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Spain: all our coverage

39 articles on Spain, newest first. For the regulator, licensing, tax and legal status, see the Spain profile.

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Regulatory

Dutch Regulator Funds Open-Source Algorithm to Score Player Risk

Researchers at the University of Amsterdam have built a machine-learning model that reads betting behaviour rather than what players say about themselves, and released it free. The Kansspelautoriteit funded it and is careful to call it an instrument rather than a substitute for duty of care.

A Coral betting shop and a Yorkshire Building Society branch on a British high street, with red double-decker buses and two street cleaners in orange high-visibility clothing in the foreground
Corporate

Rank Group Posts 21% Underlying Profit Growth as UK Tax Impact Contained

Rank Group has delivered a standout set of full-year results against a difficult backdrop for UK-listed operators, growing underlying like-for-like net gaming revenue 6% to £834.1 million and lifting underlying profit by 21%. The figures suggest the Grosvenor and Mecca owner has absorbed the initial impact of the tax hikes that have rattled rivals.

The pediment of Spain's Congress of Deputies in Madrid, with the Spanish flag flying above its sculpted frieze against a blue sky
Regulatory

Spain Consults on Banning Celebrity and Influencer Gambling Ads

Spain's gambling regulator has reopened one of Europe's most contested advertising fights, proposing to bar celebrities and influencers from all gambling promotion as it rewrites the 2011 Gambling Act, two years after the courts struck down its last attempt.

The Spanish flag, red and yellow with the coat of arms, flying from a metal flagpole against a clear blue sky
Regulatory

Spain Blocks Polymarket and Kalshi Amid Unlicensed Gambling Investigation

Spain's gambling regulator, the DGOJ, has ordered a precautionary nationwide block on Polymarket and Kalshi and opened a sanctions procedure, treating the prediction platforms as unlicensed gambling rather than financial exchanges and aligning Spain with a widening European crackdown.

Madrid's Gran Vía seen from above under a clear blue sky, with the domed Metropolis building in the foreground and the city's rooftops stretching to the mountains
Corporate

Codere Up for Sale with $2.3 Billion Price Tag

One of Europe and Latin America's most recognisable gambling operators is on the block. With advisors hired and a summer deadline in sight, the race to acquire Codere is already taking shape.

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