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Polymarket's offshore exchange lists contracts on whether 19 of the world's biggest banks, HSBC and Lloyds among them, will fail by the end of 2026. The sums are small, but a Treasury Committee MP warns that a market on a bank's collapse could help cause one, and Britain's regulators have so far said little more than that they are talking to their counterparts abroad.
Police say a money trail from a boxing betting network worth more than 1 billion baht leads to Atchariya Ruangrattanapong, a campaigner who has spent years accusing officers of taking money from gambling. He denies all four charges and says the case is fabricated.
The government's lawyer has told the Supreme Federal Tribunal that the laws which created Brazil's licensed betting market are unconstitutional, reversing the position it took in 2024. It did so in a different case from the one in which Justice Luiz Fux gave it 72 hours, and operators, clubs and Flamengo want his answer on the ban before licensed sites go dark at midnight.
Genting has shut its Coventry casino after a month-long staff consultation, blaming costs and tax rises the sector has already absorbed. The closure lands four weeks before a Budget that may double Machine Games Duty, and both sides of that argument are already using it.
Messages taken from the jailed banker's phone by the Federal Police show Banco Master's legal director telling Daniel Vorcaro he "cannot appear" after the Finance Ministry asked who stood behind a fund that owned part of Bet.Bet, Valor Econômico reports. A dispatcher from Minas Gerais was later named instead.
The affiliate has lowered its 2026 outlook for the second time in five weeks, blaming Brazil's ban and a weak third quarter, and has lined up a €50 million loan and a €50 million share issue from its largest shareholders to clear €91.5 million of bonds due in December.
The Ministry of Culture and Equality has put online poker for the state monopoly out to a fast-track consultation, two years after Norsk Tipping asked for it. The proposal comes with tight stakes, loss and table limits, and an open question about whether a Norway-only player pool can compete with the foreign sites it is meant to replace.
A contract from the Casino Secrets leak shows the racing pictures and data supplier agreed in 2022 to serve Santeda's brands for a share of their revenue, according to the Guardian. Its owners include bookmakers that have repeatedly warned about the illegal market, and Entain says it has raised its concerns with SIS.
The regulator has confirmed time and loss limits, an on-screen net position and a ban on turbo and slam-stop features for new Category B machines, after more than 1,000 consultation responses. It dropped the plan to retrofit machines already on the floor, which industry estimated would have put about 7,770 of them at risk.
The Mecca and Grosvenor owner says a doubling would shut about a third of its estate and hit around 2,000 staff. Its own accounts suggest the arithmetic is real: on a rough estimate, the rise on Mecca's machines alone would exceed what its bingo clubs earn. The new gambling minister, touring one of its casinos this week, has so far spoken about bingo licensing rather than tax.
The Attorney General's Office wants Betano, Bet365, Superbet and 14 other operators to repay the public health system, pay collective damages and refund double the stakes of diagnosed gamblers they kept accepting. It filed three days after the government banned their product.
Crown Resorts says an excess insurer holding half of two layers of its directors' and officers' cover has refused to pay towards the settlement of the class action over its money laundering failures. With A$27.5 million still due to shareholders next May, the claim is about cash as much as principle.
The government wants operating a betting site to carry four to six years in prison and has asked Congress to treat the bill as urgent. At the same time, operators' associations have asked the Supreme Federal Tribunal to suspend the ban, arguing that it fails the Constitution's own test for a provisional measure.
Entain, Flutter, Allwyn, Better Collective, Acroud and DigiPlus have all told investors what Brazil's ban on fixed-odds betting means for them. For the big operators it is a trim to guidance; for Better Collective, whose shares traded a quarter lower on Monday, it removes about 12% of expected revenue.
The newspaper's first reporting from the Curaçao regulator's files turns a licensing scandal into a question about who serves British players without a licence, and puts new documents behind its earlier reporting on the Santeda casino network. Its reporter also says the offshore trade is already moving on, to Anjouan and other lighter-touch licensors.
A unanimous panel has held that Kalshi's sports contracts are not swaps, and that federal commodities law would not shield them from state gambling law even if they were. It is the second federal appeals court in a month to side with the states, leaving Kalshi with one win in three circuits as the Supreme Court weighs whether to take the question.
Attorney General James Uthmeier has told five of the largest advertising platforms that promoting sweepstakes casinos to Floridians is a crime, and wants written proof they have stopped. After the operators and their payment processors, Florida has reached the marketing layer.
GiG Software has signed a share purchase agreement for evoke's African operator and says the proposed deal will be finalised by 30 September. The signing puts a clock on the deferred payment and, for the first time, numbers on the business GiG is buying.
The Betting and Gaming Council has launched a campaign built on shop workers' stories and a poll of Andy Burnham's Makerfield seat, a month before a Budget that may double Machine Games Duty. Its job figures are its own; the think tank behind the proposal says the rise would raise up to £458 million.
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.