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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.
Maputo has created a dedicated concession framework for online games of chance, splitting them off from the land-based casino regime just as casino tax receipts fall to little more than half of what the treasury budgeted. What it has not created, yet, is any published route to a licence.
A report commissioned by the Campaign for Fairer Gambling estimates that unlicensed online gambling operators generated $97.4 billion in US revenue in 2025, growing at nearly twice the pace of the regulated sector and raising pointed questions about whether legalisation is containing or expanding overall market harm.
Entain has published its interim results for the first half of 2025, with the FTSE-listed operator pointing to momentum in its UK and Irish retail business and continued progress at its BetMGM joint venture in the United States. The results arrive at a sensitive moment for the group, which is navigating a shifting UK regulatory landscape and a period of strategic repositioning following several years of turbulence.
iGaming Real Talk has announced the sixth edition of Real Roadshow 2026, with 11 full-length podcasts and more than 35 short-form videos recorded on the iGB LIVE London expo floor.
Ireland's Gambling Regulatory Authority has opened a public consultation on three foundational sets of regulations covering which games operators may offer, what records they must keep, and what account information they must proactively share with players. Submissions close on 20 August 2026, with final rules to follow.
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.
Super Group's Betway brand has secured its biggest football partnership to date, landing a multi-year deal as Manchester United's Principal Partner and Exclusive Global Betting Partner from the 2026/27 season. The agreement gives Betway training-kit visibility across both the men's and women's squads and prominent matchday presence at Old Trafford, with Super Group citing the club's African fanbase as a particular strategic draw.
Regulated sports wagering in Ontario climbed 6% to CA$1.03bn in June, breaking the usual summer lull, as the expanded FIFA World Cup drove record activity even while operators' revenue slipped.
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.
Ireland's new gambling regulator has begun issuing statutory licences, switching on the regime built under the Gambling Regulation Act 2024 and starting the long transition from a fragmented legacy system to a single supervised market.
A Senate bill from Senator Pedro Tineo would turn the Dominican National Lottery into an autonomous regulator over casinos, betting and lotteries, ending split oversight just as a DOP 40-50 billion fiscal package eyes gambling for fresh tax revenue. Whether consolidation lands before the tax will decide if either works.
France's regulator has built a tool that lets operators measure whether their own player protection systems are actually working. The findings should worry the entire industry: excessive players may account for 60% of account-based gambling revenue.
Stake has just gone live in Mexico, but the company is already looking at where it heads next in Latin America. The region has become central to the operator's long-term growth story.
With this deal, Kambi will be powering sports betting in eight of Canada's ten provinces. The PROLINE expansion is one of the most significant supplier wins in North American sports betting this year.
Genius Sports has just completed one of the most significant deals in the sports data sector. The combination with Legend gives the company a foothold in iGaming media that none of its rivals can match.
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.
Evoke warned this would happen if the government pressed ahead with its tax plans. It pressed ahead. Now 200 William Hill shops are closing and thousands of jobs are at risk.
The Netherlands Gambling Authority has reported a rise in cases of athletes betting on their own competitions during 2025, while overall match fixing alerts from licensed sportsbooks remained broadly stable and prompted renewed focus on integrity controls and reporting expectations.
Switzerland has added 271 new domains to its offshore gambling blacklist, taking the total to 2,944 as regulators intensify enforcement under the Federal Act on Money Games and extend blocking to affiliate sites that direct Swiss users to unlicensed operators.