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A binding merger agreement signed in Rome and Barcelona creates the second-largest listed gaming and sports betting operator in the world, on about €2 billion of pro forma EBITDA. Cirsa is valued at roughly 6x.
Las Vegas Sands bought 1,623,200 shares on Monday and tipped its Macau subsidiary past 75%. The consequence is not the stake, it is the listing rule Sands China had to switch to as a result.
The penalty is modest by the standards of Brazilian enforcement. The reason it had to be served through the official gazette is not: the regulator went to the address Pixbet has on file and the company was not there.
Germany's Gauselmann group has agreed terms to take control of the Le Stelsia casino group and, with it, listed Société Française de Casinos. The price it has put on the listed shares says more about the deal than the headline value does.
European platform providers have spent a decade failing in francophone Africa. Christophe Casanova, the former derivatives trader who runs the French platform that did not, says they arrive with the wrong mental model, and concedes that the unlicensed operators his clients compete against hold advantages no product can answer.
Spelinspektionen wants to replace guidance with binding duty-of-care requirements. BOS says the regulator has not asked what the cumulative friction does to the licensed market it is trying to protect.
Federal prosecutors allege a Curaçao shell company was used to make a Brazilian betting operation look offshore before regulation arrived, and that the structures behind it were adapted rather than abandoned once it did. NSX Brasil says it operates lawfully.
Estonia halved its online gambling tax to bring international operators to Tallinn. Nine months on, not one new online casino has arrived, receipts are down, and the prime minister has pulled the review forward by two years.
The headline number improved and the underlying business stopped bleeding, but Star's auditors still cannot say it will be able to pay its bills, and a leaked recording of its chief executive has handed the New South Wales regulator a fresh governance problem in the same week.
Five block trades on Louisiana State University's season pay out exactly the coach's national championship bonus. This is the clearest evidence yet that sports event contracts hedge something real, and it did not come from a retail trader.
Judge Donald W. Molloy refused a preliminary injunction on irreparable harm, holding that repeatedly agreeing to stay the case fatally undermined the claim of urgency. Connecticut lost its emergency application the same week.
Two filings lodged with the CFTC on Tuesday turn individual NFL player availability into federally listed event contracts, trading from Thursday with no position limits. The legal argument for why they comply is sealed.
Two years after splitting itself in half to become a pure technology supplier, GiG is paying €16.4 million for a majority stake in an African operator, funded by an €8.5 million raise it launched the same morning it reported an operating loss of €6.9 million.
Polla Chilena has asked a Santiago court to investigate Betsson, Betano, 1xBet, Coolbet and seven others for unauthorised gambling, money laundering and criminal association. The state is collecting VAT from the same companies its own lottery is describing as an organisation.
A soldier is charged with turning $33,000 into more than $400,000 on contracts predicting the capture of Nicolas Maduro. Five days earlier, the CFTC chairman called the Venezuela example fake news.
Grainne Hurst wrote to warn that unlicensed bookmakers will take £800 million in Premier League bets this season, reaching £1 billion a year by 2027/28. The numbers are arguable. The government's own impact assessment conceding the mechanism is not.
Candle Lake offered SEK 695 a share for a stock trading at SEK 824.20, and told the market it is not trying to buy the company. The board agreed, and said so. Kenneth Dart keeps 30% either way.
Abu Dhabi, Bhutan and Malta's financial regulators are observing a post-quantum custody pilot using the NIST signature standard finalised two years ago. The reason to care is not the cryptography. It is which regulators turned up.
An attacker minted 329 trillion SAND on Base, roughly 110,000 times the token's entire legitimate supply, and walked away with about $675,000. The gap between those two numbers is the whole story, and it is not a reassuring one.
The two largest US prediction market venues moved on the same product on the same day, in opposite directions. Parlays are the sportsbook's highest-margin invention, and both of them reached the market by self-certification.