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The Spanish regulator DGOA has released statistics for 2014, showing that the number of Spanish punters playing on Spain-licensed sites has increased by 1.7 million; from 2.2 million to 3.9 million at the end of 2014. 51.7 percent of active players were new sign-ups, with 87 percent of them males, predominantly in the 18 to …
Plus500, the troubled financial CFD trader that Playtech recently agreed to acquire in a £459.6 million offer (see previous report), has pushed ahead with its marketing programme, agreeing this week to a two-year extension of its football shirt sponsorship association with Atletico Madrid. Playtech’s Plus500 deal remains under threat from the powerful London-based hedge fund …
Sportium, the joint venture business between Ladbrokes and CIRSA has been named title sponsor of the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Sala (LNFS), Spain’s national indoor football league. The deal begins at the start of next season with the option to renew for another It will afford Sportium broad brand visibility and promotional opportunities targeting soccer …
The award of a Spanish online gambling supplier licence to Scientific Games this week, allied to its partnership with Gamesys, will open up new business opportunities and give Spanish online punters more choices, the company said in a statement Thursday. The company’s online offerings, including games from Bally, Barcrest, Shuffle Master and Williams Interactive give …
Swedish online gambling software provider NetEnt has been awarded licensing by the Spanish regulator, the Directorate General for the Regulation of Gambling. The licenses authorise NetEnt to operate in the Spanish market on both a general license for the operation of online games and a singular license for slot games, and follows an extensive application …
Prima Networks, powered by Microgaming, will today (Tuesday) launch online and mobile slots in the regulated Spanish market, which has been opened for online and mobile slot action and exchange betting by the regulator. Prima will be taking several big-name operators live today in Spain with a Microgaming-powered collection of slots, the company has announced. …
Playtech licensees in the Spanish market, newly opened for online slot action by the regulator, will be among the first to have games available following the release Tuesday by the software provider of its products. A statement from Playtech advises that the company will supply all existing local licensees with access to its extensive desktop …
Official DGOA figures just released this week in Spain, show that there has been a welcome uptick in the online gambling market in that country, with year-on-year Q1-2015 turnover up 24.5 percent to almost Euro 2 billion. The statistics show that GGR in the first quarter of this year reached Euro 77.4 million, up 18 …
Novomatic-owned interactive business Greentube revealed the company has applied for licensing from the Spanish gaming authority. The company is keen to expand into the Spanish market through its Novo Remote Game Server offering omni-channel content across desktop, smartphone, iTV and tablet. Greentube plans on offering a range of slot games from Novomatic, Astra, Mazola, Eurocoin, …
A multi-party majority of the Spanish Senate have brought a joint motion requesting the Spanish Government immediately further the Regulation on Responsible Online Gambling Advertising to protect vulnerable sectors of the public, DLA Piper reports. Proposals put forward in the motion include: Banning the broadcast of online gambling advertising during specific times as well as …
The regulated Spanish online gambling market may attract criticism for its ring-fenced player base approach and heavy taxation, but nevertheless achieved 11 percent year-on-year growth in 2014, with revenues up by a healthy Euro 254 million, according to numbers from regulator Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego. Fourth quarter revenues came in at Euro 65.6 …
Barcelona-based content provider MGA is the latest developer to partner with Odobo. Odobo will distribute MGA’s online Spanish slots and video bingo games to desktop, tablet and mobile players using HTML5 technology. The partnership marks a new phase of game development for MGA allowing its online games portfolio to expand to the mobile platform. “Our …
The big winners in this year’s El Gordo lottery in Spain are celebrating in a Madrid suburb today after receiving pay-outs of up to Euro 400,000 from a Euro 2.5 billion-euro mountain of cash divided among thousands of ticket holders. More than 100 of the top winning tickets were sold in the Madrid suburb, reports …
Interesting legal questions around the use of cybercurrencies like Bitcoin by online gambling companies have been raised in Spain recently, with the Spanish Treasury advising a legal firm that providing exclusive cybercurrency services still constitutes gambling, and operators must have a licence. The issue was raised by the local law firm Abanlex, which asked the …
Online sports betting firm Sportium has signed a sponsorship deal with Spanish basketball club Bàsquet Manresa. A company spokesman said that the agreement will strengthen the brand in the Spanish market and enhance an earlier sponsorship deal with the Spanish Football League, which oversees the two major professional soccer leagues in the country.
Sports betting operator Sportium has been named Official Betting Partner of the Spanish Football League (LFP), the body that oversees the country’s two professional football leagues Segunda and Liga Divisións, for the 2014/15 season. LFP has seemingly softened its historically negative stance on bookmaker sponsorships as Sportium replaces Finnish charity gambling firm PAF. Under the …
German online betting group Mybet’s restructuring has resulted in a sell-off of the company’s shareholdings in two Spanish lottery firms in order to “ensure greater stability within the group”. Spanish companies Digital Distribution Management (DDM) and Digital Distribution Management Iberica (DDMI) are the firms affected by the sell-off. Sven Ivo Brinck, the sole member of …
Spain’s Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGoJ) has informed the official approval of regulations for exchange betting and online slots with publication in the official Government gazette. The legislation is in line with Denmark, Italy and the United Kingdom’s regulated gambling market standards said the Ministry of Finance and Public Administration, strengthening the online …
The Codere Foundation and the Institute of Policy and Governance at the Charles III University in Madrid, published a study titled “Social Perception on Gambling in Spain in 2014” this week, suggesting that the Spanish online market has matured and possibly peaked, although 43 percent of the country’s online punters are believed to be playing …
Spanish online gaming regulator La Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGoJ) has given provisional authorisation to Rational Group subsidiary Reel Spain to expand its offering to include Blackjack and Roulette on its PokerStars brand.
Sports betting technology provider Power8 has secured an agreement giving it the naming rights to Spanish Liga football club Espanyol’s stadium for the next seven years. Espanyol’s Estadi Cornella-El Prat will now be known as the Power8 Stadium, a company spokesman said this week, adding that the firm will additionally receive substantial exposure through branding …
Spanish online gaming regulator Direccion General de Ordenacion del Juego (DGOJ) has released Q1 2014 market results on the Spanish online gaming market. Compared to Q1/2013, the DGOJ indicated the market had grown 10 percent year-on-year with gross gaming revenues totaling Euro 67.93 million (Q1/2014: Euro 60.9 million), an increase of 9 percent. Total amounts …
Spanish online gambling operators, already burdened with bureaucratic reportage and high taxation requirements, have been advised that tighter anti-money laundering regulations must now be applied. These include the identity verification of any player receiving a pay-out of more than Euro 2,500; measures to check up on repeated winners and to better uncover suspicious player activity; …
The long-awaited approval for online slot and betting exchange action in the Spanish online gambling market has finally been given by the Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego which has announced that it is working towards an implementation date of January 2015. Operators will be given 30 days to apply for licensing for the new …