Brazil: all our coverage

Evolution's chief executive called the third quarter "uneventful", and on the numbers it was: every region grew on the quarter and adjusted EBITDA landed on consensus. The news sat at the edges. The live casino supplier closed its Brazilian studio on 5 October, and spent €823.9 million on its own shares in three months.

Latin American revenue rose by more than half and casino carried a weak sportsbook to Betsson's highest quarter yet, but gaming taxes and a shrinking B2B line took almost a third off operating profit. The record also rests on the region where Brazil has already shut its market and a Buenos Aires senator wants to do the same.

The Senate president and the chair of the committee handling Chile's online betting bill have each filed a replacement text that would outlaw private platforms rather than license them. The government filed nothing by the 16 October deadline and now has until 26 October; nothing has been voted.

Congress's record shows 99 amendments to Provisional Measure 1.394 when filing closed on 13 October, 94 of them still live. The most ambitious would not soften the ban but replace it, reviving the extinguished licences under a stricter rulebook, and the committee that must weigh them has no chair or rapporteur nine days before the licences lapse.

A Justice Ministry ordinance published on Tuesday writes a Division for the Repression of Illegal Betting and Sports Manipulation into the Federal Police's structure, inside a new money-laundering coordination. It names two posts and no headcount, and the prison terms the government wants are still a bill in Congress.

The president of the Federal Regional Court of the 3rd Region has switched off the only court order that let a licensed operator trade through Brazil's betting ban, on the ground that one exception undermines a rule meant for everyone. Stake says its site and app have been down again since 10 October.

France's gambling regulator has broken its 2025 online sports betting figures down by sport and found growth built on more matches, a 24-hour live offer and operators steering payouts to the 85% cap. The sharper finding is who bets on the obscure end of the menu: mostly players its own algorithm flags as excessive.

The Attorney General's Office says it will go to court to force eight former licensees to give their banks the per-player lists the ban requires. The same release cuts the money still owed to bettors from about R$1.2 billion to R$159 million, and does not say how.

A federal judge in São Paulo has held the government to the ban's own 30-day clause, keeping Stake's licence alive until 25 October while refusing to suspend the ban or let Stake run to 2029. The ANJL has taken a narrower request to a federal court in Brasília, and says a broader one may follow.

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.

Licensed operators must give their banks a per-player list of the R$1.325 billion still owed by Wednesday, and the government's own bulletin shows 86.2 million accounts holding less than R$1 each. Congress has pushed its amendment deadline past the election to 13 October, and Justice Luiz Fux has still not ruled.

The question is whether Betano, KTO, GaleraBet and Blaze ever asked for the forward to be prosecuted for defrauding them, and whether they did so in time. The separate charge of fraud in a sporting competition, over a yellow card in November 2023, is unaffected.

In a 60-page reply filed hours before licensed sites went dark, Jorge Messias asks the Supreme Federal Tribunal to refuse every request to suspend Provisional Measure 1.394, to wait for Paulo Gonet's opinion and to consider a new public hearing. The debate it proposes is one the government did not hold with the industry before it banned betting.

Betano, Superbet, Sportingbet and EstrelaBet now send Brazilian visitors to a government page that says their platforms are offline by order of Provisional Measure 1.394. Justice Luiz Fux let the operators' midnight deadline pass without a decision, and R$1.33 billion of unclaimed player money now passes to the banks.

Three Central Bank resolutions write the betting ban into the rulebooks of Brazil's main payment rails, and a Finance Ministry ordinance gives operators until Wednesday to hand over every player's balance. The tool for clawing back Pix payments to illegal sites still does not exist, and the government page licensed sites are told to point to was not live on Monday morning.

The government's lawyer has told the Supreme Federal Tribunal that the laws which created Brazil's licensed betting market are unconstitutional, reversing the position it took in 2024. It did so in a different case from the one in which Justice Luiz Fux gave it 72 hours, and operators, clubs and Flamengo want his answer on the ban before licensed sites go dark at midnight.

The Supreme Court's betting rapporteur now holds every action against Provisional Measure 1.394, and has asked the Attorney General's Office to respond before he decides anything. Its deadline lands as licensed sites go dark, while Congress has pushed its own amendments past the election.

Messages taken from the jailed banker's phone by the Federal Police show Banco Master's legal director telling Daniel Vorcaro he "cannot appear" after the Finance Ministry asked who stood behind a fund that owned part of Bet.Bet, Valor Econômico reports. A dispatcher from Minas Gerais was later named instead.

Brazil's betting ban polls far better than the market it replaced, but most voters say it will not decide their vote, and Lula has now said the election is why he acted. Broadcasters, operators and six football clubs have asked the Supreme Court to step in before licensed sites go dark on 6 October.

A national association of mayors has filed a third direct action against Provisional Measure 1.394, Flamengo has been admitted to the Supreme Court's betting cases, and the first 12 amendments in Congress include a slots-only rewrite. None of it has yet stopped the clock: licensed sites go dark on 6 October.

The justice and finance ministries say they have asked for 5,209 betting domains to be blocked since the ban and reached channels on Telegram with more than a million members. The licensed industry says illegal sites are multiplying, but its own monitors disagree by a factor of ten on how fast, and one says almost none are new.

Deputy prosecutor-general Lucas Rocha Furtado, a declared opponent of betting, has asked the Federal Court of Accounts to push the ban back by almost three months and to make the government account for the R$30 million each operator paid for a licence. The court has not ruled, and its power over a provisional measure is limited.

The Attorney General's Office wants Betano, Bet365, Superbet and 14 other operators to repay the public health system, pay collective damages and refund double the stakes of diagnosed gamblers they kept accepting. It filed three days after the government banned their product.

A freedom-of-information reply described by BNLData says the ministry held no assessment of what banning betting would do, though the memorandum its minister signed the same day priced the tax loss. The R$38.8 billion social-cost figure the government cited was built from English estimates, and its authors say it shows association, not causation.