THE AMERICAS

Nevada sportbook operator CG Technology paid $22.5m to resolve illegal gambling and money laundering charges; Washington state officials warned Valve Corp to halt eSports skin betting or face the consequences; New York’s daily fantasy sports legislation was hit by a legal challenge; Full Flush Poker and the Equity Poker Network abruptly went offline after losing their Curacao gaming license; former Amaya Gaming CEO David Baazov was a no-show at Quebec’s insider trading hearing; Scientific Games acquired Karma Gaming’s interactive game portfolio; New Jersey asked the Supreme Court to hear its sports betting appeal; powerful new DDoS software source code was posted online in a hackers’ forum; Oulala.com targeted Latin America’s daily fantasy sports market; 888Poker teamed with the World Series of Poker Circuit and Calvin Ayre explained why Bitcoin is the single biggest positive development in online gambling.

EUROPE and AFRICA

William Hill and Amaya Gaming revealed they were talking about a “merger of equals”; Bet365 loosened its grip on Italy’s online sports betting market; South Africa proposed new penalties for online gamblers; French politicians approved their online poker operators sharing liquidity with other EU markets; London’s Ritz Club posted a £12.8m net loss due to outstanding VIP debts; an Italian court ordered a lottery operator to pay €3k to a player who never won; DMI’s Magnus Jern offered hints on improving the mobile gambling experience; affiliate content provider Martina Danelaite explained how to make cold calls work for your site; Empire Legal’s Lionel Iruk filed his second installment of identifying the best banking jurisdictions for online casino operators; Duncan Patman wondered if gambling self-exclusion was doing more harm than good and Ed Pownall turned his Industry Eye on the US presidential race and Motorhead.