iGaming Operators: Licensed Betting and Casino Companies
Licensed betting and casino operators covered by iGaming Times, with the jurisdictions they hold licences in and every story we have published about them.
232 companies
1xSlots
Cyprus1xSlots is an online casino brand launched in 2017 and licensed in Curacao, offering a catalogue of more than 10,000 slots, table games, live dealer tables and crash games from more than a hundred studios, alongside a sportsbook. It accepts deposits in dozens of fiat currencies and cryptocurrencies, runs a tiered loyalty programme with cashback and tournaments, and serves players across the CIS, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa in more than fifty languages. The brand is operated from Cyprus and markets itself on the breadth of its game library and its affiliate programme, 1xSlots Partners.
3DDream Design
United Kingdom3DDream Design is a creative design, development, and digital agency serving iGaming operators, casino brands, sportsbook and betting platforms, lottery providers, affiliates, and B2B suppliers worldwide since 2018. Design, Brand & Creative Full Brand Creation & Identity Systems Brand Identity & Creative Direction Casino & Sportsbook UI/UX Design UI/UX for Casino, Sportsbook & Hybrid Products Meta Ads & Performance Campaigns Creative Asset Production Motion Graphics & Promo Animations Sportsbook & World Cup Campaigns AI-Assisted Creative Production Event & Exhibition Visuals Photography & High-End Retouching Website & Product Development Complete Website Builds for Casino & Sportsbook Brands Landing Pages & High-Conversion Website Design Custom Front-End Development for Any Platform Product Design for Web & Mobile Experiences
888casino
Gibraltar888casino is the online casino brand of evoke plc, the London-listed group formerly named 888 Holdings, founded in 1997 and one of the longest-running online casino brands, with sister brands 888sport and 888poker and the William Hill and Mr Green businesses acquired in 2022. Licensed in Britain, Gibraltar, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Romania, Ontario and other regulated markets and, in the United States, in New Jersey and other states through partnerships, it runs on evoke's proprietary platform from Gibraltar and London.
Accel Entertainment
United StatesAccel Entertainment is a distributed gaming operator listed on the New York Stock Exchange and headquartered in Illinois, running video gaming terminals and amusement equipment in licensed bars, restaurants, truck stops and fraternal venues. It operates more than 25,000 terminals across several thousand locations in Illinois, Montana, Nevada, Nebraska and Georgia, has grown through acquisitions of route operators, and in 2024 moved into racing and casino gaming with the purchase of Fairmount Park racetrack in Illinois, which it has redeveloped with a casino and sportsbook partnership. Founded in 2009, it is the largest terminal operator in the Illinois video gaming market.
Admiral Casinos and Entertainment
AustriaAdmiral is the Austrian betting and gaming brand of Novomatic, running several hundred Admiral sports betting shops and gaming halls across Austria under state licences, the admiral.at online sportsbook, and Admiral-branded venues and online operations in other European markets through Novomatic subsidiaries. It is the largest sports betting operator in Austria and forms Novomatic's domestic operating arm alongside the group's manufacturing and international casino businesses.
Affinity Interactive
United StatesAffinity Interactive is a privately held US gaming and media company, owned by funds managed by Z Capital, that operates regional casinos in Nevada (Silver Sevens in Las Vegas, Rail City in Sparks and the Primm properties on the California border), Missouri (Mark Twain Casino) and Iowa (Lakeside Casino), and owns the Daily Racing Form, the horse racing publication and data business, together with its DRF Bets advance-deposit wagering platform. Formed from Affinity Gaming and the Daily Racing Form in 2021, it is headquartered in Las Vegas and combines land-based casino operations with racing content, data and online wagering.
Allwyn
SwitzerlandAllwyn is a multinational lottery operator, formerly Sazka Group, which relocated its international headquarters to Lucerne, Switzerland in 2024. It holds the licence to operate the UK National Lottery.
Allwyn UK
United KingdomAllwyn UK is the operator of the UK National Lottery under the fourth licence, which it took over from Camelot in February 2024 after winning the 2022 competition, running Lotto, EuroMillions, Set For Life, Thunderball and instant-win games through a retail network of more than 40,000 outlets and the National Lottery app and website, and returning proceeds to good causes through the National Lottery distributors. Part of the Allwyn group, it has been implementing a technology transition and a new games portfolio under Gambling Commission supervision.
Apuesta Total
PeruApuesta Total is a Peruvian sports betting and online casino operator run by Free Games S.A.C. and headquartered in Lima. Alongside its online business it runs a retail network of more than 750 betting points across the country. Peru regulated online gambling under Law 31557, which took effect in February 2024 and required every operator, domestic or international, to be licensed by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism. Apuesta Total was authorised that year for both sports betting and distance gaming under directorial resolutions 2656 and 2677. It competes with Betsson, bet365 and 1xBet in one of the region's faster-growing regulated markets, and is among the few Peruvian-owned brands to have held its ground against them.
ATG
SwedenATG, Aktiebolaget Trav och Galopp, is the Swedish horse race betting operator, founded by the state in 1974 to give trotting and thoroughbred racing long-term financial stability. Its activity is governed by a contract between its owners and the Swedish state, and the trotting and breeders association Svensk Travsport holds about 91% of it. Its best-known product is V75, the largest pool betting game in Sweden and one that draws bettors internationally. Since the 2019 re-regulation it has held a Swedish licence and expanded beyond racing into sports betting and casino, and it also operates in Denmark. The funding-the-sport structure it was built on is the same one PMU serves in France and the Tote in Britain, and it is the reason racing bodies across Europe watch its governance closely.
Atlantic Lottery Corporation
CanadaAtlantic Lottery Corporation is the Crown corporation, founded in 1976 and headquartered in Moncton, New Brunswick, that conducts and manages lottery and online gaming for the four Atlantic Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador. It sells draw games, instant tickets and PROLINE sports betting through a retail network and runs the alc.ca online platform with lottery, instant games, sports betting and, in the provinces that permit it, online casino, returning its profits to the provincial governments. It operates as a monopoly in its provinces under the Criminal Code's provincial-conduct model.
Bally's Corporation
United StatesBally's Corporation is a casino and entertainment operator headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, built out of the former Twin River Worldwide Holdings. The New York hedge fund Standard General, whose principal Soo Kim chairs the board, took the company private in a buyout at 18.25 dollars a share valuing it at around 4.6 billion dollars, completing in February 2025 alongside a combination with Queen Casino and Entertainment. It bought the British online operator Gamesys for 2.7 billion dollars in 2021, which became Bally's International Interactive. In 2025 it agreed to hand that division to the Greek lottery technology group Intralot in a 2.7 billion euro cash-and-share transaction completed on 9 October, a reverse-style merger that left Bally's as Intralot's majority shareholder. The resulting group, Bally's Intralot, is now acquiring Evoke plc. Bally's separately carries substantial development commitments, including its Chicago casino project.
bet-at-home.com
Germanybet-at-home.com AG is a listed online sports betting and gaming operator with its parent company in Düsseldorf and its operating business registered in Linz, Austria, where bet-at-home.com Entertainment GmbH provides IT, finance, customer management and legal services to the group. The AG trades on the Regulated Market of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in the Prime Standard segment. Betclic Everest Group holds 53.9% of the company as its long-term core shareholder, which places it in the same ownership orbit as the French operator Betclic. In Germany it holds a sports betting licence renewed through to the end of 2027, and it was granted a virtual slot machine licence in the fourth quarter of 2022, giving it both of the main online permissions available under the German regime.
Bet25
DenmarkBet25 is a Danish-licensed online sportsbook and casino operator run by Dansk Underholdning, the group formerly known as 25syv, from Copenhagen. It operates the Bet25 sportsbook, the Rød25 online casino and Bet25 Heste, its horse racing betting brand built on Denmark's totalisator rights, under licences from the Danish Gambling Authority. The group is Danish-owned and positions itself as the domestic alternative to the international operators in the Danish market, with sponsorships in Danish football, handball and racing.
bet365
United Kingdombet365 is a British online gambling operator founded in 2000 by Denise Coates and headquartered in Stoke-on-Trent. It remains privately held by the Coates family: Denise Coates is joint chief executive and majority shareholder with a stake of around 58%, her brother John Coates holds roughly 25% and is joint chief executive, and their father Peter Coates is chairman. It is one of the largest online gambling companies in the world, employing more than 10,000 people, with a product range covering sports betting, online casino, poker and bingo. It is licensed by the Gambling Commission in Great Britain and holds licences across a long list of regulated markets, and in 2026 it secured a French online sports betting licence from the ANJ, adding one of the last major European markets it had not entered.
bet99
Canadabet99 is a Canadian online sportsbook and casino founded in 2020 by Doug Honegger, a Montreal-born former professional ice hockey player who represented Switzerland internationally before moving into player representation and then business. Its operating entity, Sports Venture Holdings, was approved by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario and iGaming Ontario in late 2022, making it one of the domestic brands to secure a place in the regulated Ontario market after it opened in April of that year. It is among the more visible Canadian-founded operators competing against the international groups that entered Ontario at launch, and has leaned heavily on hockey sponsorship and Canadian sporting properties to build recognition.
Bet9ja
NigeriaBet9ja is the largest sports betting and online casino operator in Nigeria, launched on 10 September 2013 by Ayo Ojuroye and Kunle Soname and headquartered in Lagos. It trades through KC Gaming Networks Limited under a licence from the Lagos State Lotteries Board, with permission extending to other parts of the country. Its reach is unusual for a gambling brand: bet9ja.com ranked as the third most visited website in Nigeria in 2020, behind only Google and YouTube. Nigerian gambling is licensed at state rather than federal level following a Supreme Court ruling on the limits of national lottery powers, so operators assemble coverage state by state, and Lagos remains the licence that matters most.
Betano
GreeceBetano is the international sportsbook and casino brand of Kaizen Gaming, the Athens-headquartered operator that runs Stoiximan in Greece and Cyprus and Betano in Portugal, Romania, Germany, Brazil, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Ontario, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Ecuador and other markets. Launched in 2018, it has grown through football sponsorships including league title partnerships in Portugal and Brazil and a UEFA Euro 2024 sponsorship, and runs on Kaizen's proprietary platform. Kaizen Gaming is privately owned.
BetCity
NetherlandsBetCity is a Dutch online sportsbook and casino operator that was among the first licensees when the Netherlands opened its regulated market on 1 October 2021, and one of the largest brands in the market since. Founded by a Dutch family business and acquired by Entain in 2023, it operates under a Kansspelautoriteit licence with a sportsbook, casino and live casino, and markets under the constraints of the Dutch advertising rules, having sponsored Dutch football before sponsorship was phased out. It is headquartered in the Netherlands and runs on Entain's platform following the acquisition.
Betclic
FranceBetclic is a French online sports betting and poker operator founded in 2005 and headquartered in Bordeaux. It trades as part of Betclic Everest Group, whose shareholders include Stéphane Courbit and the Monaco casino group Société des Bains de Mer, and which sits within the listed group FL Entertainment. In France it holds an ANJ licence and is the official betting partner of Ligue 1 and Ligue 2, as well as holding naming rights to the Betclic Élite basketball championship. It is separately licensed in Portugal, where it holds the Liga Portugal Betclic naming rights, and in Poland and Sweden. It withdrew from the United Kingdom in 2019 and exited Italy in 2025, a pattern of concentrating on markets where it holds a leading position rather than competing broadly.
Betclic Everest Group
FranceBetclic Everest Group is the parent of Betclic, the French online sports betting, poker and casino operator licensed in France, Italy, Portugal and Poland, headquartered in Bordeaux and majority-owned by the Lov Group of Stéphane Courbit, with FL Entertainment (the group behind Banijay) as its listed parent since 2022. Betclic is the leading sports betting operator in France, sponsors French football and basketball, and runs its own technology platform.
Betcris
Costa RicaBetcris is a Latin American sports betting and casino operator headquartered in San José, Costa Rica, founded in 1985, with licensed retail and online operations across Central America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil and other markets, and long-standing sponsorships including Major League Baseball partnerships in Latin America. It runs its own platform and retail network and holds licences in several regulated Latin American jurisdictions.
Betfair
United KingdomBetfair is the betting exchange launched in London in 2000, on which customers back and lay outcomes against each other with the operator taking a commission on net winnings, and the largest exchange in the world by volume. It is owned by Flutter Entertainment following the 2016 merger of Paddy Power and Betfair, and operates alongside the Betfair Sportsbook and casino in Britain and Ireland, and Betfair International brands in Italy, Spain and Brazil, with the exchange licensed in Britain, Malta, Italy and elsewhere. Betfair's exchange prices are used across the industry as the reference for fair odds, and its data-sharing agreements with sports bodies are the model for integrity monitoring.
Betfred
United KingdomBetfred is a British bookmaker founded in 1967 by Fred Done, headquartered in Warrington and privately owned by the Done family, operating around 1,300 betting shops across Britain, an online sportsbook and casino licensed by the Gambling Commission, and licensed sportsbooks in several US states and in South Africa. It held the UK Tote licence from 2011 to 2019 and is one of the largest privately owned bookmakers in the world, with a large racing sponsorship portfolio including the Betfred Super League in rugby league.
Betika
KenyaBetika is Kenya's largest sports betting operator, founded in 2016 and operated by Shop and Deliver Limited from Nairobi, offering sports betting, casino games, virtual sports and jackpots through its website, apps, SMS and USSD channels for feature-phone users. It has expanded across Africa with licensed operations in Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of Congo, integrates with mobile money services including M-Pesa, and sponsors Kenyan football and athletics. Betika is privately owned and positions itself as a pan-African operator built for mobile-money markets.
BetKing
NigeriaBetKing is a Nigerian sports betting operator founded in 2018 and headquartered in Lagos, running an online sportsbook, virtual games and casino alongside an agent-based retail network across Nigeria, with operations in Ethiopia and Kenya. Owned by a technology group that took a majority stake in 2020 and 2021, it has grown into one of the largest licensed operators in Nigeria, sponsors Nigerian football and runs its own platform and mobile-money integrations.
BetMGM
United StatesBetMGM is a US online sports betting, online casino and poker operator formed in 2018 as a fifty-fifty joint venture between MGM Resorts International and Entain, headquartered in New Jersey. It operates the BetMGM sportsbook in more than twenty states plus Ontario, online casino in New Jersey, Michigan, Pennsylvania and West Virginia where it is among the market leaders, and BetMGM Poker on shared liquidity across several states, using Entain's technology platform and MGM's casino brand and rewards programme. The business turned profitable on an EBITDA basis in 2025 and is the largest online casino operator in the United States by revenue.
Betmotion
BrazilBetmotion is an online sports betting, casino and bingo operator serving Brazil and Latin America since 2009, one of the earliest brands in the Brazilian market, now licensed under Brazil's federal fixed-odds betting regime and localised with Pix payments, video bingo and Brazilian football content. It is operated by a Malta-based group and has sponsored Brazilian football clubs.
Betnacional
BrazilBetnacional is one of the largest Brazilian-founded sportsbooks, operated by NSX Brasil S.A. from Recife with a second base in São Paulo. It is licensed by the Secretariat of Prizes and Bets, the body inside the Ministry of Finance that regulates the market opened in January 2025. Its parent, NSX Group, built its own betting platform and initially sold it to third-party operators before deciding to reserve it for its own brands, which include Betnacional alongside Mrjack, Pagbet and Betpix. That vertical structure, owning both the technology and the consumer brands, is unusual among the Brazilian challengers, most of which licence a platform from an established European supplier. NSX Brasil holds GLI-33 certification from Gaming Laboratories International, one of the technical requirements of the Brazilian regime.
