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Sportradar credited "significant contributions" from prediction markets in a quarter that also carried a full three months of IMG Arena and a World Cup. It put a little over €60 million a year on its exposure to Brazil, and declined to size the newer business.

Colombia's government has put VAT on online gambling deposits into its economic rescue bill, this time as ordinary tax law rather than an emergency decree. The finance ministry expects COP 2 trillion from it in 2027, and the operators' federation wants it reviewed.

Coolbet has notified Estonia's Unemployment Insurance Fund of collective redundancies at its Tallinn headquarters, covering close to half of the staff at its Estonian company. The reason it gives points at the B2B platform business that Sega Sammy bought with GAN, not at the Coolbet sportsbook.

France's Autorité Nationale des Jeux has granted Betsson France a five-year online poker licence and conditional approval to join tables shared with Spain, Italy and Portugal. It takes a sports-betting-only business into a segment whose revenue grew 13.4% in the first half of 2026.

The Advertising Standards Authority has upheld a complaint against affiliate Optival after its paid search ad for betting bonuses appeared in response to a search for "self exclusion bookies". It is the second time in seven weeks the regulator has found an affiliate's negative keyword list was not enough to keep gambling ads away from people looking for help.

Caesars Entertainment's net loss more than doubled in the third quarter as weaker Las Vegas business offset growth in its regional casinos and a better quarter for Caesars Digital. It published the numbers without a call or a word from management while it waits for regulators to clear its sale to Fertitta Entertainment.

India's Supreme Court has dismissed, without a hearing, ten review petitions led by Flutter's Junglee Games against its May judgment upholding Tamil Nadu and Karnataka's bans on online games played for stakes. Operators now face upheld prohibitions in both states whatever happens to their challenge to the national ban.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won Sunday's run-off on the day Brazil's federal betting licences expired, ending the industry's hope that a new government would withdraw the ban. What happens next rests with a Congress that has still not installed the committee due to report on the measure by 23 November, and with a Supreme Court justice who held his ruling until the vote was over.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has opened a false-certification proceeding against two ProphetX contracts on whether an NFL game produces a never-before-seen final score, and stayed them before they traded. It is the first stay of a sports event contract on the CFTC's 2026 filings record, and it turns on the same "economic consequence" test the agency says sports contracts pass.

The Times reports that the Chancellor will lift the main rate of machine duty by five points at next week's Budget, a quarter more than today but well short of the doubling campaigners wanted. Nothing is confirmed, the industry says any rise will cost jobs, and Rank's shares rose after the report.

Ontario's regulator has settled the first suspension it has sought against a licensed igaming operator, cutting five days to two and adding an independent audit. It has not said why the penalty shrank, when the site goes dark, or whether any money changes hands.

Australia's media regulator has published its first guidance on the ban on athletes, celebrities, influencers and prominent individuals in wagering advertising, and it draws the line wide: there is no follower count, no time limit on "former", and the legal risk sits entirely with the bookmaker. The rules start on 1 January 2027.

The former FanDuel shareholders suing KKR, Shamrock and FanDuel's old board over the 2018 Paddy Power Betfair merger have won a route into legal advice the defendants withheld as privileged. The order decides nothing about the merits, but it reaches the documents most likely to show how a $465.5 million valuation was set.

Twelve days before the Budget, Halesowen MP Alex Ballinger and 89 Labour colleagues have asked the Chancellor for a new, higher duty rate on the Category B machines in adult gaming centres, betting shops and casinos. The letter cites a 40% rate without asking for one, and the industry says any rise would close venues and "kill the British seaside".

The high-stakes professional alleges GGPoker's chief executive promised him a 5% stake and commissions in 2018, then cut his pay and blamed him for cheating on the site. The claims are untested, the CEO has moved to dismiss, and Kenney amended his complaint on the day his reply was due.

Malta-based Wildz Group says Finland's National Police Board has granted it a five-year gambling licence starting on 1 July 2027, the first award any operator has announced under the new regime. The board has not confirmed it, and a year ago it was weighing a marketing prohibition against the same group that would have ruled it out.

A proposal filed in Peru's Chamber of Deputies would multiply the consumption tax charged on every online stake by five, on top of the 12% tax on operators' net revenue. Operators say it could absorb more than half their gross gaming revenue; the bill's own revenue table says it is not a forecast.

The public spending watchdog will test whether the licence Allwyn won was designed, awarded and overseen to maximise returns to good causes, and report in spring 2027. The latest quarter's payments to good causes were 22.2% below a year earlier.

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.

The former Secretary General of the European Gaming and Betting Association is the first Director General of the World Gaming and Betting Alliance, a Swiss association whose listed members are bet365, Entain, FDJ United, Flutter and EGBA itself. The Geneva commercial register shows it was founded on 9 July and already had Haijer as a signatory before EGBA announced he was leaving.

At her first policy panel as gambling minister, Vicky Foxcroft told a Labour conference audience that the consultation on scrapping the Gambling Act's "aim to permit" rule is coming "very shortly". She did not say when, or what will replace a principle that has governed every betting shop and arcade licence decision since 2007.

The first month to reflect the higher rate brought in 108% more online gaming duty than a year earlier, more than the rate rise alone explains. The industry says one month proves nothing; the Treasury, three weeks from a Budget that may double Machine Games Duty, may read it differently.

The Upper Tribunal has ruled that free spins won on a free promotional game fall outside Remote Gaming Duty, reversing the First-tier Tribunal and wiping out the assessment against the Super Group subsidiary. With the duty now at 40%, the ruling reaches well beyond one operator, unless HMRC appeals or Parliament changes the law.

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.