The number of individuals excluded from entering Singapore’s two casinos rose 15% in 2015.

According to the city-state’s National Council on Problem Gambling, 2015 closed with 277,500 active cases of individuals who weren’t allowed into either Las Vegas Sands’ Marina Bay Sands or Genting’s Resorts World Sentosa.

Around 233,500 (84%) of these cases are individuals who have submitted their own names for exclusion. The vast majority (215,000) were foreign nationals who either work in or routinely travel to Singapore. Nearly 1,100 individuals voluntarily filed to limit the number of times per month they can visit casinos, 63% more than exercised this option in 2014.

Singapore allows relatives of problem gamblers to file applications to exclude their loved ones from the two casinos but these cases represented less than 1% of the total cases at the end of 2015.

The number of individuals excluded from entering Singapore’s two casinos rose 15% in 2015.

According to the city-state’s National Council on Problem Gambling, 2015 closed with 277,500 active cases of individuals who weren’t allowed into either Las Vegas Sands’ Marina Bay Sands or Genting’s Resorts World Sentosa.

Around 233,500 (84%) of these cases are individuals who have submitted their own names for exclusion. The vast majority (215,000) were foreign nationals who either work in or routinely travel to Singapore. Nearly 1,100 individuals voluntarily filed to limit the number of times per month they can visit casinos, 63% more than exercised this option in 2014.

Singapore allows relatives of problem gamblers to file applications to exclude their loved ones from the two casinos but these cases represented less than 1% of the total cases at the end of 2015.

Online payment processor Vantiv has announced it will no longer handle payments for daily fantasy sports operators, a potentially devastating blow for the already reeling DFS sector.

On Friday, the New York Times reported that Vantiv had informed its DFS clients – including market leaders DraftKings and FanDuel – earlier this week that it planned to “suspend all processing for payment transactions” for DFS in the US effective today (29).

In November, Vantiv expressed its unease re its potential risk in processing DFS transactions in New York State after Attorney General Eric Schneiderman handed DFS operators a cease and desist order. That same month, DraftKings got a Massachusetts court order preventing Vantiv from refusing to handle DFS transactions. A frustrated Vantiv asked the New York courts for official clarification on the legality of its DFS activities.

Vantiv’s letter to its DFS clients notes the growing number of state attorneys general who have issued negative opinions on DFS’ legality, and while DFS operators “have raised numerous arguments to the contrary, to date those arguments have been unsuccessful and/or rejected.”

Online payment processor Vantiv has announced it will no longer handle payments for daily fantasy sports operators, a potentially devastating blow for the already reeling DFS sector.

On Friday, the New York Times reported that Vantiv had informed its DFS clients – including market leaders DraftKings and FanDuel – earlier this week that it planned to “suspend all processing for payment transactions” for DFS in the US effective today (29).

In November, Vantiv expressed its unease re its potential risk in processing DFS transactions in New York State after Attorney General Eric Schneiderman handed DFS operators a cease and desist order. That same month, DraftKings got a Massachusetts court order preventing Vantiv from refusing to handle DFS transactions. A frustrated Vantiv asked the New York courts for official clarification on the legality of its DFS activities.

Vantiv’s letter to its DFS clients notes the growing number of state attorneys general who have issued negative opinions on DFS’ legality, and while DFS operators “have raised numerous arguments to the contrary, to date those arguments have been unsuccessful and/or rejected.”

Online betting operator BetVictor is looking for a new creative team to manage its public image ahead of the Euro 2016 football tournament.

Campaign Live recently reported that BetVictor had sent out invitations for agencies to pitch ways to position the betting company ahead of this year’s UEFA European Football Championship, which is second only to the FIFA World Cup in terms of betting activity.

The pitch process is expected to take place by the end of February. VCCP, BetVictor’s creative team since 2012, intends to compete with the rest of the creative rabble to retain the job.

VCCP was behind BetVictor’s recent efforts to adopt a more serious tone than the jokey spots featuring comedian Paul Kaye that dominated the company’s previous brand identity. The new “no noise, no nonsense” spots that debuted in November featured two more refined, upscale ‘modern gents’ discussing the ease of wagering with BetVictor using a “simple as” theme.

Mississippi’s attorney general has become the latest to declare daily fantasy sports to be illegal under state law.

On Friday, Mississippi AG Jim Hood (pictured) released an opinion in response to a request by Allen Godfrey, executive director of the Mississippi Gaming Commission, who sought clarity on the legality of DFS.

In the opinion, first spotted by gaming attorney Daniel Wallach (@WALLACHLEGAL) Hood states plainly that “fantasy sports wagering is illegal in the state of Mississippi under current law both on a licensed gaming floor and outside of a licensed gaming floor.”

Hood notes that Mississippi law prohibits wagering on “the outcome of any athletic event, nor on any matter to be determined during an athletic event, nor on the outcome of any event, which does not take place on the premises.”