Portugal Receives Eleven Applications for Online Gambling Licenses Portugal Receives Eleven Applications for Online Gambling Licenses
Jürgen Stemper // Bloemche, Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs License
Key Takeaways
  • Eleven operators, including three national casino groups, have applied for online gaming licenses under Portugal’s new laws according to local press reports.
  • SRIJ is expected to issue the first licenses by the end of the first quarter of 2016.

Eleven operators, including three national casino groups, have applied for online gaming licenses under Portugal’s new laws, according to local press reports.

The reports identify Betfair and Betclic among the applicants, but the regulator SRIJ discloses only that “applications have been submitted by national and international companies.”