Sweden receives 55 online gambling license applications

Sweden’s gambling regulator has received over 60 applications to operate in the country’s new regulated market that gets underway next year.

On Friday, Sweden’s Lotteriinspektionen gaming regulatory body announced that it had received 60 applications to operate in the country’s liberalized gambling market, which is set to kick off on January 1, 2019. Of these applications, 55 are seeking online casino and sports betting licenses.

Lotteriinspektionen added that some of these applications were incomplete and the regulator had begun informing some operators of the need to fill in the blanks or run the risk of not being approved by the regulated market’s official launch date.

Lotteriinspektionen didn’t spare itself from criticism, noting that “we do not have concrete answers” to questions submitted by operators seeking specifics on their responsible gaming and match integrity obligations.