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Illinois Casino Revenue Rises 12.7% to $178.2m in September as Hollywood Aurora Gains 81%

3 min read•Oct 8

Regulatory

Denmark Retables a Whistle-to-Whistle Gambling Ad Ban That Would Also End Affiliate Revenue Share

3 min read•Oct 8

Sports Betting

FA Fines Everton's Martin Sherif £5,000 Over 61 Football Bets Placed Through His Accounts

3 min read•Oct 8

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RegulatoryOct 8

Brazil's Unpublished Q1 Betting Report Counts 15.2 Million Bettors and R$914 Million in Earmarks

A Finance Ministry report on the first quarter of 2026, never released by the government and obtained by BNLData through a records request, shows what the licensed market Brazil has just closed was paying out and who it could see. Its own figures carry inconsistencies the ministry says it is still checking.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 8

France's ANJ and ARPP Renew Their Gambling Ad Pact and Bring JONUM Into Scope

France's gambling regulator and its advertising self-regulator have renewed the 2023 agreement under which the ARPP vets operators' ads before release and consults the ANJ when in doubt. The new version adds Web3 games, influencer certification and a review of the 2022 ad charters, but its text has not been published.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

CorporateOct 8

Malta's National Lottery Operator IZI Passes €1bn in Turnover as Pre-Tax Profit Doubles

IZI Finance, the Maltese group that runs the island's National Lottery and the Dragonara Casino, took more than €1 billion in stakes in a year for the first time and doubled its pre-tax profit to €14.4 million. Its lottery concession has under six years left to run, and the bond it sold in March to fund growth abroad runs almost four years beyond it.

Antonina Tupikova

2 min read

Press ReleaseOct 8

“There Will Always Be Slots”: Omnitronix Architect Tobias Liauw on Prediction Markets and AI in iGaming SkyTalk Debut

The first episode of iGaming SkyTalk, recorded on a parasail over Golden Bay, puts Omnitronix architect Tobias Liauw in the air to talk about prediction markets and AI. He doesn’t expect event contracts to displace the industry’s core verticals. He expects them to be built into them.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

CorporateOct 8

Bookmaker Sponsorship of British Racing Falls 17% as bet365 Sponsors 77% Fewer Races

A Racing Post count of every British race title shows bookmakers sponsoring 17% fewer races this year, with the cuts deepening after Remote Gaming Duty went to 40% in April. It lands three weeks before a Budget that may raise machine games duty, which would hit racing harder.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

CorporateOct 8

Kangwon Land Replaced One Member's Points Card 146 Times in a Year, Lawmaker's Data Show

Kangwon Land has no limit on how often a casino member's points card can be replaced, and says it cannot check replacement records against its misuse records, according to data released by a lawmaker during the National Assembly's audit season. The worry is "comp-kkang", the resale of casino points for cash that goes back into gambling.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

M&AOct 8

Iris Offers Reef Casino Trust Minorities A$4.67 a Unit, 21% More Than It Paid for Control

The Iris Capital vehicle that took 85.77% of the owner of Cairns' Reef Hotel Casino at A$3.87 a unit is now offering the holdouts A$4.67 and saying it will delist the trust if it can. On the bidder's own share count, one investor with 9.84% decides whether it can force the rest out.

Antonina Tupikova

2 min read

CorporateOct 8

AGEM Index Falls 6.1% in September, Its First Monthly Drop Since March

Every one of the nine gaming suppliers in the Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers' index pulled it down in September, led by Aristocrat and Light & Wonder. The index is now 5.9% lower than a year ago while the S&P 500 is up 14.4%.

Antonina Tupikova

2 min read

RegulatoryOct 8

Nevada Sets October 2027 Date for Ten Rewritten Technical Standards

Nevada's gaming regulator has gathered a decade of scattered technical rules for casino systems into ten draft standards, and the target date has moved from this month to 1 October 2027. Little of the text is new; what changes is that the controls must now be built into the systems suppliers get approved.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

RegulatoryOct 8

Curaçao's Regulator Abandons Its Breached Licensing Portal and Says Its Licence Seal Is Affected

The Curaçao Gaming Authority will not bring back the portal a hacker used for nine months, and is ending the service arrangements behind it. The seal that lets anyone check a Curaçao-licensed domain is affected too, and its replacement has not yet been published.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

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Eric Persson Says He Will Buy Back Maverick's Two Elko Casinos to Keep 239 Nevada Jobs

Antonina Tupikova3 min read

Malta's National Lottery Operator IZI Passes €1bn in Turnover as Pre-Tax Profit Doubles

Antonina Tupikova2 min read

Bookmaker Sponsorship of British Racing Falls 17% as bet365 Sponsors 77% Fewer Races

