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Central and Eastern Europe continues to attract operator interest, but beneath the surface it remains one of the industry’s most complex regions to navigate. Regulatory pressure, uneven market maturity and wildly different player expectations across the Balkans, Baltics and Central Europe mean there is no single playbook for success. Xanthos Ioannou, Director at Sevenex Solutions […]
Poland’s Ministry of Finance is under pressure from Members of Parliament to review how gambling tax is structured in the country. A cross-party committee has expressed concern over the current legislation and is looking to rekindle the licensed bookmaking sector of the economy. They want to see more income generated but believe the current […]
Andrew Morgan, International Director at Independent Content Services, says that Eastern Europe has just as much potential as the USA but content and translation hold the key to unlocking it The global online gambling industry has had its collective head very much turned by the legalisation of sports betting in the USA, with […]
Reading Time: 1 minute Zagranie, a sports and bookmaking portal based in Poland, launched the first-ever help center in the country called Zapytaj Buka! (Polish for ‘ask the bookmaker’). Now users can ask any questions about their doubts and get quick responses. Here is how it works. Every player who has played a little, encountered on […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes STS, the premier bookmaker group in Poland, is focusing on further business development in Poland, in spite of the several proposed challenges. STS has categorically ruled out any plans for listing on the stock exchange. STS currently holds 49 per cent of Poland’s bookmaker’s market in Poland. “We want to focus […]
Reading Time: 1 minute In a curious ruling, the Provincial Administrative Court in Warsaw, Poland has issued a judgement that persons who had arranged slot games without obtaining any license are not liable to pay 23 per cent tax on goods and services. Basically, the court rules that gambling illegal in the country, so VAT […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Totalizator Sportowy, the state-owned lottery operator in Poland, is going to introduce online sale of Lotto games in November. There will be both Internet and mobile app options for the iLotto purchase. This is a good news for users who can now play without leaving home. What is more, it will […]
Reading Time: 1 minute The District Prosecutor’s Office in Kędzierzyn-Koźle in Poland has filed a case against three persons for committing robbery in gaming rooms. The persons identified publicly only as Sebastian D., Michał W. and Andrzej A. threatened a woman employee in a gaming station on Piastów street in Zdzieszowice by waving a knife […]
AXES Network, the Canadian company offering cloud technology in the field of information management, will supply its products, including 1200 gaming machines in 50 salons for Totalizator Sportowy to launch its new pilot package. The products from AXES Network, including solutions and applications, are designed to improve security and integrity in the field of data […]
Totalizator Sportowy opened it’s first games room in the city of Warsaw. It can be used by adults and after registration with an identity document. The next stores will be opened later this month – said company’s president Olgierd Cieślik on Tuesday. Totalizator Sportowy introduces slot machine games based on the amended Gambling Act, implementing […]
The Polish Ministry of Digitisation has frozen its move to establish a central registry of prohibited domains. The move required the ISPs to provide information on individual Polish citizens who visited banned websites. This, naturally, led to privacy concerns, which led to public protest. On Tuesday a Ministry announcement said the project had been discontinued, […]
Ekstraklasa SA has extended their agreement with Totalizator Sportowy, under which it will still be the title sponsor of the most important football games in Poland. The agreement will be valid until the end of the 2020-21 season and during this time the struggle for the Polish championship will take place under the umbrella of […]
There is a new intention of creating a new casino in Gdansk in the newely opened IBB Hotel in Dlugi Targ. The one and only issue is that there are already two casinos in the city and the current gambling legislation does not allow another one. The Warsaw-based company Casino, which manages, among others: a […]
The Polish government is demanding more info from internet service providers (ISPs) about its citizens’ attempts to access illegal websites. The government wants to make the restrictions stricter for unauthorised online gambling sites and will require local internet service providers (ISPs) to inform it about citizens’ attempts to access them. According to the Panoptykon Foundation, […]
A polish citizen has hit the Eurojackpot in Poland winning a stunning PLN 26 million (around 6 million EUR), the news was made public by Totalizator Sportowy, this amount is a record for the mega lottery in the country. Last Friday, June 29th, the following numbers were drawn: 9, 18, 30, 47, 48 and 4, […]
Century Casinos, Inc. announced that its 66.6%-owned Polish subsidiary Casinos Poland Ltd. now holds a total of eight casino licenses in Poland, as compared to seven a year ago. After a rather turbulent few quarters where the official process for the award of casino licenses came under criticism especially for its late timing, which resulted in several casino […]
Last week, on June 28th, a new new bookmaker obtained an online license for sportsbook activity in Poland. It is the company Cherry Online Polska Sp. z o.o. with their headquarters in Warsaw. It took the company around 6 months to meet all the requirements before they received the license No. PS4.6831.26.2017. The majority owner […]
Poland’s Totalizator Sportowy is looking for an institute that will carry out a marketing research for them. The state-owned company will work with the selected company within two years of signing the contract. The research will cover, among others consumer experience related to numerical games, market analysis, the potential of Totalizator products. Their results are […]
Poland’s casino license derbies have turned nasty as two competitors accuse each other of making wildly outlandish revenue claims to boost their chances of winning new licenses. Last week, Polish business news outlet Puls Biznesu reported on the rather fanciful claims made about the revenue potential of certain casino operations by Zbigniew Benbenek’s ZPR group, […]
Poland’s lower house (Sejm) has voted down five Senate amendments to a comprehensive amendment to several tax bills, including gambling. The adopted amendments may be applied retroactively, which is to the income earned from January 1 2018. Gamblers will be treated in a uniform manner after the changes. Adopted by the Sejm on May 10th […]