Argentine provincial gaming authorities

What this authority does

Argentina has no national online gambling licence. Each province, together with the autonomous City of Buenos Aires, regulates gambling within its own territory, so an operator wanting national reach must apply separately in each jurisdiction, incorporate locally and meet terms that differ from one province to the next.

The City of Buenos Aires regulator, LOTBA, and the Province of Buenos Aires institute were the first to run online licensing rounds, from 2019, and their frameworks have influenced the provinces that followed. Several provinces have since opened licensing, others remain closed, and a few have tied online licences to existing land-based operators.

The practical consequence for market sizing is that Argentine figures are rarely comparable: a market share quoted for one province says nothing about the next, and the unlicensed sector remains significant in provinces that have not yet licensed.

Licences it issues

• Provincial online gaming licences, issued separately in each jurisdiction

What supervision concentrates on

• Licensing within each province
• Local establishment requirements
• Advertising rules set province by province

Markets on file under this authority