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The professional bettor prosecutors place at the centre of the college and Chinese basketball fixing scheme has admitted seven counts in Philadelphia, including two transferred from the Brooklyn case against Terry Rozier. He will be sentenced in February, weeks after Rozier's trial is due to open.
A proposal filed in Peru's Chamber of Deputies would multiply the consumption tax charged on every online stake by five, on top of the 12% tax on operators' net revenue. Operators say it could absorb more than half their gross gaming revenue; the bill's own revenue table says it is not a forecast.
The Esports Integrity Commission has turned five provisional suspensions into bans of three years to life after a wager that, it says, called the margin of four straight defeats. Most of the betting charges were never contested at a hearing, and the decision names no bookmaker.
A week after scrapping the licensing portal at the centre of the Casino Secrets leak, the Curaçao Gaming Authority is still adding licences to its register and has moved its forms to its main website. It has not published how applicants and licensees should file anything while the portal is gone.
The Economy Ministry has told MPs that raising the levy on AWP slot machines from 24% to 26% risks shrinking play enough to lose money, killing an opposition plan to fund carers from it. The same ministry is reported to be looking for up to €1 billion from gambling in the 2027 Budget.
The Philippine operator behind BingoPlus and ArenaPlus says it dropped out of the last rounds of New Zealand's auction for the right to apply for an online casino licence, citing "market values". It is the second overseas plan to stall in a month, after Brazil's ban.
The Stockholm-listed slots supplier says the Malta Gaming Authority has extended its licence to peer-to-peer games, the class that covers poker and betting exchanges, so it can supply prediction markets to operators. A European gambling regulator is licensing as gaming a product that Washington proposed six days ago to define as a swap.
Entain's British online business grew 14% under the new 40% gaming duty, while customer-friendly football results and a Brazilian unit that shrank by more than a third before the ban held the group to 2%. Guidance survives with profit pinned to the bottom of the range, and the chief executive used the update to lobby the government before the Budget.
A royal decree amending Spain's anti-money laundering regulation now requires licensed online operators to check that whoever holds the payment method used to deposit and withdraw is the person who holds the gambling account. Existing players get six months to comply and, on the decree's wording, cannot withdraw winnings in the meantime.
Matchbook says it has completed the acquisition of Betdaq and is selling the deal as a deeper pool of liquidity, tied to the rise of prediction markets. Betdaq's own closure notice shows what was actually bought: the brand and the domains, with no customer accounts and no order book. The price was not disclosed.
Finland's gambling supervisor has ordered six conditional fines paid this year for illegal gambling marketing, every one of them against a person rather than a company, while threatened fines for companies run to €1.2 million. It is the board's last full year in charge, and under the new Gambling Act a prohibition issued now can disqualify a licence applicant in 2027.
PointsBet Holdings says tighter compliance cost it turnover from its highest-value Australian customers, and AFL results went against it as it chased mass-market sports bettors. The six-month loss it now expects is many times the one it reported for the nine months before, and Alberta, the growth market it is counting on, is still not live.
A federal judge in Philadelphia gave the scheme's most prolific recruiter 72 months, two months above the bottom of his guideline range, and let him stay free until 1 December. The sentence sets the marker for the players and fixers still to come before the same court.
The Hellenic Gaming Commission wants one identity check for every online player in Greece and a clear view of how operators treat their biggest customers. A bank-run version of the check was halted because no law provides for it, and nothing has yet been formally decided.
Wyoming's Select Committee on Gaming has voted to back a draft bill that would make running an online sweepstakes casino, or knowingly supplying one with payments, geolocation or game content, a felony. Its definition of sweepstakes currency is wider than California's, but the bill still needs a sponsor the committee may not be able to supply itself.
Spain's gambling regulator has put its common risk-detection model back out for comment until 22 October after a data protection review. Once in force, one model trained on clinically diagnosed players would decide who every licensed operator treats as at risk, in place of in-house systems that flag from 0% to 13.6% of accounts.
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.
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.
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.
The president of the Federal Regional Court of the 3rd Region has switched off the only court order that let a licensed operator trade through Brazil's betting ban, on the ground that one exception undermines a rule meant for everyone. Stake says its site and app have been down again since 10 October.