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The Giants, Jets and Bills all won and covered, the opening week tied the NFL's highest-scoring on record, and the state's eight mobile books kept $17.0m of $594.6m. Fanatics held 1.1%. Handle was up 12.7% on last year's opener in the same week prediction markets traded more than $3bn on a single Sunday.

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.

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 regulator asked players what "informed choice" means to them and found a gap between information being present and consumers feeling informed. The proposed definition puts rules, mechanics and risks on equal footing with promotions, and gives operators a duty that runs through play, not just before it.

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.

The Dutch regulator says it would rather have waited for the appeal ruling, but the current licences expire on 31 December. If the monopoly falls, revocation will come no sooner than a year after the judgment.

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.

Following the successful conclusion of the Casino Guru Awards 2026, winners, sponsors, and industry leaders have shared their reflections on an evening that celebrated excellence, responsibility, innovation, and positive change across the global iGaming industry.

Following a transformative year for the Brazilian iGaming industry, Alea is returning to São Paulo for its second consecutive term as the Headline Partner for NEXT.io Focus Brazil.

DraftKings has reorganised parts of its workforce as it ramps up automation and scales its prediction market ambitions, with management and analysts pointing to cost alignment, AI driven decisioning, and infrastructure changes ahead of a major 2026 sports calendar.

Nominations close on February 15, 2026, marking the final opportunity to put forward organizations and individuals whose work goes beyond commercial success and actively contributes to fairness, responsibility, innovation, and a healthier industry culture.

Casino Guru reminds the global iGaming community that there is just one month left to submit nominations for select categories at the 4th annual Casino Guru Awards 2026. With nominations closing on February 15, 2026, industry professionals now have a final opportunity to put forward organizations and individuals who are shaping a future for online gambling.

Per Widerström, chief executive of evoke plc, has been named in a private criminal complaint filed with the Vienna Public Prosecutor's Office last Thursday

NEXT.io reveals Playtech hired Black Cube for the 2021 Evolution report. Playtech faces billions in potential legal liability from Evolution's defamation lawsuit.