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BOS on Sweden’s signing of the Macolin Convention: Welcome, but unreasonable to only include state gambling companies in the work against match-fixing
In a memorandum from the Ministry of Social Affairs, the Swedish Government has proposed that Sweden sign and ratify the so-called Macolin Convention. This convention regulates the cooperation of the…
BOS comments on the National Audit Office’s review of the Swedish Gambling Authority: “Welcome that the National Audit Office also advocates extended criminalization of unlicensed gambling”
The National Audit Office has commissioned an investigation into the Swedish Gambling Authority’s supervision of the Swedish gambling market. The result was published today in a report that is published…
BOS/The Swedish Trade Association for Online Gambling commissions Advisense to strengthen efforts against money laundering – A unique survey on the state of play in measures against money laundering and terrorist financing in the gambling industry
The Swedish Trade Association for Online Gambling, BOS, has commissioned the consulting firm Advisense to conduct a unique survey among its member companies this fall to strengthen their work against…
BOS comments on the government’s closure of Casino Cosmopol, Sweden’s last remaining land-based casino: “OK to close the state casino but at the same time open up for private initiatives”
The Swedish Trade Association for Online Gambling (BOS) today submits its opinion on the government’s initiative to close the last physical casino in Sweden, state-owned Casino Cosmopol in Stockholm. BOS…
BOS in Sweden’s largest morning paper Dagens Nyheter: “The state has gambled away the control over online casino”
The Swedish Trade Association for Online Gambling (BOS) is today published with an op-ed in the paper edition of Dagens Nyheter, Sweden’s largest morning newspaper. The online version was published one day…
New report from BOS: the gambling tax increase creates one thousand new problem gamblers
The Swedish Trade Association for Online Gambling (BOS) today presents a report produced by the analysis institute Copenhagen Economics (CE). CE has calculated what the tax increase on gambling (from…
Press release: BOS rejects the proposal A new ban on gambling on credit
The Swedish Trade Association for Online Gambling (BOS) today submits its statement to the Ministry of Finance on the memorandum A new ban on gambling on credit, in which a ban…
Op-ed: “Of course the minister is right when stating that the state should not operate casinos”
The Swedish Trade Association for Online Gambling (BOS) expresses itself in an op-ed, published today in Sweden’s largest newspaper Aftonbladet, about financial market minister Niklas Wykman’s statement that “It should…