Regulatory
Licensing, compliance, and regulator activity worldwide.
Estonia halved its online gambling tax to bring international operators to Tallinn. Nine months on, not one new online casino has arrived, receipts are down, and the prime minister has pulled the review forward by two years.
Canada's securities regulators declined jurisdiction over sports event contracts on Thursday. By Friday British Columbia had picked it up, naming Kalshi and Polymarket and calling their sports and entertainment products illegal. That is the sequence operators should be watching.
Canada's securities regulators have declined to bring sports and entertainment event contracts inside the securities framework, and told their dealer members not to trade them. Coming a day before the Ninth Circuit reached a parallel conclusion, it leaves prediction markets without a financial-regulation route into two more jurisdictions.
The regulator found the operator failed to escalate a customer whose disclosed occupation was high risk and whose deposits reached about $189,395. NorthStar did not dispute the finding.
Lula confirmed on national television that he intends to split the Justice ministry once the Senate passes PEC 18/2025. The amendment routes 30% of betting revenue to the police and prison funds, in the same month a bill was filed to abolish the market.
Spelinspektionen's preliminary Q2 figures put licensed turnover at SEK7.4bn. The headline growth rate understates what is happening in the commercial online segment, which grew at above 7%.
Order 3070 adopts an Action in Lieu of Complaint against Caesars over signage and self-exclusion, and adds disgorgement to the penalty. Two case files sit behind it, opened thirteen months apart.
PL 5153/2026 would repeal the law that created Brazil's regulated market, extinguish every authorisation regardless of its stated term, and make operating fixed-odds betting a crime carrying two to five years. It reached the Mesa on Monday afternoon.
Dawn Butler and Iain Duncan Smith have written to the Gambling Commission about the National Lottery's incoming interim chief executive, citing the personal sanction he received in 2024 and a board seat at Britain's third-largest slot arcade chain.
Polla Chilena has asked a Santiago court to investigate Betsson, Betano, 1xBet, Coolbet and seven others for unauthorised gambling, money laundering and criminal association. The state is collecting VAT from the same companies its own lottery is describing as an organisation.
UOKiK is examining seven bookmakers for interface design that manipulates behaviour, with a tool built specifically to spot it. Five of them face separate proceedings where the exposure is 10% of annual turnover.
Grainne Hurst wrote to warn that unlicensed bookmakers will take £800 million in Premier League bets this season, reaching £1 billion a year by 2027/28. The numbers are arguable. The government's own impact assessment conceding the mechanism is not.