For many decades, the U.S has bragged of its ability to lead the world economy and its fairness with the international community, however, these ideals of equality and lenience don’t seem to apply to all the economic activities, even if they’re considered legal outside the United States. While the US has launched a witch hunt and legal crusade to ban all forms of online gambling, spending millions of dollars in preventing its citizens from using, operating or dealing with online gaming sites, dozens of other countries have successfully applied measures to legalize, regulate and generate tax revenue from this activities.

Countries such as Malta, Belize, South Africa and Antigua and Barbuda have developed laws and rules to make the online casino, poker and sportsbetting industry into a major money maker. While the U.S still engaged in a legal fight with Antigua and Barbuda for trading violations, the UK has been a tremendous help in the expansion of regulated online gaming sites in Antigua, granting the gaming companies stablished in Antigua the permission to operate in its territory and creating a legal structure that would open the door for many more companies. The British Government also included Antigua in its “white-list” which applies severe regulations to the Antiguan online gambling industry, making it safer for its users and more efficient overall.

The surge in their online gambling industry is also helping the economy in Antigua thanks to the creation of hundreds of positions and due the boost in the tax revenue generated by the government. For example, the Regulatory Commission in Antigua and Barbuda is projecting that companies can grow more than 100% due the approval from the British Department of Culture, Media and Sport, which let Antiguan companies to run marketing campaigns in the UK territory.