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The NCAA will report people who abuse college athletes online to a shared programme that sportsbooks and prediction exchanges can use to close their accounts. It is the first sport governing body to say so publicly, and it moves the fight over bettor harassment from campaigns to account enforcement.
Australia's financial regulator has told platforms that a retail prediction market is unlikely to pass its public interest test for a market licence. Offshore users and the licensees who route them there have been put on notice.
Nevis has opened a dedicated licence for prediction market operators and suppliers, priced below its own gaming licence. Whether licensees may serve the United States depends on a restricted list the new documents leave blank.
Two senators, one from each party, have asked the two largest US prediction markets to show how they keep insiders and manipulators out of election contracts, with answers due on the day of the midterms. The letter argues that catching a handful of candidates is not proof the markets are protected.
Coinbase has told investors that prediction markets are one of the fastest growing products in its history, with annualised revenue above $200 million in the third quarter. It says it is building its own clearing for the product, and its results say nothing about the states pressing it over sports contracts.
Spain's gambling regulator used a cryptocurrency conference to restate that a prediction market offering gambling needs a Spanish licence. It gave no update on the case opened against Polymarket and Kalshi in May, which the ministry expected to take three to four months.
New Hampshire's Supreme Court has affirmed the revocation of the Concord Casino's charitable gaming licences and the refusal to license the buyer former state senator Andy Sanborn had found. The ruling confirms a regulator may count a disqualified seller's continuing ties against the buyer.
Ontario and its lottery corporation have opened the Niagara casino market to as many as three new operators, each required to invest at least CA$1.5 billion and pay a CA$100 million entrance fee. The province calls it Ontario's first competitive land-based gaming market.
Utah's attorney general has charged Kalshi and co-founders Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara with felony gambling offences built on 12 sports wagers placed by an undercover agent. The criminal case arrives two days after the CFTC sued Utah to stop its civil action against the exchange.
The Netherlands Gambling Authority will take applications in January for the only licence to run pool betting on horse racing from July 2027. The winner gets a land-based monopoly and hands 10% of its gross gaming revenue on Dutch races to the sport.
Days after tightening its sportsbook menu, the NBA has signed up Kalshi and Polymarket as preferred exchanges and DraftKings as an authorised operator. The memorandum it signed with the federal regulator alongside them is a statement of intent, and says so.
The Australian Capital Territory wants no poker machine played without a verified player card, no card without a loss limit and no ATM in any venue with pokies. The bill also writes a cut to 1,000 authorisations by 2045 into statute, but it has been introduced, not passed.
The Illinois Gaming Board has approved proposed rules that would put an identity check in front of every video gaming terminal in the state and open the way to cashless player accounts. A comment period, legislative review and a central system still being built stand between the vote and the venues.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won Sunday's run-off on the day Brazil's federal betting licences expired, ending the industry's hope that a new government would withdraw the ban. What happens next rests with a Congress that has still not installed the committee due to report on the measure by 23 November, and with a Supreme Court justice who held his ruling until the vote was over.
Prosecutors at the Corte dei conti allege that five former staff of the scratchcard concessionaire used their system access to find four winning tickets worth €24 million and had relatives and friends buy them. The claim is the State's, not the company's: prizes that chance might have left unclaimed would have stayed with the Treasury.
The Chickasaw Nation's commercial arm now owns 13 Horse Palace sites, live racing at Sweetwater Downs, and the operator behind about 35% of Wyoming's $2.49 billion historical horse racing handle. No price was disclosed, and the deal lands months after a bill to cap the machines died.
All six of Macau's casino operators signed up on Friday as passive investors in a MOP20 billion government guidance fund, with every pataca credited against the non-gaming spending they promised for their 2023 concessions. Sands China says its share replaces projects it had planned to build.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has opened a false-certification proceeding against two ProphetX contracts on whether an NFL game produces a never-before-seen final score, and stayed them before they traded. It is the first stay of a sports event contract on the CFTC's 2026 filings record, and it turns on the same "economic consequence" test the agency says sports contracts pass.
The FTSE 100 trading group says financial prediction markets will launch in the fourth quarter for professional clients only, as the Financial Conduct Authority still treats them as banned retail binary options. Sports and politics wait on a Gambling Commission licence it has applied for.
The group's chief transformation officer will succeed Erwin van Lambaart and run Austria's gambling incumbent through the end of its online monopoly and the reaward of its licences. The shareholders have chosen an insider with a record of steering former monopolies into competition.