BetOlimp South Africa
South AfricaBetOlimp is a South Africa facing online betting and gaming platform that combines sportsbook betting with casino content on one account. On its own site, it presents itself primarily as a sportsbook brand, offering pre match and live betting across thousands of sporting events each month, while also supporting casino, live games, lucky numbers and virtual products. The site states that BetOlimp is operated by O L I M P (Pty) Ltd and is licensed and regulated by the Western Cape Gambling & Racing Board.
betPawa
KenyabetPawa is a pan-African online sports betting operator licensed in Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Cameroon, Malawi, Mozambique and other markets, built around low minimum stakes, mobile-money deposits and a light app for low-bandwidth users. Founded in 2014 by a Danish-led team and run from Nairobi with operations across the continent, it has grown to one of the largest operators by customers in several of its markets and sponsors football leagues and national teams.
BetPlay
ColombiaBetPlay is Colombia's largest online sports betting and casino operator, licensed by Coljuegos since the market opened in 2017 and operated by Corredor Empresarial, a Colombian company that also runs retail betting and lottery distribution. It is the title sponsor of the Colombian football league and holds a leading share of the country's regulated online market, with a sportsbook, casino and live casino on its platform.
Betr
United StatesBetr is a US sports betting and media company founded in 2022 by Joey Levy and Jake Paul and headquartered in Miami, built around micro-betting on individual in-game events such as the next pitch or play. It operates a licensed sportsbook in a number of states, a peer-to-peer fantasy product, Betr Picks, in states where fantasy is permitted, and a media arm producing sports content for social channels. The company has raised venture funding, has scaled its state footprint up and down as licensing costs dictated, and made a public takeover approach for PointsBet in 2025 that was ultimately unsuccessful.
betr Entertainment
Australiabetr Entertainment is an ASX-listed Australian wagering operator, trading under the code BBT, formed by the 2024 merger of BlueBet and the betr brand. BlueBet acquired NDT Pty Ltd, the owner of betr, through an asset purchase announced on 11 April 2024 in return for roughly 265.4 million shares. The combination brought together two of the most recognisable names in Australian bookmaking: Matthew Tripp, who had earlier built Sportsbet, as chairman of betr, and Michael Sullivan as executive chairman of BlueBet, with Tripp taking over the chair in January 2025. Customers were migrated onto BlueBet's proprietary platform and the consumer brand became betr on 14 August 2024, ahead of the spring racing carnival. The company renamed to match in April 2025. It is a separate business from the American Betr, the Miami micro-betting company founded in 2022 by Joey Levy and Jake Paul, which shares the name and nothing else.
Betsafe
SwedenBetsafe is an online sportsbook, casino and poker brand founded in 2006 and owned by the Betsson group since 2011, licensed in Sweden, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Denmark, Ontario and other regulated markets. It operates on Betsson's proprietary platform with the group's sportsbook and casino aggregation, and is one of Betsson's principal brands in the Nordic and Baltic markets, where it has been a long-running football and ice hockey sponsor. The brand is run from Betsson's operational headquarters in Malta.
Betsson
SwedenBetsson AB is a Swedish online gambling group listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, with operational headquarters in Malta, operating a portfolio of more than twenty sportsbook and casino brands including Betsson, Betsafe, NordicBet, Rizk, Guts, CasinoEuro and Jalla Casino on its proprietary platform. It holds licences in Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Italy, Greece, Croatia, Georgia, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Mexico and Brazil, among others, and has grown its Latin American business into a major part of the group through local licences and acquisitions. Founded in 1963 as a land-based business and online since 2000, Betsson also supplies its sportsbook and platform to third parties on a B2B basis and reports annual revenue above one billion euros.
Betsul
BrazilBetsul is a Brazilian online sports betting and casino operator founded in 2018, among the earlier domestic brands in the Brazilian market and licensed under the federal regime that took effect in January 2025, offering a sportsbook focused on Brazilian football, casino games and Pix payments. It has sponsored Brazilian football clubs and positions itself as a Brazilian-owned operator.
BetVictor
United KingdomBetVictor is a Gibraltar-based online sportsbook and casino operator descended from the Victor Chandler bookmaking business founded in London in 1946, and one of the longest-established brands in British betting. It holds licences from the Gambling Commission in Britain and in Gibraltar, Ireland and other markets, operates the BetVictor sportsbook, casino and poker products and the Parimatch brand in Britain under licence, and has historically been a leader in moving offshore to Gibraltar in the late 1990s and in online betting. The company is privately owned and headquartered in Gibraltar.
Betway
MaltaBetway is an international online sportsbook and casino brand operated by Super Group, the New York-listed company that also runs the Spin casino brands. Launched in 2006, Betway holds licences in Britain, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Germany, Ontario and several African markets including South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia and Ghana, and built its brand through extensive sports sponsorship in football, esports, darts and cricket. Super Group withdrew Betway from the United States online market in 2025 after concluding the market did not justify further investment, and now concentrates the brand on Europe, Africa, Canada and Latin America. It runs on Super Group's own technology platform.
Betwinner
CyprusBetwinner is an international bookmaker and online casino offering a wide range of sports betting and casino games. The platform operates in Asia, Latin America, the CIS, and Africa, with Africa being its main region of presence, holding local licenses in Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia, DRC, Ghana, Tanzania, Cameroon, Mozambique, and Ethiopia.
Bloomberry Resorts
PhilippinesBloomberry Resorts is a Philippine integrated resort developer and operator, listed on the Philippine Stock Exchange under the ticker BLOOM and majority owned by the businessman Enrique K. Razon Jr, who chairs it. It was founded on 3 May 1999 and is headquartered at Solaire Resort Entertainment City in Parañaque, Metro Manila. Solaire Resort Entertainment City opened on 7 April 2013 as the first property in Entertainment City, the Manila gaming district PAGCOR created to compete with Macau and Singapore, at a cost of around 1.2 billion dollars. A second property, Solaire Resort North in Quezon City, followed in 2024. Bloomberry is the clearest test of whether the Philippines can hold integrated-resort visitation against the far larger Macau and Singapore markets.
Boyd Gaming
United StatesBoyd Gaming Corporation is a casino operator founded on 1 January 1975 by Sam and Bill Boyd to develop the California Hotel and Casino in downtown Las Vegas, and is still headquartered in the city. It trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker BYD. It is one of the most geographically diversified American operators, running 28 gaming properties across 10 states, managing a tribal casino in northern California, and owning Boyd Interactive, a business selling online casino both to consumers and to other operators. In July 2025 it sold its 5% equity stake in FanDuel Group to Flutter Entertainment for 1.755 billion dollars, using the proceeds to cut debt while extending its market access agreements with FanDuel through to 2038.
BoyleSports
IrelandBoyleSports is Ireland's largest independently owned bookmaker, founded in 1982 by John Boyle, who opened his first shop in Markethill, County Armagh with 18,000 pounds raised from a loan from his father and bank finance. Its head office is on the outskirts of Dundalk in the Republic of Ireland. The company remains family owned and has grown to more than 390 shops across Ireland and the United Kingdom, employing over 2,700 people across Ireland, the UK and Gibraltar. Its British expansion has come largely through acquiring independent estates, and it is licensed by the Gambling Commission for its UK operations. Alongside retail it runs an online business covering sports betting, casino, poker, bingo and lottery.
Bplay
ArgentinaBplay is an Argentine online sports betting and casino operator run by Boldt, a Buenos Aires-listed gaming and technology group, licensed in the City and Province of Buenos Aires and other Argentine provinces under the province-by-province online regime, and in Paraguay. Boldt also operates land-based casinos and slot halls in Argentina, and Bplay sponsors Argentine football clubs.
British Columbia Lottery Corporation
CanadaThe British Columbia Lottery Corporation is a Crown corporation founded in 1985 and headquartered in Kamloops, British Columbia. It conducts and manages all lottery, sports betting and casino gambling in the province. Its PlayNow platform is the only licensed online casino operator in British Columbia, and BCLC also supplies it into Manitoba and Saskatchewan, making it the closest thing Canada has to a multi-province online gaming operator outside Ontario's open market. The corporation has delivered 28 billion Canadian dollars to the province since 1985. It has also been at the centre of British Columbia's money laundering debate, which drove the Cullen Commission and reshaped source-of-funds requirements across Canadian casinos.
Buzz Bingo
United KingdomBuzz Bingo is Britain's largest retail bingo operator, running around eighty bingo clubs across England, Scotland and Wales, and an online bingo, slots and casino business licensed by the Gambling Commission. The business was formed from the Gala Bingo retail clubs acquired by Caledonia Investments in 2015 and rebranded as Buzz Bingo in 2018, with the online site launched the same year and run on a third-party platform. Headquartered in Nottingham, it links its club membership scheme to its online product and positions itself on the community side of bingo rather than casino-led play.
bwin
Gibraltarbwin is an online sports betting and casino brand founded in Austria in 1997 as betandwin, merged with PartyGaming in 2011 to form bwin.party, and owned by Entain since 2016. Licensed in Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, Greece, Romania, Brazil and other markets, it is Entain's principal brand in continental Europe, with long-standing football sponsorships including Real Madrid and Bayern Munich in earlier years and current partnerships across European leagues. It runs on Entain's platform from Gibraltar and Vienna.
Caesars Entertainment
United StatesCaesars Entertainment is a US casino and hospitality group listed on Nasdaq and headquartered in Reno, Nevada, operating more than fifty properties across the United States including Caesars Palace, Harrah's, Horseshoe, Eldorado and Tropicana brands, following the 2020 merger of Eldorado Resorts and the former Caesars. Its digital division runs the Caesars Sportsbook in more than thirty jurisdictions, built on the William Hill US business acquired in 2021, and the Caesars Palace Online Casino and Horseshoe online casino brands in the regulated iGaming states, all tied to the Caesars Rewards loyalty programme. The group employs around 50,000 people and is one of the three largest US casino operators.
Casinò di Venezia
ItalyCasinò di Venezia is the oldest gaming house in the world, established in 1638 during the Venetian Republic as the Ridotto, a state-run venue created to bring the gambling of the carnival season under official control. That founding logic, legalise in order to supervise, is the one European regulators are still applying four centuries later. Its winter home is Ca' Vendramin Calergi, a Renaissance palace on the Grand Canal that was once a residence of the Doges and the house in which Richard Wagner died. The City Council of Venice bought the palace in 1946 and the casino has occupied it since 1959. It remains municipally owned, which is characteristic of the Italian land-based sector: the country licenses only a handful of casinos, and they sit under public rather than corporate ownership.
Casino Gran Madrid
SpainCasino Gran Madrid is a Spanish casino operator running two licensed casinos in the Madrid region, the original Torrelodones casino opened in 1981 and the Casino Gran Madrid Colón in central Madrid, alongside a Spanish-licensed online casino and sportsbook at casinogranmadrid.es authorised by the DGOJ since 2015. The online business offers slots, roulette, blackjack, live casino and sports betting to Spanish residents under the national online regime, and the group runs poker rooms and events at its venues. It is privately owned and one of the few Spanish land-based casino groups with a significant online operation.
Casinos Austria
AustriaCasinos Austria operates Austria's twelve licensed casinos under an exclusive concession, and, through its sister company Österreichische Lotterien, the national lottery and the win2day online gaming platform, which holds Austria's sole online casino licence. The group, majority-owned by Allwyn (formerly Sazka) since 2020 with the Austrian state as a minority holder, runs casinos in Vienna, Baden, Salzburg, Innsbruck and other cities, and its international arm, Casinos Austria International, operates or manages casinos abroad. It is headquartered in Vienna and employs several thousand people across casinos, lotteries and online.
Casumo
MaltaCasumo is a Malta-headquartered online casino and sportsbook operator founded in 2012, known for a gamified casino product built around an adventure-style loyalty mechanic and for a design-led approach that distinguished it in the Nordic and British markets. It holds licences from the Malta Gaming Authority, the Gambling Commission in Britain, and the regulators in Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Ontario and Germany, runs its own platform, and has withdrawn from and re-entered markets as regulation changed. Casumo is privately owned and has around 300 employees in Malta, Gibraltar and Spain.
Century Casinos
United StatesCentury Casinos is a Nasdaq-listed casino operator headquartered in Colorado Springs, running casinos and racetracks in the United States and Poland. Its US properties include Century Casino and Hotel in Cripple Creek and Central City, Colorado, the Rocky Gap Casino Resort in Maryland, Mountaineer Casino in West Virginia and Century Casino Cape Girardeau and Caruthersville in Missouri, several of them acquired from other operators and redeveloped, and it holds a majority interest in Casinos Poland, which operates casinos in Warsaw and other Polish cities. Founded in 1992, the company has also operated casinos in Canada and on cruise ships, and holds sports betting partnerships at its US properties.
Churchill Downs Incorporated
United StatesChurchill Downs Incorporated is a racing, gaming and entertainment company established in 1875 and headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, listed on Nasdaq under the ticker CHDN. It owns and operates the Churchill Downs racetrack, home of the Kentucky Derby. The company has grown well beyond thoroughbred racing into a portfolio of racetracks, casinos, historical racing machine venues and online wagering, reporting through three segments covering live and historical racing, wagering services and solutions, and gaming. Its TwinSpires business is the largest legal online horse race wagering platform in the United States. Historical horse racing machines have become a significant growth engine, and a recurring subject of legislative argument in several states over whether they are racing products or slot machines.
Circa Sports
United StatesCirca Sports is a Las Vegas sportsbook founded by the casino owner Derek Stevens, which began operations on 1 June 2019 and takes its name from his Circa Resort and Casino in downtown Las Vegas. It operates in Nevada, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky and Missouri, having launched in Colorado in July 2020 through a partnership with Century Casinos and opened its first physical sportsbook outside Nevada in Illinois in September 2023. Circa is built on a deliberately contrarian commercial model: it posts high limits, does not restrict winning customers in the way most American books do, and runs the Circa Survivor and Circa Millions contests, which carry multi-million dollar prize pools and have become a distinct marketing asset.
Cirsa
SpainCirsa Enterprises is Spain's largest casino operator, founded in Terrassa, Catalonia in 1978 by Manuel Lao Hernández and still headquartered there. It runs 447 casinos and gaming halls and more than 83,000 slot machines across eleven regulated markets, spanning Spain, Italy and much of Latin America. Blackstone bought the group in 2018 and took it public on 9 July 2025, pricing the offer at 15 euros a share for a valuation of around 2.5 billion euros in what was one of the largest gambling listings on the Bolsa de Madrid. The group reported record net operating revenue of 2.15 billion euros for 2024, up 8%, with EBITDA of 699 million euros, a third consecutive year of record results. It also owns the Spanish betting brand Sportium.
Cloudbet
CuracaoCloudbet is one of the longest-running crypto sportsbooks and casinos, launched in 2013 and licensed in Curacao, accepting bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies for sports betting, esports, casino and live casino, and known for high betting limits and for early adoption of crypto payments. It serves customers in markets where its Curacao licence is recognised and has moved with the sector toward stablecoin settlement and provably fair games.
Codere
SpainCodere is a Spanish multinational gaming operator founded in Madrid in 1980 by the Martínez Sampedro family together with the Franco brothers, owners of the amusement machine manufacturer Recreativos Franco. It began in amusement machines before diversifying into betting shops, bingo halls, casinos and racetracks. The group operates across Spain, Italy, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Panama and Uruguay, with Latin America accounting for much of its scale. Ownership has moved decisively away from its founders: debt-for-equity restructuring in 2021 and a recapitalisation in late 2024 left the business, trading as Codere Newco, controlled by institutional creditors and international investment funds, with the Martínez Sampedro family reduced to a minority holding.
