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Researchers audited every one of the 624 gambling websites licensed in Britain and found dark patterns on 86% of consent banners, no reject option on 24%, and personal data being processed before consent on two-thirds. A second, randomised study then showed the most common banner design measurably pushes people into sharing data they did not want to share.

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.

Flutter has put a number on the retail review it declined to quantify in August. Up to 100 of 506 shops go before the end of the year, with about 400 jobs at risk, and the company names the Budget.

FTSE Russell published the September review on 2 September and the indicative screen held. The Ladbrokes owner leaves the index it joined in June 2020, and tracker funds have a fixed date to sell.

The Gambling Commission has pulled the operating licences of two British bookmakers that share a director, weeks after their managing director resigned from both on the same day. Customers can still withdraw.

The European Gaming and Betting Association changes leadership on 1 September, with Maarten Haijer stepping down after 13 years as Secretary General. His successor has named the illegal market as the priority.

Net revenue rose 27% and EBITDA 29% in the second quarter. The company's own underlying figure, excluding the American acquisition and Austrian tax, is a fifth of the headline.

FTSE Russell's indicative screen has the Ladbrokes owner leaving the index alongside Persimmon, with easyJet and Ithaca Energy replacing them. The confirmation comes on 2 September and the change bites on the 21st.

Dawn Butler and Iain Duncan Smith have written to the Gambling Commission about the National Lottery's incoming interim chief executive, citing the personal sanction he received in 2024 and a board seat at Britain's third-largest slot arcade chain.

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.

The Gambling Commission found a player who placed 4,800 bets in a day and 7,000 the next without triggering a warning, and another who staked more than £215,000 in a single session and was flagged the following morning. The controls existed. They were manual, and they were too slow.

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.

The vote was close to unanimous on the shares, and the scheme now needs only the Gibraltar court. It puts William Hill, 888 and Mr Green into the same group as Bally's Intralot's lottery and gaming technology business, with completion expected late this year or early next.

Vidler leaves after almost three years, having taken The National Lottery through its Fourth Licence transition. Her interim replacement comes from the commercial betting sector rather than the lottery world, which is a choice worth noticing.

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.

Entain has published its interim results for the first half of 2025, with the FTSE-listed operator pointing to momentum in its UK and Irish retail business and continued progress at its BetMGM joint venture in the United States. The results arrive at a sensitive moment for the group, which is navigating a shifting UK regulatory landscape and a period of strategic repositioning following several years of turbulence.

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.

iGaming Real Talk has announced the sixth edition of Real Roadshow 2026, with 11 full-length podcasts and more than 35 short-form videos recorded on the iGB LIVE London expo floor.

LeoVegas Group has brought its proprietary Tiger sportsbook to the United Kingdom, deploying it simultaneously across three brands in one of the world's most competitive regulated betting markets. The move completes the platform's rollout through Denmark, Brazil and Sweden and marks the group's most consequential statement yet of intent to own its own technology stack.

Light & Wonder has made de-leveraging its balance sheet the company's overriding priority after its second-quarter earnings call, with CFO Oliver Chow setting a target of three times cash flow by mid-2027. The shift signals a strategic recalibration for the gaming supplier after years of acquisition-driven growth, and puts share buybacks firmly on the back burner for the remainder of 2026.

Super Group's Betway brand has secured its biggest football partnership to date, landing a multi-year deal as Manchester United's Principal Partner and Exclusive Global Betting Partner from the 2026/27 season. The agreement gives Betway training-kit visibility across both the men's and women's squads and prominent matchday presence at Old Trafford, with Super Group citing the club's African fanbase as a particular strategic draw.

The UK Treasury has pushed back against claims that its Remote Gaming Duty and employer National Insurance increases are driving a wave of Betfred shop closures, as the operator and the government trade blame over the future of the high-street betting estate.

Entain has disclosed two separate TR-1 notifications of major holdings through the London Stock Exchange's Regulatory News Service, signalling movement in the FTSE-listed operator's share register at a time of ongoing strategic repositioning.

Money paid by operators to settle regulatory cases will now flow into the government's Consolidated Fund for discretionary use, rather than being ring-fenced for gambling-harm work, a decision that lands just months after the charity GambleAware wound down.