Nederlandse Loterij is the Dutch national lottery and sports betting group, formed in 2016 by merging the foundations behind Lotto and Staatsloterij. Both were converted into private limited companies, Lotto B.V. and Staatsloterij B.V., under the holding company Nederlandse Loterij B.V. It trades through ten brands including Staatsloterij, Lotto, Eurojackpot, Miljoenenspel, Lucky Day, Krasloten and the TOTO sports betting and casino products, operating under five separate licences granted by the Kansspelautoriteit. TOTO is the state group's answer to the private operators that entered the Dutch online market when it opened in October 2021, which puts it in the same competitive position as Svenska Spel: a state operator holding lottery exclusivity while fighting for online share.
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TOTO, Holland Casino, Kansino, FairPlay, Bingoal, bet365, GG Poker and Betcity have licences to September 2031. For the first time the regulator explicitly examined violations definitively established in the previous five years, asked applicants what they had done about them, and issued unnamed operators "additional points for attention".
The 2021 licences expire at the end of this month. Bet365, TOTO, Holland Casino, Kansino, FairPlay, Bingoal, GGPoker and Betcity have theirs to 2031. New in the renewal test: every violation definitively established in five years, what the operator did about it, and "additional points of attention" for some. The rest of the market has under two weeks.
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