Unibet 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.
The Ministry of Culture and Equality has put online poker for the state monopoly out to a fast-track consultation, two years after Norsk Tipping asked for it. The proposal comes with tight stakes, loss and table limits, and an open question about whether a Norway-only player pool can compete with the foreign sites it is meant to replace.
Applications to Finland's National Police Board have risen by half since June, beating researchers' estimates, but processing now takes six to eight months and the market opens on 1 July 2027. The first licences will decide who can advertise to Finns first.
Palmerbet kept a self-excluded customer's account open for 17 months and accepted 312 bets from them in the last three, the Australian Communications and Media Authority found. A week after Dabble paid $1.07 million for similar breaches, Palmerbet has given an 18-month undertaking and paid no penalty.
A consumer-advocate report collects what is publicly known about the national self-exclusion register: awareness at a quarter of adults and a third of bettors, fifteen operators caught breaching it, one of them more than 100,000 times, three financial penalties, and an Entain case the regulator investigated past its own 12-month limit.
Two activist short sellers have dropped simultaneous reports accusing Sportradar of generating a significant share of its revenue from illegal operators. The fallout has been immediate, brutal and far from over.
The Dutch regulator has found serious gaps between Unibet's stated anti-money laundering policies and what it actually does in practice. And Unibet may not be the only operator in the crosshairs.
FDJ United has shifted its online betting and gaming strategy from acquisitions to technology transformation, with CEO Stéphane Pallez outlining accelerated internal platform migration, stack consolidation, and stricter focus on platform control as tax and regulatory pressure intensifies across Europe.
This week, the industry's simmering rivalries boiled over in spectacular fashion. Forget quarterly earnings; we're talking about lawsuits, corporate
Repeat offender Platinum Gaming, operator of Unibet's uk.bingo.com, hit with £10m UKGC fine for serious AML and safer gambling failures. Mandatory audit ordered.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has issued a stern warning to social media influencers regarding the promotion of illegal gambling,
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has imposed a penalty exceeding AUS $4 million on Tabcorp Holdings for breaching the country’s spam