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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.
A senior coroner has told the Gambling Commission that people who self-exclude through GamStop can still play National Lottery draws online. The Commission says it needs up to 12 months of discovery before deciding what, if anything, to change.
France's gambling regulator has broken its 2025 online sports betting figures down by sport and found growth built on more matches, a 24-hour live offer and operators steering payouts to the 85% cap. The sharper finding is who bets on the obscure end of the menu: mostly players its own algorithm flags as excessive.
New York's Gaming Commission has proposed barring every gambling licensee in the state, not only sportsbooks, from using AI to tailor offers or suggest bets, and presuming any personalised offer unlawful. A second rule would make mobile sportsbooks flag, contact and if necessary close the accounts of at-risk bettors.
The Attorney General's Office says it will go to court to force eight former licensees to give their banks the per-player lists the ban requires. The same release cuts the money still owed to bettors from about R$1.2 billion to R$159 million, and does not say how.
Voters in Allen, DeKalb and Steuben counties decide on 3 November whether northeast Indiana can bid for the state's 14th casino, and the congressman who represents all three wants them to say no. The law gives a "no" more weight than a "yes": a county that rejects it cannot ask again.
Ten days after closure notices gave the Maverick Casino Hotel and the Gold Country Inn until 30 November, Maverick's co-founder says he is buying both back and will rehire every worker. No price, buyer entity or court filing for the deal has been made public, and Nevada's regulator says only that it is "very involved".
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.
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.
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.
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.
Aichi says it received participation statements for its airport island integrated resort by the 30 September deadline and wants full proposals by 23 March 2027. It will not say who applied or how many, so Japan's most advanced second-round bid may have a contest or a single suitor.
A week after the same notices went out in Washington, Maverick's Nevada arm has told the state it will permanently close the Maverick Casino Hotel and the Gold Country Inn in Elko unless a new operator takes them over. Court filings show both sit in the sale-leaseback portfolio that drew no bids in the company's bankruptcy.
The Gambling Commission found that staff at Rank's Grosvenor casinos treated customers' wealth or winning streaks as a reason for light-touch safer gambling checks, and that its anti-money laundering rules had not caught up with changes made in 2020. The regulator says risks more often associated with online gambling are equally alive on the casino floor.
Spelinspektionen has revoked the restaurant casino operator's licences with immediate effect, pending a final decision, because the people behind it face charges over a predecessor company that ran almost the same business. The regulator is treating tax and bookkeeping failures as a fitness question, not a side issue.
The federation has extended its betting purge from referees and players to the boardroom, provisionally suspending 448 current and former officials of top-two-division clubs on 30 September. The officials now face bans of three months to a year, and two of the best known say they bet through legal accounts.
A Chicago judge has found that Kalshi's championship contracts are likely swaps and that Illinois likely cannot make the exchange take out a sports wagering licence. She has not yet ruled on the state's new 1.75% to 3.5% prediction-market fee, and her reasoning puts her at odds with a Wisconsin judge in the same circuit and with two federal appeals courts.
The Ohio Casino Control Commission has told Polymarket, Robinhood, Coinbase and seven other platforms to stop offering sports event contracts to Ohioans and confirm it in writing within 14 days. Kalshi, the company that lost in the Sixth Circuit, did not get a letter: its $5 million penalty case is already under way.
The team behind iGaming SkyTalk, the new interview series recorded on a parasail 200 metres above Golden Bay, explains why the industry needs another show, why it opened with an architect rather than a chief executive, and why the format is only half the pitch. "The setting gets your attention. The conversation has to earn the rest of it."
Police say a money trail from a boxing betting network worth more than 1 billion baht leads to Atchariya Ruangrattanapong, a campaigner who has spent years accusing officers of taking money from gambling. He denies all four charges and says the case is fabricated.