IPLyC Buenos Aires president Gonzalo Atanasof signed a resolution approving a standard agreement for Buenos Aires province racecourses to pool local bets with wagers from other countries. The arrangement allows racecourses to share their signal abroad and receive bets into an international pool.
The agreement gives Buenos Aires province racecourses a framework to accept international pooled bets.
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Lotería del Chubut signed an agreement with Beturf to offer online horse-racing betting in Chubut from April, the lottery said. Users will be able to bet on races in Argentina and other countries through a service featuring live streaming and real-time information.
Buenos Aires province’s Chamber of Deputies gambling committee is scheduled to debate a proposed online gambling bill on 12 November, the committee said, as reported. The proposal would restrict advertising, require deposit and session limits, and make platforms contribute 3 per cent of monthly authorised online betting prizes; companies would also pay an amount equal to their spending on advertising and user acquisition. The bill could receive a committee opinion before a joint plenary discussion.
Buenos Aires province’s Chamber of Deputies gambling committee has scheduled a debate on a proposed online gambling law for 12 November, the committee said. Deputies Facundo Tignanelli and Micaela Olivetto introduced the bill in early October, with measures addressing online gambling, advertising and gambling addiction.
Buenos Aires province’s Chamber of Deputies is due to consider a proposed online betting regime in committee on 12 November, the initiative’s sponsors Facundo Tignanelli and Micaela Olivetto said. The bill would require real-time facial verification and 100% national capital for licensees, restrict advertising and ban promotional incentives; it could receive a committee opinion.
A Buenos Aires province legislative committee is due to debate a bill on 12 November that would change the conditions for authorised online betting platforms. The bill, sponsored by Fuerza Patria deputies Facundo Tignanelli and Micaela Olivetto, could receive a committee opinion at the meeting.
Gonzalo Atanasof, president of the Buenos Aires Provincial Lottery and Casinos Institute, called for debate on sports figures’ role in betting advertising and possible broadcast time bands. He argued that fully prohibiting advertising by authorised platforms could encourage illegal gambling promotion, and said the province had filed more than 80 judicial complaints over promotion of unauthorised sites.
Gonzalo Atanasof, president of the Buenos Aires Provincial Lottery and Casinos Institute (IPLyC), has called for a debate on the role of sports figures in betting advertising and on possible time bands for broadcasts, the institute said. Atanasof said the question was whether sports figures whom children idolise should front betting platforms, and whether time bands should apply to such messages. He described the intervention as an invitation to debate rather than a fixed proposal, covering both who appears in adverts and when they are shown.
CAOLAB asked the Buenos Aires Provincial Lottery and Casinos Institute (IPLyC) not to authorise Telekino Digital, a sales platform developed by Juegos Internacionales S.A. The association said the platform offers agents a 7.5% commission and objected that it was developed without prior consultation; it warned of financial harm to physical agencies.
Juegos Internacionales S.A. has developed Telekino Digital, a digital sales tool for its product that includes a 7.5 per cent commission for official lottery agents. CAOLAB, the Buenos Aires chamber of official lottery agents, asked the Instituto Provincial de Lotería y Casinos (IPLyC Buenos Aires) not to authorise the platform's launch, in a letter to the institute's president, Gonzalo Atanasof.