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 2025 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.
The Star Entertainment Group made an EBITDA profit of A$12 million in the September quarter, and its chair told shareholders the way it treats VIP customers is its biggest problem. The numbers land as the group waits on a Federal Court penalty in AUSTRAC's money laundering case.
Justice Luiz Fux has met the industry's demand for an injunction against Provisional Measure 1.394 with a hearing rather than a decision. Twenty-six bodies, from the government to Flamengo and Corinthians, will speak at the Supreme Federal Tribunal next Tuesday, with the licences already extinguished.
Finland's licensing authority has given its first official count of awards for the market that opens on 1 July 2027, three times the number operators had announced. Only three of the 12 licensees can be matched to a known operator.
Kalshi has asked a federal court in Louisiana to bar the state from enforcing its gambling laws against its sports contracts, although Louisiana has brought no case against it. The suit targets the enforcement powers that took effect on 1 August, and it opens the prediction market fight in the Fifth Circuit.
Days after tightening its sportsbook menu, the NBA has signed up Kalshi and Polymarket as preferred exchanges and DraftKings as an authorised operator. The memorandum it signed with the federal regulator alongside them is a statement of intent, and says so.
The Australian Capital Territory wants no poker machine played without a verified player card, no card without a loss limit and no ATM in any venue with pokies. The bill also writes a cut to 1,000 authorisations by 2045 into statute, but it has been introduced, not passed.
European Entertainment Group's ComeOn and the Helsinki newcomer SuomiVeto say Finland's National Police Board has licensed them for the market that opens on 1 July 2027, joining Hippos ATG and Wildz. SuomiVeto has published its licence number and decision date, while the board has yet to publish a list of licensees.
The Illinois Gaming Board has approved proposed rules that would put an identity check in front of every video gaming terminal in the state and open the way to cashless player accounts. A comment period, legislative review and a central system still being built stand between the vote and the venues.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won Sunday's run-off on the day Brazil's federal betting licences expired, ending the industry's hope that a new government would withdraw the ban. What happens next rests with a Congress that has still not installed the committee due to report on the measure by 23 November, and with a Supreme Court justice who held his ruling until the vote was over.
New York's gambling regulator wants a Manhattan court to make Kalshi hand over records on its sports contracts, under-21 users and advertising, saying it needs them to decide on civil penalties. It is a second state route to a penalty alongside the attorney general's $36 billion suit, and it seeks documents, not a halt to trading.
Kalshi has started listing contracts on industry-wide indices of card spending, point-of-sale sales and app downloads, all settled on figures from the data company Carbon Arc. The same vendor already settles Kalshi markets on sportsbook and casino advertising and on DraftKings and FanDuel downloads, and its numbers appear to sit outside the test the SEC used on 13 October to class Cboe's KPI options as securities.
Prosecutors at the Corte dei conti allege that five former staff of the scratchcard concessionaire used their system access to find four winning tickets worth €24 million and had relatives and friends buy them. The claim is the State's, not the company's: prizes that chance might have left unclaimed would have stayed with the Treasury.
A Baltimore circuit judge has reversed the contract appeals board that upheld Intralot's disqualification from Maryland's lottery systems tender, reportedly holding that a 2025 procurement law required the state to let it correct its minority business paperwork. It revives Intralot's case, not its award: the state threw out every bid in December, and Scientific Games is still running the lottery while it fights that decision.
A one-page memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth tells service members and civilians that trading on nonpublic information, classified or not, can bring discipline or prosecution, and calls their bets a signal enemies can read. As reported, it stops short of the ban on military-event trading that lawmakers asked for in May.
Anthony Lee, his wife Laura Lee and Amy Hind avoided immediate custody at Southwark Crown Court after admitting cheating under section 42 of the Gambling Act 2005. The Gambling Commission calls it the first case of its kind, and 10 more defendants are still to stand trial.
Football lifted sportsbook handle by 48% to 65% on August in all three states, and revenue recovered from August's low. Against September 2025 the picture splits: Michigan and Pennsylvania revenue rose sharply on better results, New Jersey's fell 14.3%, and only Michigan took more bets than a year earlier.
Italy's communications regulator wants an operator's ".news" or ".sport" brand to escape the gambling advertising ban only if it runs a real newsroom, links nowhere near the betting site and looks nothing like it. The draft lands two days after the Constitutional Court made the ban's €50,000 minimum fine reducible.
A Citrin-POLITICO poll finds 50% of registered voters in favour of legal sports betting at tribal casinos, four years after a tribal in-person measure won 33% of the vote. Online betting still trails 37% to 50%, which is the part California's tribes now have to win in 2028.
Sweden's racing-owned operator says casino grew 13% in the third quarter, but the growth came entirely from its Danish subsidiary: in Sweden, horse betting, sports betting and casino all earned less than a year ago. The money that funds Swedish trotting and gallop racing shrank with them.
Malacañang has asked the Department of Foreign Affairs to look at whether January's visa-free scheme for Chinese visitors is being used to staff illegal offshore gaming and scam hubs. It is a review, not a decision, and the scheme was due one before it expires anyway.
The Chickasaw Nation's commercial arm now owns 13 Horse Palace sites, live racing at Sweetwater Downs, and the operator behind about 35% of Wyoming's $2.49 billion historical horse racing handle. No price was disclosed, and the deal lands months after a bill to cap the machines died.
The state's largest casino took $46.1 million from its tables and slots in September, its weakest month since the pandemic, while more than 1,300 workers picketed outside. The regulator's statewide total also carries an MGM Springfield figure that matches August's to the cent.
Malta's gaming regulator and its consumer authority have agreed a formal framework for handling player complaints and sharing information where their remits overlap. The text is unpublished, and the release names no practice, term or advertising rule they will pursue together.
All six of Macau's casino operators signed up on Friday as passive investors in a MOP20 billion government guidance fund, with every pataca credited against the non-gaming spending they promised for their 2023 concessions. Sands China says its share replaces projects it had planned to build.