France's regulator has built a tool that lets operators measure whether their own player protection systems are actually working. The findings should worry the entire industry: excessive players may account for 60% of account-based gambling revenue.
A cross-party group of MPs has gone directly to the Culture Secretary with a stark warning about what proposed affordability checks could do to British horseracing. With the Gambling Commission set to decide this month, the political pressure is intensifying.
Stake has just gone live in Mexico, but the company is already looking at where it heads next in Latin America. The region has become central to the operator's long-term growth story.
After years of complaints about gambling research being influenced by industry funding, the UK has set up its largest ever independent research centre. The new body is built explicitly to break free of those concerns.
The Philippines regulator has drawn a line on operator promotional spending. With cash-back capped at 15% and rebates at 1.5% of turnover, the days of unlimited bonus competition in the Philippines are over.
A hidden casino on the ninth floor, a fraudulent crypto call centre on the fourth, all running from the same Kyiv business address. Ukraine's crackdown on illegal gambling and financial scams just produced one of its more striking convictions.
With this deal, Kambi will be powering sports betting in eight of Canada's ten provinces. The PROLINE expansion is one of the most significant supplier wins in North American sports betting this year.
The Netherlands has flagged thousands of unlicensed gambling adverts to Meta in a single month. With the country's licensed market shrinking and the black market growing, the role of social platforms in fuelling that shift is becoming impossible to ignore.
From MLB bribery charges to NBA match-fixing allegations, proposition betting's integrity problem has arrived in New York's legislature. A new task force bill signals the state is running out of patience with inaction.
Uganda is overhauling its gambling tax structure from July 2026, introducing some of the steepest rates on the African continent. Operators and players alike will feel the impact, and the black market risk is real.
Four years after being forced out of the American market, Polymarket is reportedly in discussions with the CFTC about a full domestic return. The timing could not be more politically charged.
From blacklisting 300 illegal sites to launching the first state-funded problem gambling treatment programme, Romania's ONJN has used its opening mandate year to signal it means business. The hard work of sustaining that momentum now begins.
