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Entain, Flutter, Allwyn, Better Collective, Acroud and DigiPlus have all told investors what Brazil's ban on fixed-odds betting means for them. For the big operators it is a trim to guidance; for Better Collective, whose shares traded a quarter lower on Monday, it removes about 12% of expected revenue.

SJM Holdings' 2026 interim report shows what Macau's end of satellite casinos did to Macau's longest-established operator: less revenue and a smaller share of the market, but a better margin and more gaming revenue in the casinos it now runs itself. The loss still widened, debt rose to HK$30.2 billion, and management says the job now is productivity.

PAGCOR's chairman wants the online market written into statute before his term ends, so that it "will not easily be scrapped". A Hong Kong-listed newcomer has meanwhile shown how much of that market still rests on the regulator's accreditations, and how quickly they can go.

The newspaper's first reporting from the Curaçao regulator's files turns a licensing scandal into a question about who serves British players without a licence, and puts new documents behind its earlier reporting on the Santeda casino network. Its reporter also says the offshore trade is already moving on, to Anjouan and other lighter-touch licensors.

The two-year programme lets Kalshi match deposits and trading with bonus credits, target them by account age, inactivity and location, and confine them to sports contracts. It went to the CFTC as the exchange certified contracts on Premier League sanctions against Manchester City, days after reports of a verdict against the club.

A unanimous panel has held that Kalshi's sports contracts are not swaps, and that federal commodities law would not shield them from state gambling law even if they were. It is the second federal appeals court in a month to side with the states, leaving Kalshi with one win in three circuits as the Supreme Court weighs whether to take the question.

The Apollo-owned slot, systems and fintech supplier has replaced what its chief executive calls a "stuffy" corporate identity with one built around a "casino as a service" pitch. It arrives in the same fortnight as a new finance chief hired to sharpen cash flow.

Attorney General James Uthmeier has told five of the largest advertising platforms that promoting sweepstakes casinos to Floridians is a crime, and wants written proof they have stopped. After the operators and their payment processors, Florida has reached the marketing layer.

The National Council on Problem Gambling has given no reason for Maurer's departure, which follows its director of programs out of the door and four state bodies out of its membership since it took $2 million from Kalshi in May. The board has started its second executive search in 20 months.

GiG Software has signed a share purchase agreement for evoke's African operator and says the proposed deal will be finalised by 30 September. The signing puts a clock on the deferred payment and, for the first time, numbers on the business GiG is buying.

The Liège group has bought 100% of the company behind Carousel.be, its partner since 2012, taking over a B+ online licence and the gaming hall in Harelbeke that Belgian law requires behind it. The price is undisclosed, and the sellers are keeping the 711 brand that grew out of Carousel.

The Betting and Gaming Council has launched a campaign built on shop workers' stories and a poll of Andy Burnham's Makerfield seat, a month before a Budget that may double Machine Games Duty. Its job figures are its own; the think tank behind the proposal says the rise would raise up to £458 million.

Germany's largest sports betting operator has published measurable targets for player protection, staff and climate to 2030. The player-protection goal is a ceiling Tipico already clears, and the company says so itself.

The Malta Gaming Authority has suspended a casino and betting licence on four grounds, including a clause that covers unmet financial commitments. The notice says players must still be able to see their accounts, but it says nothing about withdrawals.

Provisional Measure 1.394 ends Brazil's licensed betting market less than two years after it opened, extinguishes every licence within 30 days and rules out refunding the R$30 million each operator paid for one. It took effect on Friday, nine days before the first round of the presidential election.

Five months after India's online gaming law took effect, the regulator it created had granted no registrations by 1 September and had received 201 complaints, the IT ministry told the country's information commission.

A flat 5% tax and a device levy give way to rates by game type, but only on play by people in Malta. The bigger change for the island's exporters is VAT: most remote gaming loses its exemption, which lets operators recover input tax.

The Malta Gaming Authority and its chief executive sought an injunction in Germany against Lilith Wittmann. She says the Berlin judgment bars her from hacking the regulator again but lets her use its documents. The court has not published its reasoning.

Research commissioned by the American Gaming Association says gamblers score higher on financial literacy than non-gamblers, and that prediction-market users are nearly as confident as sports bettors but test like non-gamblers. The trade body is using it against the exchanges.

Kalshi's clearing house wants approval to let a few large traders post less than full collateral on some contracts. Sports, culture and mention markets are excluded, and the CFTC's review runs until early November.

The DGOJ's second-quarter data takes Spain's online market to about €993 million of gross gaming revenue in the first half, roughly 23% up on 2025. New accounts rose by half and operators spent €194 million on marketing, two years after the courts reopened welcome bonuses.

The Supreme Court's stay runs out on 13 October and state police will start seizing machines the next day. Three rival bills, a proposed six-month delay and no agreed tax rate are waiting for lawmakers when they return on Monday.

Genting, which runs 32 casinos in the UK, puts the cost of a 40% Machine Games Duty at about £16 million a year and more than 850 venue jobs. It is the casino sector's answer to the harm case against machines, a month before the Budget on 28 October.

Procon-RJ is sanctioning operators under consumer law, not gambling law, with fines of up to R$14 million each. Its message, as Brasília prepares to restrict the market, is that a federal licence does not exempt a bet from the Consumer Defence Code.