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The 9% revenue line is not the story. An affiliate that barely made money in its most important growth market a year ago now runs a 26% margin there, and it has named prediction markets as one of the three things that got it there.

Attorney General James Uthmeier has gone after the operators and the payment rails in the same action, naming Worldpay, Trustly, Praxis and Breeze Labs alongside Stake and VGW. Suing the processors is the part the rest of the industry should be reading.

The headline total barely moved on June. Underneath it, Kalshi added roughly a fifth to its volume while Polymarket's international book fell 26%, and the World Cup that drove the quarter ended on 19 July. August is the first clean read.

The Gambling Commission found a player who placed 4,800 bets in a day and 7,000 the next without triggering a warning, and another who staked more than £215,000 in a single session and was flagged the following morning. The controls existed. They were manual, and they were too slow.

Forensic work on more than 400 seized devices has turned an illegal online gambling investigation into an organised crime case spanning continents. Court documents allege contact with senior politicians, police and immigration officials. Nobody in those categories has been named or charged.

The Danish Gambling Authority took a telecoms company to court to get the blocking order, and Polymarket was on the list. The tax minister's objection was not to sports contracts but to markets on the deaths of public figures.

Betfred is closing 132 shops and blaming the Budget. Greg Knight, who runs Britain's largest independent bookmaker and sits on the Betting and Gaming Council's board, says the industry is chasing the wrong villain: a live-racing bill that has reached £70,000 a shop, and a sport that is quietly cannibalising its own funding.

Every one of the country's 195 licensed casinos has been investigated, and roughly a quarter of them have now lost or had their licence suspended. The government is presenting the campaign as progress. Tourist arrivals have fallen 47.8%.

Researchers at the University of Amsterdam have built a machine-learning model that reads betting behaviour rather than what players say about themselves, and released it free. The Kansspelautoriteit funded it and is careful to call it an instrument rather than a substitute for duty of care.

The vote was close to unanimous on the shares, and the scheme now needs only the Gibraltar court. It puts William Hill, 888 and Mr Green into the same group as Bally's Intralot's lottery and gaming technology business, with completion expected late this year or early next.

Vidler leaves after almost three years, having taken The National Lottery through its Fourth Licence transition. Her interim replacement comes from the commercial betting sector rather than the lottery world, which is a choice worth noticing.

A Schedule 13G filed on 7 August puts the billionaire behind 28,581,386 DraftKings shares. He already controls more than a quarter of Flutter, and his vehicle Candle Lake has an unsolicited bid on the table for Evolution. One investor now sits across both halves of the US duopoly.

Finanstilsynet has ordered the Copenhagen payments firm to stop taking on new online gaming business customers until it can document that serious money-laundering control failures have ceased. Inpay says its board had already paused that onboarding three weeks before the ruling landed.

The Esports Foundation has pushed its inaugural national-teams tournament back a full year, citing the wider regional situation. Riyadh keeps the event and the development money keeps flowing, but the esports betting calendar has just lost its biggest new fixture of 2026.

The chief executives of Kalshi and Polymarket are expected at the White House complex on Wednesday alongside the chairs of the CFTC and the SEC, a day before a federal advisory committee sits down to discuss who actually gets to regulate event contracts. For the sportsbooks losing volume to those venues, that second meeting is the one that matters.

Tarcísio de Freitas told a healthcare debate that Brazil must choose between ending betting and being ended by it, framing the country's regulated market as a public-health emergency comparable to tobacco. He is seeking re-election, and he is not the only senior politician to have found the subject.

Maputo has created a dedicated concession framework for online games of chance, splitting them off from the land-based casino regime just as casino tax receipts fall to little more than half of what the treasury budgeted. What it has not created, yet, is any published route to a licence.

The European Lotteries' 19th annual sector report shows regulated lotteries across 37 countries contributed more than €29.4 billion to public budgets, sports, culture, and health in 2024, the highest figure ever recorded. Online GGR climbed 19% to €6.2 billion, underscoring a structural shift that the sector's traditional retail backbone has not yet reversed.

France's state-controlled horseracing monopoly PMU has signed a technology agreement with BetMakers to extend its pool and fixed-odds betting services internationally, a deal that arrives as BetMakers completes its AU$267m acquisition by Tabcorp and builds out a growing roster of global operator partnerships.

Twenty-eight Chicago alderpersons have formally demanded that Mayor Brandon Johnson order Bally's to resume full construction at its River West casino site, warning of potential legal action after the operator cited VGT legalisation as grounds to slow work on the hotel, event centre and restaurants. At least one council member suspects the real issue is cash flow.

A report commissioned by the Campaign for Fairer Gambling estimates that unlicensed online gambling operators generated $97.4 billion in US revenue in 2025, growing at nearly twice the pace of the regulated sector and raising pointed questions about whether legalisation is containing or expanding overall market harm.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is running at least 20 insider-trading investigations drawn solely from referrals by Kalshi, yet has brought civil charges against just three prediction market traders so far, according to a New York Times investigation. The gap between referrals and enforcement is widening just as sports event contracts drive trading volumes to record highs.

An unsolicited cash offer pitched at a 5.7% discount to Evolution's most recent close has put one of iGaming's largest B2B suppliers in play, raising immediate questions about deal rationale, regulatory approvals across multiple jurisdictions, and the future of Evolution's product roadmap.

Twelve of Missouri's 13 licensed casinos posted year-over-year gains in July, with slots and table games both growing, though the state has no online casino channel to amplify the trend the way neighbouring markets have.