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The Grosvenor and Mecca owner expects the Budget's five-point rise on higher-stake machines to cost about £9 million a year before mitigation, more than bingo duty's abolition saves it. Its response waits until January.

The Ladbrokes and Coral owner puts the Budget's five-point rise in duty on its shop machines at about £25 million a year before mitigation, an eighth of its estimate for last year's online tax rises. It expects to offset it all by the end of 2028 and has left its guidance unchanged.

Australia's Federal Court has ordered two Star Entertainment Group companies to pay A$260 million, about $182 million, for anti-money laundering failures, well short of what AUSTRAC wanted but far above what Star said it could bear. The first instalment falls due within 28 days, and the group held A$239 million in cash at the end of September.

European Entertainment Group's ComeOn and the Helsinki newcomer SuomiVeto say Finland's National Police Board has licensed them for the market that opens on 1 July 2027, joining Hippos ATG and Wildz. SuomiVeto has published its licence number and decision date, while the board has yet to publish a list of licensees.

The group's chief transformation officer will succeed Erwin van Lambaart and run Austria's gambling incumbent through the end of its online monopoly and the reaward of its licences. The shareholders have chosen an insider with a record of steering former monopolies into competition.

Latin American revenue rose by more than half and casino carried a weak sportsbook to Betsson's highest quarter yet, but gaming taxes and a shrinking B2B line took almost a third off operating profit. The record also rests on the region where Brazil has already shut its market and a Buenos Aires senator wants to do the same.

The UK group behind the Press Association will pay A$1.04 a share in cash for the ASX-listed racing data supplier and fold it into its Podium business. The PA's own release left the price out; RAS's filing shows the bid nearly doubles what the market thought the company was worth.

Rank's casinos are still growing, and their fastest-growing line is gaming machines, the product a Budget in 13 days may tax at twice the rate. Its bingo clubs stood still for the quarter, it closed three casinos, and its profit guidance now assumes the tax regime stays as it is.

Entain's British online business grew 14% under the new 40% gaming duty, while customer-friendly football results and a Brazilian unit that shrank by more than a third before the ban held the group to 2%. Guidance survives with profit pinned to the bottom of the range, and the chief executive used the update to lobby the government before the Budget.

England's white-ball mentor signed as a Dafabet brand ambassador this week and has told the England and Wales Cricket Board he will not promote betting while on duty, The Guardian reports. The precedent says the deal itself is allowed; the harder questions sit with the advertising rules and with Dafabet's own cricket sponsorships.

BetMGM's third quarter was its joint-best for adjusted EBITDA on the figures it has published since 2025, against a weak comparison a year earlier. It still expects 2026 to land at the bottom of guidance that has already been cut once, which needs a fourth quarter bigger than any it has reported.

A senior coroner has told the Gambling Commission that people who self-exclude through GamStop can still play National Lottery draws online. The Commission says it needs up to 12 months of discovery before deciding what, if anything, to change.

DraftKings and FanDuel gave $3.5 million each in the latest reporting period, taking Tax Relief Nebraska's fundraising to $14.65 million for two online sports betting measures on the 3 November ballot. The committee registered to oppose them had reported nothing raised or spent by the same date, on Ballotpedia's count.

An independent Regulatory Commission heard the young striker's case that he placed none of the bets himself, and fined him anyway because he opened and funded the six accounts that others used. The written reasons put the total stake at under £2,000 and redact who placed the bets.

Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, who praised a Liberal plan to license every online gambling site in Quebec, will lead the province with 59 of 127 seats. His party's budget plan books CA$300 million a year from sports betting sites, but a campaign endorsement is not a bill.

Betsson Group has set up the Betsson Foundation to coordinate its community and sports giving. It has published a governance outline and one project in Peru, but no funding commitment, no board and no spending figures to judge it by.

Genting has shut its Coventry casino after a month-long staff consultation, blaming costs and tax rises the sector has already absorbed. The closure lands four weeks before a Budget that may double Machine Games Duty, and both sides of that argument are already using it.

Entain, Flutter, Allwyn, Better Collective, Acroud and DigiPlus have all told investors what Brazil's ban on fixed-odds betting means for them. For the big operators it is a trim to guidance; for Better Collective, whose shares traded a quarter lower on Monday, it removes about 12% of expected revenue.

The newspaper's first reporting from the Curaçao regulator's files turns a licensing scandal into a question about who serves British players without a licence, and puts new documents behind its earlier reporting on the Santeda casino network. Its reporter also says the offshore trade is already moving on, to Anjouan and other lighter-touch licensors.

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.