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The CCJ passed the base text by symbolic vote on 2 September, with the 30% transfer of betting revenue to public security funds removed. Amendments were not reached, and are now expected only after the elections.

A government resolution published on 31 August instructs the justice minister to report by 30 September on whether the SZTFH can be wound up and its powers moved into government-run bodies. The regulator says it answers to Parliament, not to ministers.

FTSE Russell published the September review on 2 September and the indicative screen held. The Ladbrokes owner leaves the index it joined in June 2020, and tracker funds have a fixed date to sell.

Three associations issued statements within hours of each other. All three make the same point: the regulator was missing too, and the figures presented to the president went untested.

Five days after the Ninth Circuit split from the Third, New Jersey has filed for certiorari, one day before its deadline. The question is whether a federal commodities registration lets a company offer sports betting in every state while following the gambling law of none.

The provision that would have routed 30% of fixed-odds betting revenue to public security is out of the report filed in the Senate's justice committee. It has not been voted on yet, and the sports bodies that lobbied against it stand to keep about R$500 million a year.

A binding merger agreement signed in Rome and Barcelona creates the second-largest listed gaming and sports betting operator in the world, on about €2 billion of pro forma EBITDA. Cirsa is valued at roughly 6x.

The Ringer founder said on his own podcast that he gave his sportsbook login to his daughter's boyfriend. Massachusetts requires operators to log every IP address an account is accessed from, and it still took a podcast.

Las Vegas Sands bought 1,623,200 shares on Monday and tipped its Macau subsidiary past 75%. The consequence is not the stake, it is the listing rule Sands China had to switch to as a result.

The Brazilian president spent four hours hearing evidence against the industry his own government licensed two years ago. The Secretaria de Prêmios e Apostas, which regulates it, does not appear on the attendance list.

The penalty is modest by the standards of Brazilian enforcement. The reason it had to be served through the official gazette is not: the regulator went to the address Pixbet has on file and the company was not there.

The Gambling Commission has pulled the operating licences of two British bookmakers that share a director, weeks after their managing director resigned from both on the same day. Customers can still withdraw.

The City of Brussels gave its 15-year casino concession to Napoleon Games by 91.02 points to 87.74. The administrative court has now suspended that decision, and one of its grounds is a European filing the city never made.

Germany's Gauselmann group has agreed terms to take control of the Le Stelsia casino group and, with it, listed Société Française de Casinos. The price it has put on the listed shares says more about the deal than the headline value does.

European platform providers have spent a decade failing in francophone Africa. Christophe Casanova, the former derivatives trader who runs the French platform that did not, says they arrive with the wrong mental model, and concedes that the unlicensed operators his clients compete against hold advantages no product can answer.

A nine-point gap between one broker and the market is not a rounding difference. It is a disagreement about whether Macau's recovery is still running.

The settlement lands on 1 September and takes SkyCity a third of the way through a NZ$200m divestment programme designed to bring down debt after a bruising two years.

Bucharest handed licensing power to local councils, and they have used it. An entire county has voted to phase out gaming halls, Timisoara has banned them outright, and one operator has said publicly that nobody loses their job.

Nederlandse Loterij is not waiting for the regulator. It is suing an unlicensed operator directly, and the complaint singles out TikTok advertising aimed at Dutch players.

Spelinspektionen wants to replace guidance with binding duty-of-care requirements. BOS says the regulator has not asked what the cumulative friction does to the licensed market it is trying to protect.

The fight over whether prediction markets are finance or gambling has looked like a jurisdictional argument between regulators. CNN's analysis puts a number on what it decides in practice, and the number is a consumer protection question.

Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal report that Donald Trump Jr's 1789 Capital is leading a $1bn round valuing Polymarket at $21bn. It comes in the same week a federal appeals court and two Canadian regulators decided its core product is gambling, not finance.

Federal prosecutors allege a Curaçao shell company was used to make a Brazilian betting operation look offshore before regulation arrived, and that the structures behind it were adapted rather than abandoned once it did. NSX Brasil says it operates lawfully.

Estonia halved its online gambling tax to bring international operators to Tallinn. Nine months on, not one new online casino has arrived, receipts are down, and the prime minister has pulled the review forward by two years.