iGaming Business magazine iGB 112 Sept/Oct 2018 | Page 115

Finance
RP IGAMING
INDEX:
REALITY BITES
The Global iGaming Index is being reintroduced and reformed in partnership with Regulus
Partners, one of whom, Paul Leyland, had the dubious honour of founding the index back
when US online sports betting was all the rage in very different circumstances.
He runs through the revised methodology and what has unfolded since May’s
momentous US Supreme Court ruling
Rather than go back to the dawn of online, we have chosen to rebase
our new index on Friday, 11 May, 2018. That date is significant because
the following week PASPA was repealed and the UK government
announced its long-awaited decision o