Founder, iGaming Times
Her understanding of the industry was built at SiGMA, the World's Gaming Festival, where she spent close to four years as an Account Manager working across the SiGMA and AIBC Summit portfolios. It was a role that put her in the room for a significant share of the deals, launches and partnerships that shaped the sector between 2021 and 2025. She managed client portfolios, prepared and delivered proposals, negotiated contracts and identified sponsorship opportunities across operators, suppliers, affiliates and service providers in every major regulated market.
That vantage point taught her something she now considers the central truth of iGaming: this is an industry that runs on three things. Relationships, because almost nothing here happens through a cold enquiry. Information, because the operators and suppliers who move first are the ones who understood a regulatory shift, a market opening or a competitor's position before it was common knowledge. And positioning, because a brand's standing in the industry conversation determines who takes its call.
She also saw how unevenly those three things were distributed. The people with the best networks had the best information, and the people with the best information built the strongest brands. Everyone else was reading the news a week late and hoping to catch up at the next conference.
iGaming Times is her answer to that gap. She founded the publication in 2026 to give the industry a single place to keep up with what is actually happening, and to give the people working in it a platform to build their own profile and progress their careers, whether they run a business or are three years into their first iGaming job.
Group gaming revenue up 5.8% to €352.5 million, adjusted EBITDA up 14.1%, and the online arm's best quarter yet on World Cup stakes 180% above 2022. What the market wants is not the numbers but the answer to a strategic review that has been running since the first quarter, with Jefferies and Macquarie engaged.
Takeharu Yamanaka won in 2021 on a platform of killing the city's integrated resort bid, and did. He has now stepped down over a workplace harassment finding, weeks before a special election, in a country whose prime minister supports a second round of casino licensing and whose tourism agency will take applications from May 2027.
Senator Cynthia Lummis narrowed the bill's decentralised finance provisions specifically to answer tribal worries about prediction markets. The Indian Gaming Association says that misses the point: what it wants is text saying federal commodities law does not preempt tribal gaming law, and that exchanges cannot list contracts on sports or casino games.
Anthony Lee, the Conservative Party's director of campaigning at the time, admitted two offences under section 42 of the Gambling Act over a bet on the 2024 general election date. His wife Laura Lee admitted one. Sentencing is on 23 October, and the maximum is two years.
The International Alliance Combating Telecom and Cyber Fraud was formally launched on 10 September, with the United Nations and Interpol represented as observers. Its initiating countries include Cambodia, whose regulator has spent the past year revoking casino licences over links to exactly the scam operations the alliance exists to disrupt.
Adjusted EBITDA of €162.5 million, a third guidance upgrade this year, and North American revenue up 161%. The driver is a motor-racing and slot hybrid running with Hard Rock Bet in Florida that settles on historical race results rather than a random number generator, and Playtech is telling investors not to annualise it.
Sources close to Lula say a provisional measure restricting the regulated betting market could reach the National Congress this week, with an online casino ban among the options. The regulator wants the effort aimed at clandestine platforms instead, and a separate bill would cap a bettor at R$100 a day across every licensed site.
The Financial Action Task Force has spent a year on gambling, with input from more than 80 jurisdictions, and its report reads as a supervisory checklist rather than a warning. The finding operators will least enjoy is that online platforms show more documented terrorist-financing misuse than the land-based sector.
The company has gone to federal court in Ohio, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Mexico and Washington, asking each to rule that state gambling law cannot reach a CFTC-regulated contract. It is the first prediction-market operator to sue pre-emptively across a whole group of states rather than wait to be sued.
Every full and part-time employee gets $1,000 of Red Rock Resorts stock for each year of service, announced without warning at a party most of them thought was just a party. It also arrives five days after the Supreme Court declined to spare the company an order to bargain with the Culinary Union, and it was announced at the property that order concerns.
The First Hall of the Civil Court granted Spribe an ex parte provisional injunction on 1 September covering two EU trademarks. The evidence the court cited is the kind operators can check for themselves: the two games appearing side by side in a search on Betsson, and a listing that credited Spribe's game to the wrong studio.
Around 300 of the roles are in Stoke-on-Trent, where bet365 is the biggest private employer, and 40 across Gibraltar and Malta. Voluntary redundancies come first. Every one of the five largest British gambling firms has now cut staff since remote gaming duty rose 19 points.
Evolution commissioned it in 2022 to answer Black Cube, has called it exonerating, and spent months resisting its disclosure. Now that it is out, it clears Evolution of illegal practice and of operating in sanctioned countries, and separately finds significant compliance failings and games reachable from four prohibited markets. Playtech has moved first on the reading.
Downing Street says adult gaming centres are spreading across the high street and wants councils able to refuse them. The trade body's reply is that Gambling Commission data shows 1,610 AGCs in 2015 and 1,415 in 2025. Its own member survey, taken before the change of prime minister, found 100% believe Westminster does not understand the sector.
PowNed's new PowCrime platform showed people registered on the national self-exclusion register getting into gaming halls on somebody else's identity document. The regulator calls it a serious signal and is acting against the venues named, and it has conceded the point that matters: land-based access control is a manual process.
The company says it does not believe the contracts break state law, and it has stopped offering them in Michigan anyway. In exchange the state has agreed not to enforce its sports betting laws against Robinhood while the appeals run. Its broader prediction markets hub stays open.
The bank can see what its own customers pay into betting apps and what comes back out, and across seven months the ratio never reached break-even. The number that should worry the industry more is the one about balances: households that bet online hold 59% of the deposit balance of households that do not.
The regulator has seen gambling activity spike around the days minimum-income payments land, and has been asking since 2023 how to check whether a casino-card applicant is a benefit recipient. The answer on the table is a yes-or-no lookup against an ID number. The Data Protection Commissioner's alternative, a card that marks the holder out, drew warnings about stigma.
S&P Global has published a credit FAQ warning that Genting Bhd may not be able to defend its investment-grade rating while pursuing $10.5 billion of expansion in New York and Singapore. Fitch cut the group to the same rung on Monday. It now sits one notch above speculative grade with a negative outlook and, in S&P's words, no more buffer.
Euromat puts Europe's illegal online market at €12 billion and says it has tripled since 2019. The Betting and Gaming Council promotes a separate report putting the global figure at $50 billion. The two numbers cannot be compared, both were commissioned by interested parties, and both reach the same conclusion about what enforcement is doing wrong.
Citigroup expects MOP20.5 billion for the month even though the first six days ran 10% below August's daily rate. Last week CLSA put September growth at 0.3% against a 9.5% consensus. Both are reading the same shoulder month, and the gap between them is the widest of the year.
Chief Justice John Roberts denied Red Rock Casino's emergency application on Friday without comment, leaving in place a DC Circuit judgment that the resort must recognise and bargain in good faith with the Culinary Union. The dispute runs back to a 2022 finding that a fair election could not be held at a Station Casinos property.
The ANJ is looking at the front-of-shirt deal between the Ligue 1 club and a company that now runs its own event-contracts exchange, according to L'Equipe, the French sports daily. France blocked Polymarket in July, and the question this raises is whether a prediction-market operator can be a football sponsor in a country where it cannot take a bet.
Chancellor John Healey is said to be weighing an increase to the duty on gaming machines, a year after remote gaming duty went from 21% to 40%. A doubling would take the three bands to 10%, 40% and 50%, and analysts have told the Racing Post it would cost nearly 3,000 betting shops and around £70m of the racing levy.