Regulatory
Licensing, compliance, and regulator activity worldwide.
The Attorney General's Office says it will go to court to force eight former licensees to give their banks the per-player lists the ban requires. The same release cuts the money still owed to bettors from about R$1.2 billion to R$159 million, and does not say how.
Four provincial lottery corporations asked the Supreme Court of Canada on 7 October to overturn the ruling that would let Ontario's poker and fantasy players sit at the same tables as players abroad. The nine judges reserved judgment, and no date has been set for a decision.
Google will let certified online gambling advertisers buy the slot at the top of YouTube's homepage from 21 October, widening a carve-out that has covered only sports betting since 2022. The notice names no markets, and it arrives in a month when European lawmakers are moving to restrict gambling advertising rather than extend it.
Britain's gambling regulator has opened the search for a permanent chief executive, eight months after it announced Andrew Rhodes would leave. The salary has barely moved, but the job description now asks the winner to deliver a return on the Treasury's money for fighting illegal gambling.
The Nevada Gaming Control Board wants the National Council on Problem Gambling's name taken out of the regulation that tells every casino what helpline information to post, and its chair tied the change to the council's $2 million arrangement with Kalshi. Staff put it more neutrally: Nevada players should be pointed to Nevada resources.
Voters in Allen, DeKalb and Steuben counties decide on 3 November whether northeast Indiana can bid for the state's 14th casino, and the congressman who represents all three wants them to say no. The law gives a "no" more weight than a "yes": a county that rejects it cannot ask again.
The Dutch regulator says 711 required customers paying by methods other than an ordinary bank account to stake deposited money at least once before cashing it out, and called the practice highly undesirable. There is no fine, and no figure for how many players were affected; it is the third public round of this kind since the KSA warned operators in March 2024.
A federal judge in São Paulo has held the government to the ban's own 30-day clause, keeping Stake's licence alive until 25 October while refusing to suspend the ban or let Stake run to 2029. The ANJL has taken a narrower request to a federal court in Brasília, and says a broader one may follow.
The Michigan Gaming Control Board has written to 33 unlicensed casino, sweepstakes-style and sports betting sites, and this time it led with a player-protection argument: the state's self-exclusion database binds only licensed operators. Two of the names were already on the list it published in April.
Denmark's government has put its lapsed gambling advertising bill back before the Folketing, with a 10-minute buffer around every live sports broadcast and new limits on who may appear in gambling ads. The clause with the most commercial bite is quieter: affiliates could no longer be paid on players' turnover or losses.
Maine's gambling regulator now says the first quarter of 2027 is the more practical target for online casino, and the state has told a federal court its rules cannot take effect before 25 November. Between now and launch sit a legality review, six hires, a licensing portal still to be launched and a constitutional challenge still waiting for a ruling.
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.