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When the 2024 annual report on the French gambling market was published, Isabelle Flaque-Pierrotin, Chair of the French National Gaming Authority (ANJ), stated: “The French market is growing at a pace comparable to that of the major European markets. While operators were particularly active in 2024 due to major sporting events, the first few months […]
In general, the gambling industry has quite the storied history when it comes to France. Some of the oldest and most popular gambling establishments exist within the country. Not only that, but it was France that contributed a great deal towards the development of today’s popular casino games. For example, it was in France […]
France has moved away from the controversy surrounding loot boxes in video games by refusing to term using loot boxes as a form of gambling. This is a marked deviation from the stance adopted by countries such as the Netherlands and Belgium. The Dutch and Belgian authorities have cautioned the loot game publishers about legal […]
Amidst the on going controversy surrounding loot boxes in video games courtesy Star Wars Battlefront 2, Apple has declared that games with loot boxes should disclose the odds of receiving items. What this means is, if a game on the App Store has loot boxes as a part of its in-app purchases, developers should clearly state what the […]
PokerStars’ French operation has become the first site approved to share player pools with Italy, Portugal, and Spain, once new regulations are cemented. ARJEL President Charles Coppolani has signed off on PokerStars.fr’s liquidity sharing license. Following the news that ARJEL, France’s online gaming regulator, had struck a liquidity-sharing deal with some of its European neighbors, PokerStars applied […]
The French online gambling regulator, ARJEL, has reportedly contacted its Italian counterpart inquiring about the latter’s progress on the realization of the shared online poker liquidity project. It was in July 2017 when the gambling regulatory bodies of France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal signed an official agreement that would allow them to merge their online poker player pools […]
Senator Jérôme Durain (Saône-et-Loire in France), has written to France’s Gambling Regulator regarding loot boxes in video games. In a letter dated the 16th November, Durain wrote to the President of ARJEL (France’s online gambling regulator) requesting that he look into the possibility of providing consumer protections when it came to loot boxes. If you speak […]
France’s regulated online gambling market was firing on all cylinders in Q3, with poker posting its strongest growth in nearly six years. Figures released Friday by French regulator ARJEL show locally licensed online gambling operators handled €549k worth of sports wagers in the three months ending September 30, a 23% rise over the same […]
Representatives of the Italian gambling industries primary stakeholders, LOGiCO, have penned a response to the Italian Democratic Party Senator, Franco Mirabelli’s claims that a shared liquidity scheme opens a Pandora’s Box of pain and misery. When the Italian Democratic Party Senator, Franco Mirabelli, looks at the scheme to share online poker liquidity with France, Portugal, and Spain […]
BetConstruct is excited to announce that it has been granted a Remote Gaming Licence for its Sportsbook product by Arjel, the French online games regulator. The Remote Gaming Licence now enables BetConstruct to provide its licensed sports betting software to its partners who are willing to operate in France. “Being granted a licence by ARJEL […]
French gaming regulator, ARJEL, has commented on the upcoming implementation of international agreement regarding online poker shared liquidity. The agreement has been recently singed by governmental gaming associations of France, Spain, Italy and Portugal in order to boost gaming revenue and further regulate the market. Clément Martin Saint Léon, Head of Consumer Protection at ARJEL, […]
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 […]
ARJEL, the local gaming regulator, has published the shared online poker liquidity conditions that affect several European markets. Online poker operators can now access the complete governmental information about European shared liquidity measures. ARJEL, the French iGaming regulating authority published this week the conditions to implement the latest financial modality of online poker operations […]