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The state court that granted Spribe an injunction against NSX in April, then revoked it in July when a federal court suspended the developer's trademark, has now ruled on the merits: no trademark infringement, no copyright infringement, no unfair competition. It is the third Brazilian decision in a row to go against the Estonian studio, three days after a Brasília judge ordered it to police its own distribution.

The site compares equivalent contracts across Kalshi, Polymarket, Novig, Underdog, FanDuel Predicts, Fanatics and five others, with a cross-venue engine for multi-leg positions and Genius's live game data underneath. It runs on Legend, the media business whose $1.2bn purchase in February sank the shares. Mark Locke says most prediction-market demand "appears new".

The Gambling Commission's 2025/26 report shows online casino up 14.8% to £5.7bn, adding more than the entire market gained. Online betting fell 6.6%, bingo fell, 208 betting shops closed before this year's cull began. The survey says participation is flat at 49%. The day after the Lords called for an advertising ban, the regulator's own numbers explain why the product mix is the argument.

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.

A University of Toronto and ICES study of 14 years of hospital records finds visits 154% above the expected level among males aged 10 to 29 and 116% above among men aged 30 to 44, with no change in females. The authors call it a caution for Alberta and every province considering private online operators.

The ANJL wants the platforms to run a permanent programme to find, remove, de-index and block the influencers who funnel Brazilians to unlicensed betting sites, and to stop the accounts coming back under new names. It puts the illegal market at 38% to 44%.

Richard Harris says the group's best growth lever is converting venue players to digital, that the new MyMecca app has lifted sign-ups, and that a UK market "unlikely to provide tax tailwinds" rewards small targeted projects over big ones. On the day Entain cut 400 jobs, that is a different way of reading the same Budget.

The affiliate that made it said the man was not real, so he had no age. The ASA said his "casual and youthful presentation" was the point. On the same day it cleared White Hat Gaming's casino ads on an esports site because nothing showed its audience was more than 25% children.

The regulator asked players what "informed choice" means to them and found a gap between information being present and consumers feeling informed. The proposed definition puts rules, mechanics and risks on equal footing with promotions, and gives operators a duty that runs through play, not just before it.

Bondholders tendered 68% of the lottery group's 2028 notes and Brightstar will pay for them with a new €500 million issue priced last week at more than double the coupon. The €1.4 billion Italy Lotto instalment is why the balance sheet needed the room.

The Ladbrokes owner says up to a fifth of its 2,000 customer care roles could go, weeks after an H1 that beat expectations and days after its chief executive wrote to the Prime Minister about machine games duty. The cuts are global; the argument is aimed at 28 October.

Eighteen months after its management bought it out of Endeavor, OpenBet is adding a Hungarian supplier that has served World Lottery Association members for over a decade. No price, no customer names and no headcount were disclosed.

Six years after the Gambling Industry Committee asked for a public health approach to advertising, the Lords Liaison Committee has followed up and found the recommendations "largely unaddressed". Its answer is a ban, and it says the black-market argument against one did not convince it.

Mr Justice Cawson found Entain could not say who drew the Coral and Ladbrokes logos, when, or how it came to own them, eleven months into the case. The trade mark claims over 18 marks go on to trial.

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.

The Premier League club put a Curaçao-licensed operator on its sleeve two days after the government's consultation on banning exactly that shut, while a £9m UKRI research consortium says the ban should reach licensed bookmakers too.

Anthony Lee, the Conservative Party's director of campaigning at the time, admitted two offences under section 42 of the Gambling Act over a bet on the 2024 general election date. His wife Laura Lee admitted one. Sentencing is on 23 October, and the maximum is two years.

Around 300 of the roles are in Stoke-on-Trent, where bet365 is the biggest private employer, and 40 across Gibraltar and Malta. Voluntary redundancies come first. Every one of the five largest British gambling firms has now cut staff since remote gaming duty rose 19 points.

Downing Street says adult gaming centres are spreading across the high street and wants councils able to refuse them. The trade body's reply is that Gambling Commission data shows 1,610 AGCs in 2015 and 1,415 in 2025. Its own member survey, taken before the change of prime minister, found 100% believe Westminster does not understand the sector.

S&P Global has published a credit FAQ warning that Genting Bhd may not be able to defend its investment-grade rating while pursuing $10.5 billion of expansion in New York and Singapore. Fitch cut the group to the same rung on Monday. It now sits one notch above speculative grade with a negative outlook and, in S&P's words, no more buffer.

Euromat puts Europe's illegal online market at €12 billion and says it has tripled since 2019. The Betting and Gaming Council promotes a separate report putting the global figure at $50 billion. The two numbers cannot be compared, both were commissioned by interested parties, and both reach the same conclusion about what enforcement is doing wrong.

Chancellor John Healey is said to be weighing an increase to the duty on gaming machines, a year after remote gaming duty went from 21% to 40%. A doubling would take the three bands to 10%, 40% and 50%, and analysts have told the Racing Post it would cost nearly 3,000 betting shops and around £70m of the racing levy.

The government has given the Gambling Commission a permanent chair after an interim stretch the trade press puts at 20 months. Ruth Evans arrives from Stop Scams UK, the body that persuaded banks, telecoms firms and technology platforms to sit at the same table, and her first sentence on the job named the technology sector.

The Georgia manufacturer has bought the gaming operations arm of Win Systems, including its Gold Club electronic-roulette business, taking on an installed base across Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Puerto Rico and Panama. Terms were not disclosed, and the deal turns a US regional supplier into a Latin American one overnight.