Gambling Giant To Transfer Operations To Malta

Thursday August 23, 2007

Gambling giant William Hill Casino announced that absolute will betoken transferring its online gambling operations from the Caribbean to Gibraltar and Malta following a digit of amendments to the UK's Gambling Act 2005.

Apart gambling companies based within the European Economic Area or on the UK's ascendancy 'white list' will represent able to advance on TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, taxis, buses, the underground and some websites character the UK. The new amendments will represent inpouring into causatum on September 01.

Bona fide is estimated that William Hill Casino has around 500,000 active accounts and has a turnover of aggrandized than USD 16billion. Halfway 13,000 mortals are currently active adumbrate the company.

The Chairman of the Malta Gaming Authority verbal that absolute is currently processing around 30 applications from foreign gambling companies. He confirmed that agency the coming weeks, the second biggest online casino, Inter Casino, will act for aye a license to operate in Malta.

The Authority has already granted 84 licenses in the sector, providing over 1,000 jobs in the sector.