Denmark: all our coverage

The Stockholm-listed affiliate will pay the sellers of a Japan-focused business it bought for €2.0 million in 2019 about 40% of what it still owed them, mostly with a Bank of Valletta loan. Before the news the market valued the whole company at about a quarter of the old bill; the deal still waits on the bank.

Denmark's liberalised gambling market shrank year on year in August for the first time in 2026, and sports betting accounts for more than the whole fall. The comparison is with an exceptionally strong August for bookmakers last year, and the data cannot say whether Danes staked less or simply lost less.

Google will let certified online gambling advertisers buy the slot at the top of YouTube's homepage from 21 October, widening a carve-out that has covered only sports betting since 2022. The notice names no markets, and it arrives in a month when European lawmakers are moving to restrict gambling advertising rather than extend it.

Denmark's government has put its lapsed gambling advertising bill back before the Folketing, with a 10-minute buffer around every live sports broadcast and new limits on who may appear in gambling ads. The clause with the most commercial bite is quieter: affiliates could no longer be paid on players' turnover or losses.

Stake Canada Ltd. is now on the regulator's register and says it expects to be fully operational on 12 October, provided it signs an operating agreement with the Alberta iGaming Corporation. The date sits one day inside the 13 October limit for operators moving out of Alberta's grey market.

Police data supplied to a National Assembly member show the Gangwon provincial cyber unit has booked 26 users of the blocked platform for gambling under Article 246 of the Criminal Act and referred 18 of them for prosecution. One trader alone put about KRW 5.7bn through the site. The defendants say a yes-or-no contract settled on a blockchain is a derivative, not a bet, and the courts have not yet been asked.

The "world's largest" online casino has shut its whole site to Irish users and says it will apply for a licence, while the regulator says two prediction markets and a major platform have geo-blocked and deposits are being refunded.

Polla Chilena has asked a Santiago court to investigate Betsson, Betano, 1xBet, Coolbet and seven others for unauthorised gambling, money laundering and criminal association. The state is collecting VAT from the same companies its own lottery is describing as an organisation.

The communications minister said there should be an annual award for the platform that commits the most sins against Malaysians, and named Facebook. The number that matters is not 78. It is 30, the minutes his regulator spends on each of 470,593 takedown requests.

The 9% revenue line is not the story. An affiliate that barely made money in its most important growth market a year ago now runs a 26% margin there, and it has named prediction markets as one of the three things that got it there.

The Danish Gambling Authority took a telecoms company to court to get the blocking order, and Polymarket was on the list. The tax minister's objection was not to sports contracts but to markets on the deaths of public figures.

Finanstilsynet has ordered the Copenhagen payments firm to stop taking on new online gaming business customers until it can document that serious money-laundering control failures have ceased. Inpay says its board had already paused that onboarding three weeks before the ruling landed.

LeoVegas Group has brought its proprietary Tiger sportsbook to the United Kingdom, deploying it simultaneously across three brands in one of the world's most competitive regulated betting markets. The move completes the platform's rollout through Denmark, Brazil and Sweden and marks the group's most consequential statement yet of intent to own its own technology stack.

Denmark's gambling regulator has opened applications for new and renewed land-based casino licences for the first time this year, even as the segment posted a 5.6% decline in GGR and now accounts for just 3% of the total market. The move signals a structural recalibration rather than a recovery.

FDJ United has shifted its online betting and gaming strategy from acquisitions to technology transformation, with CEO Stéphane Pallez outlining accelerated internal platform migration, stack consolidation, and stricter focus on platform control as tax and regulatory pressure intensifies across Europe.

Another week, another whirlwind. If you've had your head down in meetings, you might have missed some serious power plays across the globe. The running theme?

Denmark's regulated gambling market posted total revenue of DKK585 million (approx. $91.3m) in June, a headline drop of 17% compared to the same month last

A Member of Parliament from Norway's Progress Party has reiterated her party’s desire to end the country’s longstanding gambling monopoly. MP Silje Hjemdal is

ATG, the Swedish horse racing and betting operator, has announced the appointment of Mikael Bäcke as the new Chief Executive Officer of Hippos ATG. This new

Online casino gambling continues its trajectory of strong growth and remains the leading sector in Denmark's gambling market, according to the latest figures