Codere Online
SpainCodere Online is the online arm of the Codere group, launched in 2014 and listed separately on Nasdaq under the ticker CDRO since December 2021, when it completed a business combination with the special purpose acquisition company DD3 Acquisition Corp II. The listed entity is Codere Online Luxembourg, S.A. It operates online casino and sports betting in Spain, Italy, Mexico, Colombia and Panama, and has more recently launched in the City of Buenos Aires. Spain and Mexico are its two core markets. It reported net gaming revenue of 64.4 million euros for the first quarter of 2026, up 13% year on year, with adjusted EBITDA of 6.0 million euros against 1.8 million a year earlier.
ComeOn Group
MaltaComeOn Group is a Malta-headquartered online casino and sportsbook operator running more than twenty brands, including ComeOn, Mobilebet, Hajper, Snabbare, Casinostugan, Folkeautomaten and Sunmaker, on its proprietary platform. Founded in 2008 and owned by the Swedish gaming group Cherry, it holds licences in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Malta, Britain, Ontario and other regulated markets, and has concentrated its business on the Nordic and German-speaking markets, with Sunmaker one of the established brands in Germany's regulated slot market. The group employs around 500 people in Malta, Sweden and Poland.
Coolbet
EstoniaCoolbet is an Estonian online sportsbook and casino operator founded in 2016 in Tallinn, known for publishing the margin on every betting market and for a customer-facing transparency policy that distinguished it in the Nordic and Baltic markets. It holds licences in Estonia, Latvia, Sweden, Denmark, Finland's incoming regime and Ontario, and has expanded into Latin America with licensed operations in Chile, Peru, Mexico and Ecuador. Coolbet was acquired by GAN in 2021 as the B2C arm of that group, and GAN itself was acquired by Japan's Sega Sammy in 2025, making Coolbet part of a Japanese-owned gaming group.
Coral
United KingdomCoral is a British bookmaker founded in 1926 and owned by Entain since its 2018 acquisition of Ladbrokes Coral, operating betting shops across Britain and an online sportsbook, casino, bingo and games business licensed by the Gambling Commission, sharing the group's retail estate and platform with Ladbrokes. Its Coral Racing Club and racing sponsorships keep it closely tied to British horse racing, and it is one of the three largest British retail bookmakers.
Crown Resorts
AustraliaCrown Resorts is an Australian integrated resort operator running Crown Melbourne, Crown Perth and Crown Sydney, acquired by the private equity firm Blackstone in 2022 after a series of state inquiries found it unsuitable to hold its licences and imposed remediation and supervision. The group has since rebuilt its compliance function under regulator oversight, retained its Victorian and New South Wales licences under conditions, and operates hotels, restaurants and entertainment alongside gaming. It is Australia's largest casino operator and employs around 20,000 people.
Danske Licens Spil
DenmarkDanske Licens Spil is the licensed betting and online casino arm of Danske Spil, the Danish state gaming company, operating the Oddset sportsbook and the Danske Spil online casino and poker under Danish Gambling Authority licences in competition with private operators since the 2012 market opening, while its parent retains the lottery monopoly. It is the largest licensed betting and casino operator in Denmark by market share and sponsors Danish football and handball.
Danske Spil
DenmarkDanske Spil is the Danish state gambling operator, founded in 1948 and based at Brøndbyvester outside Copenhagen. It is structured to sit on both sides of the Danish market at once. Danske Lotteri Spil holds the commercial lottery monopoly, and is the only company in Denmark permitted to offer pure games of chance other than casino games. Danske Licens Spil competes for online gambling and sports betting under a Spillemyndigheden licence alongside private operators, in the market Denmark liberalised in 2012. That split is the cleanest expression of the Nordic compromise: keep the lottery in state hands where the argument for exclusivity is strongest, and let betting and casino compete under licence.
Delaware North
United StatesDelaware North is a privately owned US hospitality and gaming group headquartered in Buffalo, New York, founded in 1915 and owned by the Jacobs family, with businesses in sports and entertainment concessions, travel hospitality, parks and resorts, and gaming. Its gaming division operates casinos and racinos including Southland in Arkansas, Wheeling Island in West Virginia, Jake's 58 in New York and properties in Florida and Illinois, and runs the Betly online sportsbook and casino brand in Arkansas and West Virginia. The group employs more than 50,000 people across its divisions.
DigiPlus Interactive
PhilippinesDigiPlus Interactive is the largest listed digital gaming company in the Philippines, trading on the Philippine Stock Exchange under the ticker PLUS. It reported revenue of 27.3 billion pesos and net income of 4.1 billion pesos for 2023. It was granted the country's first Online Traditional Bingo licence by PAGCOR and launched BingoPlus in January 2022, a live-streamed digital bingo platform tied to a network of more than 130 physical bingo halls. ArenaPlus is its sportsbook, streaming domestic and international events including the Philippine Basketball Association. The company's growth has coincided with the Philippine government winding down the POGO offshore sector, and it represents the opposite bet: a domestically licensed operator serving Filipino players rather than an offshore one serving foreign markets.
DraftKings
United StatesDraftKings is a US online sports betting and iGaming operator, listed on Nasdaq. It began as a daily fantasy sports business before expanding into sportsbook and online casino after the 2018 repeal of PASPA.
Dream11
IndiaDream11 is India's largest fantasy sports platform, founded in Mumbai in 2008 by Harsh Jain and Bhavit Sheth and operating as part of Dream Sports. It reports 220 million users playing fantasy cricket, football, kabaddi, hockey, basketball, volleyball, handball and baseball, and posted revenue of 63.84 billion rupees for the 2023 financial year. It became the first Indian gaming company to reach unicorn valuation in April 2019. India does not permit online sports betting or casino nationally, and fantasy sports has been the legal route to a wagering-adjacent product, defended on the basis that it is a game of skill rather than chance. That distinction is under continual challenge in the Indian courts and in state legislatures, which makes Dream11 the largest business anywhere resting on a skill-versus-chance classification.
Efbet
BulgariaEfbet is a Bulgarian betting and gaming operator headquartered in Sofia, founded in the 1990s and grown into one of the largest operators in South-East Europe, with licensed retail betting shops and gaming halls across Bulgaria and licensed online sportsbook and casino operations in Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Spain, among other markets. It sponsors Bulgarian football including the national league and runs its own platform. Efbet is privately owned and one of the largest employers in Bulgarian gaming.
Entain
United KingdomEntain is a FTSE 100 sports betting and gaming group headquartered in London, formerly GVC Holdings, operating more than twenty-five brands including bwin, Ladbrokes, Coral, Sportingbet, PartyCasino, partypoker, Gala Bingo, Foxy Bingo, Eurobet in Italy, Ladbrokes and Neds in Australia, Sports Interaction in Canada, SuperSport in Croatia, STS in Poland and BetCity in the Netherlands. It holds a fifty per cent stake in BetMGM, the US joint venture with MGM Resorts, runs its own technology platform, and holds licences in more than thirty regulated markets, with annual revenue above five billion pounds and around 30,000 employees. Entain has restructured since 2023 under new leadership, settled a UK bribery investigation over its former Turkish business, and refocused on regulated markets and organic growth.
ESPN Bet
United StatesESPN Bet was the US online sportsbook operated by PENN Entertainment under a licensing agreement with ESPN, launched in November 2023 in around seventeen states and expanded to around twenty, replacing PENN's earlier Barstool Sportsbook. The agreement, under which PENN paid ESPN for the brand and marketing integration, did not deliver the market share either side had projected, and in November 2025 the companies agreed to end it early, with the sportsbook migrating to PENN's theScore Bet brand from December 2025. The ESPN Bet brand is therefore no longer in operation; its customers, licences and technology continue under theScore Bet.
Estoril Sol
PortugalEstoril Sol is Portugal's largest casino group, operating Casino Estoril, Casino Lisboa and Casino da Póvoa under state concessions, and the ESC Online brand, one of the first online casino and sports betting operators licensed by Portugal's SRIJ regulator when the market opened in 2016. The group runs slots, table games, poker rooms and entertainment at its venues and slots, roulette, blackjack and sports betting online, and is listed on Euronext Lisbon. It is headquartered in Estoril.
EstrelaBet
BrazilEstrelaBet is a Brazilian online betting and casino operator founded in 2019, with offices in Belo Horizonte and São Paulo. It secured a definitive licence from the Secretariat of Prizes and Betting in February 2025, having met the regime's conditions including the mandatory 30 million real licence payment. That fee is the single most consequential feature of the Brazilian framework: at 30 million reais per licence covering up to three brands, it was set high enough to clear out the long tail of grey-market operators that had run on Curaçao permissions, and the licensed field settled at a fraction of the number that had been trading. EstrelaBet is a prominent football sponsor, most visibly of Internacional in Porto Alegre, and won Best Sports Betting Operator in Brazil at the SBC Awards Latinoamérica in 2022.
Eurobet
ItalyEurobet is the largest Italian brand in the Entain group, headquartered in Rome and operating just under 1,000 sports betting shops through a franchising model. It was founded in 1995 and acquired by Coral in 1998, adding an online offering the following year. The regulation of Italian betting in 2007 was the turning point for the business, and it expanded steadily on the back of it. Ownership followed the consolidation of British bookmaking: Eurobet became part of Ladbrokes Coral in 2016, passed to GVC in 2018, and to Entain when the group renamed in December 2020. Combined with the group's digital-only Italian brands, bwin, Gioco Digitale and partypoker, Entain holds an 11.9% share of the Italian market, placing it among the top three operators.
evoke plc
Gibraltarevoke plc is the international betting and gaming group formerly known as 888 Holdings, which completed its rebrand in May 2024 after shareholders approved the change at its annual general meeting. It trades on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker EVOK and is headquartered in Gibraltar. The group's portfolio spans William Hill, acquired from Caesars in 2022 and one of the oldest names in British bookmaking, alongside 888sport, 888casino, 888poker and the Swedish-founded Mr Green. The William Hill acquisition transformed 888 from an online-only operator into one with a substantial British retail estate, and the debt taken on to fund it has shaped the group's strategy since.
Fanatics Betting and Gaming
United StatesFanatics Betting and Gaming is the sports betting and online casino division of Fanatics, the US sports merchandise, collectibles and media group, headquartered in New York. It launched the Fanatics Sportsbook in 2023 and accelerated its rollout by acquiring PointsBet's US business the same year, taking it to more than twenty states, and operates Fanatics Casino in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan and West Virginia. The sportsbook is integrated with the FanCash rewards programme across the Fanatics group, and the division has grown into the fourth-largest US online sportsbook by handle in several states. It is privately owned as part of Fanatics.
FanDuel
United StatesFanDuel is a US online sports betting and iGaming operator, owned by Flutter Entertainment. Like DraftKings it started in daily fantasy sports and is now one of the largest US sportsbooks by market share.
FDJ United
FranceFDJ United is the listed French gaming group built around La Française des Jeux, the national lottery operator founded in 1976 and headquartered in Boulogne-Billancourt. The French state took the company public in 2019, cutting a holding of around 72% and retaining a minority stake. It trades on Euronext Paris under the ticker FDJ. The group has moved from a domestic lottery monopoly to a multi-market operator by acquisition. It bought the online horse race and sports betting group ZEturf in 2023, taking its share of the French online market past 10%, and completed a 27.95 billion Swedish kronor tender offer for Kindred Group, the owner of Unibet, in October 2024. In France it holds ANJ licences alongside its lottery monopoly and the Parions Sport retail betting network.
Fitzdares
United KingdomFitzdares is a British bookmaker founded in 2005 by Balthazar Fabricius, positioned as a members-style bookmaker for high-staking and racing-focused customers, with telephone and online betting, a sportsbook and casino under Gambling Commission licences, and a members' club in Mayfair opened in 2021 that combines a betting service with hospitality. It has expanded to Ontario under a provincial registration and runs partnerships with racecourses and racing media. The company is privately owned and headquartered in London, and markets itself on service and accepting the bets that mass-market operators restrict.
Flutter Entertainment
IrelandFlutter Entertainment is the world's largest online betting and gaming group, listed on the New York Stock Exchange as its primary listing since 2024 with a secondary listing in London, and headquartered in New York with major operations in Dublin, Leeds and beyond. Its brands include FanDuel, the leading US sportsbook and online casino operator, Paddy Power, Betfair, Sky Betting and Gaming and tombola in Britain and Ireland, PokerStars globally, Sportsbet in Australia, Sisal and Snai in Italy, Junglee in India, and Betnacional and NSX in Brazil. Flutter holds licences in more than forty jurisdictions, reports annual revenue above fourteen billion dollars, employs around 27,000 people, and has grown through the acquisitions of Sisal, Snai, Betnacional and PokerStars' parent The Stars Group.
Fortuna Entertainment Group
CzechiaFortuna Entertainment Group is a Central and Eastern European sports betting and gaming operator headquartered in Prague and owned by Penta Investments, running the Fortuna brand in Czechia, Slovakia and Poland, Casa Pariurilor and Fortuna in Romania, and PSK in Croatia, with retail betting shop networks and online sportsbook, casino and lottery-style products in each market. Founded in 1990 in Prague, it was listed on the Prague and Warsaw exchanges until Penta took it private in 2018, and it is among the largest operators in each of its markets, with more than a thousand retail outlets and several million registered online customers.
Foxwoods Resort Casino
United StatesFoxwoods Resort Casino is the casino resort of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation in Connecticut, opened in 1992 and for years the largest casino in the United States, with several casino floors, hotels, a theatre and an outlet mall. Under Connecticut's 2021 law the tribe holds one of the state's two online casino and sports betting authorisations, operated with a commercial partner under the Foxwoods and partner brands, and shares revenue with the state under its compact.
Full House Resorts
United StatesFull House Resorts is a Nasdaq-listed regional casino operator headquartered in Las Vegas, running Chamonix Casino Hotel and Bronco Billy's in Cripple Creek, Colorado, the American Place casino in Waukegan, Illinois, the Silver Slipper in Mississippi, Rising Star Casino Resort in Indiana, and the Grand Lodge and Stockman's casinos in Nevada. Founded in 1987, the company opened Chamonix in 2023 and the temporary American Place in 2023 ahead of a permanent resort, and licenses sports betting skins at its properties to online operators in the states that permit it. It employs around 2,000 people.
Galaxy Entertainment Group
MacauGalaxy Entertainment Group is one of the six licensed casino operators in Macau, listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and a constituent of the Hang Seng Index. Through Galaxy Casino S.A. it was one of the three original concessionaires when Macau liberalised gaming in 2002, and it was awarded a new ten-year concession running from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2032. It was built by the late Lui Che Woo, who chaired both Galaxy and the property developer K. Wah International until his death in November 2024, and is now led by his son Francis Lui. Its flagship Galaxy Macau opened on the Cotai Strip in May 2011 and has been expanded twice since, in May 2015 and December 2023, reaching eight hotels, around 5,000 rooms and a gaming floor of roughly 400,000 square feet.
Galera.bet
BrazilGalera.bet is a Brazilian online sports betting and casino operator that became the first regulated online betting operator in Rio de Janeiro under the state lottery Loterj's 2023 licensing and later obtained a federal authorisation under Brazil's national regime, launched with heavy football sponsorship including a Brazilian league title partnership. It is run by Brazilian owners with an international technology platform and markets itself as a domestic brand against the international entrants.
