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Paddy Power Betfair has announced that is to withdraw its Paddy Power brand from Italy, but will retain a presence in the country through Betfair Italia. The PaddyPower.it platform will shut down in December, with customers set to be migrated to Betfair.it. Sources suggest the decision to withdraw was made shortly after Paddy Power […]
Italy’s sports betting operators could face higher taxes on both land-based and online operations if legislators get their way. Nothing is carved in stone, but early drafts of Italy’s 2018 national budget suggest sports betting tax hikes are in the works. The proposals would see land-based betting taxes raised one point, from 18% to 19%, […]
Italian soccer champions Juventus FC have announced a three-year regional partnership with online betting brand F66.com. Juventus has signed a regional partnership with F66.com including the use of the brand and image of Juventus for the promotion of its services in Asia (excluding China, Vietnam and Thailand). The agreement was signed on 15 October, […]
Yesterday was the last day of Enada’s Autumnal session in Rome. Here, operators met BtoBet’s team and had the possibility to participate in the live demo of “Technifying iGaming Tour 2017”, discovering from close up how the multinational company’s flexible platform allows them to easily manage their business “.it”in shops, online and mobile. The current market in Italy draws […]
The online sports betting market has been through some changed that led Planetwin365 to the top of the lists. Numbers released by the Italian Agimeg revealed that the Austria-based Planetwin365 is once again the sports betting market leader as it dethroned Bet365. The company managed to grab a 14.9 percent share of the market […]
NYX Gaming Group Limited has agreed to integrate OIA Services LTD, an Italian operator that holds brands such as Betaland and Enjoybet, to its award-winning NYX OGS™ (Open Gaming System). The deal will see Betaland significantly expand its offering with the addition of the OGS suite, including NextGen Gaming’s leading titles such as DoublePlay […]
Betsoft Gaming, the leader in 3D iGaming evolution, have announced that they have signed a partnership deal with long time Italian operator Sisal. Sisal has the honour of being the first Gaming company to operate as a Licensee of the Italian government, where the iGaming industry is strictly regulated. Under the terms of the […]
Italian politicians have raised concerns about the shared online poker liquidity project’s impact on problem gambling and are opposing the agreement. Poker has been losing relevance over the last years and the segment is fighting to unroll new tactics to revitalise the activity and recover some of the interest it had over a decade […]
Kambi strengthens its position as a leading end-to-end sportsbook supplier in Italy after going live with the Greentube-owned brand Kambi has extended its footprint in the regulated Italian market after Novomatic subsidiary Greentube launched the supplier’s award-winning Sportsbook within its Italy-facing StarVegas online casino brand. StarVegas, which is among Italy’s top 10 casino brands […]
Live games from Lithuanian provider BetGames.tv are now live in Italy with operator Microgame. Seven fixed-odds betting games are now available to players in Italy with two more set to be added. “I’m more than satisfied for reaching this major agreement, the excitement is in the air. BetGames.tv is working towards delivering a full omni-channel gaming […]
Italy’s sports betting revenue nearly doubled in August, with online betting growth handily outpacing that of its retail rival. Official figures published by Italian gaming news agency Agimeg show August’s overall sports revenue coming in just shy of €83m, up 89% from the same month last year. Retail betting revenue improved 74.7% to €43.8m while […]
For the next two seasons the brand planetwin365, technological reference point and market leader of the Italian gambling scenery with more than 1000 land-based shops, will be one of the most important and significant sponsors of the club, in quality of Exclusive betting partner. In the past years, planetwin365 has ranked itself as synonym of […]
Having signed the partnership with the Nerazzurri for the next three years, bwin will now become the club’s first ever Official Betting Partner and Top Partner FC Internazionale Milano have reached an important agreement with bwin, signing a partnership deal until 2020 with the European brand leader in sports betting. The company will now […]
Planetwin365 closed the gap on Italy’s long-time online betting leader Bet365 in July, according to estimates exclusively provided to iGaming Business by leading gaming sector advisory firm Ficom Leisure. Bet365, which doesn’t have a major retail presence like Planetwin365, however also increased its share to 20.6% of the market during the period. Total gross gaming […]
Ministry of Economy data revealed that the Italian gaming market has experienced optimistic growth in the last decade. As Italy recovers from the international economic crisis that started in 2008, the local gaming industry has experienced optimistic results in the last decade, according to the American journalism agency Bloomberg. The business section of the […]
Source: http://www.gamingtechlaw.com/2017/05/privacy-gdpr-italian-data-protection-garante.html WRITTEN BY GIULIO CORAGGIO IT, gaming, privacy and commercial lawyer at the leading law firm DLA Piper. You can contact me via email at [email protected] or [email protected] or via phone at +39 334 688 1147. The European privacy regulation (GDPR) can now rely on detailed guidelines from Italian data protection authority on how to […]