Regulatory
Licensing, compliance, and regulator activity worldwide.
A Finance Ministry report on the first quarter of 2026, never released by the government and obtained by BNLData through a records request, shows what the licensed market Brazil has just closed was paying out and who it could see. Its own figures carry inconsistencies the ministry says it is still checking.
France's gambling regulator and its advertising self-regulator have renewed the 2023 agreement under which the ARPP vets operators' ads before release and consults the ANJ when in doubt. The new version adds Web3 games, influencer certification and a review of the 2022 ad charters, but its text has not been published.
Nevada's gaming regulator has gathered a decade of scattered technical rules for casino systems into ten draft standards, and the target date has moved from this month to 1 October 2027. Little of the text is new; what changes is that the controls must now be built into the systems suppliers get approved.
The Curaçao Gaming Authority will not bring back the portal a hacker used for nine months, and is ending the service arrangements behind it. The seal that lets anyone check a Curaçao-licensed domain is affected too, and its replacement has not yet been published.
The Dutch regulator says licensed operators must match a player's full first names and surname against the name on the bank account, after an investigation found minors depositing from their own accounts and from youth accounts. Players verified the old way must be checked again.
An open letter urges the Northern Territory Government to back an independent's bill that would ban inducements, cap young adults' deposits and lift fines to A$10 million. Because most of Australia's large online bookmakers are licensed in Darwin, the rules would reach punters in every state.
Communities Minister Gordon Lyons told the Assembly that a review of the 2022 update to Northern Ireland's 1985 gambling law is expected next year, and that the Bill to regulate online gambling will be for a future Minister. Four years after Royal Assent, the 2022 Act's levy power has still not been brought into operation.
Task forces of regulators, police, immigration and labour officials and prosecutors will start inspecting licensed casinos this month, Cambodia's state news agency reports. The government now calls unlicensed online gambling a form of scam, and says it will prosecute it as one.
Licensed operators must give their banks a per-player list of the R$1.325 billion still owed by Wednesday, and the government's own bulletin shows 86.2 million accounts holding less than R$1 each. Congress has pushed its amendment deadline past the election to 13 October, and Justice Luiz Fux has still not ruled.
The Council of State has upheld the €100 weekly cash cap at Italy's top-up shops and struck down a ban on internet-connected devices there, while the decree meant to reorganise betting shops, gaming halls and machines lapsed in August. Rulings, not legislation, are now setting the rules for retail.
Three months after Greece rewrote its gambling law, the Hellenic Gaming Commission has shown the finance minister an AI tool built to find and document illegal gambling websites. The minister brought news of criminal complaints against 18 influencers, and a set of figures that shows how large the job is.
Aichi says it received participation statements for its airport island integrated resort by the 30 September deadline and wants full proposals by 23 March 2027. It will not say who applied or how many, so Japan's most advanced second-round bid may have a contest or a single suitor.