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The Ministry of Finance has listed kalshi.com as a site offering prohibited gambling, and internet providers must block it by 15 October. The order covers the website only, but it puts the largest US prediction market on the same footing in Czechia as an unlicensed online casino.
Lotte Tour Development drew a record 66,393 casino visitors to Jeju Dream Tower in September and kept the smallest share of their table play in almost three years. Its two listed rivals grew in the same month, and the company is calling it a run of bad luck that October will correct.
Cambodia's anti-scam commission says inspectors confirmed that 24 casinos in three provinces ended livestreamed gaming, football betting and online lotteries by the 30 September deadline and moved the equipment out. It has not said how many casinos were running online operations in the first place.
The Department of Internal Affairs opened bidding on 29 September for the right to apply for one of up to 15 online casino licences, with a reserve price it will never disclose and no idea, it says, of what the auction will raise. Alongside it, a draft testing regime spells out what the winners will have to prove about their games and platforms.
The regulator has confirmed time and loss limits, an on-screen net position and a ban on turbo and slam-stop features for new Category B machines, after more than 1,000 consultation responses. It dropped the plan to retrofit machines already on the floor, which industry estimated would have put about 7,770 of them at risk.
The justice and finance ministries say they have asked for 5,209 betting domains to be blocked since the ban and reached channels on Telegram with more than a million members. The licensed industry says illegal sites are multiplying, but its own monitors disagree by a factor of ten on how fast, and one says almost none are new.
The Supreme Court has confirmed that the casino regulator was entitled to classify an operator's "skill" machines as games of chance and to discount a laboratory report the operator said proved otherwise. It is one case from the island of Chiloé, but it backs the procedure Chile uses against thousands of machines operating outside its casinos.
A week after reports that a smart-table mandate would not come before the second half of 2027, PAGCOR's chairman has named a start date and the four Entertainment City resorts it covers. The requirement is to begin converting, not to finish, and no circular, cost estimate or technical standard has been published.
A freedom-of-information reply described by BNLData says the ministry held no assessment of what banning betting would do, though the memorandum its minister signed the same day priced the tax loss. The R$38.8 billion social-cost figure the government cited was built from English estimates, and its authors say it shows association, not causation.
Century Mile and Century Downs go to Highfield Investment Group, a Calgary developer with a thoroughbred racing business, at 6.1 times last year's EBITDA. The rent Century stops paying is worth nearly half the price every year, which is why the deal matters more to its balance sheet than its proceeds suggest.
The government wants operating a betting site to carry four to six years in prison and has asked Congress to treat the bill as urgent. At the same time, operators' associations have asked the Supreme Federal Tribunal to suspend the ban, arguing that it fails the Constitution's own test for a provisional measure.
SJM Holdings' 2026 interim report shows what Macau's end of satellite casinos did to Macau's longest-established operator: less revenue and a smaller share of the market, but a better margin and more gaming revenue in the casinos it now runs itself. The loss still widened, debt rose to HK$30.2 billion, and management says the job now is productivity.
A unanimous panel has held that Kalshi's sports contracts are not swaps, and that federal commodities law would not shield them from state gambling law even if they were. It is the second federal appeals court in a month to side with the states, leaving Kalshi with one win in three circuits as the Supreme Court weighs whether to take the question.
Attorney General James Uthmeier has told five of the largest advertising platforms that promoting sweepstakes casinos to Floridians is a crime, and wants written proof they have stopped. After the operators and their payment processors, Florida has reached the marketing layer.
The Betting and Gaming Council has launched a campaign built on shop workers' stories and a poll of Andy Burnham's Makerfield seat, a month before a Budget that may double Machine Games Duty. Its job figures are its own; the think tank behind the proposal says the rise would raise up to £458 million.
Germany's largest sports betting operator has published measurable targets for player protection, staff and climate to 2030. The player-protection goal is a ceiling Tipico already clears, and the company says so itself.
The Malta Gaming Authority has suspended a casino and betting licence on four grounds, including a clause that covers unmet financial commitments. The notice says players must still be able to see their accounts, but it says nothing about withdrawals.
Provisional Measure 1.394 ends Brazil's licensed betting market less than two years after it opened, extinguishes every licence within 30 days and rules out refunding the R$30 million each operator paid for one. It took effect on Friday, nine days before the first round of the presidential election.
A flat 5% tax and a device levy give way to rates by game type, but only on play by people in Malta. The bigger change for the island's exporters is VAT: most remote gaming loses its exemption, which lets operators recover input tax.
Procon-RJ is sanctioning operators under consumer law, not gambling law, with fines of up to R$14 million each. Its message, as Brasília prepares to restrict the market, is that a federal licence does not exempt a bet from the Consumer Defence Code.