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People Inc. has walked away from its June proposal to take MGM Resorts private, and MGM shares fell 8.6% after hours to $34.61, far below the $48.30 that was on the table. Diller keeps his roughly 27% stake and says he is still open to "a range of alternatives".

Palmerbet kept a self-excluded customer's account open for 17 months and accepted 312 bets from them in the last three, the Australian Communications and Media Authority found. A week after Dabble paid $1.07 million for similar breaches, Palmerbet has given an 18-month undertaking and paid no penalty.

A consumer-advocate report collects what is publicly known about the national self-exclusion register: awareness at a quarter of adults and a third of bettors, fifteen operators caught breaching it, one of them more than 100,000 times, three financial penalties, and an Entain case the regulator investigated past its own 12-month limit.

The Betfred founder has put numbers on the Treasury's option: 45% of his estate, 2,475 jobs, £66.8m of tax and £15.8m of racing funding, in a Sunday Times op-ed and a Financial Times interview in which he says machines are half of shop profit. Betfred has already ended its Super League sponsorship, citing last year's Budget.

Stella David wants the government's promised ban brought in immediately, "even if that means clubs ordering new kit mid-season", and extended to online advertising, where 22% of unlicensed users first found their operator against 13% through sponsorship. The count is up from eight clubs last season, and the newest deal was signed after the consultation closed.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Entain has struck a deal to sell an initial fifth of its Central and Eastern European unit to joint-venture partner EMMA Capital, valuing the business at about €2.1bn and beginning a full withdrawal. The proceeds will go toward cutting group debt.

The CFTC is no longer just defending prediction markets in court. It is now going on the offensive against the states trying to shut them down. New York is the latest target in a rapidly expanding federal legal campaign.

After years of regulatory grey area, New Zealand has passed legislation that will bring offshore online casino operators to heel and create one of the Asia-Pacific region's most anticipated new regulated markets.

With a full estate sale off the table and cost pressures mounting, Entain is cutting deep in Ireland. The retail betting shop is becoming an endangered species on both sides of the Irish Sea.

The UK's Remote Gaming Duty has doubled overnight. Industry insiders are warning of a spiral effect that could permanently reshape Britain's licensed gambling market, and nobody, including the Treasury, knows where it ends.

Freedom of Information documents suggest DCMS warned the UK Treasury that large gambling duty increases could miss revenue targets and boost illegal play through behavioural change, but Treasury pressed ahead as the Finance Bill enters a key parliamentary stage.