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Two months into his interim tenure, Phil Walker has removed the National Lottery operator's technology, digital and strategy chiefs and created two new chief officer posts. The changes came two days after official figures showed sales down 13.4% on a year earlier.
Fred Done warned in September that Betfred would drop the Classics if the Budget raised machine games duty, and on 5 November it did. Britain's most prestigious Flat races need new backers just as bookmakers retreat from racing.
The Massachusetts Gaming Commission has moved the Bill Simmons proxy betting case from staff review to an enforcement hearing, and the respondent is FanDuel, not the podcaster. On the same agenda, Fanatics was pulled up for failing to tell 132 bettors that they had been limited, under a notice rule one commissioner called a first.
The lieutenant governor whose Senate never took up the House's 2023 sports betting amendment lost on 3 November to a Democrat who wants voters to decide. But Republicans still hold the Senate, and an amendment needs two-thirds of it.
Twelve new Polymarket accounts bet about $264,000 on the exact 2026 Ballon d'Or top five before the ceremony and made close to $200,000, according to the French outlet Upside. Groupe Amaury, which owns France Football, says it is filing a complaint over suspected leaks and potentially fraudulent bets.
South Africa's High Court in Pretoria has set aside the award of the National Lottery licence to Sizekhaya Holdings, five months after it took over. The ground was procedural, and the order is suspended for 12 months.
The Netherlands Gambling Authority will take applications in January for the only licence to run pool betting on horse racing from July 2027. The winner gets a land-based monopoly and hands 10% of its gross gaming revenue on Dutch races to the sport.
Sweden's state-owned gambling group grew net gaming revenue by 1% in the third quarter but earned less from it, because it chose to spend more on its brand, AI and a move to the cloud. The growth came from the licensed online arm; the lottery monopoly barely moved and the gaming-machine business shrank again.
Utah's Attorney General has sued five Kalshi companies and two Susquehanna firms in Salt Lake County, alleging that the market makers taking the other side of retail trades are gamblers and bookmakers under Utah law. A gaming lawyer calls it the first state enforcement action aimed at a prediction market's liquidity providers.
Casino Guru has opened nominations for the fifth edition of its awards, adding a Player Protection Advocate of the Year category to the line-up. Nominations close on 15 February 2027, and the winners will be announced at a ceremony in Malta on 26 May 2027.
The Philippine operator behind BingoPlus and ArenaPlus says it dropped out of the last rounds of New Zealand's auction for the right to apply for an online casino licence, citing "market values". It is the second overseas plan to stall in a month, after Brazil's ban.
The Department of Internal Affairs has named the 11 entities that won New Zealand's 15 rights to apply for an online casino licence, at a single price of NZ$15 million each. SkyCity, Stake, TAB New Zealand and companies linked to Super Group and Entain are on the list, but none of them holds a licence yet.
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.
Britain's gambling regulator has opened the search for a permanent chief executive, eight months after it announced Andrew Rhodes would leave. The salary has barely moved, but the job description now asks the winner to deliver a return on the Treasury's money for fighting illegal gambling.
Voters in Allen, DeKalb and Steuben counties decide on 3 November whether northeast Indiana can bid for the state's 14th casino, and the congressman who represents all three wants them to say no. The law gives a "no" more weight than a "yes": a county that rejects it cannot ask again.
Ohio has led 38 other states and the District of Columbia in urging the Supreme Court to take New Jersey's case against Kalshi, joined by the tribe behind the landmark 1987 tribal gaming ruling, the National Football League and three nonprofits that want the Court to revisit Murphy. Every brief on the docket backs New Jersey; Kalshi's response is due on 9 November.
A law in force since 1 October ends the Supervisory Authority for Regulated Activities' veto over concession contracts, including casino concessions, and abolishes the Concession Council it dominated. The regulator must pass its concession files to the finance minister by the end of the month, as the government weighs whether to close it altogether.
The Department of Internal Affairs opened bidding on 29 September for the right to apply for one of up to 15 online casino licences, with a reserve price it will never disclose and no idea, it says, of what the auction will raise. Alongside it, a draft testing regime spells out what the winners will have to prove about their games and platforms.
A Pennsylvania county wants prediction-market trading written into the oath its election workers swear, and Maryland's chief administrator plans to ask for the same statewide, the Associated Press reports. With the courts unlikely to rule before November, the workers are the one thing the states can still regulate.
Police data supplied to a National Assembly member show the Gangwon provincial cyber unit has booked 26 users of the blocked platform for gambling under Article 246 of the Criminal Act and referred 18 of them for prosecution. One trader alone put about KRW 5.7bn through the site. The defendants say a yes-or-no contract settled on a blockchain is a derivative, not a bet, and the courts have not yet been asked.