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So far, only KRAIL has issued licenses for online casinos, but this week they promise to issue the first license for a casino. And the first casino that will receive this license, according to our data, will be a casino in Odessa Gagarinn Plaza. And the official opening itself is scheduled for 25 February.

On March 23-24, KyivExpoPlaza will host the main event on the Ukrainian gambling market – a large-scale Ukrainian Gaming Week 2021 industry exhibition. Event will be organized by Smile-Expo.

London, 11^th February 2021: This month GambleAware has appointed an external organisation to co-design and deliver an inclusive and representative GB-wide network of people with lived experience of gambling harms.

It should’ve been the night to lure new customers onto their platforms. Instead, technical disruptions and crashes left the biggest sports gambling platforms cringing and scrambling to solve unexpected problems.

In Nevada, BetMGM’s app crapped out. Ten minutes before kickoff, MGM’s retail sportsbooks found they could not accept bets. And while disgruntled patrons complained on social media, technicians worked furiously to find and fix the problem. By game’s end, the problem still had not been fixed, and MGM was not immediately able to settle bets.

People's Deputy of Ukraine Marian Zablotskyi will speak at UGW conference, which will be held on February 24. The politician will take part in a panel discussion on the “Intricacies of regulating gambling business in Ukraine”.

The AGEM Index improved by 8.96 points in January 2021 to 696.08 points, a 1.3 percent gain from December 2020. Overall, the majority of companies in AGEM Index reported declines in stock price over the month, with eight trending negatively and five moving positively.

Following an ongoing customer consultation programme, Clarion Gaming has responded to requests from its international community of stakeholders and taken the extremely difficult decision to postpone the co-located 2021 editions of ICE London and iGB Affiliate London which were scheduled to open at the end of June.

The document entitles the company to legally conduct "activities of organising and conducting casino gambling on the Internet".

Round table discussions with gaming industry experts held on 18 December 2020, including with Boris Baum, were optimistic that the first gaming license would be issued on or before 31 December 2020. Even though industry experts considered tax conditions to be a concern for investors, the Ukrainian parliament — The Verkhovna Rada — did not accept amendments to the tax code.