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Provisional Measure 1.394 ends Brazil's licensed betting market less than two years after it opened, extinguishes every licence within 30 days and rules out refunding the R$30 million each operator paid for one. It took effect on Friday, nine days before the first round of the presidential election.
A flat 5% tax and a device levy give way to rates by game type, but only on play by people in Malta. The bigger change for the island's exporters is VAT: most remote gaming loses its exemption, which lets operators recover input tax.
The Malta Gaming Authority and its chief executive sought an injunction in Germany against Lilith Wittmann. She says the Berlin judgment bars her from hacking the regulator again but lets her use its documents. The court has not published its reasoning.
Research commissioned by the American Gaming Association says gamblers score higher on financial literacy than non-gamblers, and that prediction-market users are nearly as confident as sports bettors but test like non-gamblers. The trade body is using it against the exchanges.
Replying to Fred Done's forecast of 495 Betfred closures, Kenny told the Financial Times he used "the same script" himself when he represented bookmakers. He wants machines and online slots taxed harder than bets on sport.
New York's attorney general has filed a second state-court case against a prediction market, this time against Polymarket's US exchange, alleging an unlicensed gambling business open to 18-year-olds. The relief sought mirrors the Kalshi suit that drew the federal regulator into the fight in August.
The government wants to stop licensed operators taking bets on Powerball draws now that the US game is sold as a National Lottery product. It is the EuroMillions ban of 2018 again, and the consultation runs until 4 November.
The Curaçao Gaming Authority now says the intruder in its licensing portal came in through an ordinary applicant account registered under a false identity in December 2025, and stayed until September. It also defended its licensing checks, in wording that appears to accept some questions were still open when licences were granted.
People Inc. has walked away from its June proposal to take MGM Resorts private, and MGM shares fell 8.6% after hours to $34.61, far below the $48.30 that was on the table. Diller keeps his roughly 27% stake and says he is still open to "a range of alternatives".
Tim Miller, a senior figure at the Gambling Commission for about a decade, has set up an advisory firm aimed at governments and regulators rather than operators, starting in North America. He says it will not be "just another compliance consultancy", and has already said what he thinks does not work: blanket prohibitions and ever-higher taxes.
The Joint Gambling Authority of the Länder says it supervises 129 licensed operators, made 1,843 illegal sites unreachable from Germany by the end of 2025 and puts about 77% of the online market in the licensed channel. It wants the treaty evaluation to give it more discretion, because changing the rules takes years and the black market adapts in months.
Prime Minister Rumen Radev said on Wednesday that draft amendments to the Gambling Act would leave sports sponsorship as the only permitted form of gambling advertising, raise the levy on online gambling substantially and connect every gaming machine to the tax authority in real time. The texts go to public consultation first.
A CBS News investigation into how sportsbooks keep bettors engaged featured a Virginia customer who likened gambling to "crack in the '80s". FanDuel suspended his account after the broadcast, a step CBS said the company told him about only after he appeared in its story. The operator says it acts whenever a customer raises concerns, on television or anywhere else.
The Queensland Government says the functions of the Queensland Racing Integrity Commission and Racing Queensland will be brought together under one entity, with a new Chief Integrity Officer keeping integrity and animal welfare oversight independent. The 2016 law that created the commission was designed to separate welfare from commerce.
Follow the Money's first reporting from the Curaçao Gaming Authority leak says the regulator's own assessors doubted the declared ownership of the Curaçao companies behind Stake and 1xBet and granted licences anyway. The regulator's answer, that it did not reject applicants mid-transition, goes to the heart of the island's licensing reform.
Greater Manchester Police worked the raids with the Gambling Commission and the city council's licensing team, on intelligence gathered after a similar operation in May. Two women were held on suspicion of immigration offences, one over money laundering and the Gambling Act, and one over licensing.
Gaming Compliance International estimates €91.6bn of unregulated gross gambling revenue across the EU 27 in 2025, up 74% on 2023, and about €22bn in lost tax. The headline number will be quoted all week, so the definitions behind it and who commissioned the work both matter.
Lilith Wittmann has claimed responsibility for the breach the Curaçao Gaming Authority disclosed this morning, says she has had access since December 2025, and has begun releasing material with broadcasters in five countries. She says the full list of ultimate beneficial owners is still to come.
The Curaçao Gaming Authority says the access has been contained and its source identified, and that it has found no compromise of core infrastructure, but it has not yet established what information was reached. The portal is the single channel for every licence application, supplier filing and incident report under the LOK.
TOTO, Holland Casino, Kansino, FairPlay, Bingoal, bet365, GG Poker and Betcity have licences to September 2031. For the first time the regulator explicitly examined violations definitively established in the previous five years, asked applicants what they had done about them, and issued unnamed operators "additional points for attention".