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Red Rock Resorts' Station Casinos opened the North Fork Mono Casino in Madera, California, nine hours ahead of its advertised start, while a rival tribe's motion to halt gaming there still sits undecided in federal court. It arrives as Las Vegas operators report a weak quarter.
Prosecutors at the Corte dei conti allege that five former staff of the scratchcard concessionaire used their system access to find four winning tickets worth €24 million and had relatives and friends buy them. The claim is the State's, not the company's: prizes that chance might have left unclaimed would have stayed with the Treasury.
Italy's communications regulator wants an operator's ".news" or ".sport" brand to escape the gambling advertising ban only if it runs a real newsroom, links nowhere near the betting site and looks nothing like it. The draft lands two days after the Constitutional Court made the ban's €50,000 minimum fine reducible.
Two courts in Fujian have sentenced the leader of the Wei family crime group, his nephew and a third defendant to death for scam compounds and casinos run under armed protection in Myanmar's Kokang region. It is the third of Kokang's "four families" to reach a verdict in China, and the first two ended in executions within about four months.
A federal judge in Philadelphia gave the scheme's most prolific recruiter 72 months, two months above the bottom of his guideline range, and let him stay free until 1 December. The sentence sets the marker for the players and fixers still to come before the same court.
A federal judge in São Paulo has held the government to the ban's own 30-day clause, keeping Stake's licence alive until 25 October while refusing to suspend the ban or let Stake run to 2029. The ANJL has taken a narrower request to a federal court in Brasília, and says a broader one may follow.
Sportradar is selling the team-facing half of a business it bought for €192.2 million in 2021 and keeping the cameras and graphics it says underpin its core products. It says the price beats the multiple its own shares trade on, which says as much about the shares as the deal.
Three Central Bank resolutions write the betting ban into the rulebooks of Brazil's main payment rails, and a Finance Ministry ordinance gives operators until Wednesday to hand over every player's balance. The tool for clawing back Pix payments to illegal sites still does not exist, and the government page licensed sites are told to point to was not live on Monday morning.
Resolution BCB 590 puts the payments ban in Provisional Measure 1.394 into force in three articles and dates the duty from the day the measure was published. It leaves undone the one tool the measure told the Central Bank to build for Pix, the rail that carried most of Brazil's betting money.
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 Kansspelautoriteit has issued guidance after finding that not all licensed operators let players close an account as easily as the rules require. Forced calls to customer service, fresh ID checks, cooling-off periods and win-back bonuses are all named as practices that do not comply.
Wynn Resorts has pushed a 2027 maturity at its Las Vegas business out to 2035, at the price of a coupon 1.625 percentage points higher than the notes it replaces. The deal closed on 22 September, according to the company's filing.
A working document submitted to the national regulator and the Gambling Policy Council on 7 September says Madrid's attempt to "coordinate" the protection of vulnerable players in land-based gambling is an attempt to direct powers the constitution gave the regions. Madrid's Ramón Cubián: "The autonomous communities are the authorities dealing with these matters every day."
Every analyst note leads with Brazil, Africa or the next US state. WiseGaming's commercial director says market access without a stack that can localise in weeks is "a money pit", that Curaçao's LOK reform is a filter he welcomes, that the agent model is converting rather than dying, and that his platform charges on net profit after bonuses, PSP and content costs rather than on GGR. He also says where the whole industry, his company included, is still behind on AI.
The Gaming Commission's annual report shows a market growing on the players it already has and struggling to recruit new ones since the age limit rose to 21. Self-exclusions are up, land-based visits are down a quarter, and the operators' association says 28% of 18 to 30-year-olds have already gambled on an illegal site.
Bondholders tendered 68% of the lottery group's 2028 notes and Brightstar will pay for them with a new €500 million issue priced last week at more than double the coupon. The €1.4 billion Italy Lotto instalment is why the balance sheet needed the room.
Portaria 2,750 turns June's "financial asphyxiation" decree into a procedure: a red-flag list for Pix, a 24-hour block on notification, forfeiture of what is frozen, joint tax liability for banks that keep processing, and a safe harbour for those that report.
The bank can see what its own customers pay into betting apps and what comes back out, and across seven months the ratio never reached break-even. The number that should worry the industry more is the one about balances: households that bet online hold 59% of the deposit balance of households that do not.
Prime Minister Hun Manet has ordered a nationwide suspension of live online betting operated from casino premises, with licence revocation for anyone who ignores it. Play resumes only once the government has built the legal and digital controls it says are missing, and the order arrives days after the regulator began drafting a suitability test for licence renewals.
Interior Minister Rosa Icela Rodríguez told the president's morning conference that a reform of the Federal Gaming and Raffles Law, unchanged in substance for nearly eight decades, has cleared internal review and goes next to the security cabinet. Its purpose is money laundering and tax fraud in casinos and betting shops, about 20 of which are under investigation.