Antonina Tupikova3 min read

Kangwon Land Replaced One Member's Points Card 146 Times in a Year, Lawmaker's Data Show

Antonina Tupikova3 min read

AGEM Index Falls 6.1% in September, Its First Monthly Drop Since March

Antonina Tupikova2 min read

Crypto

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Crypto-Gaming Giant Yolo Group to Exit Grey Markets in Major Strategic Pivot to Regulation

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Court of Appeal Overturns Spribe's May Win, Ruling English Law Decides the Effect of Georgia's Aviator Judgments

Antonina Tupikova3 min read

Illinois Casino Revenue Rises 12.7% to $178.2m in September as Hollywood Aurora Gains 81%

Antonina Tupikova3 min read

New Gambling Reform Group FFOG Names Board and Courts Problem Gambling Councils as NCPG Seeks a Leader

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Dutch Study Finds All 10 AI Assistants Named Unlicensed Casinos, and Three Listed Them as Legal

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NCPG Executive Director Heather Maurer Resigns After Nine Months as Kalshi Exits Mount

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Interviews

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WiseGaming's Steven Paton: Technology, Not Geography, Decides Who Survives

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

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Honoré Gaming's Casanova: Europe Builds for the Exception, Not the Rule

Antonina Tupikova8 min read

Jenningsbet's Greg Knight: Media Rights, Not Tax, Will Decide Shop Survival

Antonina Tupikova6 min read

Inside The Playa's VIP Intelligence Bet: A Conversation With Gali and Viktoriia

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Illinois Casino Revenue Rises 12.7% to $178.2m in September as Hollywood Aurora Gains 81%

Denmark Retables a Whistle-to-Whistle Gambling Ad Ban That Would Also End Affiliate Revenue Share

FA Fines Everton's Martin Sherif £5,000 Over 61 Football Bets Placed Through His Accounts

Latest News

Brazil's Unpublished Q1 Betting Report Counts 15.2 Million Bettors and R$914 Million in Earmarks

France's ANJ and ARPP Renew Their Gambling Ad Pact and Bring JONUM Into Scope

Malta's National Lottery Operator IZI Passes €1bn in Turnover as Pre-Tax Profit Doubles

“There Will Always Be Slots”: Omnitronix Architect Tobias Liauw on Prediction Markets and AI in iGaming SkyTalk Debut

Bookmaker Sponsorship of British Racing Falls 17% as bet365 Sponsors 77% Fewer Races

Kangwon Land Replaced One Member's Points Card 146 Times in a Year, Lawmaker's Data Show

Iris Offers Reef Casino Trust Minorities A$4.67 a Unit, 21% More Than It Paid for Control

AGEM Index Falls 6.1% in September, Its First Monthly Drop Since March

Nevada Sets October 2027 Date for Ten Rewritten Technical Standards

Curaçao's Regulator Abandons Its Breached Licensing Portal and Says Its Licence Seal Is Affected

Corporate

Eric Persson Says He Will Buy Back Maverick's Two Elko Casinos to Keep 239 Nevada Jobs

Malta's National Lottery Operator IZI Passes €1bn in Turnover as Pre-Tax Profit Doubles

Bookmaker Sponsorship of British Racing Falls 17% as bet365 Sponsors 77% Fewer Races

Kangwon Land Replaced One Member's Points Card 146 Times in a Year, Lawmaker's Data Show

AGEM Index Falls 6.1% in September, Its First Monthly Drop Since March

Crypto

Three Regulators and Two Banks Start Testing for a Quantum Break

The CLARITY Act Comes Down to Seven Democrats on 15 September

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

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

Crypto-Gaming Giant Yolo Group to Exit Grey Markets in Major Strategic Pivot to Regulation

General

Court of Appeal Overturns Spribe's May Win, Ruling English Law Decides the Effect of Georgia's Aviator Judgments

Illinois Casino Revenue Rises 12.7% to $178.2m in September as Hollywood Aurora Gains 81%

New Gambling Reform Group FFOG Names Board and Courts Problem Gambling Councils as NCPG Seeks a Leader

Dutch Study Finds All 10 AI Assistants Named Unlicensed Casinos, and Three Listed Them as Legal

NCPG Executive Director Heather Maurer Resigns After Nine Months as Kalshi Exits Mount

Interviews

WiseGaming's Steven Paton: Technology, Not Geography, Decides Who Survives

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

Honoré Gaming's Casanova: Europe Builds for the Exception, Not the Rule

Jenningsbet's Greg Knight: Media Rights, Not Tax, Will Decide Shop Survival

Inside The Playa's VIP Intelligence Bet: A Conversation With Gali and Viktoriia

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