Gamdom
CuracaoGamdom is a crypto-focused online casino and sportsbook founded in 2016 and licensed in Curacao, which began as a skin-gambling and crash-game site in the Counter-Strike community and expanded into a full casino with slots, live dealer games, original in-house games and a sportsbook. It accepts cryptocurrencies and fiat payments, runs a rewards programme with rakeback and giveaways, and has sponsored esports teams and football clubs to reach its core audience. Gamdom serves players in markets where its Curacao licence is recognised and is among the larger crypto casino brands by traffic.
Gamesys
United KingdomGamesys is a British online bingo and casino operator founded in London in 2001 and acquired by Bally's Corporation in 2021, running Jackpotjoy, Virgin Games, Monopoly Casino, Rainbow Riches Casino and Double Bubble Bingo in Britain, Botemania in Spain and brands in Japan, on its proprietary platform. It is the largest online bingo operator in Britain by revenue and forms the core of Bally's international interactive division, supplying the platform for Bally Bet and Bally Casino in North America. Gamesys is headquartered in London and employs around 1,500 people.
Gateway Casinos and Entertainment
CanadaGateway Casinos and Entertainment is a Canadian casino operator headquartered in Burnaby, British Columbia, running more than twenty-five casinos and gaming properties across British Columbia, Ontario and Alberta under provincial operating agreements, including Cascades Casino and Starlight Casino brands, with restaurants and entertainment venues. Owned by the private equity firm Catalyst Capital, it is one of the largest private casino operators in Canada and operates under the provinces' Crown-conduct model.
Genting Group
MalaysiaGenting is a Malaysian conglomerate whose leisure and hospitality arm is one of the largest casino operators in the world, running Resorts World Genting in Malaysia, Resorts World Sentosa in Singapore through the listed Genting Singapore, Resorts World Las Vegas, Resorts World New York City and Resorts World Catskills in the United States through Genting Malaysia, and Genting Casinos in Britain, with online casino brands in Britain and other regulated markets. Founded in 1965 and controlled by the Lim family, the group's gaming companies are listed in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore and it holds a bid for a full New York casino licence at its Queens racino.
Genting Singapore
SingaporeGenting Singapore is the Singapore-listed operator of Resorts World Sentosa, one of the city-state's two licensed integrated resorts, comprising a casino, hotels, Universal Studios Singapore, an aquarium and convention facilities, under a duopoly licence with a long exclusivity period in exchange for continuing investment. Part of the Genting group, it is expanding the resort under a multi-billion-dollar development plan agreed with the government and is one of the most profitable casino operators in Asia.
Golden Entertainment
United StatesGolden Entertainment is a Nasdaq-listed casino and tavern operator headquartered in Las Vegas, running The STRAT on the Las Vegas Strip, Arizona Charlie's in Las Vegas, the Aquarius and Edgewater resorts in Laughlin, and around seventy PT's-branded taverns across Nevada. It sold its distributed gaming route business in Nevada and Montana in 2024 and its Rocky Gap casino in Maryland in 2023 to concentrate on its owned properties, and holds sports betting partnerships at its casinos. Founded from the 2015 merger of Golden Gaming and Lakes Entertainment, the company employs around 5,000 people.
Golden Nugget Online Gaming
United StatesGolden Nugget Online Gaming is a US online casino brand operated by DraftKings, which acquired the former Nasdaq-listed company in 2022 and moved it onto DraftKings' platform in 2023. Licensed under the Golden Nugget name from the land-based casino group, it operates online casino in New Jersey, where it was for years the market leader, Michigan, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and runs as DraftKings' second casino brand aimed at a different customer segment from the DraftKings Casino product. It is headquartered in Houston.
Golden Palace
BelgiumGolden Palace is a Belgian gaming group with close to 60 years of trading, running more than 40 gaming halls in Belgium and a casino in France, and employing around 500 people. It holds an A+ licence from the Belgian Gaming Commission and goldenpalace.be was the first site to be granted a legal operating licence in Belgium. Belgium ties online licences to land-based ones: an operator needs a physical venue licence to obtain the corresponding online permission, which is why the domestic market is dominated by established hall and casino groups such as Golden Palace, Ardent with its Circus brand, and Napoleon Games rather than by international online-only operators. Golden Palace has bid for the fifteen-year concession for the Viage casino in Brussels, offering 30 million euros of redevelopment.
Grand Korea Leisure
South KoreaGrand Korea Leisure is a South Korean state-owned casino operator, a subsidiary of the Korea Tourism Organization, running the Seven Luck foreigner-only casinos in Seoul and Busan. Listed in Seoul with the state as majority shareholder, it serves international visitors under South Korea's ban on nationals entering casinos other than Kangwon Land, and its revenue follows inbound tourism from China, Japan and South-East Asia.
Great Canadian Entertainment
CanadaGreat Canadian Entertainment is the largest private casino operator in Canada, founded in 1982 and headquartered in Toronto. It runs gaming, entertainment and hospitality properties in Ontario, British Columbia, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Funds managed by Apollo Global Management, alongside HPS Investment Partners, completed the acquisition of the then Great Canadian Gaming Corporation in September 2021 in a deal worth around 3.3 billion Canadian dollars, taking the business private and bringing roughly 25 casinos under Apollo's control. Anthony Rodio, previously chief executive of Caesars Entertainment, was appointed to lead it from Toronto. Canadian casinos are typically operated on behalf of provincial Crown agencies rather than owned outright, so the company's role is as service provider to the provinces as much as proprietor.
Greenwood Gaming and Entertainment
United StatesGreenwood Gaming and Entertainment is the Pennsylvania company, owned by Greenwood Racing, that operates Parx Casino in Bensalem, the largest casino in Pennsylvania by revenue, together with Parx Racing, the Parx Casino Shippensburg satellite casino and the betPARX online sportsbook and casino brand. betPARX holds licences in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Maryland and Michigan, running online casino where permitted and sports betting elsewhere, and is one of the few US online brands owned by a single regional land-based operator. The group is privately held and headquartered in Bensalem.
Grosvenor Casinos
United KingdomGrosvenor Casinos is Britain's largest casino operator, part of the Rank Group, running around fifty casinos across Britain and an online casino and sportsbook licensed by the Gambling Commission, linked to its land-based membership and loyalty scheme. Founded in 1970, the brand operates flagship venues in London and regional cities and was a beneficiary of the 2023 White Paper's land-based reforms on machine allowances and casino rules.
Groupe Barrière
FranceGroupe Barrière is France's leading casino operator, founded in 1912 by François André and headquartered in Paris. It has remained under family stewardship through Lucien Barrière, Diane Barrière-Desseigne and Dominique Desseigne. The group runs 33 Casinos Barrière alongside 16 Hôtels Barrière, a majority of them five-star, and more than 120 restaurants and bars including Fouquet's in Paris. Its model pairs regulated land-based casino gaming with luxury hospitality, which is characteristic of the French market: online casino games remain prohibited in France, so the ANJ licences only sports betting, horse race betting and poker, and the casino estate stays land-based.
Groupe Partouche
FranceGroupe Partouche is one of the two largest casino operators in France, founded in 1973 by Isidore Partouche. It is listed on Euronext while remaining under the control of the Partouche family. At the end of its 2025 financial year the group operated 43 casinos, 39 of them in France and the remainder in Switzerland, Belgium, Tunisia and Benin. It reported gross gaming revenue of 748.3 million euros for the year, up 5.1%, on consolidated turnover of 460.2 million euros. Growth was driven by renovations at three of its largest French venues, at Annemasse, Divonne and La Tour-de-Salvagny, which grew gross gaming revenue by 20.9%, 17.7% and 15.0% respectively.
Grupo Caliente
MexicoGrupo Caliente is the largest sports betting company in Mexico, tracing its origins to 1916 in Tijuana and the Agua Caliente racetrack. It is owned by Jorge Hank Rhon, who took over management of the racetrack in 1985 and built the group around it. Its divisions include Caliente Online, Caliente Casino, Estadio Caliente and the satellite business Globalsat, and it has operated around 200 off-track betting and bookmaking outlets across Mexico and a dozen other markets including Peru, Panama, Paraguay, Ecuador, Uruguay and the Caribbean. Its retail-first structure is characteristic of Mexican gaming, where permits are issued under a 1947 federal law that has never been comprehensively replaced, and online offerings sit under existing land-based permits rather than a dedicated regime.
Grupo Orenes
SpainGrupo Orenes is a Spanish gaming and leisure group founded in 1968 and headquartered in Murcia. After more than five decades it has become one of the principal gaming operators in Spain. Its business units span casinos, bingo halls, gaming arcades, hospitality gaming terminals, sports betting and online gaming, alongside the manufacture of gaming and slot machines and a hotel and restaurant arm. The group operates in Spain, Mexico, Ireland, Andorra, Brazil, Austria, Colombia and Puerto Rico among other markets, an unusually broad footprint for a privately held Spanish operator.
Hard Rock Bet
United StatesHard Rock Bet is the online sportsbook and casino brand of Hard Rock Digital, the digital division of the Seminole Tribe of Florida's Hard Rock International, and the sole licensed online sportsbook in Florida under the tribe's 2021 compact with the state, upheld after federal litigation in 2023 and 2024. It also operates online casino in New Jersey and sports betting in several other states, and runs on technology the tribe's digital unit built and licensed. Hard Rock Bet has become one of the largest US online sportsbooks by handle on the strength of the Florida monopoly.
Hard Rock Digital
United StatesHard Rock Digital is the online sports betting and gaming arm of Hard Rock International, founded in 2020 as a joint venture between Hard Rock and a group of online gambling executives, and based in Florida. It trades under the Hard Rock Bet brand. Its position in Florida is unlike any other American operator's. Under the 2021 compact between the Seminole Tribe of Florida and the state, mobile betting runs on a hub-and-spoke model in which wagers are deemed to take place on tribal land where the servers sit, which makes Hard Rock Bet the only legal sportsbook in what is one of the largest betting populations in the United States. That arrangement survived federal litigation and has become the template other tribes look to when negotiating digital rights.
Holland Casino
NetherlandsHolland Casino is the Dutch state-owned casino operator, founded on 1 October 1976 and the only company permitted to run land-based casinos in the Netherlands. Its profits pass to the Dutch treasury. It operates fourteen venues, including Amsterdam Centrum and Amsterdam West-Sloterdijk, Rotterdam, Scheveningen, Utrecht, Breda, Eindhoven, Enschede, Groningen, Leeuwarden, Nijmegen, Valkenburg, Venlo and Zandvoort. Since 4 October 2021 it has also run a licensed online platform under a Kansspelautoriteit licence, having entered the online market on the day it opened. Successive Dutch governments have debated privatising it without concluding, which leaves it in the unusual position of competing online while remaining a state monopoly on land.
Hollywoodbets
South AfricaHollywoodbets is the largest licensed bookmaker in South Africa, founded in Durban in 2000 and originally trading as Winning Form, with its first branch on Argyle Road. Its purple branding is among the most recognisable in African sport. It runs a retail estate of more than 80 branches alongside a substantial online business, licensed separately by the provincial gambling boards of KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng, Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Free State, Limpopo and Mpumalanga, because South Africa regulates bookmaking province by province rather than nationally. It has since expanded into the United Kingdom, Ireland and Mozambique, and is a prominent sponsor across South African cricket, football and racing.
Impressario Casino
NetherlandsImpressario Casino is an online casino brand focused on real money casino gaming rather than sportsbook betting. On its own site, it presents itself as a multi market casino platform offering slots, live dealers, live shows, crash games and table games, wrapped in a carnival themed brand identity.
Inkabet
PeruInkabet is a Peruvian online sports betting and casino operator, launched in 2016 and acquired by Betsson in 2021, licensed under Peru's online gambling regime that took effect in 2024, with a sportsbook, casino and live casino localised for Peruvian players and payments through local methods. It runs on Betsson's platform and forms part of the group's Latin American expansion alongside its Colombian, Argentine and Mexican licences.
Interwetten
MaltaInterwetten is a sports betting and casino operator founded in Vienna in 1990 and based in Malta since 2005. It was one of the earliest European online bookmakers and is a founding member of the European Gaming and Betting Association. It has been licensed by the Malta Gaming Authority since 2005 and has completed licensing processes in Italy, Spain, Ireland and Sweden. In Germany it held an early Schleswig-Holstein licence and was granted a national concession for online sports betting in November 2020, ahead of the fourth State Treaty on Gambling that created the current federal regime. Its sportsbook covers more than 70 sports.
Jackpocket
United StatesJackpocket is the largest US lottery courier app, founded in 2013 and acquired by DraftKings in 2024, letting customers order official state lottery tickets that the company buys from licensed retailers, stores and scans into the app, with winnings paid out to the customer. It operates in more than fifteen states plus Puerto Rico under courier regulations or state agreements, and DraftKings uses it to acquire customers for its sportsbook and casino products in states where those are legal.
Jackpot.com
United StatesJackpot.com is a US online lottery courier, headquartered in Texas, that lets customers order official state lottery tickets through its app and website in states that permit courier services, buying the tickets from licensed retailers on the customer's behalf and holding them in secure facilities, with winnings paid to the customer. Backed by sports team owners and investors, it operates in a growing number of states and in Ontario, and lobbies for courier regulation as several states have moved to license or restrict the model.
Jenningsbet
United KingdomJenningsbet is one of the largest independent retail bookmakers in Britain, with a lineage running back to 1961, when off-course betting was first legalised and Joe Jennings went into business with his father Tom. The present company traces to a 1995 demerger, after which Greg and Julian Knight continued the retail business as Jennings Racing with ten shops in Essex. It now operates more than 100 betting shops around the United Kingdom and launched online in 2007. As an independent chain it occupies the part of the British market squeezed hardest between the listed multiples and the online-only operators, and it has been among the more vocal independents on machine regulation, affordability checks and the cost of compliance for smaller estates.
Jogos Santa Casa
PortugalJogos Santa Casa is the gaming arm of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, the Portuguese charitable institution founded in 1498 by Queen Regent Eleanor of Viseu. It operates the state's social games under an exclusive regime, on behalf of and for the account of the Portuguese state. Its portfolio covers Euromilhões, which accounts for around 76.5% of sales, alongside Totoloto, Totobola, Lotaria Clássica and Lotaria Popular. Proceeds fund the institution's charitable and social work, the purpose the games were created to serve. Santa Casa's monopoly is also the subject of one of the landmark European gambling judgments: the Court of Justice ruling in Liga Portuguesa v Santa Casa upheld a member state's right to restrict cross-border online gambling on consumer-protection grounds.
Jumbo Interactive
AustraliaJumbo Interactive is an ASX-listed digital lottery business founded in Brisbane in 1995 by Mike Veverka, originally as Squirrel Software Technologies. It listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in 1999 and trades under the code JIN. Its consumer business is Oz Lotteries, acquired in 2005, one of Australia's earliest online lottery retailers and now serving more than two million customers. Alongside reselling national draw games it builds and operates digital lottery and prize-draw platforms for lotteries, charities and partners, which is the more durable half of the model: a reseller depends on the terms of its agreement with the lottery operator, while a platform supplier sells into the operators themselves.
JVH Gaming
NetherlandsJVH Gaming and Entertainment is a Dutch family-owned gaming company headquartered in Tilburg, running the Jack's Casino chain of around ninety licensed gaming arcades across the Netherlands and the Jack's Casino Online sportsbook and casino, licensed by the Kansspelautoriteit at the market opening in October 2021. Founded in 1958, it is one of the largest land-based gaming operators in the country and among the Dutch-owned online licensees, with the online brand run on a third-party platform and marketed under the constraints of the Dutch advertising rules.
