Portugal: all our coverage

The International Association of Gaming Regulators will run a coordinated consumer campaign against unlicensed online gambling from 9 to 13 November, built around a free site where players enter a gambling site's address to check its licence. IAGR has not said which jurisdictions the tool, supplied by a regulatory technology vendor, will cover.

Paddy Power's owner expects up to 1,400 redundancies from a restructure of its UK and Ireland business, eight days before a Budget that could raise machine duty. The tax set the size and the timing; the shape looks like the cost programme Flutter was already running.

The Esports Integrity Commission has turned five provisional suspensions into bans of three years to life after a wager that, it says, called the margin of four straight defeats. Most of the betting charges were never contested at a hearing, and the decision names no bookmaker.

Four provincial lottery corporations asked the Supreme Court of Canada on 7 October to overturn the ruling that would let Ontario's poker and fantasy players sit at the same tables as players abroad. The nine judges reserved judgment, and no date has been set for a decision.

The Ministry of Culture and Equality has put online poker for the state monopoly out to a fast-track consultation, two years after Norsk Tipping asked for it. The proposal comes with tight stakes, loss and table limits, and an open question about whether a Norway-only player pool can compete with the foreign sites it is meant to replace.

The supplier's tech learning space runs from 29 September to 1 October at booth C416 in Hall 3, opening with a day built around operational performance. Sessions last 30 minutes, seats are limited and registration is per lecture.

A binding merger agreement signed in Rome and Barcelona creates the second-largest listed gaming and sports betting operator in the world, on about €2 billion of pro forma EBITDA. Cirsa is valued at roughly 6x.

Atucha Strategic Advisory, led by industry veteran Ramiro Atucha, has announced a new strategic partnership with End2End, a global multiplayer bingo and

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.

The Spanish gaming powerhouse CIRSA has officially commenced trading on the Bolsa Madrid, marking its highly anticipated debut on the country's stock