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When financial needs override the hypocritical morals… In a statement on Thursday, the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank vowed to seek the repeal of UIGEA as part of a package of US financial reforms. It’s unclear if the act ever actually succeeded at retargeting scurrilous online gamblers back towards resorts or [...]

In a continuing saga of US and Antigua trying to arrive to a compromise about US banning internet gambling, which was a large industry in Antigua, Antigua’s finance minister says it could take several more months to resolve an Internet gambling feud with the U.S.The countries have been at odds since the World Trade Organization [...]

PokerPages has found an interesting lawsuit that was filed by Public Citizen to force US Trade Office to release details of WTO internet gambling deal. According to the lawsuit, the Bush administration is illegally withholding the details of its offer accepted by the European Union to bind more sectors of the U.S. economy to World [...]

According to the Antigua Sun a settlement proposal due by the end of the month could put an end to the five-year trade battle over Internet gaming between Antigua and Barbuda and the United States. According to Mark Mendel, Antigua and Barbuda’s attorney in its World Trade Organisation (WTO) dispute, the US is scheduled to [...]

The European Union launched an investigation Monday into U.S. laws on Internet casinos and sports wagering, after European casinos complained that United States’ actions against them were infringing world trade rules.The investigation could lead the 27-nation EU to file a complaint at the World Trade Organization in the latest international tussle over a growing business [...]