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AR150, prompted by the personalised Bryce Harper message sent to a customer who says he lost $1.5m, cleared the Assembly gaming committee unanimously along with a bill that makes self-excluded players watch counselling videos before they can return.
The CMF's draft rule would bar payment operators from serving any activity that is illegal in Chile, and its president says that covers online casinos and their payouts. Congress is still debating whether to license the sector at all.
Two days of presidential remarks, a reported provisional measure in the Civil House and a finance minister who says he wants regulation "like tobacco" rather than a ban. Brazil's operators are waiting to find out which voice wins.
Frankfurt prosecutors say five suspects ran unlicensed slots sites since 2021 and evaded €77.6m in tax in a single year. The regulated industry says a network this size makes the GGL's 23% black market estimate impossible.
The Dutch regulator says it would rather have waited for the appeal ruling, but the current licences expire on 31 December. If the monopoly falls, revocation will come no sooner than a year after the judgment.
Mr Justice Cawson found Entain could not say who drew the Coral and Ladbrokes logos, when, or how it came to own them, eleven months into the case. The trade mark claims over 18 marks go on to trial.
The "world's largest" online casino has shut its whole site to Irish users and says it will apply for a licence, while the regulator says two prediction markets and a major platform have geo-blocked and deposits are being refunded.
Kansspelautoriteit chairman Michel Groothuizen says it is "naïve" to think a national regulator can beat a cross-border black market that costs the state more than €500m a year in tax, and that parliament barely mentioned Europe.
The Premier League club put a Curaçao-licensed operator on its sleeve two days after the government's consultation on banning exactly that shut, while a £9m UKRI research consortium says the ban should reach licensed bookmakers too.
Attorney General Letitia James says the "free" sweeps coins were sold at about a dollar apiece from 2012 onwards. The settlement carries no admission of liability and lands as Florida pursues the same company in court.
The Supreme Court's 120-day stay runs out on 13 October, no legislative fix has arrived, and the State Police have told an estimated 70,000 machines' hosts that unplugging them is not enough.
The Department of Internal Affairs says three-quarters of the country's 32 pokie trusts were non-compliant, a third engaged in deliberate "creative accounting", and NZ$11.5m has so far been committed back to communities. One trust lost its licence for six days.