Kaizen Gaming
GreeceKaizen Gaming is a Greek online betting and gaming group founded in Athens in 2012, originally as TCB Holdings, which began trading in 2013 in Greece and Cyprus under the Stoiximan brand. It operates internationally through Kaizen Gaming International Limited in Malta, and is led by co-founder and chief executive George Daskalakis. The Betano brand was created in 2018 to carry the group outside Greek-speaking markets, and it now holds licences in close to 20 regulated jurisdictions including Germany, Portugal, Romania and Brazil. The group employs more than 3,000 people across four continents, and its German licence places it among the challengers to Tipico in the country's sports betting market.
Kangwon Land
South KoreaKangwon Land is the operator of the only casino in South Korea open to Korean nationals, located in the mountain town of Sabuk in Gangwon province, established in 2000 under special legislation to redevelop a former coal-mining region. Listed in Seoul and majority-owned by public bodies, it runs the casino, hotels, a ski resort and golf under regulatory limits on table numbers, opening hours and local residents' visits, and is subject to South Korea's strict gambling controls. It is the largest single casino by revenue in the country.
Kindred Group
MaltaKindred Group is an online betting and gaming operator founded in Sweden in 1997 as Unibet and headquartered in Malta, acquired by the French lottery and betting group FDJ (now FDJ United) in October 2024 and delisted from Nasdaq Stockholm. Its brands include Unibet, its largest, 32Red, Maria Casino, Bingo.com and Vlad Cazino, licensed in Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Romania, Australia and other markets, and it runs its own Kindred Sportsbook Platform after moving off third-party sportsbook technology. Kindred exited the United States in 2024 and forms the online betting and gaming division of FDJ United, which reports it alongside its French lottery and betting monopoly.
Kwiff
United KingdomKwiff is a British online sportsbook and casino operated by Eaton Gate Gaming and licensed by the Gambling Commission, launched in 2016 around a distinctive mechanic in which placed bets are randomly upgraded to boosted odds after they are struck, rather than before. It offers a full sportsbook and casino, has sponsored British football and boxing, and holds an Irish licence alongside its British one. The company is privately owned and headquartered in London.
Ladbrokes
United KingdomLadbrokes is one of Britain's oldest bookmakers, founded in 1886 and owned by Entain since the 2018 acquisition of Ladbrokes Coral, operating around 1,500 betting shops across Britain and Ireland together with an online sportsbook, casino, bingo and games business licensed by the Gambling Commission, and the Ladbrokes brand in Australia and Belgium. It is Entain's largest British brand alongside Coral and shares the group's platform and retail estate with it.
Las Vegas Sands
United StatesLas Vegas Sands is an integrated resort developer and operator listed on the New York Stock Exchange and headquartered in Las Vegas, whose properties are Marina Bay Sands in Singapore and, through its majority-owned Sands China, The Venetian Macao, The Londoner Macao, The Parisian Macao, Sands Macao and The Plaza Macao. It sold its Las Vegas properties in 2022 to concentrate on Asia, pursued a casino licence for a resort at the Nassau Coliseum site in New York before withdrawing that bid in 2025, and is expanding Marina Bay Sands with a fourth tower. Founded by Sheldon Adelson, the company is the largest casino operator in the world by market value and employs around 40,000 people.
LeoVegas
SwedenLeoVegas Group is a mobile-first online casino and sportsbook operator founded in Stockholm in 2011 and acquired by MGM Resorts International in 2022, now serving as MGM's international online gaming division outside the BetMGM joint venture. Its brands include LeoVegas, Royal Panda, Expekt, Pink Casino and BetMGM in Britain, which it operates under licence from the joint venture, with licences in Britain, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Ontario and other regulated markets. The group runs its own platform and game studios, is headquartered in Stockholm with operations in Malta, and employs around 1,000 people.
Loterias Caixa
BrazilLoterias Caixa is the Brazilian national lottery, run by Caixa Econômica Federal, the state-owned financial services group headquartered in Brasília. It manages the country's principal draw games, including Mega-Sena, Quina, Lotofácil and Loteca, the successor to the old Loteria Esportiva. Mega-Sena has been operated by Caixa since March 1996 and is the largest lottery in Brazil, drawn three times a week. Profits from the federal lotteries are earmarked by law for causes including amateur sport and elementary education. Caixa's lottery monopoly sat alongside the entirely unregulated online betting sector for years, and the 2025 licensing regime was in part an attempt to bring that parallel market inside the same fiscal logic the lotteries have always operated under.
Loterías y Apuestas del Estado
SpainLoterías y Apuestas del Estado (SELAE) is the Spanish state lottery operator, running the national lottery draws including the Christmas Gordo, La Primitiva, Euromillones and Bonoloto, the Quiniela football pools and other games, through a retail network of more than 10,000 outlets and online, returning its profits to the state. It operates outside the DGOJ's private-operator regime as a state monopoly for lotteries and is one of the largest lottery operators in Europe by sales.
Loterie Romande
SwitzerlandLoterie Romande is the lottery and sports betting operator for the six French-speaking cantons of Switzerland, founded in 1937 and headquartered in Lausanne, holding the exclusive right under the Swiss Money Gaming Act to offer lotteries and sports betting in its territory. It sells draw games including the Swiss Loto and Euro Millions, instant tickets, and sports betting through the Jouez Sport brand, at retail and through its jeux.loro.ch online platform, and distributes all of its profits to public-interest causes in culture, sport, social welfare and the environment through cantonal distribution bodies. It is a non-profit association owned by the cantons.
Loto-Québec
CanadaLoto-Québec is the Crown corporation responsible for gaming in the province of Quebec, established in 1969 and headquartered in Montreal. It was created to bring gambling under state control and away from illegal operators and organised crime, a founding rationale that still shapes how Quebec frames gambling policy. It runs draw games and scratch cards, casinos and gaming halls, bingo, video lottery terminals and online gambling through its Espacejeux platform. Its subsidiary the Société des casinos du Québec operates the province's four government casinos: the Casino de Montréal, the Casino du Lac-Leamy, the Casino de Mont-Tremblant and the Casino de Charlevoix. Quebec has not followed Ontario in opening its online market to licensed private competition, so Espacejeux remains the only provincially sanctioned online option.
Lotto24
GermanyLotto24 is Germany's largest online lottery broker, headquartered in Hamburg and part of the ZEAL Network group, selling tickets for the state lotteries (Lotto 6aus49, Eurojackpot, Spiel 77, Super 6) and charity lotteries online under licences from the German state lottery companies, and operating its own charity lottery products. ZEAL, listed in Frankfurt, also runs the Tipp24 brand and has expanded into online games under the German interstate treaty.
Lottoland
GibraltarLottoland is a Gibraltar-based online operator founded in 2012 that lets customers bet on the outcome of international lottery draws, with prizes matched to the underlying lotteries and insured or underwritten by the company, alongside its own draws, instant win games, slots and casino. It holds licences in Gibraltar, Britain, Ireland, Australia's Northern Territory, Sweden, Denmark and other markets and has faced regulatory and legislative pushback from state lotteries, notably in Australia, where its lottery-betting product was restricted in 2019 and it moved to alternative products. Lottoland is privately owned, reports several million customers, and runs charitable lottery products in Britain and Ireland.
Lottomatica Group
ItalyLottomatica Group is the largest gambling operator in Italy, headquartered in Rome and listed on Borsa Italiana in Milan following its 2023 IPO. It reported more than 30 billion euros in amounts wagered and 1.6 billion euros of consolidated revenue for 2023, and runs three segments: Online, Sports Franchise and Gaming Franchise. Its scale is largely built by acquisition. In April 2024 its subsidiary GBO completed a 639 million euro purchase of SKS365, bringing the PlanetWin365 sportsbook and PlanetPay365 casino into a portfolio that already held Goldbet, Better, Lottomatica.it and Betflag. The combination took the group to roughly 29.1% of the Italian online market, and made it the clear leader in a market where Flutter and Entain are the other two significant forces.
Luckia
SpainLuckia Gaming Group is a Spanish gaming operator headquartered in A Coruña, Galicia. Its origins run back to 1980, when José González Fuentes founded EGASA in the city, and the business has since grown into one of the larger privately held operators in the Spanish market. It holds DGOJ licences covering the online verticals open in Spain, and its business spans online casino and sports betting alongside a land-based estate of casinos, gaming halls and retail betting. That mix of online and physical operations is characteristic of the largest Spanish groups, which built retail networks under regional licences long before the national online regime opened in 2012.
Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries
CanadaManitoba Liquor and Lotteries is the Crown corporation of the Canadian province of Manitoba, headquartered in Winnipeg, that operates the province's two Winnipeg casinos, Club Regent and McPhillips Station, its video lottery terminal network, its lottery distribution and the PlayNow.com online casino, sports betting and lottery site, which it offers in Manitoba under an agreement with the British Columbia Lottery Corporation, whose platform it uses. It also runs the province's liquor distribution and retail. As the sole lawful provider of online gambling in Manitoba under the provincial-conduct model, it returns its profits to the provincial government.
Matchbook
United KingdomMatchbook is a betting exchange founded in 2004 and operated by Triplebet Limited, licensed in Britain by the Gambling Commission and in Ireland, on which customers back and lay sports outcomes against each other with the exchange taking a commission on net winnings. It concentrates on liquidity in football, horse racing, American sports and tennis, competes with the larger exchanges on lower commission for high-volume traders, and offers a sportsbook alongside the exchange. Matchbook had its British licence suspended briefly in 2020 over anti-money-laundering failures before it was reinstated, and is privately owned with operations in London and Ireland.
Mecca Bingo
United KingdomMecca Bingo is a British bingo operator owned by the Rank Group, running bingo clubs across England, Scotland and Wales and an online bingo, slots and casino site licensed by the Gambling Commission, with its club membership linked to the online product. Dating from the 1960s, it is the second-largest retail bingo estate in Britain after Buzz Bingo and one of the larger online bingo brands.
Melco Resorts & Entertainment
MacauMelco Resorts & Entertainment is a developer and operator of integrated resorts in Asia and Europe, with American depositary shares listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker MLCO. It is chaired and led by Lawrence Ho, and is majority owned by Melco International Development. In Macau it operates City of Dreams in Cotai, Altira in Taipa and Studio City, a cinematically themed integrated resort also on Cotai, under a concession that began alongside the other five operators in 2023. Melco is the most internationally spread of the Macau concessionaires, having taken the integrated-resort model to Europe, which gives it a different exposure to the Chinese visitation cycle than operators concentrated wholly in the territory.
Meridianbet
MaltaMeridianbet is a sports betting and gaming operator founded in Belgrade in 2001, with licensed retail and online operations across the Balkans (Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia), Cyprus, Malta, Latin America (Peru, Argentina and others) and Africa (Tanzania, Nigeria and others), running its own sportsbook platform, casino, virtual games and retail terminals. In 2024 it was acquired by Golden Matrix Group, a Nasdaq-listed gaming technology company, which made Meridianbet the largest part of that group and moved its reporting to the US market. The company employs more than a thousand people and is headquartered in Malta for its international operations.
Merkur Group
GermanyMerkur Group, formerly the Gauselmann Group, is a family-owned German gaming business founded in 1957 by Paul Gauselmann and headquartered in Espelkamp, North Rhine-Westphalia. It began as a one-man sideline installing jukeboxes and grew into one of the largest gaming groups in Europe, employing around 11,000 people. The group is unusual in spanning both sides of the industry. It develops and manufactures gaming machines under the Merkur brand, and it also operates: a national chain of gaming arcades, sports betting, online gaming and casinos. That combination gives it a position in the German market that neither a pure supplier nor a pure operator holds, and it is a central player in the arcade and amusement-with-prizes sector that the German states regulate separately from the online regime.
MGM Resorts International
United StatesMGM Resorts International is a US casino and hospitality group listed on the New York Stock Exchange and headquartered in Las Vegas, operating Bellagio, MGM Grand, Aria, Mandalay Bay, The Cosmopolitan, Park MGM, New York-New York, Excalibur and Luxor on the Las Vegas Strip, Borgata in Atlantic City, MGM National Harbor, MGM Grand Detroit, Beau Rivage and other regional properties, and MGM China's resorts in Macau. Its digital businesses are its fifty per cent stake in BetMGM, the US online joint venture with Entain, and LeoVegas, the European online group it acquired in 2022. MGM is developing an integrated resort in Osaka, Japan, and operates the MGM Rewards loyalty programme across its properties and online brands; it employs around 70,000 people.
Midnite
United KingdomMidnite is a British online sportsbook and casino operator founded in London in 2019, licensed by the Gambling Commission and in Ireland, which launched as an esports-focused betting site for Counter-Strike, League of Legends and Dota audiences and expanded into mainstream sports, casino and live casino on its own platform. It has raised venture capital from technology and gaming investors, sponsors esports and football properties, and positions itself as a product-led challenger to the established British bookmakers with a younger audience. Midnite is privately owned and headquartered in London.
Mohegan
United StatesMohegan is the gaming and entertainment enterprise of the Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut, operating Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, one of the largest casino resorts in the United States, and Mohegan Pennsylvania in Wilkes-Barre, managing Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City and the Fallsview and Casino Niagara properties in Ontario, and holding the online casino and sports betting rights in Connecticut that it operates with a partner under the state's 2021 law. It developed the Inspire integrated resort in South Korea, opened in 2024, before losing control of it to its lender in 2025. Mohegan issues public debt and reports as a tribal enterprise headquartered in Uncasville.
Monarch Casino and Resort
United StatesMonarch Casino and Resort is a Nasdaq-listed casino operator headquartered in Reno, Nevada, running the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa in Reno and the Monarch Casino Resort Spa in Black Hawk, Colorado, which it expanded into a full resort in 2020 and 2021. Founded in 1993 by the Farahi family, who remain its largest shareholders and management, the company concentrates on two owned properties rather than a portfolio, holds a sports betting licence at its Colorado property, and is known for consistent profitability and the absence of debt. It employs around 3,000 people.
Mozzart
SerbiaMozzart is a sports betting and gaming operator founded in Belgrade in 2001, running licensed retail betting shops and online sportsbook and casino operations in Serbia, where it is the market leader, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania and Kenya, with further African markets. It operates more than a thousand retail outlets across the Balkans on its own platform, runs virtual games and casino alongside sports betting, and is a major sponsor of Serbian basketball and football. Mozzart is privately owned and headquartered in Belgrade.
Mr Green
MaltaMr Green is an online casino and sportsbook brand founded in Sweden in 2008 and headquartered in Malta, acquired by William Hill in 2019 and now part of evoke (formerly 888) alongside William Hill and 888. Licensed in Britain, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Ireland and other regulated markets, it built its brand on a gentleman-in-green character and on responsible-gambling tooling, and remains evoke's principal casino-led brand in the Nordics.
NagaCorp
CambodiaNagaCorp is the Hong Kong-listed operator of NagaWorld, the integrated casino resort in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, holding an exclusive casino licence within a radius of the capital under a long-term concession. It runs mass and VIP gaming, hotels and entertainment at NagaWorld, has developed the property through successive expansion phases, and has planned a resort in Vladivostok, Russia. The company was founded by Tan Sri Chen Lip Keong and is one of the largest casino operators in South-East Asia.
Nederlandse Loterij
NetherlandsNederlandse Loterij is the Dutch national lottery and sports betting group, formed in 2016 by merging the foundations behind Lotto and Staatsloterij. Both were converted into private limited companies, Lotto B.V. and Staatsloterij B.V., under the holding company Nederlandse Loterij B.V. It trades through ten brands including Staatsloterij, Lotto, Eurojackpot, Miljoenenspel, Lucky Day, Krasloten and the TOTO sports betting and casino products, operating under five separate licences granted by the Kansspelautoriteit. TOTO is the state group's answer to the private operators that entered the Dutch online market when it opened in October 2021, which puts it in the same competitive position as Svenska Spel: a state operator holding lottery exclusivity while fighting for online share.
