Croatia Officially Recognizes eCOGRA

Adviser and testing agency eCOGRA has received its twelfth national accreditation as an Independent Remote Gambling Testing Agency, this time from Croatia.

Croatia Joins Growing List

Clearing a rigorous approval process, cCOGRA's accreditation from the Republic of Croatia marked represented cCOGRA's twelfth European licensing and regulatory jurisdiction approval. The list of countries recognizing and relying on eCOGRA's advisory, monitoring, and testing capabilities already included Alderney, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Gibraltar, Isle of Man, Italy, Latvia, Malta, Spain and the United Kingdom. These countries rely on eCOGRA to clear games and gaming platforms that will be offered in their countries as remote online gambling sites.

Clients

eCOGRA maintains a stable of clients who are the most prominent online gaming providers in the world, including bet365, Unibet, bwin.party, 32Red, 888, Betway, Apollo Entertainment, GM Gaming, Betclic Everest, Alands Penningautomatforening, Microgaming and Net Entertainment.

The eCOGRA CEO Andrew Beveridge emphasized the close liaison and hard work between his professional staff and the Croatia licensing authority in this accomplishment. The close cooperation between eCOGRA and Croatian Ministry of Finance officials was attributed by Beveridge as the key to effectively and successfully completing this process, "This is the twelfth European regulatory jurisdiction to acknowledge our suitability as a testing agency, which widens our value to clients in the sphere of professional regulatory advice and testing. We are now servicing a large percentage of the industry's major remote gambling operators and software suppliers, licensed across multiple jurisdictions.”

eCOGRA Background

The independent, London-based company was actually founded over ten years ago in 2003, eCOGRA has been working a long time to establish operational standards and player safety in the environment of remote gambling, eCOGRA has at this point compiled a vast and diverse array of experience in implementing, monitoring and maintaining best practice standards in remote online gambling provision.

To date, more than 200 prominent remote gambling sites are now accredited and monitored policed by eCOGRA.