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Flutter Entertainment is taking Betfair's exchange, sportsbook and casino out of Italy and blames regulatory changes it has not named. Customers have no closing date yet, and the decision lands just over two weeks before Italy's deadline for exchange operators to certify their systems under new technical rules.

Paddy Power's owner expects up to 1,400 redundancies from a restructure of its UK and Ireland business, eight days before a Budget that could raise machine duty. The tax set the size and the timing; the shape looks like the cost programme Flutter was already running.

Matchbook says it has completed the acquisition of Betdaq and is selling the deal as a deeper pool of liquidity, tied to the rise of prediction markets. Betdaq's own closure notice shows what was actually bought: the brand and the domains, with no customer accounts and no order book. The price was not disclosed.

The Attorney General's Office wants Betano, Bet365, Superbet and 14 other operators to repay the public health system, pay collective damages and refund double the stakes of diagnosed gamblers they kept accepting. It filed three days after the government banned their product.

Chile's telecoms undersecretariat has sent internet providers a second list of betting sites to block within 48 hours, mostly new domains and mirrors of international betting brands. The industry group representing the operators says some of the domains go beyond what the courts ordered.

A consumer-protection body in Espírito Santo has served nine celebrities with a 58-page recommendation to reassess their bookmaker deals, citing a R$38.8 billion social cost and a survey in which 57% said celebrities influenced them to bet. It declares nothing illegal, and says that is the point.

Flutter Entertainment has announced that Peter Jackson will leave as group chief executive on 1 October, handing over to international president Dan Taylor at a moment when US sportsbook revenue has fallen 15% year-on-year and the company's market capitalisation has dropped from $50 billion to below $20 billion in under a year.

Flutter Entertainment will cancel its London listing on 3 August 2026 and trade only on the NYSE, formalising a pivot to a US business that now supplies 41% of group revenue. The exit lands amid a brutal UK tax squeeze, but Flutter's own filings suggest growth and investors, not duty rises, are what pulled it west.

The most consequential US gambling story of the year has just unfolded inside one company. Amy Howe is out at FanDuel, the sportsbook is bleeding customers and Flutter is betting nine figures on prediction markets to fix it.

The UK Gambling Commission has officially categorised prediction markets as gambling, requiring operators to secure a Betting Intermediary licence and warning that unlicensed firms targeting British punters face criminal prosecution.

Sky Bet, a major brand under the Flutter Entertainment umbrella, has shifted its sports betting operations headquarters to Malta. This structural change,

Betfair Pty Limited, the Australian betting exchange owned by Crown Resorts, has paid a significant penalty of A$871,660 after an investigation by the

The Italian online gambling market, long Europe's largest by revenue and notorious for its crowded field of operators, is undergoing a seismic consolidation.

Flutter Entertainment's UK and Ireland division has confirmed a customer data incident impacting its prominent Paddy Power and Betfair brands. The breach,

As Royal Ascot concluded, leading UK bookmakers delivered their annual Britannia Stakes charity donation, with all profits from this year’s race being shared

Illinois lawmakers have approved a new, last-minute sports betting tax hike as part of the state budget. This move is expected to disproportionately impact