iGaming News

Spain's consumer affairs ministry has switched on a regulator-run system that will add up each player's deposits across all licensed online operators and stop them at €700 a day, €1,750 a week and €3,300 over four weeks, plus a portal that shows players their whole market footprint. The limit binds from March 2027, and players can lift it themselves after three working days.

New Jersey has written into regulation the automated triggers, three-phase interventions and account closures its online operators have run under regulator guidance since 2023. The rule is now enforceable, but on marketing to at-risk players it is narrower than the version proposed a year ago.

Paddy Power's owner expects up to 1,400 redundancies from a restructure of its UK and Ireland business, eight days before a Budget that could raise machine duty. The tax set the size and the timing; the shape looks like the cost programme Flutter was already running.

SkyCity Entertainment Group will give interested parties due diligence information on the entire business, though its chair told shareholders that no new or improved proposal has arrived since the two it rejected. The same morning its chief executive said it bid for two online casino licences rather than three to stay within its return targets.

Utah's Attorney General has sued five Kalshi companies and two Susquehanna firms in Salt Lake County, alleging that the market makers taking the other side of retail trades are gamblers and bookmakers under Utah law. A gaming lawyer calls it the first state enforcement action aimed at a prediction market's liquidity providers.

The Senate president and the chair of the committee handling Chile's online betting bill have each filed a replacement text that would outlaw private platforms rather than license them. The government filed nothing by the 16 October deadline and now has until 26 October; nothing has been voted.

The Stockholm-listed affiliate will pay the sellers of a Japan-focused business it bought for €2.0 million in 2019 about 40% of what it still owed them, mostly with a Bank of Valletta loan. Before the news the market valued the whole company at about a quarter of the old bill; the deal still waits on the bank.

The Crown agency that runs Ontario's online market kept a prevalence study it had promised to publish confidential once the baseline came back worse than expected, according to records obtained by the Toronto Star. A privacy commissioner's order shows how hard even the redacted records were to prise out.

Two of the six prediction market operators Missouri ordered to stop offering sports event contracts went to federal court on Friday rather than comply. Both cases sit in the Eighth Circuit, which has yet to decide the question that has already split three other appeals courts.

The Curaçao Gaming Authority has set out its fullest account yet of the breach of its licensing portal, blaming a German researcher and weighing civil action. The same document dates the unlawful access from December 2025 to September 2026, and says nothing about what was taken or who has been told.

Australia's media regulator has published its first guidance on the ban on athletes, celebrities, influencers and prominent individuals in wagering advertising, and it draws the line wide: there is no follower count, no time limit on "former", and the legal risk sits entirely with the bookmaker. The rules start on 1 January 2027.

The Senate has passed a bill that would make it an offence for anyone under 25 to gamble "by any method, electronic or otherwise", in a country that is about to license online gambling for the first time. The House still has to agree the Senate's amendments, and no start date has been set.

Station Casinos and the North Fork Rancheria have set an opening date for their California casino while a motion to stop the gaming sits with a federal judge. The case turns on a governor's concurrence that California's courts say never had legal effect.

The UK group behind the Press Association will pay A$1.04 a share in cash for the ASX-listed racing data supplier and fold it into its Podium business. The PA's own release left the price out; RAS's filing shows the bid nearly doubles what the market thought the company was worth.

Police in South Chungcheong say they have dismantled the top of a pyramid that bought live casino feeds and game credits from overseas game companies, built sites in minutes and leased them to operators from offices in Vietnam and Cambodia. The companies, described as operating legally abroad, are not named.

Casino Guru has opened nominations for the fifth edition of its awards, adding a Player Protection Advocate of the Year category to the line-up. Nominations close on 15 February 2027, and the winners will be announced at a ceremony in Malta on 26 May 2027.

A New Taipei court order sought by the Criminal Investigation Bureau has taken both platforms' websites offline in Taiwan ahead of the 28 November local elections. Kalshi says it does not allow trading there, but its own market data shows open contracts on Taipei's, New Taipei's and Kaohsiung's mayoral races.

The Comoros government says the licences sold in Anjouan's name have no legal basis, that British citizens have been identified, and that it has asked the UK for help. The Guardian links the licensing service to a London company, which denies selling gaming licences.

Kambi has signed the UK and Irish bookmaker to its full outsourced sportsbook at a time when partner migrations are shrinking its European business. The value, the term and the launch date are not disclosed, and QuinnBet's last platform move ended in a Gambling Commission finding.

The regulator's quarterly breakdown by game shows that one product, the mass and premium-mass baccarat table, lost more revenue than Macau's casinos lost in total. VIP baccarat was flat and slots grew by almost a fifth, which is the only reason the quarter's fall stopped at 3.8%.

The league has used its commercial agreements, not a state rule, to strip out the bet types at the centre of the Jontay Porter and Terry Rozier cases before the 2026-27 season. Prediction markets, where it has no agreements, are untouched.

The Stockholm-listed affiliate blames generative search and falling rankings, and because more than 90% of its new customers come on cost-per-acquisition deals, the damage reached its accounts at once. Two months after finding no sign of impairment, it expects to write down €30 million to €35 million of intangible assets.

The Federal Register publishes the CFTC's two swap rules on Monday: the exclusion for licensed sportsbooks and casinos is in force that day, and the proposal to define event contracts as swaps opens for comment until 18 November. The rule text says the first changes no one's legal rights, and the second is not yet law.

Grand Korea Leisure's president put a number on the Osaka threat at the National Assembly this week, then corrected it: about a quarter of its Japanese revenue, or 5% to 10% of the total. An industry study presented the same day put the hit to Korea's foreigner-only casinos far higher.