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Spain's consumer affairs ministry has switched on a regulator-run system that will add up each player's deposits across all licensed online operators and stop them at €700 a day, €1,750 a week and €3,300 over four weeks, plus a portal that shows players their whole market footprint. The limit binds from March 2027, and players can lift it themselves after three working days.

The Curaçao Gaming Authority has set out its fullest account yet of the breach of its licensing portal, blaming a German researcher and weighing civil action. The same document dates the unlawful access from December 2025 to September 2026, and says nothing about what was taken or who has been told.

Germany's largest sports betting operator has published measurable targets for player protection, staff and climate to 2030. The player-protection goal is a ceiling Tipico already clears, and the company says so itself.

The Malta Gaming Authority and its chief executive sought an injunction in Germany against Lilith Wittmann. She says the Berlin judgment bars her from hacking the regulator again but lets her use its documents. The court has not published its reasoning.

The Joint Gambling Authority of the Länder says it supervises 129 licensed operators, made 1,843 illegal sites unreachable from Germany by the end of 2025 and puts about 77% of the online market in the licensed channel. It wants the treaty evaluation to give it more discretion, because changing the rules takes years and the black market adapts in months.

Greater Manchester Police worked the raids with the Gambling Commission and the city council's licensing team, on intelligence gathered after a similar operation in May. Two women were held on suspicion of immigration offences, one over money laundering and the Gambling Act, and one over licensing.

The Gaming Supervisory Authority opened an account, funded it and bet on sports results, then took the evidence to the Vilnius Regional Administrative Court. Internet providers must block the site and payment firms must stop dealing with Adventure One QSS. It is the first prediction market Lithuania has treated as an unlicensed bookmaker, and the 2,204th site it has blocked.

Portaria 2,750 turns June's "financial asphyxiation" decree into a procedure: a red-flag list for Pix, a 24-hour block on notification, forfeiture of what is frozen, joint tax liability for banks that keep processing, and a safe harbour for those that report.

Frankfurt prosecutors say five suspects ran unlicensed slots sites since 2021 and evaded €77.6m in tax in a single year. The regulated industry says a network this size makes the GGL's 23% black market estimate impossible.

More than 1.2 million people, 3% of every active bettor registered with the regulator, have barred themselves from Brazil's licensed betting sites since the central platform opened in December. The figure arrived in a week when the Supreme Court received rival petitions on the betting law and the central bank told banks to stop advertising bets inside their apps.

Germany's Gauselmann group has agreed terms to take control of the Le Stelsia casino group and, with it, listed Société Française de Casinos. The price it has put on the listed shares says more about the deal than the headline value does.

Grainne Hurst wrote to warn that unlicensed bookmakers will take £800 million in Premier League bets this season, reaching £1 billion a year by 2027/28. The numbers are arguable. The government's own impact assessment conceding the mechanism is not.

From Robinhood's selective product choices to Europe's blanket bans, the prediction markets industry is facing a moment of reckoning over market integrity. The question is whether the sector can regulate itself before regulators do it for them.

Germany's gambling regulator claims 77% of players are in the licensed market. The industry says the real figure is closer to 50%, and the consequences of getting it wrong could reshape the country's entire regulatory future.

The Malta Gaming Authority is investigating unauthorised access to one of its systems after German security researcher Lilith Wittmann claimed responsibility, accused the regulator of enabling organised crime, and threatened to release a wider archive of gambling related data if enforcement action is pursued.

Meta has removed more than 159 million fraudulent ads and shut down 10.9 million scam-linked accounts in 2025, while a joint international operation with the Royal Thai Police, FBI, and US Department of Justice disabled 150,000 accounts tied to Southeast Asian scam centres and led to 21 arrests, as criminal networks increasingly use fake gambling platforms to lure victims.

Leading gambling operators SkillOnNet and Wildz Group have rejected Finland's proposed universal loss limits, warning that overly strict rules will drive players to the black market. Citing the failures of the German regulatory model, the companies argue that the new legal framework must remain competitive to ensure high channelisation rates when the market opens in 2027.

The escalating legal conflict over bet365 in Germany serves as a litmus test for the European Union’s ability to enforce judicial cooperation across borders. As Maltese legislation continues to shield operators from multi million euro claims the upcoming decisions from the European Court of Justice will determine whether the current system of regulatory loopholes can survive or if a new era of stringent player protection and cross border accountability is about to begin.

Seven of Europe’s major gambling regulators have agreed to strengthen joint efforts against illegal online gambling networks, warning that fast-growing

Per Widerström, chief executive of evoke plc, has been named in a private criminal complaint filed with the Vienna Public Prosecutor's Office last Thursday

Starting yesterday, 17 November, YouTube has introduced a comprehensive update to its gambling content policy. The changes significantly tighten controls on

It’s been a seismic week. From right here in Malta, you can feel the shockwaves from two industry-redefining deals. This is the new era of consolidation, and

Banijay acquires Tipico, merges with Betclic creating €3bn Banijay Gaming. Deal forms new European gambling leader focused on regulated markets like FR & DE.

Wolverhampton, UK - 30th September 2025 - Germany's national gambling regulator, the Gemeinsame Glücksspielbehörde der Länder (GGL), has sounded the alarm