Regulatory
Licensing, compliance, and regulator activity worldwide.
The government's submission to Congress projects R$41.9 billion from the new Selective Tax. Divide the betting share by the estimated base and you get about 15%, though the Finance Ministry has set no rate and the honest range is wider.
PowNed sent someone registered on Cruks into gaming venues using another person's identification, and got in. One of the three venues under scrutiny is a state-owned Holland Casino site in Eindhoven.
Bill 2.470/2026 would ban direct and indirect betting advertising and outlaw bonuses and cashback. The provision the industry should read twice is the one creating a federal risk assessment that could block roulette, slots and crash games outright.
FINTRAC penalised New Brunswick and Nova Scotia's state-owned gaming bodies for failing to file suspicious transaction reports. The red flags it lists are a working checklist for anyone running a player account system.
A childhood and youth court in Campina Grande has told the Finance Ministry and the telecoms regulator to remove Pixbet's sites and apps, fined it R$4.7 million and appointed an expert to test whether its age checks work at all.
A promotional offer went twice to a VIP customer who had self-excluded. The cash penalty is trivial. The settlement also requires a 26-month lookback across every text the operator sent.
A four-page letter from the Kentucky Derby's owner asks the Federal Trade Commission to review HISA's governance, transparency and technology controls. It was copied to all nine HISA directors and to five members of Congress.
NICC chief commissioner Philip Crawford told a parliamentary committee he is satisfied with the Bally's-era management and wants the licence reinstated, conditionally, before he retires in November.
Three Democrats have come back at the operator with eight more questions and a 17 September deadline, saying it "appears to be promoting addiction". The first round produced a $158 million responsible-gaming figure and, they say, no answer on the thing they actually asked about.
BLIK now checks every transaction against the Finance Ministry's register of illegal gambling domains and declines the matches. Brazil is doing the same job by loading obligations onto banks and fintechs instead. Both are admissions that domain blocking stopped working.
A dark web service was selling 153 million driver's licence scans. The suspected source, IDScan.net, runs identity checks at more than 20,000 locations, and Caesars Entertainment is on its customer list.
The CCJ passed the base text by symbolic vote on 2 September, with the 30% transfer of betting revenue to public security funds removed. Amendments were not reached, and are now expected only after the elections.