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Greater Manchester Police, supported by the Gambling Commission and the city council's licensing team, executed four simultaneous warrants in Manchester city centre on Monday night. Gambling tables, records and account books were seized, and one man was arrested on suspicion of money laundering and Gambling Act offences.

The Joint Gambling Authority of the Länder says it supervises 129 licensed operators, made 1,843 illegal sites unreachable from Germany by the end of 2025 and puts about 77% of the online market in the licensed channel. It wants the treaty evaluation to give it more discretion, because changing the rules takes years and the black market adapts in months.

The National Gambling Board and the Advertising Regulatory Board have signed a memorandum of understanding to monitor gambling advertising across broadcast, outdoor and digital channels, with joint work on social media, influencer marketing and ads for illegal offshore sites. The advertising body says an updated Gambling Code is coming.

The Kansspelautoriteit has issued guidance after finding that not all licensed operators let players close an account as easily as the rules require. Forced calls to customer service, fresh ID checks, cooling-off periods and win-back bonuses are all named as practices that do not comply.

Prime Minister Rumen Radev said on Wednesday that draft amendments to the Gambling Act would leave sports sponsorship as the only permitted form of gambling advertising, raise the levy on online gambling substantially and connect every gaming machine to the tax authority in real time. The texts go to public consultation first.

The Federación Mexicana de Fútbol has filed a trademark suit against Kalshi in federal court in Manhattan, after two months of cease-and-desist letters that the exchange answered by invoking nominative fair use. The case opens an intellectual property front that Kalshi's many fights with state regulators have not touched.

Caesars Entertainment shareholders approved Fertitta Entertainment's $31-a-share takeover at a special meeting in Reno on Tuesday, with votes in favour equal to about 65.4% of outstanding shares, the company confirmed in a filing on Wednesday. The deal now depends on a Federal Trade Commission second request and gaming regulators in every Caesars state, while a disclosure shows the President's managers sold a small Caesars holding in July.

A CBS News investigation into how sportsbooks keep bettors engaged featured a Virginia customer who likened gambling to "crack in the '80s". FanDuel suspended his account after the broadcast, a step CBS said the company told him about only after he appeared in its story. The operator says it acts whenever a customer raises concerns, on television or anywhere else.

Wynn Resorts has pushed a 2027 maturity at its Las Vegas business out to 2035, at the price of a coupon 1.625 percentage points higher than the notes it replaces. The deal closed on 22 September, according to the company's filing.

The Philippine regulator wants live visibility of bets across the gaming floor, according to Inside Asian Gaming, which reports that a mandate originally planned for this year has slipped and would start with the integrated resorts. PAGCOR has not announced the policy.

The Queensland Government says the functions of the Queensland Racing Integrity Commission and Racing Queensland will be brought together under one entity, with a new Chief Integrity Officer keeping integrity and animal welfare oversight independent. The 2016 law that created the commission was designed to separate welfare from commerce.

The Gambling Commission has suspended the remote licence of Targetlocal Ltd, the Swansea company behind kenhowells.com, after enquiries it says revealed anti-money laundering failings. It is the third British online bookmaker suspended pending a licence review in less than a month.

Follow the Money's first reporting from the Curaçao Gaming Authority leak says the regulator's own assessors doubted the declared ownership of the Curaçao companies behind Stake and 1xBet and granted licences anyway. The regulator's answer, that it did not reject applicants mid-transition, goes to the heart of the island's licensing reform.

Receita Federal collected R$9.91 billion from betting and gambling businesses in the first eight months of 2026, on its own figures, up from R$5.86 billion a year earlier. On the day the data came out, President Lula used the UN General Assembly to say Brazil would not tolerate the industry's business model, while reports suggest the measure his government is preparing would restrict advertising rather than ban the activity.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's market oversight staff have told exchanges that contracts on whether a person will say a word, attend an event or shake a hand may be treated as presumptively readily susceptible to manipulation. The advisory lands less than a month after a White House teleprompter operator was fined for trading presidential mention markets on advance copies of speeches.

Palmerbet kept a self-excluded customer's account open for 17 months and accepted 312 bets from them in the last three, the Australian Communications and Media Authority found. A week after Dabble paid $1.07 million for similar breaches, Palmerbet has given an 18-month undertaking and paid no penalty.

The title sponsor of Super League, the Challenge Cup and England Rugby League will walk away at the end of the 2026 season. Fred Done ties the decision to last year's budget and the 132 shop closures that followed, and says the five Classics could go the same way if machine gaming duty rises in October.

The Câmara Especial granted urgent relief against Apple within five days, overturning a first-instance judge who had put the question off for 15 days to hear the company first. The ruling rests on the finding that Apple admits, classifies, distributes and takes payment for the apps, even though it wrote none of them.

Greater Manchester Police worked the raids with the Gambling Commission and the city council's licensing team, on intelligence gathered after a similar operation in May. Two women were held on suspicion of immigration offences, one over money laundering and the Gambling Act, and one over licensing.

Knight takes the role on 1 January, inheriting a studio organisation of more than 1,200 people that Venneman rebuilt from the ground up after returning to the company in 2024. The brief, as the company frames it, is game design, content and the mathematics underneath both.

Camarines Sur representative Arnie Fuentebella told colleagues the application has been "neither approved nor disapproved", contradicting the interior secretary, who said last week it had been denied. Roque is wanted at home on non-bailable trafficking charges tied to a former offshore gaming hub.

The bank's analysts see yes/no exchange turnover compounding at 70% a year from $410bn this year, and financial derivatives overtaking sport to become the largest category. Five months ago the same firm's 2030 number was $1tn.

The supplier's tech learning space runs from 29 September to 1 October at booth C416 in Hall 3, opening with a day built around operational performance. Sessions last 30 minutes, seats are limited and registration is per lecture.

A Justice Department lawyer told a federal judge on Friday that the tribe knew Interior might reverse its gaming eligibility. The tribe says it notified Interior of its launch timeline twice and was never told to stop. A $700m resort depends on how Judge McFadden reads the restored lands exception.