iGaming Industry News

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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

CorporateSep 1

CLSA Expects Macau September GGR Growth of 0.3% Against a 9.5% Consensus

A nine-point gap between one broker and the market is not a rounding difference. It is a disagreement about whether Macau's recovery is still running.

Antonina Tupikova

2 min read

CorporateSep 1

SkyCity Completes NZ$74.5m Auckland Sale Under Its Asset Monetisation Plan

The settlement lands on 1 September and takes SkyCity a third of the way through a NZ$200m divestment programme designed to bring down debt after a bruising two years.

Antonina Tupikova

2 min read

RegulatorySep 1

Romania's Councils Are Closing Gaming Halls and Superbet Is Keeping Its Staff

Bucharest handed licensing power to local councils, and they have used it. An entire county has voted to phase out gaming halls, Timisoara has banned them outright, and one operator has said publicly that nobody loses their job.

Antonina Tupikova

2 min read

RegulatorySep 1

Dutch Lottery Takes Curacao-Licensed Skyhills to Court Over Unlicensed Play

Nederlandse Loterij is not waiting for the regulator. It is suing an unlicensed operator directly, and the complaint singles out TikTok advertising aimed at Dutch players.

Antonina Tupikova

2 min read

RegulatorySep 1

Sweden's Trade Body Tells the Regulator to Rethink Its Safer Gambling Rules

Spelinspektionen wants to replace guidance with binding duty-of-care requirements. BOS says the regulator has not asked what the cumulative friction does to the licensed market it is trying to protect.

Antonina Tupikova

2 min read

Prediction MarketsSep 1

Under-21s Traded $5.4bn on Kalshi Because Finance Rules Set the Age at 18

The fight over whether prediction markets are finance or gambling has looked like a jurisdictional argument between regulators. CNN's analysis puts a number on what it decides in practice, and the number is a consumer protection question.

Antonina Tupikova

2 min read

Prediction MarketsSep 1

Polymarket Raising $1bn at a $21bn Valuation as Two Countries Move Against It

Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal report that Donald Trump Jr's 1789 Capital is leading a $1bn round valuing Polymarket at $21bn. It comes in the same week a federal appeals court and two Canadian regulators decided its core product is gambling, not finance.

Antonina Tupikova

2 min read

RegulatorySep 1

Brazil's MPF Raids Betnacional's Owner Over Alleged Laundering and Tax Evasion

Federal prosecutors allege a Curaçao shell company was used to make a Brazilian betting operation look offshore before regulation arrived, and that the structures behind it were adapted rather than abandoned once it did. NSX Brasil says it operates lawfully.

Antonina Tupikova

2 min read

RegulatoryAug 31

Estonia's PM Orders an Early Review of a Tax Cut That Drew No New Operators

Estonia halved its online gambling tax to bring international operators to Tallinn. Nine months on, not one new online casino has arrived, receipts are down, and the prime minister has pulled the review forward by two years.

Antonina Tupikova

2 min read

RegulatoryAug 31

British Columbia Says Prediction Markets Are Illegal Gambling in the Province

Canada's securities regulators declined jurisdiction over sports event contracts on Thursday. By Friday British Columbia had picked it up, naming Kalshi and Polymarket and calling their sports and entertainment products illegal. That is the sequence operators should be watching.

Antonina Tupikova

2 min read