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The Senate's Economic Affairs Committee approved a public hearing on Provisional Measure 1.394 on 4 November but has set no date. A follow-up request would bring in the football confederation, which told the Supreme Federal Tribunal the ban will cost it R$420 million in 2027.
The Supreme Federal Tribunal's rapporteur granted the Prosecutor-General's request within two days, and his order calls betting a harmful activity. Brazil's last licensed sportsbook went offline the next morning, leaving Congress as the operators' only route back.
Betway's owner grew revenue 10% to $611 million in the third quarter, but customer-friendly sports results cost it about $40 million and pushed full-year revenue guidance below the floor it set in August. The profit line flatters the quarter, and the earnings guide barely moved.
Casa de Apostas had been Brazil's only licensed sportsbook for barely two days when the federal appeal court's president suspended the order that let it trade, on 6 November. Hours later the Prosecutor-General asked the Supreme Federal Tribunal to freeze every lower court challenge to the ban.
The Supreme Federal Tribunal's hearing on Brazil's betting ban ended without a decision, its rapporteur pairing a call for prohibition with talk of deadlines. The same afternoon a federal appeal judge restored one operator's licence.
The government will replace the freeplay provision that the Upper Tribunal read in Jumpman Gaming's favour, from 1 April 2027. HMRC calls the measure a clarification that raises nothing, but it narrows the exclusion operators won in September.
Justice Luiz Fux has met the industry's demand for an injunction against Provisional Measure 1.394 with a hearing rather than a decision. Twenty-six bodies, from the government to Flamengo and Corinthians, will speak at the Supreme Federal Tribunal next Tuesday, with the licences already extinguished.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won Sunday's run-off on the day Brazil's federal betting licences expired, ending the industry's hope that a new government would withdraw the ban. What happens next rests with a Congress that has still not installed the committee due to report on the measure by 23 November, and with a Supreme Court justice who held his ruling until the vote was over.
Ontario's regulator has settled the first suspension it has sought against a licensed igaming operator, cutting five days to two and adding an independent audit. It has not said why the penalty shrank, when the site goes dark, or whether any money changes hands.
The Department for Communities' fourth annual gambling compendium shows turnover recovering on a revised series, betting office licences falling for a second year and the first count of machines under the new £500 prize limit. Its biggest number, a record £89 million in duty, is a modelled share of a UK tax.
Congress's record shows 99 amendments to Provisional Measure 1.394 when filing closed on 13 October, 94 of them still live. The most ambitious would not soften the ban but replace it, reviving the extinguished licences under a stricter rulebook, and the committee that must weigh them has no chair or rapporteur nine days before the licences lapse.
A proposal filed in Peru's Chamber of Deputies would multiply the consumption tax charged on every online stake by five, on top of the 12% tax on operators' net revenue. Operators say it could absorb more than half their gross gaming revenue; the bill's own revenue table says it is not a forecast.
The Esports Integrity Commission has turned five provisional suspensions into bans of three years to life after a wager that, it says, called the margin of four straight defeats. Most of the betting charges were never contested at a hearing, and the decision names no bookmaker.
Sportsbook supplier Altenar has asked the European Commission and the UK Competition and Markets Authority to act against Sportradar's control of official MLB, NBA, NHL and ATP data, six months after suing it in New Jersey. A complaint is not an investigation, and neither authority has said it has opened one.
The president of the Federal Regional Court of the 3rd Region has switched off the only court order that let a licensed operator trade through Brazil's betting ban, on the ground that one exception undermines a rule meant for everyone. Stake says its site and app have been down again since 10 October.
The Attorney General's Office says it will go to court to force eight former licensees to give their banks the per-player lists the ban requires. The same release cuts the money still owed to bettors from about R$1.2 billion to R$159 million, and does not say how.
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.
Licensed operators must give their banks a per-player list of the R$1.325 billion still owed by Wednesday, and the government's own bulletin shows 86.2 million accounts holding less than R$1 each. Congress has pushed its amendment deadline past the election to 13 October, and Justice Luiz Fux has still not ruled.
Ontario's regulator has given theScore Bet the largest penalty it can impose for a single breach of its igaming standards, after a player accepted two cash-out offers on a CA$1,000 parlay and received neither. The ruling turns a cash-out figure on screen into something an operator must be able to pay.
The question is whether Betano, KTO, GaleraBet and Blaze ever asked for the forward to be prosecuted for defrauding them, and whether they did so in time. The separate charge of fraud in a sporting competition, over a yellow card in November 2023, is unaffected.