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Communities Minister Gordon Lyons told the Assembly that a review of the 2022 update to Northern Ireland's 1985 gambling law is expected next year, and that the Bill to regulate online gambling will be for a future Minister. Four years after Royal Assent, the 2022 Act's levy power has still not been brought into operation.
Connecticut's consumer protection chief says three of the nine prediction markets it ordered to stop sports contracts last month are leaving the state. None of the three has confirmed it publicly, and one industry analyst says ProphetX has not gone at all.
The Council of State has upheld the €100 weekly cash cap at Italy's top-up shops and struck down a ban on internet-connected devices there, while the decree meant to reorganise betting shops, gaming halls and machines lapsed in August. Rulings, not legislation, are now setting the rules for retail.
A Dutch affiliate quality mark put nine questions to ten AI assistants and reports that every one named an online casino without a Dutch licence at least once. The sharper finding is that three put unlicensed brands on lists they described as legal or licensed by the Dutch regulator.
Three months after Greece rewrote its gambling law, the Hellenic Gaming Commission has shown the finance minister an AI tool built to find and document illegal gambling websites. The minister brought news of criminal complaints against 18 influencers, and a set of figures that shows how large the job is.
Ontario's regulator has given theScore Bet the largest penalty it can impose for a single breach of its igaming standards, after a player accepted two cash-out offers on a CA$1,000 parlay and received neither. The ruling turns a cash-out figure on screen into something an operator must be able to pay.
Alex Frost, who led the racehorse owners' purchase of the Tote from Betfred in 2019, will hand over to former GiG and DraftKings executive James Coxon at the end of 2026. In the same announcement the Tote is closing its online gaming and cutting back a consumer digital business that its latest accounts show made an EBITDA loss of £11.9 million.
Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, who praised a Liberal plan to license every online gambling site in Quebec, will lead the province with 59 of 127 seats. His party's budget plan books CA$300 million a year from sports betting sites, but a campaign endorsement is not a bill.
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.
Stake Canada Ltd. is now on the regulator's register and says it expects to be fully operational on 12 October, provided it signs an operating agreement with the Alberta iGaming Corporation. The date sits one day inside the 13 October limit for operators moving out of Alberta's grey market.
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.
Finland's highest administrative court has ruled that betting run as a systematic, expert, income-earning activity is taxed on its net result, not bet by bet. It overturns the Tax Administration's long-held line nine months before the licensed market opens and the tax treatment of unlicensed play gets harsher.
Bulgaria notified the European Commission of its draft Gambling Act amendments on 2 October, closing the procedural gap that left Lithuania's promotion ban unenforceable. The text, still out to consultation and not yet before parliament, would end affiliate licences in January and charge online operators at least €100,000 a month.
The Åland operator behind mycasino.ch will give Meta licence documents and website addresses so Facebook and Instagram can tell Swiss licensees from offshore operators and their affiliates. Meta has said nothing publicly, and the pilot comes a week after Dutch operators took the platform to court.
Two associations of gaming regulators have told the Supreme Court that the same Kalshi contract is shielded from state law in New Jersey and subject to it in Ohio, and that only the Court can end that. They follow a group of state lawmakers in backing New Jersey's petition; nobody has yet filed for Kalshi.
Spelinspektionen has revoked the restaurant casino operator's licences with immediate effect, pending a final decision, because the people behind it face charges over a predecessor company that ran almost the same business. The regulator is treating tax and bookkeeping failures as a fitness question, not a side issue.
The federation has extended its betting purge from referees and players to the boardroom, provisionally suspending 448 current and former officials of top-two-division clubs on 30 September. The officials now face bans of three months to a year, and two of the best known say they bet through legal accounts.
A cheater reached high-stakes online poker players through the table-management tools on their own computers, not through the poker rooms. The rooms hold the hand histories and the money, and they are now deciding what to refund and how to stop it happening again.
The Upper Tribunal has ruled that free spins won on a free promotional game fall outside Remote Gaming Duty, reversing the First-tier Tribunal and wiping out the assessment against the Super Group subsidiary. With the duty now at 40%, the ruling reaches well beyond one operator, unless HMRC appeals or Parliament changes the law.
On the opening main stage at G2E, the chief executives of MGM Resorts and Caesars called prediction markets illegal, "obscene" and a risk to the whole industry. Wynn Resorts' Craig Billings said his company had no "skin in the game", and recalled what the Strip lost by fighting California's tribes.