Spanish egaming association announces new members
Operators, affiliates and service providers confirmed as members of Jdigital.
Spanish egaming body La Asociación Española de Juego Digital (Jdigital) has revealed the first companies to have joined the association, with a mixture of 26 suppliers, affiliates, foreign and international operators becoming members.
Operators such as Paf, PokerStars and Betfair have all signed up, alongside service providers including Gtech, Paysafecard and Interxion. They join Spanish land-based operators including Casino Ocio Online and Grupo Orenes, and affiliates including Educapoker and Pokerstrategy.com.
“This diverse membership reinforces the primary purpose for which the association was formed: to bring together a wide variety of players in the digital gaming industry to jointly promote the creation of a secure and competitive market,” the organisation said in a statement today.
Jdigital will initially act as a mouthpiece for the industry to communicate with the Spanish regulatory body, which recently confirmed Carlos Hernandez Riera as deputy general director, replacing Juan Carlos Alfonso, who resigned from the role in March.
Enrique Alejo, general director of the Spanish gambling authority confirmed earlier this month that he expected to meet the government’s revised deadline for opening the market in mid-June. Once the market is opened Jdigital has announced its intention to establish a system to which would see it mediate its members’ complaints and inquiries with the gambling authority.
The association was formed in February this year, as the egaming subsidiary of the Spanish ecommerce body La Asociación Española de la EconomÃa Digital (adigital), replacing AEDAPI as the official Spanish operator association.
At the time Jdigital president and Betfair’s head of Iberia Sacha Michaud explained that the closure of AEDAPI was necessary to create a body representing service providers and affiliates alongside operators.
Jdigital’s members in full:
1. Casino Ocio Online (Nervion)
2. Fortuna Media (BotemanÃa)
3. Grupo Orenes (Vivalasuerte)
4. Ventura Games (ventura 24)
5. Betfair
6. Carousel Game
7. Casino.es
8. Centroapuesta
9. Digidis “ Serviapuestas
10. Educapoker
11. Egasa
12. Eurostar
13. GLI
14. Gran VÃa Online
15. Gtech
16. Iapuestas
17. Interxion
18. Lotomundo
19. Paf
20. Paypal
21. Paysafecard
22. PokerStars
23. Pokerstrategy
24. Reta
25. Solplay
26. Zitro