Looking Toward Online Casino Industry
One area of the global and international online casino gambling industry that
may be a bit overlooked by some countries is the sector of the market
responsible for licensing and regulating Internet gambling sites. The licensing
jurisdictions are located all over the world, but there seems to be a
concentration of licensing jurisdictions around the Channel Islands – or any
islands for that matter. Licensing of the online casinos and internet gambling
sites is a key way that some smaller nations are able to develop strong and
viable economies. Right now, the islands of Isle of Man, Gibraltar, and Alderney
are all three countries that have created strong internet gambling industries
that nearly wholly support the economy. Now, with those island nations as role
models, Jersey has announced plans to follow a similar path of licensing and
legalized internet gambling.
Although Jersey has proposed new plans to enact new e-gaming legislation
throughout 2010, not everyone is pleased with this planned liberalization of the
island’s economy. With the planned licensing of online casinos will also come
the full brunt of the internet gambling industry; if Jersey plans to allow
internet gambling sites to operate out of the island they will also open the
doors to a full-fledged market where island citizens will have unprecedented
access to internet gambling.
And additional concern is the standards in the online casino gambling industry;
not every licensing jurisdiction is created equally and there are a lot of
concerns and development that goes into efficiently and effectively licensing
internet gambling sites. The sites licensed out of Jersery will have the power
to operate nearly anywhere in the world where there is a legal gambling market,
so it’s important that Jersey’s regulatory standards exceed the industry minimum
– all of which will take a lot of development work for this planned project to
succeed. |