The 2025 Gaming in Holland Conference, which takes place June 5 in Amsterdam, has added several new speakers to its program.
Björn Fuchs, newly appointed Chair of VNLOK, and Henry Meijdam, who heads the VAN Kansspelen trade association, will both make an appearance at the event.
Fuchs and Meijdam join an impressive speaker lineup that includes Arjan Blok, CEO of Nederlandse Loterij; Renske Fikkers, Head of Market Supervision at the Netherlands Gambling Authority; and Henk Willem Smits, investigative reporter at Follow the Money.
Additionally, we are happy to welcome as our special guest former NOGA Chair, Peter-Paul de Goeij, who has promised to offer a no-holds-barred reflection on the (in)efficacy of Dutch gambling regulation.
Click here for the full agenda.
??Registration for the 2025 GiH Conference is now open. Don't miss it! Register today: https://bit.ly/GiHC2025.
Game Lounge CEO, Richard Dennys discusses advantages of QMRA quality mark
Richard Dennys , CEO of the Game Lounge affiliate network, discusses the challenges of affiliate compliance across various global markets in this wide-ranging interview with the Quality Mark Responsible Affiliates (QMRA).
Dennys will also be a featured speaker at this year's Gaming in Holland Conference.
Netherlands Gambling Authority supports gambling risk awareness projects
The Netherlands Gambling Authority ( Kansspelautoriteit )has announced four new public awareness projects aimed at educating the public about gambling risks.
The four initiatives are funded through the Addiction Prevention Fund (VPF), which is financed by a levy on licensed gambling operators and managed by the Dutch regulator.
The four projects include 1) an e-learning for mental health professionals on detecting and identifying gambling-related issues; 2) educational materials aimed at school-age children; 3) an outreach program aimed at professional football clubs (including their youth teams); and 4) providing gambling-related content to a platform for people with low literacy and mild intellectual disabilities.
In related news, the Dutch regulator also announced an increased focus on illegal land-based gambling machines. Following several closures of land-based gambling arcades, a significant number of such gaming machines have been auctioned off. Buyers of these machines have been reminded by the regulator of their legal obligations under Dutch gambling law.
Bet365 reportedly considers sale or US public listing
The owners of bet365 are considering selling their ownership of the gambling operator, The Guardian reports.
Informal discussions explored options for a potential sale, including a medium-term plan to float the business on a US stock exchange. One option on the table includes a partial sale to a private equity investor, with the Coates family retaining a stake before an eventual listing.
bet365 could be valued at £9bn (€10.6bn).
Upcoming events
Gaming in Spain Conference
Join us on June 26 in Madrid for the 2025 Gaming in Spain Conference.
The event will feature a keynote speech by Mikel Arana, Director General of Spain's national gambling regulator, DGOJ.
Besides focusing on the Spanish market, the 2025 GiS Conference will also feature several sessions dedicated to the latest developments in the most important LatAm markets.
??Don't miss it! Register today: https://bit.ly/GiSC2025.
Other events
· SBC Summit Malta, the newly rebranded continuation to CasinoBeats Summit, will take place June 10-12, 2025, at the InterContinental in St Julian’s.
· iGB L!ve returns to ExCel London on July 2-3, 2025. Registration is now open!
Dutch onshore market share expected to fall further
H2 Gambling Capital is expecting a significant increase in the market share of illegal offshore online operators in the coming years.
This is one of the findings of an analysis that has been exclusively shared with Gaming in Holland.
Although H2 believes that the market share (in terms of GGR) of licensed operators was slightly higher in 2024 than estimated by the Netherlands Gambling Authority (61% vs. 55% across the entire year), this percentage is expected to fall further to only 47% by 2026.
In the coming years, the illegal market is thus expected to gain another 23% (in relative terms) on the onshore market. Additional restrictions on licensed operators, as announced by the Dutch government, could even further increase the relative share of illegal operators.
Despite a promising start, the success of the Dutch online gambling market regulation now appears to be in serious jeopardy.
Dingnews.com 09/05/2025