Bally's Corporation

Illinois casinos took $178.2 million in September, up 12.7% on a year earlier, and 14 of the state's 17 properties grew. Penn's new land-based Aurora casino supplied about a third of the increase; the rest came from players spending more per visit, not from more visits.

Aichi says it received participation statements for its airport island integrated resort by the 30 September deadline and wants full proposals by 23 March 2027. It will not say who applied or how many, so Japan's most advanced second-round bid may have a contest or a single suitor.

A former coal-mining town in Fukuoka says it will hand the prefecture an integrated resort proposal this month and wants the prefectural assembly to take it up in December. Under Japan's IR law the town cannot apply itself, and the prefecture has not said it will.

Seven candidates filed on Sunday for the 18 October election to replace Takeharu Yamanaka, and Yamanaka is one of them. The frontrunner, backed by four ruling and opposition parties, has ruled out an integrated resort, and the others oppose one, seven months before Japan opens applications for its two remaining licences.

Early this month the chief commissioner told MPs the licence could come back in September. Instead the manager's term has been extended to June 2027, with the NICC citing "serious" new allegations about governance, leadership and culture.

The 90-day suspension imposed in December 2022 was due to take effect on 30 September. Queensland has pushed it back a sixth time, citing "significant progress" but unfinished remediation, and kept the special manager in place until the end of March.

State Police figures released at Thursday's Gaming Control Board meeting show the 15 riverboats, Caesars New Orleans and the four racinos all down on August 2025, with 13 of the 15 boats losing ground. Mobile sports betting handle rose 3.6% to $261m and produced $31.1m of net proceeds; retail books fell by almost half. Only Baton Rouge grew, and only because Bally's moved onto land.

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.

A $400m term loan and a $160m delayed draw fund pre-construction on the $4bn Ferry Point project and give the group liquidity, from the private credit firm that also refinanced The Star in June.

Mira Mircheva resigned for personal reasons after about eighteen months. George Papanier takes the role on an interim basis for the second time. Bally's meets the Chicago City Council on 9 September to discuss its finances.

NICC chief commissioner Philip Crawford told a parliamentary committee he is satisfied with the Bally's-era management and wants the licence reinstated, conditionally, before he retires in November.

The headline number improved and the underlying business stopped bleeding, but Star's auditors still cannot say it will be able to pay its bills, and a leaked recording of its chief executive has handed the New South Wales regulator a fresh governance problem in the same week.

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.

Twenty-eight Chicago alderpersons have formally demanded that Mayor Brandon Johnson order Bally's to resume full construction at its River West casino site, warning of potential legal action after the operator cited VGT legalisation as grounds to slow work on the hotel, event centre and restaurants. At least one council member suspects the real issue is cash flow.

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.

Illinois casino revenue climbed to $192.7 million in July, its strongest year-over-year performance in recent months, with two Hollywood Casino properties delivering triple- and double-digit gains after completing moves from riverboat to land-based formats. Neighbouring Iowa tells a contrasting story, with aggregate revenue falling 6% as most of its 19 casinos shed ground.

Bally's Intralot has struck a roughly £243.1 million all-share deal for Evoke, the operator behind William Hill and 888, in a consolidation play sharpened by the steep rise in [British gambling taxes](/regulatory-map) landing over the next two years. The terms hand Evoke shareholders a 77% premium and hand the enlarged group a place among the United Kingdom's largest online operators.

A business bought for £2.2 billion less than four years ago may be about to change hands for a tenth of that price. The Bally's Intralot bid for Evoke is the most significant corporate development in British gambling for years.

Evoke warned this would happen if the government pressed ahead with its tax plans. It pressed ahead. Now 200 William Hill shops are closing and thousands of jobs are at risk.