Brazil's Self-Exclusion Register Hits 1.2 Million in Eight Months

More than 1.2 million people, 3% of every active bettor registered with the regulator, have barred themselves from Brazil's licensed betting sites since the central platform opened in December. The figure arrived in a week when the Supreme Court received rival petitions on the betting law and the central bank told banks to stop advertising bets inside their apps.

• Data from the Finance Ministry's Secretariat of Prizes and Betting (SPA) show more than 1.2 million self-exclusion requests by September on the Centralised Self-Exclusion Platform launched in December 2025, 3% of the 40 million active CPFs registered in the Sigap betting system
• BNLData's comparison puts that ahead in absolute terms of Britain's GAMSTOP (614,738 registrations in eight years), Germany's OASIS (over 336,000 in four) and Sweden's Spelpaus (over 134,000 in seven), with caveats about differing denominators
• On Friday the Supreme Court received two opposing petitions in ADI 7.749, the Prosecutor-General's challenge to the betting law: a harm-prevention institute appealed its exclusion as amicus, while the broadcasters' association ABERT asked for the judgment to be suspended while Congress legislates
• Central bank director Izabela Correa told the Zetta Summit in Brasília on 1 September that it is "incoherent" for a bank to advertise a betting site on its app's home page, and the bank is preparing consumer-protection rules
• The cases and the bills sit alongside the president's remark that he would ban betting and a budget that implies a 15% selective tax from 2027

A Register That Took Eight Months to Do What Britain's Took Eight Years

More than 1.2 million people have voluntarily requested exclusion from Brazil's licensed fixed-odds betting platforms, according to Secretariat of Prizes and Betting figures reported by BNLData on Saturday. The requests sit on the Centralised Self-Exclusion Platform the SPA opened in December 2025, and represent 3% of the 40 million active taxpayer numbers, or CPFs, registered in Sigap, the betting management system through which every licensed operator reports.

BNLData set the number against official figures from six other national registers. Britain's GAMSTOP took eight years to reach 614,738 cumulative registrations; Sweden's Spelpaus took seven to pass 134,000; Germany's OASIS took four to pass 336,000. Brazil's platform has been running for about eight months, and its regulated fixed-odds market only since January 2025, when Law 14.790/2023 took effect.

The publication was careful about what the comparison does and does not show. Brazil's 3% is calculated on active registered bettors, while the percentages Britain, Sweden and the Netherlands usually publish are of the whole adult population, so the Brazilian rate is not evidence of a proportionally larger problem. OASIS counts repeat exclusions by the same person; some registers, such as Spain's, cover only state-level online play. Italy's ADM publishes no consolidated total and the United States has no national register at all. What the comparison does show is speed of uptake: a system iGaming Times reported on before its launch reached, in under a year, a volume that decades-old programmes have not.

At the Supreme Court, One Side Wants In and the Other Wants a Pause

The same day brought two petitions in opposite directions to the Supreme Federal Court, according to BNLData's account of the filings. Both concern ADI 7.749, the direct action brought by the Prosecutor-General arguing that Laws 13.756/2018 and 14.790/2023 give insufficient protection to bettors' mental health. The rapporteur is Justice Luiz Fux.

The Instituto Moderação, a body focused on the prevention of gambling disorder, filed an internal appeal against Fux's decision of 27 August, published on 31 August, refusing it entry as amicus curiae. Fux had admitted eleven parties, among them the PDT party, the responsible-gambling institute IBJR, the state of Paraná and its lottery LOTTOPAR, the public defender's office and the broadcasters' association ABERT, and rejected the rest collectively to avoid "serial repetition" of bodies with identical interests. The institute argues its expertise is technical and operational, in early identification of risk patterns and behavioural monitoring, and distinct from IBJR's industry perspective.

ABERT, already admitted in ADIs 7.749, 7.721 and 7.723, asked the court to suspend judgment in all three, or for at least three months, because Congress is actively revising the same framework. It pointed to PL 2.470/2026, which a Senate committee approved on 2 September with a request for urgency, and to PL 2.985/2023 on advertising, passed by the Senate in May 2025 and now in the Chamber. The association argued that the court should defer to a legislature that is not idle, citing precedents in which the court waited for an inter-institutional solution.

The Central Bank Has Noticed Where the Adverts Are

Izabela Correa, the central bank's director for citizenship and conduct supervision, told the Zetta Summit in Brasília on Tuesday that financial institutions are displaying betting advertisements inside their apps and on their web pages, BNLData reported, citing Valor. "It is incoherent for a financial institution to have an app and, on the home page of that app, to be offering and advertising a bet," she said. Sports betting represents a higher default risk for consumers, she added, and the bank has advanced internal studies with a view to publishing digital consumer-protection rules in the coming months. Her remarks reinforced comments earlier the same day from Ailton de Aquino, the bank's director of supervision. Brazil's regulatory profile is on the iGaming Times country page.

The Self-Exclusion Number Is the Best Evidence the Regulated Market Has

Every Brazilian debate about betting in the past month, from the president's ban remark to the Senate's security levy, has been conducted as if the regulated market were the problem. The register is the regulated market's answer: 1.2 million people used a protection that exists only because the market is licensed, and that no offshore site offers. The SPA will make that argument to the Supreme Court and to Congress, and it is a strong one. Its weakness is the same as its strength. A number that large also says the harm is large, and the court that is asked whether the law protects bettors adequately will read it both ways.

ABERT's Pause Request Is Really a Request to Let the Adverts Keep Running

The broadcasters' interest in the case is not abstract. Betting advertising is a material revenue line for Brazilian television, and the interim orders Fux has already issued in the companion cases restricted advertising to children and the use of social-programme money for bets. A suspension while Congress legislates would keep the current rules in place for the months it takes PL 2.985 to move through the Chamber. Fux has to decide whether deference to Congress means waiting for a bill that has been in the Chamber since June 2025.

The Central Bank's Rule Would Hit Distribution, Which Is Where the Market Is Won

Brazilian banks and fintechs have been the betting industry's most effective distribution channel, with Pix deposits and in-app promotion putting operators a tap away from every account holder. A rule that bars a bank from advertising bets on its own home screen would not touch the operators' licences but would change how customers find them. Of the three developments this week, it is the one operators can least litigate.

Brazil's regulated market has produced its most persuasive statistic and its most exposed flank in the same week. Which one the Supreme Court weighs more heavily will shape the law for a decade.