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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.
Rush Street Interactive grew third-quarter revenue 39%, but North American revenue rose only 14% and October trends point to the low end of its guidance. Management is pinning its hopes on new online casino states.
Kalshi has almost doubled its valuation in under six months with a $1 billion Series G co-led by Wellington and Sequoia. The round was announced a day after Utah filed felony charges against the exchange and both co-founders, and the company's pitch to investors leans on its business beyond sport.
Flutter Entertainment is taking Betfair's exchange, sportsbook and casino out of Italy and blames regulatory changes it has not named. Customers have no closing date yet, and the decision lands just over two weeks before Italy's deadline for exchange operators to certify their systems under new technical rules.
Boyd Gaming's group earnings barely moved in the third quarter, but its two Las Vegas segments lost $8 million of EBITDAR between them while its locals and regional casinos grew. Management says August was the weakest month.
Ireland's gambling regulator has now published 235 notices of intent to apply for a licence, and most of the recent ones come from racecourse and high-street bookmakers whose Revenue licences expire on 30 November. Its own register shows how far it still has to go: one in-person betting licence issued so far.
The Dutch regulator worked out a fine of €292.6 million from search data, then had to cut it to €37.25 million because the law caps penalties at 10% of worldwide turnover. The operator ignored a penalty order, left €840,000 in penalty payments unpaid and never answered the regulator.
Australia's media regulator has formally warned two former Brisbane Lions players for promoting Vegastars, an offshore casino it had already ordered blocked. It is the second time this year ACMA has chosen a warning over a civil penalty for an athlete-influencer, and the promotions ran after the block was in place.
The operator of allbritishcasino.com and six other British-facing sites let customers request only one withdrawal at a time and held back every fifth or tenth withdrawal for some customers for manual review, the regulator found. The Commission is presenting the case as a warning that fairness breaches will be enforced as firmly as money laundering and harm failures.
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.
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 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.
The public spending watchdog will test whether the licence Allwyn won was designed, awarded and overseen to maximise returns to good causes, and report in spring 2027. The latest quarter's payments to good causes were 22.2% below a year earlier.
The Philippine operator behind BingoPlus and ArenaPlus says it dropped out of the last rounds of New Zealand's auction for the right to apply for an online casino licence, citing "market values". It is the second overseas plan to stall in a month, after Brazil's ban.
The Stockholm-listed slots supplier says the Malta Gaming Authority has extended its licence to peer-to-peer games, the class that covers poker and betting exchanges, so it can supply prediction markets to operators. A European gambling regulator is licensing as gaming a product that Washington proposed six days ago to define as a swap.
The league's official wagering partner has deleted AI-generated clips of Lachie Neale and Will Ashcroft after the players' union complained and Guardian Australia asked about them. From 1 January, Australian law will stop licensed bookmakers featuring athletes in wagering advertising whether the athletes consent or not.
A royal decree amending Spain's anti-money laundering regulation now requires licensed online operators to check that whoever holds the payment method used to deposit and withdraw is the person who holds the gambling account. Existing players get six months to comply and, on the decree's wording, cannot withdraw winnings in the meantime.
The Department of Internal Affairs has named the 11 entities that won New Zealand's 15 rights to apply for an online casino licence, at a single price of NZ$15 million each. SkyCity, Stake, TAB New Zealand and companies linked to Super Group and Entain are on the list, but none of them holds a licence yet.
DraftKings and FanDuel gave $3.5 million each in the latest reporting period, taking Tax Relief Nebraska's fundraising to $14.65 million for two online sports betting measures on the 3 November ballot. The committee registered to oppose them had reported nothing raised or spent by the same date, on Ballotpedia's count.