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The second biggest horserace course in Spain Hipódromo de San Sebastián will offer online betting as a result of a partnership agreement between Pari Mutuel Urbain (PMU) and la sociedad Hipódromos y Apuestas de Euskadi (HAHE), an association PMU has worked closely with over the past seven years. PMU also reached a partnership agreement with …
Spain’s regulatory chief, Enrique Alejo, said at an industry presentation in Madrid this week that his Ordenación del Juego intended to take the time to be thorough and careful before permitting the addition of online slots and exchange betting to Spanish-licensed operators’ gaming offers. The regulator’s primary concern was the potential risk to players, he …
Spanish online punters are generating some impressive revenues for operators, according to a report this week in the internet publication El Pais.com, which reveals that one million players spent Euro 2.3 billion in the first six months of legalised online betting. “The number of people gambling online in Spain has soared since the government legalised …
Spain’s giant Christmas lottery, El Gordo (The Fat One), is expected to break records this year as cash-strapped Spaniards pin their hopes in a life-changing win and queue round the block for tickets. Many would-be multi-millionaire punters say they are hoping to win so they can pay off debt or help relatives facing heavy economic …
It appears that the Swedish taxman’s tactic of using poker information sites to track down high-earning players and tax them is being replicated by tax authorities in Spain. According to a report on the Spanish poker information site Poker-Red, tax investigators have used the Hendon Mob public database of live tournament results to monitor the …
The Board of Spain’s largest autonomous region Castilla y León in the North West has eventually approved a decree to regulate remote gambling which was published in Castilla y León’s Official Gazette early last week. The decree covers regulatory principles, specifies remote gaming channels, consumer protection, the type of games authorised, tax liability and a …
Live dealer gaming provider Evolution Gaming has designed and deployed a Live Roulette studio within Grupo Orenes‘ land-based casino Rincón de Pepe in Murcia in an agreement announced this week. Under the terms of the agreement, any licensed Spanish online gambling operator will be able to stream Live Roulette games to its players from the …
According to the Spanish-dedicated information portal Red Poker, bwin.party customers holding accounts with both bwin.es and partypoker.es have been informed they may keep one account while the other will be closed. An e-mail sent out to customers said: “Subject: Your account has been closed at (partypoker.es) effective October 1 Dear user: XXXXXX We contact you …
Unibet has announced the finalisation of discussions with Spanish tax authorities in respect to historical activities it undertook which were targeted at the Spanish market during the period January 2009 to May 2011. A settlement agreement reached with authorities will see the company make a one-off payment, covering betting duties, interest and penalties of Euro …
Reports from Spanish online gambling information sites indicate that some operators in the Spanish market are having to belatedly address a vagary in the regulations which insists that “user registration must be unique for each operator.” That phrase is being interpreted as meaning that regardless of how many sites an operator may be offering, the …
Gaming firm Playtech has clinched a licensing agreement with Mediaset España, the largest television network in Spain. The company will provide its entire suite of products, including casino, poker, mobile, bingo, live dealer and TV, to the media conglomerate with special emphasis on its TV product allowing the company to capitalise on the mass market …
A new Spanish operator association “Empresarios de Juego Online Asociados” (EJOA) has been established representing the interests of land-gambling operators (covering casinos, bingo halls, and recreational gambling) who have been licenced by DGOJ to operate in the online environment in Spain. Eduardo Antoja of the CIRSA Group will head up the EJOA as President and …
The head of the Spanish General Directorate of the Game (DGOJ) Enrique Alejo said the body has compiled a list of sites that may be deemed illegal under Spanish law in a bid to eradicate illegal gambling. According to the DGOJ, 80 major gambling sites were identified as potentially being illegal and as a result …
Having successfully weathered the first weeks of liberalised online gambling in Spain, the online gambling software developer Playtech plc has released more information on its ambitious plans for the Spanish market, promising a new range of market-specific television games alongside bingo. “Further licensees are due to launch Spanish-specific casino and poker rooms in the coming …
The injunction imposed on Sportingbet Plc’s Spanish business on March 27, 2012 has been cancelled in full by the country’s Commercial Court No. 10. Sportingbet’s Spanish business at miapuesta.es began trading on June 5 following receipt of an egaming licence and the opening of the regulated market.
Spain’s Director General for Gambling Regulation has confirmed that 26 online gambling operators have so far been granted licenses to operate in the newly regulated Spanish online gambling market. CardPlayer has the most up-to-date list of licensees here: http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/13527-list-of-spanish-poker-licensees-published
After months of delays and missed deadlines, last-minute retro-tax hikes and uncertainties regarding transitioning arrangements, the regulated online gambling market in Spain finally kicked off June 5th with major operators like PokerStars, 888, bwin.party, Ongame, Poker770 and bet365 all launching .es dedicated websites into the segregated market, for now at least isolating Spanish players from …
By the close of business June 1st it appeared this week that the Spanish officials had issued around 15 licenses in their first batch, permitting operators to start offering their wares to Spanish players on June 5th, subject to compliance with some late ‘clarifications’ . GTechG2 announced that it had been successful, as did Pokerstars, …
Major online gambling companies queuing up to obtain the June 1st operating licenses for the Spanish market probably received a nasty last minute surprise Thursday when regulator Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego ‘clarified’ that its regulations include the requirement that all licensees purge their Spanish player lists and start from a zero base. The …
The launch in Spain of the first online gambling operations bearing the .es domain suffix is to be slightly delayed after licenses are issued on June 1st, according to a letter to operators from the Spanish industry trade association JDigital this week. The delay is by mutual agreement with the regulator and will only see …
888 Holdings has become the latest major online gambling company to comply with the Spanish taxman’s demand for back-taxes, falling into line with other top companies like Bwin. Party, Sportingbet and Betfair in the hope of securing licenses to operate in the Spanish market on June 1. A stock exchange statement from the company Monday …
Spanish Trade Association Jdigital expects twenty operators to be functioning within the first three months following the opening of the Spanish online gambling market on June 1, 2012. Sacha Michaud, president of JDigital told the Sector Del Juego publication he predicts that the other 60 odd applicants, still in the process of development and business …
Amid speculation by some analysts that it’s tax bill for Spain could go as high as $20 million, a 888 Holdings source told the Reuters news agency this week that in fact it will be less than half that. 888, along with other industry giants like Bwin.Party, Sportingbet and Betfair have all indicated they are …
Following the announcement yesterday that Bwin.Party is to pay the retro-active Spanish online gambling tax, rival group Sportingbet has announced that it will also pay up, assessing that this will cost the company Euro 14 million, plus surcharges and interest of up to Euro 3.2 million. “The payment of these taxes maximises the likelihood of …