French social gaming under threat from new amendment

From iGaming Business – Social and skill gaming operators working in the French market are bracing themselves for a proposed change in the law that could see them forbidden in the first instance and at a future date subject to regulation, most likely by ARJEL, France’s online gaming authority. The new regulation would ban any game of skill or chance that requires a financial transaction in order to play and offers any ‘hopes of gain’. The new measures are part of discussions on the reform of French consumer law and plan to amend to the law on lotteries and games…