Ireland’s newly established gambling regulator is preparing to start issuing licences following formal authorisation from a senior government minister. Jim O’Callaghan, Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration, has granted the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland (GRAI) permission to begin the licensing process. The minister confirmed that the authority can begin granting licences “for new entrants as soon as is feasible.” Under the rollout timeline, the GRAI will

The large-scale confiscation of illegal gaming machines in Cape Town has been welcomed by the Eastern Cape Gambling Board, which has praised the operation as a sign of a more robust approach to combating unlawful gambling activity.   Authorities believe the machines were intended for distribution throughout the Eastern Cape before investigators intervened.   South Africa, and the Eastern Cape in particular, operates under stringent rules governing the supply and placement of

Interest rates are widely expected to remain unchanged as the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) convenes for its first policy meeting of the year.   In December, the MPC voted to reduce the Bank rate from 4% to 3.75%, while indicating that borrowing costs were “likely to continue on a gradual downward path.” The Bank rate is the committee’s main instrument for steering inflation — which measures the yearly pace of rising prices — toward its 2% target. It also

A 25-year-old woman from St Paul’s Bay has been remanded in custody after pleading not guilty to charges accusing her of scamming roughly 200 individuals by allegedly pretending to be a bank. Tammy Caruana, who informed the court that she is currently unemployed, was arraigned following a large-scale online fraud probe conducted by the Malta Police Force’s Financial Crimes Investigations Department. The investigation was carried out in collaboration with Europol as well as la