NetBet
MaltaNetBet is an online sports betting and casino operator founded in 2001 and run by NetBet Enterprises Limited from Malta. It has held French approval since 2010, making it one of the first bookmakers licensed under the regime that opened the French online market to competition, and operates netbet.fr under ANJ authorisation. Beyond France it is licensed by the Malta Gaming Authority and holds national licences including Great Britain, Italy, Denmark, Greece and Romania. Its product range spans sports betting, casino, live casino, poker and lottery, though in France it is restricted to the verticals the ANJ regulates.
Norsk Tipping
NorwayNorsk Tipping is the Norwegian state gambling operator, established in 1946 as a government-owned limited company to fund sport and cultural organisations, and headquartered in Hamar. Its portfolio includes Lotto, VikingLotto and Eurojackpot. Norway is the strictest of the Nordic markets. Rather than licensing private competition it retains a full state monopoly, split between Norsk Tipping for lotteries and betting and Norsk Rikstoto for horse racing, with Lotteritilsynet supervising. That model has come under strain from its own operator: Norsk Tipping was fined a total of 110 million Norwegian kroner during 2025 over faults in its lottery systems, including drawing the wrong winners, and now faces a class action. A monopoly justified by consumer protection is uniquely exposed when the protection failure is its own.
NorthStar Gaming
CanadaNorthStar Gaming Holdings is an Ontario-based online casino and sportsbook operator, listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol BET and on OTC Pink as NSBBF. It operates NorthStarBets.ca under an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario and a registration with the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario. It listed on the TSXV in March 2023 through a reverse takeover and has positioned itself as a domestic challenger in a market dominated by international groups, combining sports journalism with betting and casino products through a partnership with the newspaper publisher Torstar. Its technology platform is supplied by Playtech, which is also its largest shareholder. Corey Goodman was appointed permanent chief executive in August 2026, having served in the role on an interim basis since December 2025.
Novibet
MaltaNovibet is an online sportsbook and casino operator founded in Greece in 2010 and headquartered in Malta, licensed by the Hellenic Gaming Commission, in Italy, Ireland, Ontario, Mexico, Brazil and Ecuador, and expanding across Latin America under local licences. It runs its own platform with a sportsbook, casino and live casino, sponsors Greek football and basketball, and abandoned a planned New York listing through a special purpose acquisition company in 2023 to continue as a private company. Novibet has around 1,000 employees in Greece, Malta and Latin America.
Novig
United StatesNovig is a US peer-to-peer sports betting exchange founded in 2022 out of Y Combinator, on which customers trade sports outcomes against each other at prices set by the market rather than by a bookmaker, with the operator charging no vig on matched bets. It holds a sports betting licence in Colorado, where it operates as a licensed exchange, and offers a free-to-play and sweepstakes-style version of its markets in other states where it is not licensed as a sportsbook. Novig is venture-backed and headquartered in the United States, and is one of a small group of exchange operators, alongside Sporttrade and Prophet Exchange, pursuing the exchange model in the American market.
Okada Manila
PhilippinesOkada Manila is an integrated casino resort in the Entertainment City district of Manila, opened in 2016 by Universal Entertainment, the Japanese pachinko and gaming machine group, and licensed by PAGCOR. It runs one of the largest casino floors in the Philippines with hotels, a fountain attraction and entertainment, and has been the subject of a control dispute between the group and its founder Kazuo Okada. It competes with Solaire, City of Dreams Manila and Newport World Resorts for domestic and inbound visitors.
Olympic Entertainment Group
EstoniaOlympic Entertainment Group is an Estonian casino and online gaming operator headquartered in Tallinn, founded in 1993 and owned by the private equity firm Novalpina Capital since its 2018 delisting from the Tallinn stock exchange. It operates the Olympic Casino and Olybet casino venues across Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Italy and Croatia, and the OlyBet online sportsbook and casino brand, licensed in the Baltic states and other European markets, with sports sponsorships in basketball and ice hockey across the region. The group employs around 2,000 people and is the largest casino operator in the Baltics.
Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation
CanadaThe Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation is a Crown corporation owned by the Government of Ontario, with offices in Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto. It began as the Ontario Lottery Corporation in February 1975, whose first game, Wintario, was drawn fortnightly on a television show, and took its present form in April 2000 when the province merged the lottery with the Ontario Casino Corporation. OLG conducts and manages lottery, casinos, electronic bingo and internet gaming on behalf of the province, and has returned approximately 56.7 billion Canadian dollars to Ontario since 1975. It pioneered regulated online gaming in Canada with the launch of PlayOLG in 2015. Since Ontario opened its market to private operators in April 2022 it has competed alongside them while remaining the province's Crown operator, a dual role no other Canadian jurisdiction has attempted.
OPAP
GreeceOPAP is the dominant gambling operator in Greece and Cyprus, founded in 1958 and running lotteries, sports betting and gaming machines. It listed on the Athens Stock Exchange in 2001 and was fully privatised in 2013 after a series of offerings and international tenders. Allwyn, the group built by the Czech businessman Karel Komárek out of Sazka, holds 51.78% of it, and in October 2025 the two agreed an all-stock merger valuing the combination at around 16 billion euros, with Allwyn holding 78.5% and OPAP minorities the remaining 21.5%. OPAP separately bought the Greek and Cypriot business of Stoiximan, which is why the Stoiximan brand sits with OPAP domestically while Kaizen Gaming keeps it in Cyprus-facing and international markets under Betano.
Paddy Power
IrelandPaddy Power is an Irish bookmaker founded in Dublin in 1988 from the merger of three retail bookmaking businesses, now part of Flutter Entertainment following its 2016 merger with Betfair. It operates several hundred betting shops in Ireland and Britain and an online sportsbook, casino, bingo and games business licensed by the Gambling Commission and the Irish regulator, and is known for irreverent marketing campaigns and money-back promotions. Paddy Power is Flutter's largest brand in Ireland and one of its largest in Britain, and shares Flutter's UK and Ireland platform with Betfair and Sky Betting and Gaming.
Paf
FinlandPaf is a gaming operator owned by the Government of the Åland Islands, an autonomous Swedish-speaking province of Finland, founded in 1966 to raise funds for public-interest causes on Åland. It operates online casino, sportsbook, poker and lottery products under licences in Åland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Spain and Italy, land-based gaming on Åland and on Baltic Sea ferries, and is known for imposing a mandatory annual loss limit on every customer, introduced in 2018 and reduced since, as a public-benefit approach to player protection. Paf employs around 500 people and distributes its profits to Åland civil society.
Paradise Co
South KoreaParadise Co is a South Korean casino operator listed in Seoul, running foreigner-only casinos in Seoul, Busan, Incheon and Jeju, and the Paradise City integrated resort near Incheon airport, developed with Japan's Sega Sammy. Its casinos serve Chinese, Japanese and other international visitors under South Korea's rules barring nationals from all casinos except Kangwon Land, and its results track inbound tourism from China and Japan. The company also operates hotels and a spa resort.
PariPesa
CyprusPariPesa is an online sportsbook and casino brand licensed in Curacao and operated from Cyprus, serving players in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe with pre-match and in-play betting across dozens of sports and esports, a casino with thousands of slots and live dealer tables, and payment options including mobile money and cryptocurrency for its emerging-market customers. Launched in 2019, it passed a million registered users in 2022, runs a direct affiliate programme and localises its product for markets including Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, India and Brazil.
PENN Entertainment
United StatesPENN Entertainment is a US regional casino operator and online gaming company listed on Nasdaq and headquartered in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, operating more than forty properties in twenty states under the Hollywood Casino, Ameristar, L'Auberge, Boomtown and other brands, and running the Hollywood Casino online casino and the theScore Bet sportsbook, which replaced ESPN Bet in the United States from December 2025 after PENN and ESPN ended their licensing agreement early. Its Canadian digital business runs theScore media app and theScore Bet in Ontario, and its digital operations use the technology PENN acquired with theScore in 2021. The company employs around 20,000 people and has faced shareholder pressure over its digital strategy.
Pixbet
BrazilPixbet is a Brazilian sportsbook founded in 2020 by the Paraíba entrepreneur Ernildo Júnior de Farias Santos, who remains its principal shareholder and chief executive. He had been building online betting businesses in the north east for close to a decade beforehand, running a network of betting shops from 2012 and launching the site Futebol Fácil in 2013. The brand became one of the most visible in Brazilian football sponsorship, backing Flamengo, Vasco da Gama, Corinthians, Santos, Avaí and Juventude, and it holds authorisation from the Ministry of Finance to operate in the regulated market. Its name is a reference to Pix, the Brazilian central bank's instant payment system, whose ubiquity is a large part of why the Brazilian betting market scaled as quickly as it did.
PMU
FrancePMU, or Pari Mutuel Urbain, is the French horse race betting operator, founded in Paris in 1930 to organise and commercialise pool betting on French racing. Its statutory purpose includes financing the French racing industry, and horse racing accounts for the large majority of its activity. It is the leading European operator of pool betting on horse racing and among the largest worldwide, distributing through a retail estate of more than 14,000 points of sale as well as online. Alongside horse racing it holds ANJ licences for sports betting and poker, the other two verticals open to online competition in France.
PointsBet
AustraliaPointsBet is an Australian online sports betting operator founded in Melbourne in 2015, known for its spread-style pointsbetting product alongside fixed-odds betting, and licensed in Australia through the Northern Territory and in Ontario. It listed on the ASX in 2019, expanded aggressively into the United States, and sold that business to Fanatics Betting and Gaming in 2023 to concentrate on Australia and Canada. In 2025, after a takeover contest with Betr, PointsBet was acquired by MIXI, the Japanese technology and gaming company, which now owns the business as its international betting arm. It runs its own platform and technology from Melbourne and Denver.
Powerplay
CanadaPowerPlay is an online iGaming brand focused on the Canadian market, offering both sportsbook betting and online casino play through a single platform. The site positions itself as a Canada-facing operator with sports, slots, live casino and table games, supported by a licensed real money gaming environment.
Premier Bet
MaltaPremier Bet is a pan-African sports betting and gaming operator with licensed retail and online operations in more than twenty African countries including Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Cameroon, Senegal, Ivory Coast, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Mozambique, run from Malta through the Premier Bet group, offering sports betting, virtual games, lotteries and casino through agent networks, shops and mobile. It is among the largest operators on the continent by country count.
PricedUp
United KingdomPricedUp is a British online sportsbook, casino and bingo operator licensed by the Gambling Commission, offering fixed-odds sports betting with a focus on football and racing, a casino and live casino, and bingo under one account. Launched by an independent British bookmaking group, it competes with the large operators on promotions and price boosts for the British recreational market and runs its products on third-party platforms. The company is privately owned and headquartered in the United Kingdom.
PrizePicks
United StatesPrizePicks is the largest daily fantasy sports operator in the United States, headquartered in Atlanta and founded in 2015, offering a pick'em format in which customers select whether players will go over or under statistical projections, against the house in states that permit it and in a peer-to-peer format elsewhere after regulators in several states ruled the house-banked version to be sports betting. It operates in more than thirty states, has settled with regulators over unlicensed operation, and holds a licence to operate a sportsbook in some states.
QuinnBet
GibraltarQuinnBet is an online bookmaker serving the British and Irish markets, owned by the family of the Irish businessman Seán Quinn. It relocated its operating company to Gibraltar in 2023, trading as Quinnbet (Gibraltar) Limited, without changing its presence in either of its home markets. It holds a Gambling Commission licence for Great Britain alongside Gibraltar and Irish permissions. In August 2026 it agreed a 609,104 pound regulatory settlement with the Gambling Commission covering the period from March 2023 to August 2025, following findings on anti-money laundering controls and social responsibility, including an over-reliance on manual intervention and a manual deposit-limit process for customers aged 18 to 24.
Rank Group
United KingdomThe Rank Group plc is a British gambling operator headquartered in Maidenhead, Berkshire and listed on the London Stock Exchange as a FTSE 250 constituent. It is the largest casino operator in the United Kingdom and the second largest bingo operator. Its Grosvenor Casinos business, founded in 1970, runs 51 venues including eight in London, while Mecca Bingo, established in 1961, operates 64 clubs alongside meccabingo.com. For the twelve months to 30 June 2026 the group reported net gaming revenue of 834 million pounds, up 6% and a fifth consecutive year of growth, with operating profit up 21% to 78.6 million pounds. As a predominantly land-based operator it is exposed to a different part of the British regulatory debate than the online-first groups, particularly on casino gaming machine allowances.
Red Rock Resorts
United StatesRed Rock Resorts is the parent company of Station Casinos, the largest operator serving the Las Vegas locals market, and trades on Nasdaq under the ticker RRR. The business was founded on 1 July 1976 by Frank Fertitta Jr, whose first property, the Bingo Palace, later became Palace Station. The Fertitta family has retained significant ownership since the founding, and Frank Fertitta III is chief executive. Its estate includes the classic Station properties, Palace Station, Sunset Station, Boulder Station and Santa Fe Station, alongside the flagship Red Rock Casino Resort and Spa. The locals market it serves behaves differently from the Strip, being driven by repeat local visitation and gaming rather than conventions and tourism, which gives the company a distinct exposure to the Las Vegas economy.
Rei do Pitaco
BrazilRei do Pitaco is the largest daily fantasy sports operator in Brazil, founded in 2019 by Mateus Dantas and Kiko Augusto and based in São Paulo. Its core product lets users draft teams from Brazilian Serie A, the Premier League and La Liga. It was one of only 14 companies out of 114 applicants to receive a definitive licence from the Secretariat of Prizes and Bets, and has used that to move from fantasy into full sports betting, partnering with Kambi for its sportsbook. The path it is taking is the one American operators such as DraftKings and FanDuel took a decade earlier: build an audience through fantasy formats, then convert it when betting regulates. Brazil is the first market outside the United States where that sequence has had a real chance to play out.
Retabet
SpainRetabet is a Spanish sports betting operator headquartered in Bilbao, founded as a retail bookmaker in the Basque Country in the 1990s and licensed by the Basque regional government for its network of betting shops and corners in bars, and by the national regulator, the DGOJ, for its online sportsbook and casino. It has expanded its retail licences into other Spanish regions including Navarra, Galicia and Castile and León, sponsors Basque sports clubs, and runs a proprietary platform. Retabet is privately owned and one of the few Spanish-owned operators of scale in a market dominated by international brands.
Rivalry
CanadaRivalry is a Toronto-based online sportsbook and casino operator founded in 2017 and listed on the TSX Venture Exchange, which launched as an esports betting brand for Counter-Strike, Dota 2 and League of Legends audiences and expanded into traditional sports and its own casino products. It holds licences in Ontario, the Isle of Man and Australia's Northern Territory, markets to a younger, esports-native customer base through creators and community channels, and has restructured its costs and product focus through 2024 and 2025 as it pursued profitability. Rivalry is publicly listed and headquartered in Toronto.
Rollbit
CuracaoRollbit is a crypto casino and trading platform licensed in Curacao, founded in 2020, offering slots, live casino, its own crash and roulette games, a sportsbook, and leveraged trading of cryptocurrencies and NFTs on the same account, with its own token used for rewards and buybacks. It serves customers in markets where its Curacao licence is recognised and is among the larger crypto-native gambling brands by volume.
