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S&P Says Genting Is One Downgrade From Fallen Angel, a Day After Fitch

3 min read•Sep 8

Regulatory

Two Black-Market Studies Land in a Day: €12bn in Europe, $50bn Worldwide

3 min read•Sep 8

Interviews

Håvard Lehn: Esports Has Been Poorly Run and iGaming Has Paid the Bills

7 min read•Sep 4

Latest News

RegulatoryAug 25

Poland's Consumer Watchdog Is Using AI to Hunt Dark Patterns in Betting Apps

UOKiK is examining seven bookmakers for interface design that manipulates behaviour, with a tool built specifically to spot it. Five of them face separate proceedings where the exposure is 10% of annual turnover.

Antonina Tupikova

2 min read

Prediction MarketsAug 25

Polymarket Referred Dozens of Its Own Traders to the Justice Department

A soldier is charged with turning $33,000 into more than $400,000 on contracts predicting the capture of Nicolas Maduro. Five days earlier, the CFTC chairman called the Venezuela example fake news.

Antonina Tupikova

2 min read

RegulatoryAug 24

The BGC Puts £800m on the Black Market This Season, £1bn by 2027/28

Grainne Hurst wrote to warn that unlicensed bookmakers will take £800 million in Premier League bets this season, reaching £1 billion a year by 2027/28. The numbers are arguable. The government's own impact assessment conceding the mechanism is not.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryAug 24

Romania Replaces Its Gambling Regulator Chief for the Second Time

Vlad-Cristian Soare was dismissed on Friday and Valentin-Ioan Tomescu appointed in his place, both in the same Official Gazette. Soare had been in post fifteen months, and arrived because his predecessor left over audit failures.

Antonina Tupikova

2 min read

M&AAug 24

Evolution's Board Rejects a Bid Priced 16% Below Its Own Share Price

Candle Lake offered SEK 695 a share for a stock trading at SEK 824.20, and told the market it is not trying to buy the company. The board agreed, and said so. Kenneth Dart keeps 30% either way.

Antonina Tupikova

2 min read

Prediction MarketsAug 24

Kalshi Took North Carolina's Tax. Nevada Just Filed It as Evidence

A two-page letter to the Ninth Circuit argues that a company claiming federal law bars state regulation cannot then accept a state tax on the same contracts. The panel has been sitting on this case since April.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

CryptoAug 24

Three Regulators and Two Banks Start Testing for a Quantum Break

Abu Dhabi, Bhutan and Malta's financial regulators are observing a post-quantum custody pilot using the NIST signature standard finalised two years ago. The reason to care is not the cryptography. It is which regulators turned up.

Antonina Tupikova

2 min read

CryptoAug 24

The CLARITY Act Comes Down to Seven Democrats on 15 September

The White House has set a hard deadline, Trump has called the bill very powerful, and prediction markets have cut its odds from 82% to about 25%. Republicans hold 53 seats and cloture needs 60.

Antonina Tupikova

2 min read

CryptoAug 24

A $49bn Mint That Was Worth $675,000: Inside the Sandbox Exploit

An attacker minted 329 trillion SAND on Base, roughly 110,000 times the token's entire legitimate supply, and walked away with about $675,000. The gap between those two numbers is the whole story, and it is not a reassuring one.

Antonina Tupikova

2 min read

CryptoAug 24

Russia Opens a Crypto Door and Caps It at 300,000 Roubles

The Bank of Russia has widened who counts as a qualified investor days before the regulated market opens, adding a route through domestic exam certificates. Everyone else gets Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether and a ceiling of about $3,800 a year.

Antonina Tupikova

2 min read