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A Finance Ministry report on the first quarter of 2026, never released by the government and obtained by BNLData through a records request, shows what the licensed market Brazil has just closed was paying out and who it could see. Its own figures carry inconsistencies the ministry says it is still checking.

France's gambling regulator and its advertising self-regulator have renewed the 2023 agreement under which the ARPP vets operators' ads before release and consults the ANJ when in doubt. The new version adds Web3 games, influencer certification and a review of the 2022 ad charters, but its text has not been published.

IZI Finance, the Maltese group that runs the island's National Lottery and the Dragonara Casino, took more than €1 billion in stakes in a year for the first time and doubled its pre-tax profit to €14.4 million. Its lottery concession has under six years left to run, and the bond it sold in March to fund growth abroad runs almost four years beyond it.

The first episode of iGaming SkyTalk, recorded on a parasail over Golden Bay, puts Omnitronix architect Tobias Liauw in the air to talk about prediction markets and AI. He doesn’t expect event contracts to displace the industry’s core verticals. He expects them to be built into them.

A Racing Post count of every British race title shows bookmakers sponsoring 17% fewer races this year, with the cuts deepening after Remote Gaming Duty went to 40% in April. It lands three weeks before a Budget that may raise machine games duty, which would hit racing harder.

Kangwon Land has no limit on how often a casino member's points card can be replaced, and says it cannot check replacement records against its misuse records, according to data released by a lawmaker during the National Assembly's audit season. The worry is "comp-kkang", the resale of casino points for cash that goes back into gambling.

The Iris Capital vehicle that took 85.77% of the owner of Cairns' Reef Hotel Casino at A$3.87 a unit is now offering the holdouts A$4.67 and saying it will delist the trust if it can. On the bidder's own share count, one investor with 9.84% decides whether it can force the rest out.

Every one of the nine gaming suppliers in the Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers' index pulled it down in September, led by Aristocrat and Light & Wonder. The index is now 5.9% lower than a year ago while the S&P 500 is up 14.4%.

Nevada's gaming regulator has gathered a decade of scattered technical rules for casino systems into ten draft standards, and the target date has moved from this month to 1 October 2027. Little of the text is new; what changes is that the controls must now be built into the systems suppliers get approved.

The Curaçao Gaming Authority will not bring back the portal a hacker used for nine months, and is ending the service arrangements behind it. The seal that lets anyone check a Curaçao-licensed domain is affected too, and its replacement has not yet been published.

The Dutch regulator says licensed operators must match a player's full first names and surname against the name on the bank account, after an investigation found minors depositing from their own accounts and from youth accounts. Players verified the old way must be checked again.

Nevada's Gaming Control Board has backed Christopher Ruffin at Circus Circus and Sean Lanni at Aria and Park MGM, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. One is licensing work he already does; the other, by his own account, wants the licence mainly for estate planning.

Ohio has led 38 other states and the District of Columbia in urging the Supreme Court to take New Jersey's case against Kalshi, joined by the tribe behind the landmark 1987 tribal gaming ruling, the National Football League and three nonprofits that want the Court to revisit Murphy. Every brief on the docket backs New Jersey; Kalshi's response is due on 9 November.

An open letter urges the Northern Territory Government to back an independent's bill that would ban inducements, cap young adults' deposits and lift fines to A$10 million. Because most of Australia's large online bookmakers are licensed in Darwin, the rules would reach punters in every state.

The finance chief who took The Lottery Corporation through its demerger from Tabcorp and raised the debt for its A$1.145 billion Victorian licence extension will leave on 1 July 2027. His successor inherits a job that, since this year's restructure, also covers legal, risk, cyber and technology.

Sportradar is selling the team-facing half of a business it bought for €192.2 million in 2021 and keeping the cameras and graphics it says underpin its core products. It says the price beats the multiple its own shares trade on, which says as much about the shares as the deal.

Communities Minister Gordon Lyons told the Assembly that a review of the 2022 update to Northern Ireland's 1985 gambling law is expected next year, and that the Bill to regulate online gambling will be for a future Minister. Four years after Royal Assent, the 2022 Act's levy power has still not been brought into operation.

Less than three weeks after the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe went first, four more tribal nations have launched Kalshi-backed prediction apps, CNN reports, one of them in northern California, inside the circuit that has just called Kalshi's sports contracts Class III gaming on tribal land. Only two of the four have been named, and the commercial terms have not been disclosed.

Connecticut's consumer protection chief says three of the nine prediction markets it ordered to stop sports contracts last month are leaving the state. None of the three has confirmed it publicly, and one industry analyst says ProphetX has not gone at all.

Coinbase will stop offering sports event contracts in Michigan, Kalshi's included, and close its customers' open positions at the same deadline, under an order a federal judge signed on 23 September. Michigan has promised not to prosecute while the appeals run; nobody has conceded the law.

Three Democrats want copies of every personalised athlete and entertainer video FanDuel has sent to VIP customers, and for each one, how much the recipient had lost and why the host chose them. FanDuel told them in September that it has no plans to suspend or end its VIP programme.

Families and Friends of Gamblers, a Boston nonprofit built by the tobacco litigator Richard Daynard's institute, has named a 10-member board it says has no connection to gambling interests and is recruiting from the problem gambling councils around the National Council on Problem Gambling. It is a rival pitch rather than a split inside the council, timed for a moment when the NCPG has no permanent leader in sight.

Task forces of regulators, police, immigration and labour officials and prosecutors will start inspecting licensed casinos this month, Cambodia's state news agency reports. The government now calls unlicensed online gambling a form of scam, and says it will prosecute it as one.

Licensed operators must give their banks a per-player list of the R$1.325 billion still owed by Wednesday, and the government's own bulletin shows 86.2 million accounts holding less than R$1 each. Congress has pushed its amendment deadline past the election to 13 October, and Justice Luiz Fux has still not ruled.