ECOGRA CELEBRATES FIFTH YEAR WITH NEW FAIR AND SAFE
SEALS
20 February 2009
Major European online gambling company and
Internet bingo sites belonging to two successful groups
pass stringent testing regime
The online gambling independent player protection and
standards organisation eCOGRA marked five years of
quality and safety oversight at its 126 accredited poker
and casino websites this week by awarding its tough Safe
and Fair gambling seal to three new partners.
Vienna-based Internet gambling giant Interwetten and two
bingo sites - the first bingo accreditations under the
stringent eCOGRA testing and monitoring regime -
received the right to bear the eCOGRA seal.
The
bingo sites are All Bingo Club.com (www.allbingoclub.com)
which is a member of the highly successful Jackpot
Factory online gambling group, and Platinum Play
Bingo.com (www.platinumplaybingo.co.uk)
which is a subsidiary of the long established Fortune
Lounge group.
Interwetten is one of the best
known of the top European sportsbetting, casino and
poker Internet gambling sites and is a member of both
the European Betting and Gambling Association and the
European Sports Security Association.
Founded in
1990 as provider of sport betting via telephone, the
company today has 110 employees and reached a betting
turnover of EUR 320 million in 2008. The internationally
active company currently has more than 900 000
registered customers in 200 countries. In 2008, bets
were placed on more than 90 000 different sports events
in more than 70 countries. Altogether, 11 million sports
bets were placed in the previous year.
Accepting
the eCOGRA seal, the CEO of Interwetten, Thomas Daubek
said: "Interwetten's management and staff has every
reason to be proud of this achievement, which has
involved a detailed and comprehensive examination of
every aspect of our operational, software and
responsible gambling systems by independent eCOGRA
professional inspection teams.
“The high level
of player safety and service which has been recognised
will now be maintained under the continuous monitoring
to which we have agreed as part of this important and
hard won accreditation."
David Brickman, a
spokesman and vice president of the Jackpot Factory
group said his company was pleased to have achieved one
of the first eCOGRA bingo accreditations for its All
Bingo Club website.
"Our poker and casino
operations have all qualified for the practical and
valuable Fair and Safe seal accreditation over the
years, and it's good to know that our bingo operations
also measure up to these high operational standards," he
said.
A spokesman for the Fortune Lounge group
commented that casino and poker room operations in the
group were celebrating five years of Fair and Safe
accreditation this week, and the addition of the
Platinum Play Bingo seal to the Fortune Lounge list of
achievements was added cause for pride.
"This is
a tough test, but it brings with it real advantages in
operational efficiencies and improved business," he
said.
eCOGRA CEO Andrew Beveridge congratulated
the successful website owners on achieving
accreditation, and urged Fair and Safe operators to
maintain the highest standards, with player protection,
business efficiency and responsible gambling always
front-of-mind.
"eCOGRA can look back on the last
five years with some satisfaction,” he said. “It has
seen our standards, inspection and monitoring systems
and professional staff expand to embrace all the main
Internet gambling platforms, from mobile, live dealer
and bingo through sports to casino and poker," he said.
"Along the way, our Fair Gaming Advocate has
successfully mediated hundreds of player issues,
although these represent a miniscule percentage of the
substantial volumes of business our accredited sites
handle every day.
“There are now 126 accredited
sites under the eCOGRA Fair and Safe umbrella, belonging
to the most successful and well-established gambling
companies on the Internet," he continued.
"Going
forward we intend to remain at the leading edge of
online gambling standards and player protection in a
dynamic and challenging high tech industry, constantly
ensuring that our standards and systems are current with
technology and best business practice."
Online Casino News Courtesy of
Infopowa
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