New York Times, Silver said that the country needed a different approach to the current prohibition. Silver, who has spoken of his support for sports betting before, commented: …

In a series of articles, David Clifton, director at licensing and gambling consultancy Clifton Davies, takes a look at the changes to the UK’s gambling licensing laws which are due to be in place by October. The UKGC said it wants operators to justify their involvement in any markets which provide more than 3% of revenues. Has there been any …