Rootz
MaltaRootz is a Malta-based online casino operator founded in 2018 running the Wildz, Caxino, Wheelz and Spinz brands on its own platform, licensed by the Malta Gaming Authority and in Ontario, Germany, Sweden and other regulated markets. It built its business on a fast, mobile-first casino product with a loyalty mechanic that rewards play across its brands, and on the German market, where Wildz is one of the licensed slot operators under the interstate treaty. Rootz is privately owned, employs around 300 people in Malta, and supplies its platform and brands to partners under licence.
Rush Street Interactive
United StatesRush Street Interactive is an online casino and sports betting operator founded in 2012 and headquartered in Chicago, listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker RSI. Neil Bluhm, the property investor behind the Rush Street Gaming casino group, is co-founder and executive chairman. It trades under the BetRivers brand in most markets, alongside PlaySugarHouse and RushBet, and offers real-money online gaming in fifteen US states including New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, New York and Ohio. Outside the United States it operates in Ontario, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. It is one of the few American operators to have built a genuine Latin American position rather than treating international expansion as an afterthought.
Sands China
MacauSands China is the largest integrated resort developer and operator in Macau, listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the code 1928 and a subsidiary of Las Vegas Sands. Its subsidiary Venetian Macau Limited holds one of the six concessions the Macau government permits. Its portfolio includes Sands Macao, The Venetian Macao, The Plaza Macao, The Parisian Macao and The Londoner Macao, and its floorspace runs well beyond gaming into meeting and convention halls, retail, dining and entertainment. That weighting is deliberate and is the Las Vegas Sands thesis applied in Asia: build the non-gaming footprint large enough that the property draws mass-market and business visitation rather than depending on high-roller junket play, which is the segment Beijing has spent the past decade dismantling.
Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority
CanadaThe Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority (SIGA) is the First Nations-owned gaming operator of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, running seven casinos across the province including Dakota Dunes near Saskatoon and Living Sky in Swift Current, under an agreement with the provincial government, and since 2022 the PlayNow.com online casino and sportsbook for Saskatchewan, offered under an agreement with the British Columbia Lottery Corporation. Its profits are distributed to First Nations communities, the provincial general revenue fund and community initiatives. SIGA employs around 2,000 people, most of them First Nations, and is headquartered in Saskatoon.
Sazka
CzechiaSazka is the Czech Republic's largest lottery and gaming operator, running the national lottery draws, instant tickets, sports betting and online casino under Czech licences, through a retail network of thousands of terminals and its online platform. Founded in 1956 and owned by Allwyn (the group formerly named after it) since 2012, it is the domestic anchor of the Allwyn lottery group that also operates in Austria, Greece, Italy, Britain and the United States.
Sisal
ItalySisal is an Italian lottery and gaming operator founded in Milan in 1945 by three journalists, Massimo Della Pergola, Fabio Jegher and Geo Molo, who wanted to launch Italy's first football pool and use it to help fund the post-war reconstruction of Italian sport. The first Schedina coupon followed in May 1946 and became Totocalcio. Alongside Totocalcio and Totip it runs SuperEnalotto, the country's best-known lottery draw, and its products are woven deeply into Italian mass-participation gaming. Flutter Entertainment acquired the company in August 2022 for 1.9 billion pounds, a deal struck while Sisal was bidding for the British National Lottery licence, which gave Flutter both an Italian foothold and a genuine lottery capability it had not previously held.
SJM Holdings
MacauSJM Holdings is the oldest gaming operator in Macau, listed in Hong Kong under the code 880. It descends from the monopoly held for four decades by Stanley Ho, and is now chaired by his daughter Daisy Ho. It received an eighteen-year concession when the market opened in 2002, extended twice before being replaced by a new ten-year concession from 1 January 2023. Its properties include the Grand Lisboa, which opened in downtown Macau in February 2007 and remains its flagship, alongside Grand Lisboa Palace on Cotai, L'Arc, Casino Lisboa and Casino Oceanus. SJM is the operator with the deepest roots in the peninsula's older downtown gaming district rather than the Cotai resorts that came after liberalisation.
Sky Betting and Gaming
United KingdomSky Betting and Gaming is a British online betting and gaming operator headquartered in Leeds, owned by Flutter Entertainment since 2018, trading as Sky Bet, Sky Vegas, Sky Casino, Sky Bingo and Sky Poker under a long-term brand licence from Sky. Sky Bet is the largest online sportsbook in Britain by customer numbers, built on its Super 6 free-to-play prediction game and its integration with Sky Sports coverage, and the group runs its own technology platform, which Flutter has extended to its other UK and Ireland brands. It employs around 2,000 people in Leeds and Sheffield and holds Gambling Commission and Irish licences.
SkyCity Entertainment Group
New ZealandSkyCity Entertainment Group is a New Zealand casino operator listed in Auckland and Sydney, running SkyCity Auckland, SkyCity Hamilton, SkyCity Queenstown and SkyCity Adelaide in Australia, together with the SkyCity Online Casino licensed in Malta and serving New Zealand players, which will move under New Zealand's own online casino licensing regime as it takes effect. The group has settled anti-money-laundering proceedings in Australia and New Zealand in recent years and completed a redevelopment of its Auckland precinct. It employs around 4,000 people.
Sleeper
United StatesSleeper is a US fantasy sports platform founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, best known for its free season-long fantasy football app with group messaging, which it monetises through Sleeper Picks, a daily fantasy pick'em product offered in states that permit it, and through sweepstakes-style contests. It has raised venture funding and sits at the boundary between fantasy and betting that state regulators have redrawn since 2023.
Smarkets
United KingdomSmarkets is a London-based betting exchange founded in 2008, on which customers back and lay sports and political outcomes against each other with the exchange charging a commission on net winnings, and the operator of the SBK sportsbook app, which prices its bets from the exchange. It is licensed by the Gambling Commission in Britain and in Ireland, Malta and other markets, built its own trading and matching technology, and was for a period licensed in Colorado and Indiana before withdrawing from the United States. Smarkets is privately owned and has around 150 employees in London and Malta.
Snaitech
ItalySnaitech is one of the largest gambling operators in Italy, based in Milan and trading under the Snai brand. Its estate covers more than 1,600 betting shops, around 60,000 slot machines and 10,000 video lottery terminals, an online business, and three racetracks in Milan and Tuscany. Playtech agreed to sell the company to Flutter Entertainment for 2.3 billion euros in September 2024, and the deal closed on 30 April 2025. Snaitech had generated 942 million euros of revenue for Playtech in 2024, more than half the group's total, so the sale completed Playtech's exit from business-to-consumer operations and its refocus on B2B technology. For Flutter, adding Snai to Sisal took its Italian market share to roughly 30%.
Solverde
PortugalSolverde is a Portuguese casino and hotel group founded in 1972 and headquartered in Espinho, operating the Casino Espinho, Casino Chaves, Casino Vilamoura and Casino Monte Gordo venues under state concessions together with hotels, and the Solverde.pt online casino and sportsbook licensed by Portugal's SRIJ regulator since 2018. The online business offers slots, roulette, blackjack, live casino and sports betting and has grown into one of the larger licensed operators in the Portuguese market. Solverde is privately owned by the Violas family.
Sportium
SpainSportium is a Spanish sports betting and gaming brand created in 2007 as a joint venture between Cirsa and the British bookmaker Ladbrokes Coral, formed to take advantage of the legislative changes that opened betting in Spain. Cirsa bought out its partner's 50% stake from GVC for 70 million euros in July 2019 and took full control, giving it the largest network of betting shops in the country at around 3,000 retail betting points. Sportium holds general betting and gaming licences from the Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego, and its product range covers sports betting, online casino, live casino and virtual sports across both online and land-based channels.
SportPesa
KenyaSportPesa is the best-known sports betting brand in Kenya, launched in Nairobi in 2014 by Pevans East Africa. It grew rapidly on mobile money distribution and sponsorship of Kenyan and English football, reaching annual revenue reported at 150 billion shillings at its 2018 peak. Its history is also the clearest case study in African regulatory risk. Its licence was withdrawn in 2019 amid a dispute with the government over betting taxation, and the brand returned to the Kenyan market in 2022 under Milestone Games, licensed by the Betting Control and Licensing Board. Ronald Karauri, a shareholder in the original Pevans business, leads the company. Operators building on mobile money in East Africa look at SportPesa as the template for both the scale available and the speed at which it can be removed.
Sports Interaction
CanadaSports Interaction is a Canadian online sportsbook and casino brand launched in 1997 and long operated from the Kahnawake Mohawk territory near Montreal under the Kahnawake Gaming Commission, making it one of the oldest online betting brands serving Canada. It was acquired by Entain in 2022 through the purchase of its parent Avid Gaming, and now operates in Ontario under an iGaming Ontario registration on Entain's platform while continuing to serve other Canadian provinces under its Kahnawake licence. The brand sponsors Canadian sports and is marketed as a Canadian-run alternative to the US-led entrants in Ontario.
Sportsbet
AustraliaSportsbet is the largest online bookmaker in Australia, headquartered in Melbourne. It was founded in Darwin in May 1993 as the country's first licensed bookmaker, taking advantage of the Northern Territory licensing regime that still underpins most Australian corporate wagering. Matthew Tripp bought the business for 250,000 Australian dollars in 2005 and turned an eight-person operation into the market leader through heavy marketing and product development, a template much of the Australian industry followed afterwards. Flutter Entertainment has owned it since February 2016, and it is one of the group's largest businesses outside the United States and the United Kingdom.
Sporttrade
United StatesSporttrade is a US sports betting exchange headquartered in Philadelphia, launched in New Jersey in 2022 and licensed since in Colorado, Iowa, Arizona and Virginia, on which sports outcomes are traded as contracts priced from zero to a hundred like a financial exchange, with customers able to buy and sell positions before an event settles. It built its technology and licensing from the financial-exchange model and its executives came from options trading, and it has petitioned the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to permit it to operate nationally as a federally regulated exchange, arguing that state-licensed exchanges and federally regulated prediction markets should be treated alike. Sporttrade is venture-backed and privately owned.
SportyBet
NigeriaSportyBet is an online sports betting and casino operator licensed in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia and other African markets, and one of the largest operators on the continent by handle, built on a fast mobile product, instant cash-out, mobile-money payments and heavy football sponsorship. It is part of the Sporty group, which also runs the Sportybet-branded esports and media businesses, and has expanded into Brazil under the federal licensing regime.
Spreadex
United KingdomSpreadex is a British gambling and financial services company founded in 1999 in Dunstable by Jonathan Hufford, a former City of London dealer, and now headquartered in St Albans, Hertfordshire. It is one of the few operators combining financial spread betting, sports spread betting and sports fixed-odds betting in a single business. It launched online sports betting in 2006 and later added an online financial trading platform. Its acquisition of Sporting Index drew an adverse ruling from the Competition and Markets Authority in September 2025, which found the deal created a monopoly in sports spread betting and required divestiture, a rare competition intervention in British gambling. Hufford stepped down as managing director in 2024 and remained on the board in a non-executive capacity.
Stake
CuracaoStake is a crypto-focused online casino and sportsbook founded in 2017 by Ed Craven and Bijan Tehrani, licensed in Curacao and operated from Australia and Curacao, and the largest crypto gambling operator in the world by handle, accepting cryptocurrencies and, in some markets, fiat. It sponsors football clubs, Formula One and UFC, runs the Kick streaming platform launched in 2022 as an alternative to Twitch, and has entered regulated markets through licensed local brands in Britain, Italy, Colombia, Peru and Brazil while remaining blocked in many jurisdictions where it serves customers without a local licence.
Star Sports
United KingdomStar Sports is a British bookmaker licensed by the Gambling Commission, founded in London in the 1990s and known for accepting large bets and for its presence on racecourses, in retail shops in London and the south-east, and by telephone and online. It publishes an early-price service for horse racing, sponsors racing and greyhound events, and runs a podcast and media output around racing and betting. The company is privately owned by its founder and positions itself at the high-staking, racing-led end of the British market rather than in mass-market promotions.
Stoiximan
GreeceStoiximan is Greece's largest online sports betting and casino operator, launched in 2012 and licensed by the Hellenic Gaming Commission, and the founding brand of Kaizen Gaming, which took the Betano name for its international expansion. It sponsors the Greek Super League and Olympiacos, holds a majority share of the Greek online market, and also operates in Cyprus under the Stoiximan brand. Kaizen Gaming is headquartered in Athens.
STS
PolandSTS is Poland's largest licensed sports betting operator, founded in 1997 and headquartered in Katowice, running around 400 retail betting outlets and an online sportsbook with virtual sports and esports under a Polish Ministry of Finance licence. Formerly listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, it was acquired in 2023 by Entain CEE, the joint venture between Entain and the Czech investment group EMMA Capital, and delisted. STS sponsors the Polish national football team and league clubs and holds a market share of around forty per cent of Polish online betting.
Sun International
South AfricaSun International is a Johannesburg-listed South African gaming and hospitality group operating casinos including GrandWest in Cape Town, Time Square in Pretoria, Sun City and Sibaya, together with hotels, resorts and the SunBet online sportsbook and casino licensed in the Western Cape and other provinces. Founded by Sol Kerzner in 1983, it has exited most of its Latin American operations to concentrate on South Africa, where it is the largest casino operator by revenue and a growing online operator through SunBet.
Supabets
South AfricaSupabets is a South African sports betting operator licensed by provincial gambling boards, running retail betting outlets across the country and an online sportsbook, virtual games and lucky numbers products, with a large presence in township and retail betting. Founded in 2013, it is one of the larger domestic operators in the South African market alongside Hollywoodbets, Betway and Sportingbet.
Super Group
MaltaSuper Group is the New York-listed parent company of the Betway sportsbook and casino brand and the Spin casino brands, including Spin Casino, Jackpot City and Ruby Fortune, registered in Guernsey with operations in Malta and Britain. It holds licences in Britain, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Germany, Ontario, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Ghana and other markets, runs its own technology platform and reports annual revenue above one and a half billion dollars, with Africa and Canada its largest growth markets. Super Group listed through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company in 2022 and withdrew from the United States online market in 2025.
Superbet
RomaniaSuperbet is a sports betting and gaming operator founded in Romania in 2008 and headquartered in Bucharest, running retail betting shops and online sportsbook and casino operations in Romania, where it is the market leader, Poland, Serbia and Belgium, where it operates the Napoleon brand, and Brazil, where it launched under a federal licence in 2025. The group runs its own platform and game studio, has attracted investment from Blackstone since 2019, sponsors Romanian and Polish football, and reports annual revenue above one billion euros. Superbet employs several thousand people across its markets and technology hubs.
SuperBook
United StatesSuperBook is the sports betting brand of the Westgate Las Vegas resort, whose SuperBook sportsbook on the Strip is the largest retail sports book in Las Vegas and the home of the SuperContest handicapping competition. The brand expanded into mobile sports betting under its own licences in Nevada, Colorado, Iowa, New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee, Arizona, Virginia and Maryland from 2021, and subsequently withdrew from several of those states as marketing costs outweighed returns, concentrating on Nevada and a smaller group of markets. SuperBook is owned by the Westgate Resorts group and headquartered in Las Vegas.
Svenska Spel
SwedenSvenska Spel is the Swedish state gambling operator, founded on 1 January 1997 and wholly owned by the Swedish government. Casino Cosmopol, which runs the country's land-based casinos, is its subsidiary. Its position changed fundamentally when the Gambling Act 2018:1138 took effect on 1 January 2019, ending the commercial monopoly and opening a competitive licensing system under Spelinspektionen. Svenska Spel was among the sixteen companies licensed at the outset, and now operates its sport and casino business in competition with Betsson, LeoVegas, Kindred and bet365 while retaining exclusive rights in parts of the lottery segment. It is the clearest European example of a former monopolist made to compete in its own market.
