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The Liège group has bought 100% of the company behind Carousel.be, its partner since 2012, taking over a B+ online licence and the gaming hall in Harelbeke that Belgian law requires behind it. The price is undisclosed, and the sellers are keeping the 711 brand that grew out of Carousel.
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.
The 90-day suspension imposed in December 2022 was due to take effect on 30 September. Queensland has pushed it back a sixth time, citing "significant progress" but unfinished remediation, and kept the special manager in place until the end of March.
Korean casino operators can now borrow from the state tourism fund to build or expand, not just to cover running costs. The loans arrive as the government moves to raise the casino levy ceiling by half and make licences renewable every five years, and the industry is asking whether the carrot comes before the stick.
The Philippine regulator wants live visibility of bets across the gaming floor, according to Inside Asian Gaming, which reports that a mandate originally planned for this year has slipped and would start with the integrated resorts. PAGCOR has not announced the policy.
The Queensland Government says the functions of the Queensland Racing Integrity Commission and Racing Queensland will be brought together under one entity, with a new Chief Integrity Officer keeping integrity and animal welfare oversight independent. The 2016 law that created the commission was designed to separate welfare from commerce.
Follow the Money's first reporting from the Curaçao Gaming Authority leak says the regulator's own assessors doubted the declared ownership of the Curaçao companies behind Stake and 1xBet and granted licences anyway. The regulator's answer, that it did not reject applicants mid-transition, goes to the heart of the island's licensing reform.
The title sponsor of Super League, the Challenge Cup and England Rugby League will walk away at the end of the 2026 season. Fred Done ties the decision to last year's budget and the 132 shop closures that followed, and says the five Classics could go the same way if machine gaming duty rises in October.
Knight takes the role on 1 January, inheriting a studio organisation of more than 1,200 people that Venneman rebuilt from the ground up after returning to the company in 2024. The brief, as the company frames it, is game design, content and the mathematics underneath both.
The supplier has picked an insider of eight years to run a business it bought back from Endeavour last year. Konstakis takes over at the end of December, a week after the OmniLogic acquisition and a summer in which OpenBet processed more than 175 million World Cup bets.
The portal confirmed to Bloomberg that the hub carrying Polymarket probabilities alongside its news was taken down in the spring, while the exchange remains an advertiser. It surfaces in the same weekend as the Journal's account of Polymarket's US compliance failures, and as the company courts financial media to make event contracts look like markets.
A joint statement from the country's bookmaking and gaming associations says the tax floated for the EU's 2028 to 2034 budget would push players to unlicensed sites and cut, not raise, state revenue, and asks instead for uniform EU rules against illegal operators. Malta and EGBA have already objected; the levy would need every member state's consent.
The Betfred founder has put numbers on the Treasury's option: 45% of his estate, 2,475 jobs, £66.8m of tax and £15.8m of racing funding, in a Sunday Times op-ed and a Financial Times interview in which he says machines are half of shop profit. Betfred has already ended its Super League sponsorship, citing last year's Budget.
A processor was rejecting more than 80% of Polymarket's US deposits as fraudulent in February, the compliance chief resigned after writing it up, and the chief executive told staff to keep growing and pay any fine later, the Journal reports. The CFTC is investigating, and the company is raising $1 billion.
A Pennsylvania county wants prediction-market trading written into the oath its election workers swear, and Maryland's chief administrator plans to ask for the same statewide, the Associated Press reports. With the courts unlikely to rule before November, the workers are the one thing the states can still regulate.
A working document submitted to the national regulator and the Gambling Policy Council on 7 September says Madrid's attempt to "coordinate" the protection of vulnerable players in land-based gambling is an attempt to direct powers the constitution gave the regions. Madrid's Ramón Cubián: "The autonomous communities are the authorities dealing with these matters every day."
The state court that granted Spribe an injunction against NSX in April, then revoked it in July when a federal court suspended the developer's trademark, has now ruled on the merits: no trademark infringement, no copyright infringement, no unfair competition. It is the third Brazilian decision in a row to go against the Estonian studio, three days after a Brasília judge ordered it to police its own distribution.
Every analyst note leads with Brazil, Africa or the next US state. WiseGaming's commercial director says market access without a stack that can localise in weeks is "a money pit", that Curaçao's LOK reform is a filter he welcomes, that the agent model is converting rather than dying, and that his platform charges on net profit after bonuses, PSP and content costs rather than on GGR. He also says where the whole industry, his company included, is still behind on AI.