EU watchdogs probe German and Swedish gambling blockades
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Bookies sans frontiÃ¨res German and Sweden are to be hauled over the coals by EU competition regulators for stopping online gaming firms entering their markets.â¦
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The World Trade Organization says the US ban on cross-border gambling violates international trade laws; the United States said it would appeal.
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BRUSSELS  - Risking another transatlantic tussle over Microsoft Corp., European Union antitrust regulators said Wednesday they were investigating whether the software giant's deal with media conglomerate Time Warner Inc. to develop anti-piracy software might lead to a new monopoly.
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The costs of policing a new U.S.   Internet gambling ban for banks and credit card companies will   be determined by regulators in the coming months, industry   officials said on Monday.
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European online gaming companies which  have been shut out of U.S. markets urged the European Union on  Wednesday to demand as much as $100 billion in compensation in  the hope that Washington might yet be pressed into reversing  its ban.
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Germany's financial watchdog said on  Thursday it was looking into recent trading by U.S. financial  services group Citigroup C.N in European government bond and  derivative markets, but had not started a formal probe.
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The European Commission dealt a blow  to European online gaming companies on Monday when it accepted  a U.S. offer of openings in other sectors as compensation for  closing U.S. gambling market to foreign firms.
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The German and French financial watchdogs said on Thursday they were looking into recent trading by U.S. financial services group Citigroup (C.N: Quote , Profile , Research ) in European government bond and ...
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European Commission is set to announce whether it will block the database giant's hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft.
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Europe's betting industry says a German law banning online gambling breaks European Union law.
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Proposals for changing the gambling industry in Britain are published by the government.
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The European Commission puts forward a plan to stop governments from blocking cross-border bank takeovers.
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The European Commission, in a blow to  European online gaming companies, on Monday struck a deal for  compensation from the United States over a U.S. decision to  close its gambling markets to foreign operators.
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A controversial plan by the European Central Bank to set up and operate a new system for settling share and bond trades in the European Union will come under close scrutiny by the region's top antitrust watchdog.
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France and Germany's market watchdogs say they are looking into Citigroup bond trades already under scrutiny in the UK.
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The European Commission faces a battle with sport's governing bodies over its ability to regulate sport.
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The European Court of Justice pushes for openness In a ruling sure to ruffle the feathers of those opposed to open and regulated gambling environments, the European Court of Justice today issued its most forceful opinion yet covering the cross border provision of gaming services. The ruling in the Placanica case, in which Italian suppliers of gambling services for British bookmaker Stanley faced criminal prosecution in Italy for operating without a license, establishes once and for all that national licensing procedures cannot be applied in a de facto discriminatory manner against foreign gaming operators.â¦