Swisslos
SwitzerlandSwisslos is the lottery and sports betting operator for the nineteen German-speaking and Italian-speaking cantons of Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein, headquartered in Basel and holding the exclusive right under the Swiss Money Gaming Act to offer lotteries and sports betting in its territory. It sells the Swiss Lotto, Euro Millions, instant tickets and Sporttip sports betting through retail and its swisslos.ch online platform, and distributes all of its profits, several hundred million francs a year, to cantonal lottery and sports funds for public-interest causes. It is a cooperative owned by the cantons.
Szerencsejáték Zrt
HungarySzerencsejáték Zrt is Hungary's state-owned gambling company, founded in 1991 and headquartered in Budapest, holding the exclusive right to operate the national lottery draw games (Ötöslottó, Hatoslottó, Skandináv lottó and Euro Jackpot), instant tickets, the Tippmix and TippmixPro sports betting brands, and, until Hungary opened online sports betting licensing to private operators in 2023, a monopoly on online betting. It sells through a retail network of several thousand outlets and online, returns its profits to the state and to sports and culture funding, and remains the largest gambling operator in Hungary by revenue.
TAB New Zealand
New ZealandTAB New Zealand is the statutory betting operator holding New Zealand's monopoly on sports and racing betting, established to fund the racing industry and sports bodies. In 2023 it entered a twenty-five-year strategic partnership under which Entain operates its betting business and technology, bringing the TAB onto Entain's platform while the statutory body retained ownership and the distribution of proceeds to racing and sport. Legislation in 2025 tightened the monopoly against offshore operators, and the TAB runs retail, online and on-course betting nationwide.
Tabcorp
AustraliaASX-listed Australian wagering and media group. Operates the TAB betting brand and holds wagering licences tied to state racing industries. Agreed in August 2026 to acquire BetMakers Technology Group for an enterprise value of approximately A$267 million.
Te Apuesto
PeruTe Apuesto is a Peruvian sports betting operator run by Intralot's Peruvian subsidiary, operating a large retail network of betting points across Peru together with an online sportsbook licensed under the country's 2024 online regime. It is one of the longest-established betting brands in Peru, built on Intralot's lottery and betting technology, and competes with Apuesta Total, Betsson's Inkabet and the international entrants in the newly regulated online market.
The Cordish Companies
United StatesThe Cordish Companies is a privately owned US real estate and gaming developer headquartered in Baltimore, founded in 1910, whose gaming division develops and operates the Live! Casino and Hotel properties: Live! Casino and Hotel Maryland at Arundel Mills, Live! Casino and Hotel Philadelphia, Live! Casino Pittsburgh, Live! Casino Louisiana in Bossier City, opened in 2025, and Live! Casino Virginia in Petersburg, under development. It runs the Live! Rewards programme, holds online sports betting and casino licences through partnerships at its properties, and develops entertainment districts alongside stadiums and casinos. The group is run by the Cordish family.
The Lottery Corporation
AustraliaThe Lottery Corporation is the Australian lottery and keno operator that was demerged from Tabcorp in 2022, listing on the ASX under the code TLC on 24 May and floating with a market value of around 10.5 billion Australian dollars. It runs the country's national draw games under The Lott, the umbrella brand covering Tatts, NSW Lotteries, Golden Casket, SA Lotteries and Lotterywest, alongside its keno business. The demerger separated two businesses with very different economics: lotteries are long-licence, low-volatility and government-facing, while wagering is competitive and margin-pressured, and splitting them let each be valued on its own terms rather than blended.
The Star Entertainment Group
AustraliaThe Star Entertainment Group is an ASX-listed Australian casino operator running The Star Sydney, The Star Gold Coast and its interest in the Queen's Wharf resort in Brisbane, which opened in 2024. Regulatory inquiries in New South Wales and Queensland from 2022 found it unsuitable to hold its licences, leading to supervision, fines and remediation, and the group has faced financial distress through 2024 and 2025, recapitalised with investment from its Hong Kong joint-venture partners and a US casino operator. It employs several thousand people across its properties.
theLotter
MaltatheLotter is an online lottery courier and messenger service founded in 2002 and operated from Malta, buying official tickets for lotteries around the world on customers' behalf through local agents and offering them to an international customer base, together with lottery betting products in markets where courier purchase is not possible. Licensed in Malta and in several US states as a courier, it is among the oldest international lottery messenger services and has paid out several large jackpots to customers abroad.
theScore Bet
CanadatheScore Bet is the sportsbook and online casino brand of PENN Entertainment in Canada and, from December 2025, in the United States, where it replaced ESPN Bet after PENN and ESPN ended their licensing agreement early. Built around theScore sports media app, one of the most-used sports apps in North America, it launched in Ontario at the market opening in April 2022 with sports betting and casino under an iGaming Ontario registration, integrating betting into the media product. PENN acquired theScore in 2021 and moved its US sportsbook technology onto theScore's platform; the brand is headquartered in Toronto.
Tipico
MaltaTipico is the largest sports betting operator in Germany, founded in Malta in 2004 by Dieter Pawlik, Oliver Voigt and Mladen Pavlovic and headquartered at Tipico Tower in St Julian's. It holds a German sports betting concession issued by the Darmstadt Regional Council alongside licences from the Malta Gaming Authority. The company reports a German market share above 50%, which makes it the dominant licensed operator in Europe's largest regulated sports betting market and one of the largest bookmakers worldwide. Its retail arm runs as a franchise system of more than 1,250 betting shops across Germany and Austria, and the group has offices in Germany, Austria, Croatia, Gibraltar, Colombia and the United States. It employs more than 1,800 people directly, with around 6,000 more across the franchise network.
Tipsport
CzechiaTipsport is the largest licensed betting operator in Czechia, founded in Beroun in 1991, running a network of retail betting shops and online sportsbook, casino and live casino operations under Czech licences, together with the Chance brand it acquired and Tipsport SK in Slovakia. It is the title sponsor of the Czech ice hockey Extraliga and a major football sponsor, runs its own platform, and holds around half of the Czech online betting market. Tipsport is privately owned by its founders and management and headquartered in Beroun.
Tipwin
GermanyTipwin is a German sports betting operator headquartered in Hamburg, running a network of licensed retail betting shops across Germany and an online sportsbook licensed under the 2021 interstate gambling treaty by the Joint Gambling Authority of the States, with online casino games where its licences permit. Founded in 2013, it also holds licences in other European markets and has sponsored German football clubs. Tipwin is privately owned and one of the domestic operators in the German market alongside the international brands.
tombola
United Kingdomtombola is a British online bingo operator founded in Sunderland in 2006 by a family bingo business dating from 1961, and the largest online bingo site in Britain by player numbers, running its own proprietary bingo games and arcade products rather than third-party content. Licensed by the Gambling Commission and in Italy and Spain, it was acquired by Flutter Entertainment in 2022 and continues to operate from Sunderland as a standalone brand, positioned on low stakes, community play and its in-house game design. tombola employs around 700 people.
Totalizator Sportowy
PolandTotalizator Sportowy is the Polish state gambling company and owner of the LOTTO brand, established on 26 January 1956 by order of the President of the Main Committee of Physical Culture. Its first outlet opened in Warsaw at the corner of Marszałkowska and Wspólna, it began with football betting that year, and the Toto-Lotek number game followed in 1957. It holds a statutory monopoly on number games, on offering casino games over the internet, and on operating gaming machine venues outside casinos, which makes Total Casino the only legal online casino in Poland. Its retail network runs to more than 25,000 points of sale. Poland is the strictest of the large EU markets on online casino, and this monopoly is the mechanism: private operators can be licensed for betting but not for online casino.
Toto Nederland
NetherlandsToto is the sports betting and online casino brand of Nederlandse Loterij, the Dutch state lottery, licensed by the Kansspelautoriteit at the market opening in October 2021 alongside its historic monopoly on retail sports betting. It runs a sportsbook and casino online and Toto betting in retail, sponsors Dutch football, and is one of the largest licensed operators in the Netherlands by market share, competing with the international entrants under the country's advertising and deposit-limit rules.
Tsogo Sun
South AfricaTsogo Sun is a Johannesburg-listed South African gaming group operating casinos including Montecasino in Johannesburg, Suncoast in Durban and Gold Reef City, together with bingo halls, limited-payout machine routes and the Galaxy Bingo and Tsogo Sun-branded online sportsbook and casino products licensed provincially. It separated from its hotels business in 2019 and is one of the two dominant casino groups in South Africa, with a growing online business under provincial licences.
UK Tote Group
United KingdomUK Tote Group operates the Tote, the pool betting operator for British horseracing since 1928. The business was owned by the government until July 2011, when it was sold to Betfred for 265 million pounds, and was bought by UK Tote Group, formerly named Alizeti, for 115 million pounds in October 2019. It is headquartered in Wigan with an additional office in central London, and its products include the Placepot and the Scoop6 alongside single and multi-leg pool bets on racing. Pool betting is structurally different from fixed odds: customers bet against each other into a pool rather than against a bookmaker's book, which makes liquidity rather than margin the central commercial problem, and has shaped the group's push to combine its pools with international ones.
Underdog
United StatesUnderdog is an American sports gaming company founded in 2020 in Brooklyn, New York by Jeremy Levine, Brandon Stakenborg and Trevor John, who had previously built the fantasy sports businesses StarStreet and DRAFT. It runs three products: Best Ball tournaments, Pick'em contests and a licensed sportsbook, which went live in North Carolina. That progression is the point of interest. Underdog built scale through daily fantasy formats that several state regulators have since challenged as unlicensed sports betting, and has been converting into a regulated sportsbook operator in the states where it can. It sits in the same contested territory as prediction markets and sweepstakes: products that reached large audiences through a legal classification that regulators are now revisiting.
Unibet
MaltaUnibet is the flagship online sportsbook, casino and poker brand of Kindred Group, founded in Sweden in 1997 and now part of FDJ United following the French lottery group's 2024 acquisition of Kindred. Licensed in Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Romania, Australia and other regulated markets, it runs on Kindred's proprietary platform and sportsbook, sponsors football, ice hockey and racing across Europe, and is FDJ United's largest international brand.
Veikkaus
FinlandVeikkaus is the Finnish state-owned gambling company, headquartered in Vantaa, formed in 2017 from the merger of Veikkaus, RAY and Fintoto and holding the exclusive right to offer lotteries, sports betting, casino games, slot machines and horse racing betting in Finland. That monopoly ends on 1 January 2027, when Finland opens online casino and betting to licensed private operators under the 2025 Gambling Act; Veikkaus has restructured into a competitive-market company that will compete for online casino and betting customers under licence while retaining the lottery and land-based slot monopoly, and has launched a B2B games business and international operations in preparation. It returns its profits to the Finnish state.
Videoslots
MaltaVideoslots is a Malta-based online casino operator founded in 2011, licensed by the Malta Gaming Authority, the Gambling Commission in Britain and the regulators in Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Spain and Germany, and known for carrying one of the largest slot catalogues in the regulated European market, with more than 10,000 games from more than 200 studios. It runs its own platform with features including Battle of Slots tournaments and weekend rewards, operates the Mr Vegas casino brand, and has sponsored British and Swedish football. Videoslots is privately owned, employs around 400 people in Malta, and has been an early adopter of new studios' content.
WestLotto
GermanyWestLotto, formally Westdeutsche Lotterie GmbH & Co. OHG, is the state lottery operator of North Rhine-Westphalia, founded in 1955 and headquartered in Münster. It describes itself as Germany's largest lottery operator. It sells LOTTO 6aus49, Eurojackpot and KENO among other games through around 3,150 acceptance points across North Rhine-Westphalia as well as online and mobile channels, and took gaming stakes including fees of 1.83 billion euros in 2024. It is a member of the German Lotto and Toto Block and of the Eurojackpot cooperation, the pooling arrangements through which the German state lotteries run shared draws.
William Hill
United KingdomWilliam Hill is a British bookmaker founded in 1934, operating around 1,300 licensed betting shops across Britain and an online sportsbook, casino, bingo and poker business, licensed by the Gambling Commission and in Ireland, Gibraltar, Italy, Spain and other markets. It was acquired by Caesars Entertainment in 2021, which kept the US business and sold the international operations to 888 Holdings in 2022; 888, renamed evoke in 2024, now runs William Hill alongside 888 and Mr Green from London and Gibraltar. William Hill remains the largest retail bookmaker in Britain by shop count and one of its largest online brands.
Winamax
FranceWinamax is a French online poker and sports betting operator, founded in 1999 by Max Derhy and headquartered in Paris. It began life as a video games publisher before moving into online gambling, building its position in poker first and adding a sportsbook later. It holds ANJ licences for both poker and sports betting, the two verticals in which it is one of the largest operators in France, and runs the Winamax Poker Tour. The brand is a long-standing presence in French football sponsorship, with partnerships across Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 clubs including RC Strasbourg Alsace.
World Sports Betting
South AfricaWorld Sports Betting (WSB) is a South African sports betting operator founded in 2002 and licensed by the Gauteng and other provincial gambling boards, running an online sportsbook, retail outlets and horse racing betting, with a long-standing presence in South African racing and cricket sponsorship. It is one of the established domestic bookmakers in South Africa's provincially regulated market.
Wplay
ColombiaWplay is a Colombian online betting and casino operator owned by the gaming machine group Aquila Global Group and based in Medellín. It holds the distinction of being the first licensed online gambling operator in Latin America. Colombia introduced its online framework in 2016 and Coljuegos awarded the first licence, contract C1422, to Aquila Global Group in June 2017 for the Wplay.co brand. That made Colombia the first country in the region to run a full online licensing regime, several years ahead of Peru, Brazil and Argentina's provincial systems, and Wplay the reference case for how a domestic operator can hold share against international entrants that followed.
Wynn Resorts
United StatesWynn Resorts is a US casino and hospitality group listed on Nasdaq and headquartered in Las Vegas, operating Wynn Las Vegas and Encore on the Strip, Encore Boston Harbor in Massachusetts, and Wynn Macau and Wynn Palace in Macau through its majority-owned Wynn Macau subsidiary, and developing Wynn Al Marjan Island in the United Arab Emirates, due to open in 2027 as the first licensed casino resort in the Gulf. Its WynnBET online sportsbook, launched in 2020, was wound down in most states in 2023 and 2024 as the company withdrew from the US online market outside Nevada and Massachusetts. Founded by Steve Wynn in 2002, the group employs around 30,000 people.
ZEAL Network
GermanyZEAL Network is a Hamburg-based, Frankfurt-listed online lottery company operating the Lotto24 and Tipp24 brands that broker German state lottery tickets online, together with charity lotteries and an online games offering licensed under Germany's interstate gambling treaty. Founded in 1999 as Tipp24, it moved its lottery brokerage back into the German licensed system in 2019 after years operating from Britain, and is the leading online channel for German lotteries.
ZEturf
FranceZEturf Group is a French online betting operator founded in 2001, running the ZEturf horse race betting brand alongside the ZEbet sportsbook, which launched in 2014. It is the second largest operator in the French online horse race betting market behind PMU. FDJ acquired the group for an enterprise value of 175 million euros, completing the transaction in 2023 after the French Competition Authority cleared it in September that year. The deal took FDJ past a 10% share of the French online gaming market across sports betting, horse race betting and poker, and made it the fourth largest operator in that market.