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The headline total barely moved on June. Underneath it, Kalshi added roughly a fifth to its volume while Polymarket's international book fell 26%, and the World Cup that drove the quarter ended on 19 July. August is the first clean read.
The vote was close to unanimous on the shares, and the scheme now needs only the Gibraltar court. It puts William Hill, 888 and Mr Green into the same group as Bally's Intralot's lottery and gaming technology business, with completion expected late this year or early next.
A Schedule 13G filed on 7 August puts the billionaire behind 28,581,386 DraftKings shares. He already controls more than a quarter of Flutter, and his vehicle Candle Lake has an unsolicited bid on the table for Evolution. One investor now sits across both halves of the US duopoly.
The chief executives of Kalshi and Polymarket are expected at the White House complex on Wednesday alongside the chairs of the CFTC and the SEC, a day before a federal advisory committee sits down to discuss who actually gets to regulate event contracts. For the sportsbooks losing volume to those venues, that second meeting is the one that matters.
Tabcorp has signed a binding scheme of arrangement for the wagering technology group it walked away from in February, and it is paying a 41% premium to get it. The price of the delay is written into the terms.
A federal judge in Utah has ruled against Kalshi's latest attempt to prevent a state from enforcing its gambling laws against the prediction-market operator, extending a string of legal setbacks that have repeatedly undermined the company's federal-preemption strategy at the state level.
Three live bills in the 119th Congress are pulling federal policy on prediction markets in opposite directions: one would create a dedicated regulatory framework, while two others would reclassify event contracts as gambling outright. The outcome will determine whether platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket operate as financial exchanges or face state-level enforcement.
Governor Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James have filed suit against Kalshi, alleging the prediction market platform has operated an unlicensed gambling business in New York since at least 2025, exposing users as young as 18 to betting products that state law reserves for those aged 21 and over. The action demands forfeiture of all illegal gains, consumer restitution, and fines triple the company's unlawful profits.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has proposed the first codified framework for vertically integrated market structures in US derivatives markets, targeting the conflicts of interest that arise when an exchange and its market maker share the same ownership. The proposal stops short of an outright ban, but draws a hard line between legitimate liquidity provision and directional proprietary trading.
A House Agriculture subcommittee has put customer protection and market integrity in sports-event prediction markets on the congressional record for the first time, arriving just as Kalshi's federal lobbying spend approaches a record $990,000 for the opening half of 2026.
The Gambling Commission has penalised the operator of betfred.com after social-responsibility gaps allowed a single customer to lose £17,900 in 24 hours, with the regulator branding the shortcomings "unacceptable".
As its licensed gambling market reaches €1.55 billion, Slovakia's regulator has signed two May 2026 memoranda, building a multi-source database with Digitálna koalícia and embedding gambling-harm training at a Nitra university to shield minors from unlicensed offshore operators.
One of online gambling's most recognisable crypto brands has planted its flag in one of Latin America's fastest-growing regulated markets. With the World Cup arriving in Mexico this summer, the timing is no accident.
A 240% surge in Ontario deposits could not save Rivalry from a leadership crisis that has left its co-founder as the company's sole remaining senior figure. The esports betting pioneer is now fighting for survival in a market its competitors are aggressively expanding into.
From MLB bribery charges to NBA match-fixing allegations, proposition betting's integrity problem has arrived in New York's legislature. A new task force bill signals the state is running out of patience with inaction.
Uganda is overhauling its gambling tax structure from July 2026, introducing some of the steepest rates on the African continent. Operators and players alike will feel the impact, and the black market risk is real.
Four years after being forced out of the American market, Polymarket is reportedly in discussions with the CFTC about a full domestic return. The timing could not be more politically charged.
From blacklisting 300 illegal sites to launching the first state-funded problem gambling treatment programme, Romania's ONJN has used its opening mandate year to signal it means business. The hard work of sustaining that momentum now begins.
The CFTC is no longer just defending prediction markets in court. It is now going on the offensive against the states trying to shut them down. New York is the latest target in a rapidly expanding federal legal campaign.
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