Austrian bookmaker SKS365 Group has announced that it is one of the companies that applied for a gaming licence in Spain ahead of last week’s deadline.
The owner of sports betting platform planetwin365, which operates online and land-based services with betting shops in Austria, Serbia and Belgium, says it has applied for general licences in the categories of betting and other games.
Spain’s gambling regulator Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGOJ) said that a total of 12 new online gambling operators submitted applications before the country’s new licence tender window closed on December 9.
The DGOJ further clarified that a total of nine sports betting licences applications were submitted.
Thomas Smallwood, chief executive of SKS365, said: “planetwin365 offers an extremely strong European sportsbook which will have great potential in the Spanish market.
“We can bring new value in sports betting to the Spanish customers through our innovative and highly competitive product, which has already proven very popular in other countries.
“We see Spain as a really attractive market and are hoping for a launch in the first half of 2015.”
Gala Coral-branded Eurobet was the first gaming company to announce its intentions to reenter the Spanish marketplace after exiting in 2011 when the Gambling Act was passed.
The new laws regulate online gambling, requiring that all online operators in the country must have a Spanish licence and operate under an .es domain.
source : www.igamingbusiness.com
