Britain's casino landscape is altering as Genting Singapore discards its UK operations in order to focus on its Resorts World Sentosa project, while Rank promises to open ten more venues in the country.

Replacing chips and cards with bytes and pixels can hike revenue and hamper cheats, according to proponents. And in the latest twist on fashionable retro, the newest casino technology is also mimicking some of the oldest.

The lawyers, at least, must be rubbing their hands in glee. Across Europe, the regulations governing online gambling are changing so quickly – and often inconsistently – that you'd be forgiven for wishing the single European market meant just that.

If HR 2267 supplants UIGEA, it won't just be a case of one impenetrable abbreviation taking over from another. For behind the cryptic code beloved of bureaucracy lie two pieces of legislation – one in force, the other perhaps not far away from toppling it – which together govern the recent history and potential future of online gambling in the U.S.

You might consider it an Emperor's New Clothes moment. Or a replay of the “if you build it, they will come” error made by so many early dotcoms.
Either way, newly-launched online gaming site Trystbingo.com is challenging the accepted wisdom by recruiting no affiliates and handling all its own promotion.

Could Bingo fund bomb-making? The online gaming sector may seem far removed from the global threat of terrorism, but the Remote Gambling Association – a London-based industry body – is sufficiently worried about the spectre of Internet gaming being used for money-laundering that it's issued a set of practical guidelines aimed at operators.

Ricki Chavez Munoz brings the news back from Latino America in his English-language monthly column

Mitch Garber, CEO of Harrah's Interactive, explains to CI the grey area between land-based and online gaming and how close the two have now become

Software innovators have a robust and well-rounded suite of products to cater to land-based casinos and create greater customer retention than ever before…

Ricki Chavez Munoz brings the news from Latino America (Spanish language version)

Sharon Harris shoots from the lip