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Sweden's plan for the EU anti-money laundering package would let the regulator fine a gambling licensee up to 10% of turnover, measured where applicable at group level. The online operators' trade body says that base is disproportionate and risks double punishment.

Sweden's gambling regulator has barred the company behind Duel.com with immediate effect. The operator had said it would keep offering Swedish, and the block on Swedish users it described was not in place when the regulator checked.

Finland's state-owned gambling company will run a new brand built on Viaplay's sports content in its home market and in Denmark from 1 July 2027. It is Veikkaus's first consumer business outside Finland, and the announcement is silent on the licences the brand will need.

Sweden's racing-owned operator says casino grew 13% in the third quarter, but the growth came entirely from its Danish subsidiary: in Sweden, horse betting, sports betting and casino all earned less than a year ago. The money that funds Swedish trotting and gallop racing shrank with them.

Evolution's chief executive called the third quarter "uneventful", and on the numbers it was: every region grew on the quarter and adjusted EBITDA landed on consensus. The news sat at the edges. The live casino supplier closed its Brazilian studio on 5 October, and spent €823.9 million on its own shares in three months.

Sweden's state-owned gambling group grew net gaming revenue by 1% in the third quarter but earned less from it, because it chose to spend more on its brand, AI and a move to the cloud. The growth came from the licensed online arm; the lottery monopoly barely moved and the gaming-machine business shrank again.

Latin American revenue rose by more than half and casino carried a weak sportsbook to Betsson's highest quarter yet, but gaming taxes and a shrinking B2B line took almost a third off operating profit. The record also rests on the region where Brazil has already shut its market and a Buenos Aires senator wants to do the same.

The operator of allbritishcasino.com and six other British-facing sites let customers request only one withdrawal at a time and held back every fifth or tenth withdrawal for some customers for manual review, the regulator found. The Commission is presenting the case as a warning that fairness breaches will be enforced as firmly as money laundering and harm failures.

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 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.

The Stockholm-listed affiliate blames generative search and falling rankings, and because more than 90% of its new customers come on cost-per-acquisition deals, the damage reached its accounts at once. Two months after finding no sign of impairment, it expects to write down €30 million to €35 million of intangible assets.

Sweden's Administrative Court of Appeal has upheld two warnings and SEK44 million in sanction fees against bet365 for letting players choose "no limit" as their mandatory deposit limit for more than three years. The fees are lower than Spelinspektionen first set in 2023, mostly because of a ruling on how the cap is calculated, but the regulator's reading of the law has held.

The Stockholm-listed slots supplier expects third-quarter revenue of about EUR 57.5 million to EUR 58.5 million, which would be less than it reported for the second quarter, and blames softer markets and weaker game performance. Its shares fell 27% in early trading.

Spelinspektionen has revoked the restaurant casino operator's licences with immediate effect, pending a final decision, because the people behind it face charges over a predecessor company that ran almost the same business. The regulator is treating tax and bookkeeping failures as a fitness question, not a side issue.

Applications to Finland's National Police Board have risen by half since June, beating researchers' estimates, but processing now takes six to eight months and the market opens on 1 July 2027. The first licences will decide who can advertise to Finns first.

The First Hall of the Civil Court granted Spribe an ex parte provisional injunction on 1 September covering two EU trademarks. The evidence the court cited is the kind operators can check for themselves: the two games appearing side by side in a search on Betsson, and a listing that credited Spribe's game to the wrong studio.

A new paper by the former New South Wales regulator Paul Newson argues that Australia's bans on online casino and in-play betting are handing the market to offshore operators, and that the country's illicit tobacco trade shows how quickly practical control is lost. It was prepared for Entain Australia and New Zealand, and it lands as New Zealand prepares to award its first 15 online casino licences.

The government has commissioned a special investigator to map gambling among children and young adults, review operators' marketing on both the licensed and unlicensed markets, and propose new protections, with a report due by 29 February 2028. The health minister says risky gambling among young men has doubled in a few years and one in five is affected.

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.

Spelinspektionen wants to replace guidance with binding duty-of-care requirements. BOS says the regulator has not asked what the cumulative friction does to the licensed market it is trying to protect.

Spelinspektionen's preliminary Q2 figures put licensed turnover at SEK7.4bn. The headline growth rate understates what is happening in the commercial online segment, which grew at above 7%.

Candle Lake offered SEK 695 a share for a stock trading at SEK 824.20, and told the market it is not trying to buy the company. The board agreed, and said so. Kenneth Dart keeps 30% either way.

France's state-controlled horseracing monopoly PMU has signed a technology agreement with BetMakers to extend its pool and fixed-odds betting services internationally, a deal that arrives as BetMakers completes its AU$267m acquisition by Tabcorp and builds out a growing roster of global operator partnerships.

An unsolicited cash offer pitched at a 5.7% discount to Evolution's most recent close has put one of iGaming's largest B2B suppliers in play, raising immediate questions about deal rationale, regulatory approvals across multiple jurisdictions, and the future of Evolution's product roadmap.