Norsk Tipping, Norway’s government-run gambling monopoly has a lot of market advantages that traditional operators could only imagine. The state operator recently said the quiet part about monopolies quite loudly when it recently announced that it will be cutting its overall advertising budget by 20 percent. The order to cut out a fifth of Norsk…
Lotteri-og Stiftelsestilsynet, the Norwegian gambling regulator, is calling for new limits on casino games and the institution of loss limits at Norsk Tipping. It's a move that was inspired by the state-run operator's record high turnover and new customer growth over the course of the pandemic. According to a report on iGamingBusiness.com, lawmakers were somewhat…
Norwegian lottery officials have issued a directive ordering Betsson to cease all operations aimed at Norwegian players. In their missives, the Norwegian Lotteries Authority (Lottstift) allege that the Maltese-licensed operator is operating in the country without a license and, in doing so, are infringing on Lottstift's long-held monopoly on lottery games. At the heart of…
Norwegian lottery officials have issued a directive ordering Betsson to cease all operations aimed at Norwegian players. In their missives, the Norwegian Lotteries Authority (Lottstift) allege that the Maltese-licensed operator is operating in the country without a license and, in doing so, are infringing on Lottstift's long-held monopoly on lottery games. At the heart of…
Gambling operators across Europe and the United Kingdom are under siege from lawmakers who think that certain industries are just too dangerous to be running advertisements to the general public. Their concern, they say, is that operators are enticing and inducing perfectly innocent people into a life of debauched and compulsive gambling. While concern over…
Norsk Tipping, the state-owned Norwegian operator is toying with a radical idea - they're thinking that the introduction of money into the political ecosystem, at any level, is a bad idea. To that end, the operator is refusing to take action on local political races in Norwegian elections later in the fall. Putting integrity over…
Apple, the world's first trillion dollar company, is doing Norwegian gaming authorities a solid by removing 38 unlicensed gambling apps from their Norway facing App Store. Member of the Norwegian Gaming Authority (NGA) say the move was necessary to help prevent a flood of black market gambling activity in the country, but how much of…
