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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has opened a false-certification proceeding against two ProphetX contracts on whether an NFL game produces a never-before-seen final score, and stayed them before they traded. It is the first stay of a sports event contract on the CFTC's 2026 filings record, and it turns on the same "economic consequence" test the agency says sports contracts pass.

Google has added Connecticut to the US states where certified prediction markets may not advertise, the fifth exclusion since it opened the category in January, and has written a pointer to its prediction market rules into the main body of its gambling policy. Each of Google's notices has taken effect the day it was posted, and none gives a reason.

The Federal Trade Commission has begun an early-stage review of online sportsbooks such as FanDuel and DraftKings, The Washington Sun reported, citing three sources. Nothing is on the record yet: DraftKings says it has had no civil investigative demand and the agency declined to comment.

The senator whose name is on the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act and the CFTC chairman who implemented it have told the Supreme Court that Congress never moved sports betting from the states to the commodities regulator. The American Gaming Association, 145 tribes and tribal groups and Atlantic City's casinos filed too, and there is still nothing on the docket for Kalshi.

Maine's gambling regulator now says the first quarter of 2027 is the more practical target for online casino, and the state has told a federal court its rules cannot take effect before 25 November. Between now and launch sit a legality review, six hires, a licensing portal still to be launched and a constitutional challenge still waiting for a ruling.

Connecticut's consumer protection chief says three of the nine prediction markets it ordered to stop sports contracts last month are leaving the state. None of the three has confirmed it publicly, and one industry analyst says ProphetX has not gone at all.

Three Democrats want copies of every personalised athlete and entertainer video FanDuel has sent to VIP customers, and for each one, how much the recipient had lost and why the host chose them. FanDuel told them in September that it has no plans to suspend or end its VIP programme.

IG's core trading business kept more customers and less of their money in the third quarter, and the London-listed broker has cut its 2026 growth outlook to mid-single digits. The US fantasy and prediction-market operator it agreed in July to buy for up to $1.3 billion more than doubled its revenue, but that deal has not closed and the business is in court with six states.

Two associations of gaming regulators have told the Supreme Court that the same Kalshi contract is shielded from state law in New Jersey and subject to it in Ohio, and that only the Court can end that. They follow a group of state lawmakers in backing New Jersey's petition; nobody has yet filed for Kalshi.

The Ohio Casino Control Commission has told Polymarket, Robinhood, Coinbase and seven other platforms to stop offering sports event contracts to Ohioans and confirm it in writing within 14 days. Kalshi, the company that lost in the Sixth Circuit, did not get a letter: its $5 million penalty case is already under way.

Encore Boston Harbor produced $62.8 million of the three casinos' revenue, up from $95.7 million in July across the state, and the seven mobile books plus three retail counters generated just over $47 million of taxable sports revenue. DraftKings settled $275.1 million of it, nearly twice FanDuel, in the last full month before the NFL.

A new daily record of $3.01 billion, another $2.82 billion on Sunday, record fees of $18.2 million and $17.6 million, and the worst two days in Kalshi's history for parlay takers, who lost $46.1 million. Strip out the parlay maker side and neither day was a record for taker volume, InGame's analysis shows.

The Indian Gaming Association chair told Gaming America that more tribal lawsuits are coming after the Ninth Circuit, that DraftKings' tribal partnerships in Connecticut, Arizona and Washington are at risk over its prediction-market push, and that the Supreme Court will rule against Kalshi. CNIGA's James Siva: "We're keeping track."

New Alabama filings show the Chumba Casino owner gave the Republican governor candidate a further $100,000 on 31 August, $170,000 to a PAC funded by DraftKings, FanDuel, BetMGM and the Poarch Band, and $10,000 to $20,000 apiece to six state senators, 36 contributions in five months in a state with no lottery and no regulated online gambling.

Eilers & Krejcik's first combined forecast credits sportsbooks with $31.7 billion and the exchanges with an $8.4 billion "handle analog", a translation of exchange volume into sportsbook terms that it has not published. The AGA sees sportsbooks flat at $29.5 billion; Week 1 data suggests the exchange share may be larger.

The letters Catherine Hanaway promised on Wednesday went out to Polymarket, Kalshi, Crypto.com, Novig, Underdog and Robinhood, dated 16 and 17 September. Five of the six are told to stop serving under-21s. The licensed sportsbooks' own exchange products are not on the list, and Kentucky, she says, is close to a settlement.

Catherine Hanaway says sports contracts "fit four square the definition of gambling in Missouri", that they siphon money from sportsbooks that pay the state's tax, and that what she wants is an agreement putting the exchanges under Missouri gaming law and taxing them. If there is no agreement she will sue; she expects them to sue her first.

The 9 September order from the Department of Consumer Protection told Underdog to stop advertising and offering sports event contracts and to let residents withdraw. Underdog's answer, filed in federal court on Tuesday, is the same one it gave Ohio, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Mexico and Washington: the CFTC has "exclusive jurisdiction" over a designated contract market, so the state's action is "meritless".

The site compares equivalent contracts across Kalshi, Polymarket, Novig, Underdog, FanDuel Predicts, Fanatics and five others, with a cross-venue engine for multi-leg positions and Genius's live game data underneath. It runs on Legend, the media business whose $1.2bn purchase in February sank the shares. Mark Locke says most prediction-market demand "appears new".

A second unanimous panel in three weeks has ruled against the exchange, this time for two California tribes under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. The court held that IGRA and the Commodity Exchange Act "simply address two different questions", and sent the case back for an injunction. Lawyers on the tribal side are already talking about geofencing reservations.

Judge Lorna Schofield heard the commission argue that the Commodity Exchange Act pre-empts New York's $3.4 billion gambling case against Coinbase and Gemini, and pressed its lawyers on why she should enjoin the state when other federal courts have declined to. She did not rule from the bench.

Nevada's win against sports event contracts is stayed while the full court decides whether to rehear it, so Arizona, Montana and California cannot enforce, Nevada and Washington do so through state courts, and the Supreme Court's conference is on 28 September.

Five months after the Finance Ministry ordered the site blocked, its markets on the October election are still reachable and a Portuguese-language account is promoting a candidate's lead among bettors. The AGU has asked for the file.

Two consecutive daily records, parlays over half of everything, a $56m Cowboys-Giants market and pricing that Citizens says beat FanDuel and DraftKings on straight bets. The volume figure counts both sides of every trade.