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Interior Minister Rosa Icela Rodríguez told the president's morning conference that a reform of the Federal Gaming and Raffles Law, unchanged in substance for nearly eight decades, has cleared internal review and goes next to the security cabinet. Its purpose is money laundering and tax fraud in casinos and betting shops, about 20 of which are under investigation.

The Massachusetts Gaming Commission will use its existing exclusion powers to bar bettors found to have harassed or threatened athletes from every licensed sportsbook and casino in the state. Leagues, players' unions, colleges, venues and athletes themselves can report incidents to a new portal, and the commission's enforcement bureau can subpoena operators to identify anonymous accounts.

HB 5811 would strike the exchange wager tax Illinois enacted in its budget less than three months ago, along with the definition that brought prediction markets inside the Sports Wagering Act. The tax is already being challenged in court by Kalshi and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the bill would not end that fight.

More than 1.2 million people, 3% of every active bettor registered with the regulator, have barred themselves from Brazil's licensed betting sites since the central platform opened in December. The figure arrived in a week when the Supreme Court received rival petitions on the betting law and the central bank told banks to stop advertising bets inside their apps.

The American Gaming Association expects Americans to bet $29.5 billion legally on the 2026 NFL season, up barely at all on last year's $29.4 billion. Its chief executive says the reason is "backdoor sports betting" on prediction markets, and the numbers it cites for Novig, Rothera and Underdog explain why.

Fanatics Sports & Casino merges three products into a single account and one FanCash balance. The prediction markets side reaches states where the sportsbook cannot go.

The government's submission to Congress projects R$41.9 billion from the new Selective Tax. Divide the betting share by the estimated base and you get about 15%, though the Finance Ministry has set no rate and the honest range is wider.

PowNed sent someone registered on Cruks into gaming venues using another person's identification, and got in. One of the three venues under scrutiny is a state-owned Holland Casino site in Eindhoven.

Housekeepers, slot attendants, waitstaff and drivers left at 7am after their contract with Wynn Resorts expired. The unions say the company wants health care costs taken out of the wage increase.

Bill 2.470/2026 would ban direct and indirect betting advertising and outlaw bonuses and cashback. The provision the industry should read twice is the one creating a federal risk assessment that could block roulette, slots and crash games outright.

The Nordic Network group chief executive has just bought a Counter-Strike team. He is also the person willing to say that operators splashing cash on jerseys removed any incentive for esports organisations to run sustainable businesses, and that it is about to stop.

FINTRAC penalised New Brunswick and Nova Scotia's state-owned gaming bodies for failing to file suspicious transaction reports. The red flags it lists are a working checklist for anyone running a player account system.

A childhood and youth court in Campina Grande has told the Finance Ministry and the telecoms regulator to remove Pixbet's sites and apps, fined it R$4.7 million and appointed an expert to test whether its age checks work at all.

Mira Mircheva resigned for personal reasons after about eighteen months. George Papanier takes the role on an interim basis for the second time. Bally's meets the Chicago City Council on 9 September to discuss its finances.

Casino revenue fell 11.3% year on year. The drop, which is what customers actually handed over, rose 7.2%. The whole decline is hold, not demand.

A promotional offer went twice to a VIP customer who had self-excluded. The cash penalty is trivial. The settlement also requires a 26-month lookback across every text the operator sent.

A four-page letter from the Kentucky Derby's owner asks the Federal Trade Commission to review HISA's governance, transparency and technology controls. It was copied to all nine HISA directors and to five members of Congress.

NICC chief commissioner Philip Crawford told a parliamentary committee he is satisfied with the Bally's-era management and wants the licence reinstated, conditionally, before he retires in November.

Three Democrats have come back at the operator with eight more questions and a 17 September deadline, saying it "appears to be promoting addiction". The first round produced a $158 million responsible-gaming figure and, they say, no answer on the thing they actually asked about.

BLIK now checks every transaction against the Finance Ministry's register of illegal gambling domains and declines the matches. Brazil is doing the same job by loading obligations onto banks and fintechs instead. Both are admissions that domain blocking stopped working.

A dark web service was selling 153 million driver's licence scans. The suspected source, IDScan.net, runs identity checks at more than 20,000 locations, and Caesars Entertainment is on its customer list.

CBRE puts the industry-wide reinvestment rate at a new high. Part of it is low VIP hold flattering the ratio, but the competition for premium players underneath it is real.

Flutter has put a number on the retail review it declined to quantify in August. Up to 100 of 506 shops go before the end of the year, with about 400 jobs at risk, and the company names the Budget.

The temporary order we reported in July carried $120,000 a day. The preliminary injunction that replaced it on 1 September carries more than four times that, and tells Kalshi which geolocation vendor category it must use.