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On the opening main stage at G2E, the chief executives of MGM Resorts and Caesars called prediction markets illegal, "obscene" and a risk to the whole industry. Wynn Resorts' Craig Billings said his company had no "skin in the game", and recalled what the Strip lost by fighting California's tribes.

Kalshi has asked the Ninth Circuit to hold its rehearing petition until the CFTC rewrites its rule on gaming contracts, which the agency says will be final within two months. Nevada's answer is that the court already knew the rule was changing, and that the panel's ruling never depended on it.

Polymarket's offshore exchange lists contracts on whether 19 of the world's biggest banks, HSBC and Lloyds among them, will fail by the end of 2026. The sums are small, but a Treasury Committee MP warns that a market on a bank's collapse could help cause one, and Britain's regulators have so far said little more than that they are talking to their counterparts abroad.

Paradise Co's four foreigner-only casinos took more in the third quarter than in any quarter before it, even though customers bought fewer chips than in the second. Grand Korea Leisure recovered in September, but its quarter was barely ahead of last year's.

Police say a money trail from a boxing betting network worth more than 1 billion baht leads to Atchariya Ruangrattanapong, a campaigner who has spent years accusing officers of taking money from gambling. He denies all four charges and says the case is fabricated.

Immigration officers, the National Bureau of Investigation and the army raided two sites in Zamboanga Sibugay on 2 October and found some 3,000 mobile phones. The Bureau of Immigration calls it this year's biggest offshore gaming bust, which says as much about the ban as about the raid.

Both houses of Parliament have unanimously approved an order that removes the offence of running remote gambling from Trinidad and Tobago. The licensing regime it depends on has sat unproclaimed since 2021, and the Attorney General has now promised it by New Year's Day.

Three Central Bank resolutions write the betting ban into the rulebooks of Brazil's main payment rails, and a Finance Ministry ordinance gives operators until Wednesday to hand over every player's balance. The tool for clawing back Pix payments to illegal sites still does not exist, and the government page licensed sites are told to point to was not live on Monday morning.

The government's lawyer has told the Supreme Federal Tribunal that the laws which created Brazil's licensed betting market are unconstitutional, reversing the position it took in 2024. It did so in a different case from the one in which Justice Luiz Fux gave it 72 hours, and operators, clubs and Flamengo want his answer on the ban before licensed sites go dark at midnight.

Costa Rica's Ministry of Finance says every casino it inspected in late September sold gaming chips without issuing electronic receipts, and some declared zero profit or zero VAT. The sanctions, worth about $780,000, test a casino tax regime built on counting tables in a country that still has no licensing framework for online gambling.

NagaWorld's operator says gross gaming revenue for the first nine months of 2026 fell to $417.9 million, with VIP rollings down by more than half. Set against its half-year results, the figures imply a third quarter about 43% weaker than a year ago, and this time the mass market fell too.

The Supreme Court's betting rapporteur now holds every action against Provisional Measure 1.394, and has asked the Attorney General's Office to respond before he decides anything. Its deadline lands as licensed sites go dark, while Congress has pushed its own amendments past the election.

A proposed class action filed in Boston accuses DraftKings of using customers' data to find the gamblers most likely to lose, then sending them more offers, in breach of its own privacy promises. It leans heavily on the New York Times investigation, and DraftKings says it does not use AI that way.

Federal prosecutors say contracts on the capture of Nicolás Maduro "are inherently economic" and so qualify as swaps, whatever two appeals courts have said about Kalshi's sports contracts. The question decides whether the first insider-trading prosecution over prediction-market trades survives, and argument is set for 7 October.

The Ministry of Finance has listed kalshi.com as a site offering prohibited gambling, and internet providers must block it by 15 October. The order covers the website only, but it puts the largest US prediction market on the same footing in Czechia as an unlicensed online casino.

Betsson Group has set up the Betsson Foundation to coordinate its community and sports giving. It has published a governance outline and one project in Peru, but no funding commitment, no board and no spending figures to judge it by.

The Kansspelautoriteit says an impostor got a lottery licence in the name of a Katwijk football club and used it to sell tickets on eight websites. The regulator calls it a new risk, and it has tightened the checks behind the licence register it tells consumers to trust.

Sarah Gardner used Allwyn's player protection conference to welcome the National Lottery's interim chief executive, five weeks after two MPs asked the regulator what it knew about him. She also warned that the Lottery's standing is "a high wire act where one wrong step can cause big problems".

Lotte Tour Development drew a record 66,393 casino visitors to Jeju Dream Tower in September and kept the smallest share of their table play in almost three years. Its two listed rivals grew in the same month, and the company is calling it a run of bad luck that October will correct.

Cambodia's anti-scam commission says inspectors confirmed that 24 casinos in three provinces ended livestreamed gaming, football betting and online lotteries by the 30 September deadline and moved the equipment out. It has not said how many casinos were running online operations in the first place.

Genting has shut its Coventry casino after a month-long staff consultation, blaming costs and tax rises the sector has already absorbed. The closure lands four weeks before a Budget that may double Machine Games Duty, and both sides of that argument are already using it.

Messages taken from the jailed banker's phone by the Federal Police show Banco Master's legal director telling Daniel Vorcaro he "cannot appear" after the Finance Ministry asked who stood behind a fund that owned part of Bet.Bet, Valor Econômico reports. A dispatcher from Minas Gerais was later named instead.

Brazil's betting ban polls far better than the market it replaced, but most voters say it will not decide their vote, and Lula has now said the election is why he acted. Broadcasters, operators and six football clubs have asked the Supreme Court to step in before licensed sites go dark on 6 October.

Notices filed with Washington's Employment Security Department put eight of Maverick's card rooms on course to close at the end of November, on top of two in Tukwila on 1 November. The company says a buyer in its Chapter 11 case could keep some open, and one Pasco councilman says that is already happening.