Corporate
M&A, leadership changes, and strategic moves across the industry.
Crown Resorts says an excess insurer holding half of two layers of its directors' and officers' cover has refused to pay towards the settlement of the class action over its money laundering failures. With A$27.5 million still due to shareholders next May, the claim is about cash as much as principle.
Entain, Flutter, Allwyn, Better Collective, Acroud and DigiPlus have all told investors what Brazil's ban on fixed-odds betting means for them. For the big operators it is a trim to guidance; for Better Collective, whose shares traded a quarter lower on Monday, it removes about 12% of expected revenue.
SJM Holdings' 2026 interim report shows what Macau's end of satellite casinos did to Macau's longest-established operator: less revenue and a smaller share of the market, but a better margin and more gaming revenue in the casinos it now runs itself. The loss still widened, debt rose to HK$30.2 billion, and management says the job now is productivity.
The Apollo-owned slot, systems and fintech supplier has replaced what its chief executive calls a "stuffy" corporate identity with one built around a "casino as a service" pitch. It arrives in the same fortnight as a new finance chief hired to sharpen cash flow.
Germany's largest sports betting operator has published measurable targets for player protection, staff and climate to 2030. The player-protection goal is a ceiling Tipico already clears, and the company says so itself.
The DGOJ's second-quarter data takes Spain's online market to about €993 million of gross gaming revenue in the first half, roughly 23% up on 2025. New accounts rose by half and operators spent €194 million on marketing, two years after the courts reopened welcome bonuses.
Genting, which runs 32 casinos in the UK, puts the cost of a 40% Machine Games Duty at about £16 million a year and more than 850 venue jobs. It is the casino sector's answer to the harm case against machines, a month before the Budget on 28 October.
Online casino carried Ontario again in August, with revenue up 25.6% on a year earlier, while sports betting revenue fell 9.6% year on year and 30% month on month on a weaker hold. Active accounts dropped 11% in a month.
Wynn Resorts has pushed a 2027 maturity at its Las Vegas business out to 2035, at the price of a coupon 1.625 percentage points higher than the notes it replaces. The deal closed on 22 September, according to the company's filing.
The title sponsor of Super League, the Challenge Cup and England Rugby League will walk away at the end of the 2026 season. Fred Done ties the decision to last year's budget and the 132 shop closures that followed, and says the five Classics could go the same way if machine gaming duty rises in October.
Knight takes the role on 1 January, inheriting a studio organisation of more than 1,200 people that Venneman rebuilt from the ground up after returning to the company in 2024. The brief, as the company frames it, is game design, content and the mathematics underneath both.
The supplier has picked an insider of eight years to run a business it bought back from Endeavour last year. Konstakis takes over at the end of December, a week after the OmniLogic acquisition and a summer in which OpenBet processed more than 175 million World Cup bets.