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Launched together with the MOVE Foundation and powered by BETBY, the MOVE Cup will bring eight of the world's top grandmasters to Barcelona from 18 to 20 January 2027, during ICE Barcelona week. Its €300,000 prize fund will be matched by the same amount for charity.

Brightstar Lottery has renewed the technology contract behind the lottery of Spain's national organisation of the blind, a relationship that dates back to 2002. The release calls it multi-year and stops there: no end date, no value, and a scope limited to software and the central system.

The former Coral managing director will leave the racecourses' trade body on 31 December, ten days after it replaced him on the British Horseracing Authority board. No reason was given and no successor named, six days before a Budget that could raise machine games duty.

Peru's tourism and trade ministry has published draft amendments to the regulations behind its licensed online gambling market, with 15 days for comment. It would spell out detailed advertising rules, but also cut the maximum fine for the most serious breaches from 200 to 70 tax units.

The first opening weekend without gambling brands on the front of Premier League shirts still carried 11,205 gambling messages across seven live matches, according to the University of Bristol's fourth annual count. Shirt-front logos all but vanished, sleeve and training kit branding rose 362.7% on the three-year average, and pitchside boards held steady or grew.

The Dutch regulator worked out a fine of €292.6 million from search data, then had to cut it to €37.25 million because the law caps penalties at 10% of worldwide turnover. The operator ignored a penalty order, left €840,000 in penalty payments unpaid and never answered the regulator.

The FTSE 100 trading group says financial prediction markets will launch in the fourth quarter for professional clients only, as the Financial Conduct Authority still treats them as banned retail binary options. Sports and politics wait on a Gambling Commission licence it has applied for.

The group's chief transformation officer will succeed Erwin van Lambaart and run Austria's gambling incumbent through the end of its online monopoly and the reaward of its licences. The shareholders have chosen an insider with a record of steering former monopolies into competition.

Sweden's state-owned gambling group grew net gaming revenue by 1% in the third quarter but earned less from it, because it chose to spend more on its brand, AI and a move to the cloud. The growth came from the licensed online arm; the lottery monopoly barely moved and the gaming-machine business shrank again.

The Ohio Casino Control Commission has told every sportsbook, supplier, integrity monitor and testing laboratory it licenses to stop providing services "of any kind" to platforms offering sports event contracts in Ohio, or face reopened suitability investigations. With its cease-and-desist letters to the exchanges now challenged in court, Ohio is turning to the companies that keep them running.

The former Française des Jeux began the year aiming for slight revenue growth and now expects a mid-single-digit decline, with its margin target trimmed to around 23%. Fewer big EuroMillions jackpots, high winnings for retail bettors and tax rises did most of the damage.

The Senate Commerce Committee chairman intends to file legislation after the 3 November midterms that would bar gambling-linked event contracts, sports included, unless a state or tribe authorises them, Bloomberg Law reports. No text, bill number or co-sponsor is public yet, and the window before this Congress ends is short.

Latin American revenue rose by more than half and casino carried a weak sportsbook to Betsson's highest quarter yet, but gaming taxes and a shrinking B2B line took almost a third off operating profit. The record also rests on the region where Brazil has already shut its market and a Buenos Aires senator wants to do the same.

Marina Bay Sands took the bigger hit, with EBITDA down 21%, while Sands China's revenue rose 8.4% on the quarter and its share of Macao's mass market reached its highest since 2023. The parent still spent $950 million on its own shares, raised its 2027 dividend by 20% and took its Sands China stake to 75.56%.

Australia's media regulator has formally warned two former Brisbane Lions players for promoting Vegastars, an offshore casino it had already ordered blocked. It is the second time this year ACMA has chosen a warning over a civil penalty for an athlete-influencer, and the promotions ran after the block was in place.

The Times reports that the Chancellor will lift the main rate of machine duty by five points at next week's Budget, a quarter more than today but well short of the doubling campaigners wanted. Nothing is confirmed, the industry says any rise will cost jobs, and Rank's shares rose after the report.

India's listed casino operator has now provided ₹4.44 billion for historical GST, a fraction of the ₹168 billion first demanded in 2023, and this quarter's charge covers demands it says it has strong grounds to contest. Casino revenue fell 13.4% in a quarter without King Casino and the Sikkim property.

Speaking to the world's gambling regulators in Peru, the Commission's acting chief executive answered critics of affordability checks and of her own survey data in unusually blunt terms. On the illegal market, the money has arrived but the new court powers have not.

Ontario's regulator has settled the first suspension it has sought against a licensed igaming operator, cutting five days to two and adding an independent audit. It has not said why the penalty shrank, when the site goes dark, or whether any money changes hands.

Polymarket's US exchange went to federal court in Columbus on the day Ohio's cease-and-desist deadline expired, leading with a constitutional claim the Sixth Circuit has not decided. Governor Mike DeWine says the state will now file suits of its own.

The disciplinary board gave every club official it found in breach the same sanction, the shortest the betting rule allows once its full discretionary discount is applied, and cleared two in three of those referred without published reasons. After referees and players, the boardroom phase of Turkish football's betting purge has drawn the lightest penalties of the three.

The Department for Communities' fourth annual gambling compendium shows turnover recovering on a revised series, betting office licences falling for a second year and the first count of machines under the new £500 prize limit. Its biggest number, a record £89 million in duty, is a modelled share of a UK tax.

A survey of 5,000 French 15 to 17-year-olds funded by the Autorité Nationale des Jeux finds that teenagers who play both gambling-style video games and real-money games score far worse on problem gambling than those who only gamble. It shows an association and a sequence, not a cause, and its authors say so.

The operator of allbritishcasino.com and six other British-facing sites let customers request only one withdrawal at a time and held back every fifth or tenth withdrawal for some customers for manual review, the regulator found. The Commission is presenting the case as a warning that fairness breaches will be enforced as firmly as money laundering and harm failures.