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The Philippine regulator's chairman says its own casino chain is "bleeding like mad" and will lose at least PHP7 billion this year, and he now values the 35 casinos he wants to sell at less than half of earlier estimates. The decision to sell still rests with the President.
The leagues' new campaign with the National Council on Problem Gambling tells fans that trading on a prediction market puts their money at risk just as a sports bet does, weeks after the NBA was reported to be close to its first prediction-market deals. The release names no budget, no creative and no start date.
A Justice Ministry ordinance published on Tuesday writes a Division for the Repression of Illegal Betting and Sports Manipulation into the Federal Police's structure, inside a new money-laundering coordination. It names two posts and no headcount, and the prison terms the government wants are still a bill in Congress.
Kalshi is reviewing three small trades that backed Katie Zacharia at 1 and 2 cents before Donald Trump named her White House press secretary. The exchange's own trade record shows the fills, and shows the price climbing to 45 cents before the time outlets give for the first reports.
The former Secretary General of the European Gaming and Betting Association is the first Director General of the World Gaming and Betting Alliance, a Swiss association whose listed members are bet365, Entain, FDJ United, Flutter and EGBA itself. The Geneva commercial register shows it was founded on 9 July and already had Haijer as a signatory before EGBA announced he was leaving.
Japan's tourism ministry says the Osaka integrated resort still meets the required standards, but for a third year it finds the demand forecasts have only been checked, not reworked. Those forecasts still promise 20 million visitors a year, while the planned initial investment has risen by 40% since the plan was first filed.
The Irish Presidency's revised negotiating box for the EU's 2028 to 2034 budget lists five new revenue sources, and a levy on online gambling is not among them. Europe's racing bodies, who had asked Dublin days earlier to keep horserace betting out of any such levy, welcomed the omission but warn the idea still has strong support in the European Parliament.
Budget 2027 left Ireland's 2% tax on stakes untouched and gave racing €2.9 million more, on condition of welfare and integrity reform. The one new betting measure is a 25% charge on pool betting commissions, written for a market the new regulator is about to open up.
Police recorded 1,951 gaming-related crimes in Macau between January and September, while casino operators filed 2,968 suspicious transaction reports, both up on a year earlier even as overall crime fell and gaming revenue weakened through the third quarter. Fraud and illegal money exchange drove the rise; the loan-sharking and detention cases of the junket era kept falling.
An independent Regulatory Commission heard the young striker's case that he placed none of the bets himself, and fined him anyway because he opened and funded the six accounts that others used. The written reasons put the total stake at under £2,000 and redact who placed the bets.
The first episode of iGaming SkyTalk, recorded on a parasail over Golden Bay, puts Omnitronix architect Tobias Liauw in the air to talk about prediction markets and AI. He doesn’t expect event contracts to displace the industry’s core verticals. He expects them to be built into them.
An open letter urges the Northern Territory Government to back an independent's bill that would ban inducements, cap young adults' deposits and lift fines to A$10 million. Because most of Australia's large online bookmakers are licensed in Darwin, the rules would reach punters in every state.
Sportradar is selling the team-facing half of a business it bought for €192.2 million in 2021 and keeping the cameras and graphics it says underpin its core products. It says the price beats the multiple its own shares trade on, which says as much about the shares as the deal.
Families and Friends of Gamblers, a Boston nonprofit built by the tobacco litigator Richard Daynard's institute, has named a 10-member board it says has no connection to gambling interests and is recruiting from the problem gambling councils around the National Council on Problem Gambling. It is a rival pitch rather than a split inside the council, timed for a moment when the NCPG has no permanent leader in sight.
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.
The Kahnawà:ke Gaming Commission has suspended the operator authorisation of Polar Ventures SDRL after a show cause process, and announced it a week later. The notice names no website, gives no reason and sets no end date.
A former coal-mining town in Fukuoka says it will hand the prefecture an integrated resort proposal this month and wants the prefectural assembly to take it up in December. Under Japan's IR law the town cannot apply itself, and the prefecture has not said it will.
The question is whether Betano, KTO, GaleraBet and Blaze ever asked for the forward to be prosecuted for defrauding them, and whether they did so in time. The separate charge of fraud in a sporting competition, over a yellow card in November 2023, is unaffected.
Seven candidates filed on Sunday for the 18 October election to replace Takeharu Yamanaka, and Yamanaka is one of them. The frontrunner, backed by four ruling and opposition parties, has ruled out an integrated resort, and the others oppose one, seven months before Japan opens applications for its two remaining licences.
A month after taking office, Kangwon Land's first permanent chief executive since 2023 has set up a committee to diagnose the company and test the feasibility of its flagship resort plan. The review lands while the only casino open to Koreans is waiting on Seoul for the exemptions the plan depends on.