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A promotional offer went twice to a VIP customer who had self-excluded. The cash penalty is trivial. The settlement also requires a 26-month lookback across every text the operator sent.
Three associations issued statements within hours of each other. All three make the same point: the regulator was missing too, and the figures presented to the president went untested.
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.
PL 5153/2026 would repeal the law that created Brazil's regulated market, extinguish every authorisation regardless of its stated term, and make operating fixed-odds betting a crime carrying two to five years. It reached the Mesa on Monday afternoon.
Tarcísio de Freitas told a healthcare debate that Brazil must choose between ending betting and being ended by it, framing the country's regulated market as a public-health emergency comparable to tobacco. He is seeking re-election, and he is not the only senior politician to have found the subject.
The European Lotteries' 19th annual sector report shows regulated lotteries across 37 countries contributed more than €29.4 billion to public budgets, sports, culture, and health in 2024, the highest figure ever recorded. Online GGR climbed 19% to €6.2 billion, underscoring a structural shift that the sector's traditional retail backbone has not yet reversed.
iGaming Real Talk has announced the sixth edition of Real Roadshow 2026, with 11 full-length podcasts and more than 35 short-form videos recorded on the iGB LIVE London expo floor.
The Netherlands Gaming Authority has renewed Holland Casino Online's licence for a further five years from October 2026, confirming the state-backed operator's continued place in the regulated Dutch market even as a 37.8% GGR tax rate squeezes its margins and the broader industry warns of channelisation risk.
Interior Minister Mustafa Çiftçi escalates crackdown on unlicensed gambling, blaming digital payments and organised crime for illegal betting's explosive growth. Turkey's annual black-market betting reaches $40 billion.
A Council of Europe-backed integrity body says it identified seven possible betting irregularities across the 2026 World Cup's 104 matches, days after FIFA's own task force reported finding none. The group cautions that its findings are not proof of match-fixing.
Ireland's new gambling regulator has begun issuing statutory licences, switching on the regime built under the Gambling Regulation Act 2024 and starting the long transition from a fragmented legacy system to a single supervised market.
The Gambling Commission has penalised the operator of betfred.com after social-responsibility gaps allowed a single customer to lose £17,900 in 24 hours, with the regulator branding the shortcomings "unacceptable".
A new analysis argues that crypto-based [prediction markets](/glossary) operating outside traditional banking oversight could make football's biggest tournament a channel for money laundering, illicit betting and match manipulation. With global World Cup wagering estimated to exceed $50 billion, the report frames the integrity risk as structural rather than incidental.
A Senate bill from Senator Pedro Tineo would turn the Dominican National Lottery into an autonomous regulator over casinos, betting and lotteries, ending split oversight just as a DOP 40-50 billion fiscal package eyes gambling for fresh tax revenue. Whether consolidation lands before the tax will decide if either works.
Veikkaus has tightened gambling loss checkpoints for under-25s but scrapped the annual limit for older players, days before Finland's monopoly opens to licensed competition. The carve-out for its highest-spending customers exposes the tension between safer gambling and defending market share ahead of 2027.
$60 billion in legal wagers, and potentially more flowing through the black market. Flutter International chief executive Dan Taylor has used the eve of the 2026 World Cup to deliver one of the industry's clearest warnings yet about the scale of the offshore threat.
Türkiye reported more than 84,000 illegal gambling sites for closure in 2025 and froze roughly 5.1 billion lira, approximately $131 million, in suspect funds, yet offshore hosting and resilient demand expose the limits of a prohibition-led strategy with no licensed alternative.
France's regulator has built a tool that lets operators measure whether their own player protection systems are actually working. The findings should worry the entire industry: excessive players may account for 60% of account-based gambling revenue.
Uganda is overhauling its gambling tax structure from July 2026, introducing some of the steepest rates on the African continent. Operators and players alike will feel the impact, and the black market risk is real.
With a full estate sale off the table and cost pressures mounting, Entain is cutting deep in Ireland. The retail betting shop is becoming an endangered species on both sides of the Irish Sea.