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Attorney General Letitia James says the "free" sweeps coins were sold at about a dollar apiece from 2012 onwards. The settlement carries no admission of liability and lands as Florida pursues the same company in court.

The EU securities regulator's risk report finds the biggest platforms hold no EU authorisation, that binary-option rules bar retail sale where contracts are derivatives, and that platform surveillance arrives only after the profits are banked.

Polymarket, Coinbase, Robinhood and six others have been told to cease and let residents withdraw their money, while PayPal, Sportradar, Genius Sports, ESPN, Apple and Google have been subpoenaed for what they know.

Federal prosecutors are said to be preparing a case alleging that an accountant used confidential audit data to win 41 of 42 earnings bets on Polymarket. It would be the first insider trading case built on a prediction market.

The Statistics and Census Service's annual survey shows receipts up 8.8% and gross surplus up 9.3%, but the spend on player rebates and commissions rose 11.6%, the second year running it has outpaced the top line.

The Supreme Court's 120-day stay runs out on 13 October, no legislative fix has arrived, and the State Police have told an estimated 70,000 machines' hosts that unplugging them is not enough.

The Department of Internal Affairs says three-quarters of the country's 32 pokie trusts were non-compliant, a third engaged in deliberate "creative accounting", and NZ$11.5m has so far been committed back to communities. One trust lost its licence for six days.

Group gaming revenue up 5.8% to €352.5 million, adjusted EBITDA up 14.1%, and the online arm's best quarter yet on World Cup stakes 180% above 2022. What the market wants is not the numbers but the answer to a strategic review that has been running since the first quarter, with Jefferies and Macquarie engaged.

Takeharu Yamanaka won in 2021 on a platform of killing the city's integrated resort bid, and did. He has now stepped down over a workplace harassment finding, weeks before a special election, in a country whose prime minister supports a second round of casino licensing and whose tourism agency will take applications from May 2027.

Senator Cynthia Lummis narrowed the bill's decentralised finance provisions specifically to answer tribal worries about prediction markets. The Indian Gaming Association says that misses the point: what it wants is text saying federal commodities law does not preempt tribal gaming law, and that exchanges cannot list contracts on sports or casino games.

Anthony Lee, the Conservative Party's director of campaigning at the time, admitted two offences under section 42 of the Gambling Act over a bet on the 2024 general election date. His wife Laura Lee admitted one. Sentencing is on 23 October, and the maximum is two years.

The International Alliance Combating Telecom and Cyber Fraud was formally launched on 10 September, with the United Nations and Interpol represented as observers. Its initiating countries include Cambodia, whose regulator has spent the past year revoking casino licences over links to exactly the scam operations the alliance exists to disrupt.

Adjusted EBITDA of €162.5 million, a third guidance upgrade this year, and North American revenue up 161%. The driver is a motor-racing and slot hybrid running with Hard Rock Bet in Florida that settles on historical race results rather than a random number generator, and Playtech is telling investors not to annualise it.

Sources close to Lula say a provisional measure restricting the regulated betting market could reach the National Congress this week, with an online casino ban among the options. The regulator wants the effort aimed at clandestine platforms instead, and a separate bill would cap a bettor at R$100 a day across every licensed site.

The Financial Action Task Force has spent a year on gambling, with input from more than 80 jurisdictions, and its report reads as a supervisory checklist rather than a warning. The finding operators will least enjoy is that online platforms show more documented terrorist-financing misuse than the land-based sector.

The company has gone to federal court in Ohio, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Mexico and Washington, asking each to rule that state gambling law cannot reach a CFTC-regulated contract. It is the first prediction-market operator to sue pre-emptively across a whole group of states rather than wait to be sued.

Every full and part-time employee gets $1,000 of Red Rock Resorts stock for each year of service, announced without warning at a party most of them thought was just a party. It also arrives five days after the Supreme Court declined to spare the company an order to bargain with the Culinary Union, and it was announced at the property that order concerns.

The First Hall of the Civil Court granted Spribe an ex parte provisional injunction on 1 September covering two EU trademarks. The evidence the court cited is the kind operators can check for themselves: the two games appearing side by side in a search on Betsson, and a listing that credited Spribe's game to the wrong studio.

Around 300 of the roles are in Stoke-on-Trent, where bet365 is the biggest private employer, and 40 across Gibraltar and Malta. Voluntary redundancies come first. Every one of the five largest British gambling firms has now cut staff since remote gaming duty rose 19 points.

Evolution commissioned it in 2022 to answer Black Cube, has called it exonerating, and spent months resisting its disclosure. Now that it is out, it clears Evolution of illegal practice and of operating in sanctioned countries, and separately finds significant compliance failings and games reachable from four prohibited markets. Playtech has moved first on the reading.

Downing Street says adult gaming centres are spreading across the high street and wants councils able to refuse them. The trade body's reply is that Gambling Commission data shows 1,610 AGCs in 2015 and 1,415 in 2025. Its own member survey, taken before the change of prime minister, found 100% believe Westminster does not understand the sector.

PowNed's new PowCrime platform showed people registered on the national self-exclusion register getting into gaming halls on somebody else's identity document. The regulator calls it a serious signal and is acting against the venues named, and it has conceded the point that matters: land-based access control is a manual process.

The company says it does not believe the contracts break state law, and it has stopped offering them in Michigan anyway. In exchange the state has agreed not to enforce its sports betting laws against Robinhood while the appeals run. Its broader prediction markets hub stays open.

The bank can see what its own customers pay into betting apps and what comes back out, and across seven months the ratio never reached break-even. The number that should worry the industry more is the one about balances: households that bet online hold 59% of the deposit balance of households that do not.