Emerging market regulators
Lotería de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (LOTBA)
Gambling regulator for the City of Buenos Aires; eleven authorised operators and closed to new applications since June 2024.
Definition
LOTBA is the gambling regulator for the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, which is not a province: Argentina licenses gambling through 24 separate authorities, being its 23 provinces plus the City. LOTBA is therefore a different regulator from the Instituto Provincial de Lotería y Casinos, which licenses the surrounding Buenos Aires Province under its own regime. Eleven operators hold City authorisations, each under its own Disposición, and the City stopped accepting new applications on 24 June 2024.
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