Regulation Insight
Key Takeaways
  • Recently proposed changes to the UK’s Licensing Conditions and Codes of Practice (LCCP) will have a direct impact on how licensed operators offer online poker.
  • Data from the regulated markets of Spain, France and Italy were all published in the last week.
  • Germany is set to scrap its arbitrary cap of 20 online sports-betting licenses, and will consider broader online gambling as part of proposed regulatory reform to the failed Interstate Treaty on Gambling of 2012.

UK

Recently proposed changes to the UK’s Licensing Conditions and Codes of Practice (LCCP) will have a direct impact on how licensed operators offer online poker. Many amendments focus on poker specifically, calling on operators to increase their transparency on confiscated funds and set out clearer policies on what third party tools are prohibited.