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The definitive proxy filed on Wednesday sets a 22 September vote on a sale to the Fertitta group at a price the buyer cut by a dollar in April. It also records that Carl Icahn's group offered $34.00 a share during the go-shop and was not declared a superior bidder.

Two filings lodged with the CFTC on Tuesday turn individual NFL player availability into federally listed event contracts, trading from Thursday with no position limits. The legal argument for why they comply is sealed.

Two years after splitting itself in half to become a pure technology supplier, GiG is paying €16.4 million for a majority stake in an African operator, funded by an €8.5 million raise it launched the same morning it reported an operating loss of €6.9 million.

Dawn Butler and Iain Duncan Smith have written to the Gambling Commission about the National Lottery's incoming interim chief executive, citing the personal sanction he received in 2024 and a board seat at Britain's third-largest slot arcade chain.

The Dodgers, Red Sox, Braves, Padres and Giants are Kalshi partners, and had been for weeks before anyone said so. Three of the five are in California, where no state lawsuit has been filed and the lobbying has already started.

The American Gaming Association's strategic adviser told CNBC that Michael Selig misled the President about how the state cases are going, and that prediction market chiefs were uninvited from last week's White House event. The second claim is the one worth checking.

Polla Chilena has asked a Santiago court to investigate Betsson, Betano, 1xBet, Coolbet and seven others for unauthorised gambling, money laundering and criminal association. The state is collecting VAT from the same companies its own lottery is describing as an organisation.

UOKiK is examining seven bookmakers for interface design that manipulates behaviour, with a tool built specifically to spot it. Five of them face separate proceedings where the exposure is 10% of annual turnover.

A soldier is charged with turning $33,000 into more than $400,000 on contracts predicting the capture of Nicolas Maduro. Five days earlier, the CFTC chairman called the Venezuela example fake news.

Grainne Hurst wrote to warn that unlicensed bookmakers will take £800 million in Premier League bets this season, reaching £1 billion a year by 2027/28. The numbers are arguable. The government's own impact assessment conceding the mechanism is not.

Vlad-Cristian Soare was dismissed on Friday and Valentin-Ioan Tomescu appointed in his place, both in the same Official Gazette. Soare had been in post fifteen months, and arrived because his predecessor left over audit failures.

Candle Lake offered SEK 695 a share for a stock trading at SEK 824.20, and told the market it is not trying to buy the company. The board agreed, and said so. Kenneth Dart keeps 30% either way.

A two-page letter to the Ninth Circuit argues that a company claiming federal law bars state regulation cannot then accept a state tax on the same contracts. The panel has been sitting on this case since April.

Abu Dhabi, Bhutan and Malta's financial regulators are observing a post-quantum custody pilot using the NIST signature standard finalised two years ago. The reason to care is not the cryptography. It is which regulators turned up.

The White House has set a hard deadline, Trump has called the bill very powerful, and prediction markets have cut its odds from 82% to about 25%. Republicans hold 53 seats and cloture needs 60.

An attacker minted 329 trillion SAND on Base, roughly 110,000 times the token's entire legitimate supply, and walked away with about $675,000. The gap between those two numbers is the whole story, and it is not a reassuring one.

The Bank of Russia has widened who counts as a qualified investor days before the regulated market opens, adding a route through domestic exam certificates. Everyone else gets Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether and a ceiling of about $3,800 a year.

A King County judge has ordered sports, elections, politics, entertainment and "mentions" markets out of the state, and left commodities, climate, economics and finance in place. The line the court drew is by subject, not by structure, and that is the part with consequences beyond Washington.

The two largest US prediction market venues moved on the same product on the same day, in opposite directions. Parlays are the sportsbook's highest-margin invention, and both of them reached the market by self-certification.

The CFTC convened its Innovation Advisory Committee for the first time and the prediction markets session turned into an argument between the chairman of the largest US derivatives exchange and the regulator. The number Terry Duffy brought was 2,500, and nobody disputed it.

The Gaming Commission voted 3-0 and one commissioner said the people he wanted in front of him were not there. Of the $3.6 million Mathew Bowyer lost at the property, $88,000 came on the current owner's watch. It is paying for all of it.

The communications minister said there should be an annual award for the platform that commits the most sins against Malaysians, and named Facebook. The number that matters is not 78. It is 30, the minutes his regulator spends on each of 470,593 takedown requests.

FanDuel, DraftKings and Caesars all walked away from the category this year and it sat vacant through the summer. Fanatics has taken it on a non-exclusive deal, and the reason the others left has not gone anywhere.

Parliament cleared the package on 19 August. Wagering ads disappear from live sport, from stadiums and from players' shirts, athletes and influencers can no longer promote betting, and a single national register will let Australians switch the advertising off everywhere at once. It commences on 1 January 2027.