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For eight months the league's policy rested on one anonymously sourced report. Now its communications director has spelled it out: no prediction market advertising in games, stadiums, club deals or player endorsements, and sportsbook partners may only advertise an approved product, not the company.

The ACMA found the wagering app left 157 BetStop-registered accounts open and sent self-excluded people 839 messages. The penalty is nearly ten times the largest in the regulator's January round, and the law that lands in January raises the ceiling again.

Six years after the Gambling Industry Committee asked for a public health approach to advertising, the Lords Liaison Committee has followed up and found the recommendations "largely unaddressed". Its answer is a ban, and it says the black-market argument against one did not convince it.

Cloture on the crypto market-structure bill needed 60 votes and got 49, all Republican. Four Republicans voted no, tribal gaming is calling it a victory for sovereignty, and the argument over who regulates sports event contracts goes back to the courts and the CFTC.

Nevada's win against sports event contracts is stayed while the full court decides whether to rehear it, so Arizona, Montana and California cannot enforce, Nevada and Washington do so through state courts, and the Supreme Court's conference is on 28 September.

Five months after the Finance Ministry ordered the site blocked, its markets on the October election are still reachable and a Portuguese-language account is promoting a candidate's lead among bettors. The AGU has asked for the file.

Prosecutors want R$110m from the Estonian developer for letting the "little plane" fly on unauthorised sites. The judge refused to ground the game outright, but ordered Spribe to name every partner, suspend the illegal integrations and geo-block, at R$100,000 a day.

Portaria 2,750 turns June's "financial asphyxiation" decree into a procedure: a red-flag list for Pix, a 24-hour block on notification, forfeiture of what is frozen, joint tax liability for banks that keep processing, and a safe harbour for those that report.

Premium volumes have dropped since August, HSBC and UBS both put the first 13 days flat year on year, and CLSA has cut 2027 by 4% with catalysts "not imminent". A week ago Citigroup called September up 12%.

From 14 September every gambling advertiser must show a clean compliance record, manager accounts with repeated revocations are barred, and free subdomains and unrelated domains are ineligible. Croatia is cut off entirely from 7 October.

Chairman Alejandro Tengco told the IAG Academy Summit the split of PAGCOR's regulator and Casino Filipino roles now waits on the Office of the President, and that a PAGCOR app to steer players to licensed sites lands in the fourth quarter.

The Interior Ministry says gendarmerie, MASAK and prosecutors traced bank movements worth about €316m through accounts used to run betting sites and launder their proceeds, the latest in a year of escalating operations.

AR150, prompted by the personalised Bryce Harper message sent to a customer who says he lost $1.5m, cleared the Assembly gaming committee unanimously along with a bill that makes self-excluded players watch counselling videos before they can return.

Two consecutive daily records, parlays over half of everything, a $56m Cowboys-Giants market and pricing that Citizens says beat FanDuel and DraftKings on straight bets. The volume figure counts both sides of every trade.

A $400m term loan and a $160m delayed draw fund pre-construction on the $4bn Ferry Point project and give the group liquidity, from the private credit firm that also refinanced The Star in June.

The CMF's draft rule would bar payment operators from serving any activity that is illegal in Chile, and its president says that covers online casinos and their payouts. Congress is still debating whether to license the sector at all.

Two days of presidential remarks, a reported provisional measure in the Civil House and a finance minister who says he wants regulation "like tobacco" rather than a ban. Brazil's operators are waiting to find out which voice wins.

Frankfurt prosecutors say five suspects ran unlicensed slots sites since 2021 and evaded €77.6m in tax in a single year. The regulated industry says a network this size makes the GGL's 23% black market estimate impossible.

The Dutch regulator says it would rather have waited for the appeal ruling, but the current licences expire on 31 December. If the monopoly falls, revocation will come no sooner than a year after the judgment.

Mr Justice Cawson found Entain could not say who drew the Coral and Ladbrokes logos, when, or how it came to own them, eleven months into the case. The trade mark claims over 18 marks go on to trial.

The "world's largest" online casino has shut its whole site to Irish users and says it will apply for a licence, while the regulator says two prediction markets and a major platform have geo-blocked and deposits are being refunded.

Kansspelautoriteit chairman Michel Groothuizen says it is "naïve" to think a national regulator can beat a cross-border black market that costs the state more than €500m a year in tax, and that parliament barely mentioned Europe.

The federal regulator moved for a preliminary injunction on 11 September, with Robinhood pressing to join the case and Crypto.com taking the Nevada question to the Supreme Court. Connecticut's responses are due on 2 October.

The Premier League club put a Curaçao-licensed operator on its sleeve two days after the government's consultation on banning exactly that shut, while a £9m UKRI research consortium says the ban should reach licensed bookmakers too.