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Kalshi has started listing contracts on industry-wide indices of card spending, point-of-sale sales and app downloads, all settled on figures from the data company Carbon Arc. The same vendor already settles Kalshi markets on sportsbook and casino advertising and on DraftKings and FanDuel downloads, and its numbers appear to sit outside the test the SEC used on 13 October to class Cboe's KPI options as securities.
Prosecutors at the Corte dei conti allege that five former staff of the scratchcard concessionaire used their system access to find four winning tickets worth €24 million and had relatives and friends buy them. The claim is the State's, not the company's: prizes that chance might have left unclaimed would have stayed with the Treasury.
A Baltimore circuit judge has reversed the contract appeals board that upheld Intralot's disqualification from Maryland's lottery systems tender, reportedly holding that a 2025 procurement law required the state to let it correct its minority business paperwork. It revives Intralot's case, not its award: the state threw out every bid in December, and Scientific Games is still running the lottery while it fights that decision.
A one-page memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth tells service members and civilians that trading on nonpublic information, classified or not, can bring discipline or prosecution, and calls their bets a signal enemies can read. As reported, it stops short of the ban on military-event trading that lawmakers asked for in May.
Anthony Lee, his wife Laura Lee and Amy Hind avoided immediate custody at Southwark Crown Court after admitting cheating under section 42 of the Gambling Act 2005. The Gambling Commission calls it the first case of its kind, and 10 more defendants are still to stand trial.
Football lifted sportsbook handle by 48% to 65% on August in all three states, and revenue recovered from August's low. Against September 2025 the picture splits: Michigan and Pennsylvania revenue rose sharply on better results, New Jersey's fell 14.3%, and only Michigan took more bets than a year earlier.
Italy's communications regulator wants an operator's ".news" or ".sport" brand to escape the gambling advertising ban only if it runs a real newsroom, links nowhere near the betting site and looks nothing like it. The draft lands two days after the Constitutional Court made the ban's €50,000 minimum fine reducible.
A Citrin-POLITICO poll finds 50% of registered voters in favour of legal sports betting at tribal casinos, four years after a tribal in-person measure won 33% of the vote. Online betting still trails 37% to 50%, which is the part California's tribes now have to win in 2028.
Sweden's racing-owned operator says casino grew 13% in the third quarter, but the growth came entirely from its Danish subsidiary: in Sweden, horse betting, sports betting and casino all earned less than a year ago. The money that funds Swedish trotting and gallop racing shrank with them.
Malacañang has asked the Department of Foreign Affairs to look at whether January's visa-free scheme for Chinese visitors is being used to staff illegal offshore gaming and scam hubs. It is a review, not a decision, and the scheme was due one before it expires anyway.
The Chickasaw Nation's commercial arm now owns 13 Horse Palace sites, live racing at Sweetwater Downs, and the operator behind about 35% of Wyoming's $2.49 billion historical horse racing handle. No price was disclosed, and the deal lands months after a bill to cap the machines died.
The state's largest casino took $46.1 million from its tables and slots in September, its weakest month since the pandemic, while more than 1,300 workers picketed outside. The regulator's statewide total also carries an MGM Springfield figure that matches August's to the cent.
Malta's gaming regulator and its consumer authority have agreed a formal framework for handling player complaints and sharing information where their remits overlap. The text is unpublished, and the release names no practice, term or advertising rule they will pursue together.
All six of Macau's casino operators signed up on Friday as passive investors in a MOP20 billion government guidance fund, with every pataca credited against the non-gaming spending they promised for their 2023 concessions. Sands China says its share replaces projects it had planned to build.
American commercial gaming took $6.48 billion in August, a fraction less than a year earlier, because sportsbooks kept less of what was bet. Handle barely moved; hold fell from 10.8% to 9.2%, and the American Gaming Association blames prediction markets and a late college football start for the rest.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has opened a false-certification proceeding against two ProphetX contracts on whether an NFL game produces a never-before-seen final score, and stayed them before they traded. It is the first stay of a sports event contract on the CFTC's 2026 filings record, and it turns on the same "economic consequence" test the agency says sports contracts pass.
Boyd Gaming's group earnings barely moved in the third quarter, but its two Las Vegas segments lost $8 million of EBITDAR between them while its locals and regional casinos grew. Management says August was the weakest month.
Three Democrats who have spent since August questioning FanDuel's VIP programme have now asked DraftKings, BetMGM, Caesars, Fanatics, Kalshi and Polymarket to say how much their top customers lost before and after they were enrolled. The letters are requests, not findings, and the companies have until 5 November to answer.
Evolution's chief executive called the third quarter "uneventful", and on the numbers it was: every region grew on the quarter and adjusted EBITDA landed on consensus. The news sat at the edges. The live casino supplier closed its Brazilian studio on 5 October, and spent €823.9 million on its own shares in three months.
The owner of William Hill, 888 and Mr Green reported a 2% like-for-like revenue fall for the third quarter, after 2% growth in the first half, in a brief update with no divisional figures, no profit number and no guidance. Its chief executive used it to lobby the Treasury five days before the Budget.
Ireland's gambling regulator has now published 235 notices of intent to apply for a licence, and most of the recent ones come from racecourse and high-street bookmakers whose Revenue licences expire on 30 November. Its own register shows how far it still has to go: one in-person betting licence issued so far.
Four legislators from both parties have formed what local broadcasters call Pennsylvania's first caucus on problem gambling, promising "common-sense guardrails" for online betting. Two of them co-sponsor a bill, filed the same day, that would limit players to two deposits a day and ban microbets.
The Saeima's budget committee has sent the government's gambling bill, which would raise the minimum age to 21, shut venues from 6am to 9am and cap online play at 21 hours a day, to a first reading. No date is set, the outgoing parliament's mandate ends on 3 November, and the committee's chair concedes the text is out of date.
New York's commercial casinos took $184.3 million in September, more than three times a year earlier, but almost all of the rise is Resorts World New York City moving from the video lottery reports into the casino ones. On a like-for-like basis the Queens property grew about 63%, and the four upstate casinos were flat.
