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434 results for “EGR”

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Prediction Markets

Genius Sports Launches Prediction.com, an Oddschecker for Event Contracts

The site compares equivalent contracts across Kalshi, Polymarket, Novig, Underdog, FanDuel Predicts, Fanatics and five others, with a cross-venue engine for multi-leg positions and Genius's live game data underneath. It runs on Legend, the media business whose $1.2bn purchase in February sank the shares. Mark Locke says most prediction-market demand "appears new".

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Sports Betting

Prime Video Puts FanDuel Bet Tracking Into Thursday Night Football From Tonight

Viewers who link a FanDuel account will see their live bets, win probabilities and settled legs on the broadcast; everyone else gets a rotating feed of lines, totals and parlays. No wagering on the platform. It is the NBA integration moved to the most-watched Thursday package in the NFL's history, and Flutter has already said what the basketball version did for its parlay mix.

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Corporate

Corona Phu Quoc's Owner Is VND6.19tn in the Red and Local Access Has Not Helped

Vietnam's first casino allowed to admit its own citizens narrowed its first-half loss to VND211bn, but accumulated losses stand at about $238m, liabilities have jumped to VND51.67tn and interest cover is 0.62. The government removed the end date on the locals pilot in November. The locals, the industry says, have not come.

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Regulatory

Philippine Central Bank Finds 8,000 Salons and Bakeries Were Casino Fronts

Thousands of PHP50 payments after midnight to businesses that on paper were beauty parlours and corner shops turned out to be bets. The BSP has shut the merchant accounts and drafted rules that put the burden on GCash, Maya and their aggregators to know who they are paying. PAGCOR's chairman: "Unfortunately, we don't have control over that."

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Prediction Markets

Ohio Is the Third Regulator to Quit the NCPG Over Kalshi as Massachusetts Wavers

The Ohio Casino Control Commission's June resignation letter surfaced at a Massachusetts Gaming Commission meeting last week, where commissioners decided to stay "for now". The national problem-gambling body says taking Kalshi's money is not an endorsement. Three state bodies have decided it is.

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Sports Betting

Senate Advances a College Sports Bill That Treats Event Contracts as Wagering

The Protect College Sports Act cleared cloture 74-24 the same afternoon the CLARITY Act died. Buried in the committee-reported text is a line that lets conferences bench a student athlete for "sports wagering activities or sports-related event contracts", the first federal bill we have seen headed for a floor vote that puts the two in the same sentence.

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Regulatory

Hun Manet Calls 100 Casinos Too Many and Orders a Licence Review to Cut Them

Cambodia's prime minister says some licensed casinos "operate from a single shophouse" and contribute little to the economy. The order lands as the regulator drafts renewal criteria and a month before the October deadline to close the online loopholes it found in 195 inspections, 72 of which ended in closure.

Fluminense and Criciúma players contest the ball at the Maracanã, with Superbet on the Fluminense shirt and a betting brand on the advertising boards behind
Regulatory

Neymar and Vinícius Júnior Given Ten Days to Justify Their Betting Contracts

A consumer-protection body in Espírito Santo has served nine celebrities with a 58-page recommendation to reassess their bookmaker deals, citing a R$38.8 billion social cost and a survey in which 57% said celebrities influenced them to bet. It declares nothing illegal, and says that is the point.

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Sports Betting

Five US Leagues Ask 35 States to Ban Bettors Who Threaten Athletes for Life

The NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL and MLS and their players' unions have sent a joint memo to state gaming regulators asking for mandatory lifetime exclusions, a shared list and a single reporting channel. Five states already do something like it. The memo does not reach the bettors on prediction markets.

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Prediction Markets

NFL Puts Its Prediction Market Ad Ban on the Record and Fences In Sportsbooks

For eight months the league's policy rested on one anonymously sourced report. Now its communications director has spelled it out: no prediction market advertising in games, stadiums, club deals or player endorsements, and sportsbook partners may only advertise an approved product, not the company.

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Regulatory

Yokohama's Anti-Casino Mayor Has Resigned, and Japan Wants More IR Bids

Takeharu Yamanaka won in 2021 on a platform of killing the city's integrated resort bid, and did. He has now stepped down over a workplace harassment finding, weeks before a special election, in a country whose prime minister supports a second round of casino licensing and whose tourism agency will take applications from May 2027.

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Regulatory

Two Black-Market Studies Land in a Day: €12bn in Europe, $50bn Worldwide

Euromat puts Europe's illegal online market at €12 billion and says it has tripled since 2019. The Betting and Gaming Council promotes a separate report putting the global figure at $50 billion. The two numbers cannot be compared, both were commissioned by interested parties, and both reach the same conclusion about what enforcement is doing wrong.

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Regulatory

Australia Bans Foreign-Matched Lotteries and Online Keno From January 2027

Four Northern Territory-licensed businesses sell Australians entries into US Powerball and EuroMillions draws. From 1 January 2027 they cannot, and online keno goes with them. The Lottery Corporation, which backs the change, has put the cost of losing its own online keno business at A$25 million of annual earnings.

Glass towers in Phnom Penh
Regulatory

Cambodia Orders Every Casino to Stop Running Online Betting From October

Prime Minister Hun Manet has ordered a nationwide suspension of live online betting operated from casino premises, with licence revocation for anyone who ignores it. Play resumes only once the government has built the legal and digital controls it says are missing, and the order arrives days after the regulator began drafting a suitability test for licence renewals.

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