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Congress's record shows 99 amendments to Provisional Measure 1.394 when filing closed on 13 October, 94 of them still live. The most ambitious would not soften the ban but replace it, reviving the extinguished licences under a stricter rulebook, and the committee that must weigh them has no chair or rapporteur nine days before the licences lapse.

A casino applicant that studied the 10-hectare integrated resort plot at Colombo Port City has walked away during due diligence, officials told Sri Lanka's Parliament. Nobody has yet shown who stood behind it, and the casino rules any successor would need are still not in place.

Macau's Prosecutor General says the offence created in 2024 to drive money changers from the casinos is hard to prove, because police often catch a suspect on what can be shown only as a first exchange. He wants objective criteria or a legal presumption, a fix that would make convictions easier and the defence harder.

A Camp Hill skill game vendor, whose subsidiary shares its name with a party to the case the Supreme Court decided in June, is cutting 81 jobs now that the machines are illegal. Its chief operating officer blames lawmakers, and Governor Josh Shapiro's push for "tax parity" with casinos.

The International Tennis Integrity Agency has suspended Stefan Milićević until 2050 for fixing matches and recruiting other players into a corrupt network. No hearing was held: the player did not respond to the charges, so the sanction the agency proposed took effect by default.

Oklahoma's ban on dual-currency sweepstakes casinos takes effect in a fortnight, after lawmakers overrode Governor Kevin Stitt's veto with no votes to spare in the House. The fine is small; the felony reaches suppliers and media affiliates as well as operators, and tribal gaming is carved out.

The former FanDuel shareholders suing KKR, Shamrock and FanDuel's old board over the 2018 Paddy Power Betfair merger have won a route into legal advice the defendants withheld as privileged. The order decides nothing about the merits, but it reaches the documents most likely to show how a $465.5 million valuation was set.

Twelve days before the Budget, Halesowen MP Alex Ballinger and 89 Labour colleagues have asked the Chancellor for a new, higher duty rate on the Category B machines in adult gaming centres, betting shops and casinos. The letter cites a 40% rate without asking for one, and the industry says any rise would close venues and "kill the British seaside".

France's regulated gambling market barely grew in the first half, and only because online sports betting had a World Cup June. The regulator now says the full-year figure depends on whether a record 5.85 million active online accounts keep playing after the tournament, and on a lottery operator whose French revenue is shrinking.

Tax officers have recalculated three of the largest GST demands in Indian gaming on the deposit-based method the Supreme Court set out in May, cutting the principal sought by about three-quarters. What remains falls on companies that no longer run the games that generated it.

MGM Resorts says the city of Springfield owes it about $500 million for sitting on the sale of MGM Springfield for two years. The city wants a judge, not an arbitrator, to decide whether it can keep saying no.

Louisiana's gaming regulator has pushed DraftKings' permit renewal to February while state police finish checking shareholders who hold 5% or more and the board examines reports about how the operator uses artificial intelligence. The chairman said the decision is not a finding of wrongdoing, but it is the first licensing decision in iGaming Times' coverage to turn on the AI reports.

States that legalised online sports betting saw more depression and anxiety prescriptions and outpatient diagnoses among the employer-insured, a JAMA Psychiatry paper finds. It is a population-level association, not proof of harm to bettors, and it adds a clinical strand to evidence that has so far been mostly financial.

SkyCity Entertainment Group has signed a binding agreement to sell The Grand Hotel in Auckland for NZ$221 million, about $124 million, to two companies from a privately owned property group. With the office sale already settled, it says it has now raised more from asset sales than it promised shareholders, but the deal still needs Overseas Investment Office consent.

Alberta's window for grey-market operators to move into the regulated market closed on 13 October, and published counts of who made it range from 29 to 51. The regulator registers companies, the Crown corporation approves sites, and the two official lists do not match.

The high-stakes professional alleges GGPoker's chief executive promised him a 5% stake and commissions in 2018, then cut his pay and blamed him for cheating on the site. The claims are untested, the CEO has moved to dismiss, and Kenney amended his complaint on the day his reply was due.

The professional bettor prosecutors place at the centre of the college and Chinese basketball fixing scheme has admitted seven counts in Philadelphia, including two transferred from the Brooklyn case against Terry Rozier. He will be sentenced in February, weeks after Rozier's trial is due to open.

Malta-based Wildz Group says Finland's National Police Board has granted it a five-year gambling licence starting on 1 July 2027, the first award any operator has announced under the new regime. The board has not confirmed it, and a year ago it was weighing a marketing prohibition against the same group that would have ruled it out.

A proposal filed in Peru's Chamber of Deputies would multiply the consumption tax charged on every online stake by five, on top of the 12% tax on operators' net revenue. Operators say it could absorb more than half their gross gaming revenue; the bill's own revenue table says it is not a forecast.

A magistrate judge has recommended that Kentucky's gambling suit against Polymarket go back to the state court where it was filed, leaning on the Sixth Circuit's September ruling against Kalshi, and the same is reported in the Kalshi case. If the district judges agree, a Kentucky judge will hear the state's claims for injunctions, penalties and treble damages.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has cleared Cboe to list yes-or-no options that pay $1 on whether a company's reported figure, such as iPhone sales, clears a set level. They will trade as securities, not CFTC event contracts, with Robinhood lined up as the first broker, but there is no launch date until Cboe's clearing house is approved.

The Esports Integrity Commission has turned five provisional suspensions into bans of three years to life after a wager that, it says, called the margin of four straight defeats. Most of the betting charges were never contested at a hearing, and the decision names no bookmaker.

A week after scrapping the licensing portal at the centre of the Casino Secrets leak, the Curaçao Gaming Authority is still adding licences to its register and has moved its forms to its main website. It has not published how applicants and licensees should file anything while the portal is gone.

The Economy Ministry has told MPs that raising the levy on AWP slot machines from 24% to 26% risks shrinking play enough to lose money, killing an opposition plan to fund carers from it. The same ministry is reported to be looking for up to €1 billion from gambling in the 2027 Budget.