The Malta Gaming Authority (MGA) is the regulator of gaming in Malta, established in 2001 and operating under the Gaming Act of 2018, licensing B2C gaming service and B2B critical gaming supply licensees that serve markets across Europe and beyond from Malta. It assesses fit-and-proper status, approves key functions, audits systems, supervises anti-money-laundering compliance jointly with Malta's financial intelligence unit, runs the national self-exclusion register for its licensees and publishes enforcement actions. It is the largest EU gaming licensing authority by number of online licensees.
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Malta's regulator has scaled back the checks it proposed in April for foreign-licensed businesses it recognises, dropping a standardised legal opinion and swapping exact figures for bands. B2C holders face the first annual return, covering 2025, before the guidance behind it is out.
Malta's gaming regulator and its consumer authority have agreed a formal framework for handling player complaints and sharing information where their remits overlap. The text is unpublished, and the release names no practice, term or advertising rule they will pursue together.
The Curaçao Gaming Authority has set out its fullest account yet of the breach of its licensing portal, blaming a German researcher and weighing civil action. The same document dates the unlawful access from December 2025 to September 2026, and says nothing about what was taken or who has been told.
The Stockholm-listed slots supplier says the Malta Gaming Authority has extended its licence to peer-to-peer games, the class that covers poker and betting exchanges, so it can supply prediction markets to operators. A European gambling regulator is licensing as gaming a product that Washington proposed six days ago to define as a swap.
IZI Finance, the Maltese group that runs the island's National Lottery and the Dragonara Casino, took more than €1 billion in stakes in a year for the first time and doubled its pre-tax profit to €14.4 million. Its lottery concession has under six years left to run, and the bond it sold in March to fund growth abroad runs almost four years beyond it.
The Liège group has bought 100% of the company behind Carousel.be, its partner since 2012, taking over a B+ online licence and the gaming hall in Harelbeke that Belgian law requires behind it. The price is undisclosed, and the sellers are keeping the 711 brand that grew out of Carousel.
The Malta Gaming Authority has suspended a casino and betting licence on four grounds, including a clause that covers unmet financial commitments. The notice says players must still be able to see their accounts, but it says nothing about withdrawals.
A flat 5% tax and a device levy give way to rates by game type, but only on play by people in Malta. The bigger change for the island's exporters is VAT: most remote gaming loses its exemption, which lets operators recover input tax.
The Malta Gaming Authority and its chief executive sought an injunction in Germany against Lilith Wittmann. She says the Berlin judgment bars her from hacking the regulator again but lets her use its documents. The court has not published its reasoning.
Follow the Money's first reporting from the Curaçao Gaming Authority leak says the regulator's own assessors doubted the declared ownership of the Curaçao companies behind Stake and 1xBet and granted licences anyway. The regulator's answer, that it did not reject applicants mid-transition, goes to the heart of the island's licensing reform.
Lilith Wittmann has claimed responsibility for the breach the Curaçao Gaming Authority disclosed this morning, says she has had access since December 2025, and has begun releasing material with broadcasters in five countries. She says the full list of ultimate beneficial owners is still to come.
The MGA and the Malta Digital Innovation Authority launched a principles-based framework on Thursday for operators using AI in player protection, fraud detection and customer contact. It sits under the EU AI Act, binds nobody, and is a rare instance of a gambling regulator writing down what it expects of a licensee's models. Charles Mizzi: "Our role is not to stand in the way of innovation."
The First Hall of the Civil Court granted Spribe an ex parte provisional injunction on 1 September covering two EU trademarks. The evidence the court cited is the kind operators can check for themselves: the two games appearing side by side in a search on Betsson, and a listing that credited Spribe's game to the wrong studio.
The Belgrade-based group will cease operating under its Malta Gaming Authority licence, close the Mozzart.com brand and its affiliate programme, and put its money into markets where it holds a domestic licence. It is the second European operator in a month to decide that a Maltese licence no longer buys what it used to.
Abu Dhabi, Bhutan and Malta's financial regulators are observing a post-quantum custody pilot using the NIST signature standard finalised two years ago. The reason to care is not the cryptography. It is which regulators turned up.
Curaçao's sweeping legislative overhaul of its online gaming sector came into force on 24 December 2024, replacing decades-old offshore hazard rules with the new Landsverordening op de Kansspelen and elevating the Curaçao Gaming Authority to a more independent regulatory footing. For the thousands of operators licensed through the jurisdiction, the transition marks the start of a stricter compliance era.
The Malta Gaming Authority is investigating unauthorised access to one of its systems after German security researcher Lilith Wittmann claimed responsibility, accused the regulator of enabling organised crime, and threatened to release a wider archive of gambling related data if enforcement action is pursued.
The Malta Gaming Authority has published a thematic review of self exclusion practices after mystery shopping tests across 20 licensees found delays, cross brand weaknesses, and shortcomings in limit setting prompts and Reality Check controls, with remediation required and enforcement escalated where needed.
The escalating legal conflict over bet365 in Germany serves as a litmus test for the European Union’s ability to enforce judicial cooperation across borders. As Maltese legislation continues to shield operators from multi million euro claims the upcoming decisions from the European Court of Justice will determine whether the current system of regulatory loopholes can survive or if a new era of stringent player protection and cross border accountability is about to begin.
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