France Awfully Alluring
The possibilities within the French legalized online casino gambling industry
have foreign gambling companies heavily vying for early access to the licensing
process. For months now the new French internet gambling regulations have been
on the verge of passing through into law. And now that France has passed the new
regulations the last stop is approval by the European Union, and then foreign
online casinos and betting sites will have the ability to fully operate within
the French gambling industry. At the beginning of the year several prominent
gambling groups announced plans to prep for entry into France.
Now that the French regulations are actually very near passage there are a full
30 online casino gambling and betting groups that have filled out France’s
application and are actively seeking legal entry into France. One of the key
issues that France may face is the fact that there are only a limited number of
gambling groups that the country plans to license, and the gambling groups that
do not receive legal rights to France will be at a real disadvantage in the
European market as the companies attempt to grow and develop.
The France online casino betting market is worth more than a billion Euros alone
and the liberalization of the market will allow French licensed companies a much
larger piece of the market than is currently available. Additionally, France is
set to make a lot of money off of the liberalization of the market as these
internet casinos pay licensing fees up front in addition to some hefty taxes
that are inherent in the newly passed regulations. |