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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.
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.
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.
The Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission says Tabcorp ran its betting accounts for almost five months without the multi-factor authentication its licence required, while attackers drained customer accounts. The regulator also rejected Tabcorp's argument that the rules never required MFA at all.
The National Gambling Board and the Advertising Regulatory Board have signed a memorandum of understanding to monitor gambling advertising across broadcast, outdoor and digital channels, with joint work on social media, influencer marketing and ads for illegal offshore sites. The advertising body says an updated Gambling Code is coming.
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.
Applications close on 28 September, seven months after the post fell vacant. The job description is for a land-based inspectorate overseeing 17 casinos in a sector down a fifth since 2019, while a bill in the Senate would hand the same body the online market it has repeatedly said it has no power over.
A confidential CNIGA request for information dated 3 June, obtained by InGame, sets out seven principles for a tribally owned online sports betting market, three market structures with a single tribal consortium on top, a 10% to 25% state share, and a "protect against iGaming" clause. Selected respondents are being met now.
Gamble Pause Initiative Africa, Gamble Aware Nigeria and the South African Responsible Gambling Foundation have formed the ARGN, with participants from nine more countries, to build a continent-wide evidence base on gambling harm. Its president says regulators must legislate before the costs land on Africa's health systems.
The MGA and the Malta Digital Innovation Authority launched a principles-based framework on Thursday for operators using AI in player protection, fraud detection and customer contact. It sits under the EU AI Act, binds nobody, and is a rare instance of a gambling regulator writing down what it expects of a licensee's models. Charles Mizzi: "Our role is not to stand in the way of innovation."
UOL reports the provisional measure would ban online games outright and restrict sports betting, with insiders treating it as "close to the extinction" of online casino. Clubs put R$1bn of sponsorship at risk and are drafting a note calling it electioneering; operators are weighing a court challenge; two associations have published open letters. The president says new measures come "soon".
An Instagram ad showed the Bayern Munich defender's father arrested over a vault of cash, cleared, and then urging viewers to play the same casino, with an AI Drake for good measure. The link went to a Comoros-licensed site two months after Alberta opened a regulated market that bans athletes from casino ads altogether.
A state that bans sports betting and casinos spent Tuesday studying "the sudden inundation of prediction market gambling". The casino lobby told senators to sue in state court; Kalshi told them a ban would send Texans offshore. The session that could act on it opens on 12 January.
AR150, prompted by the personalised Bryce Harper message sent to a customer who says he lost $1.5m, cleared the Assembly gaming committee unanimously along with a bill that makes self-excluded players watch counselling videos before they can return.
Fanatics Sports & Casino merges three products into a single account and one FanCash balance. The prediction markets side reaches states where the sportsbook cannot go.
Spelinspektionen wants to replace guidance with binding duty-of-care requirements. BOS says the regulator has not asked what the cumulative friction does to the licensed market it is trying to protect.
The league confirmed three multi-year sportsbook deals on Thursday, five months after the category emptied. The most consequential line is the one about who is not in them.
Order 3070 adopts an Action in Lieu of Complaint against Caesars over signage and self-exclusion, and adds disgorgement to the penalty. Two case files sit behind it, opened thirteen months apart.
Maputo has created a dedicated concession framework for online games of chance, splitting them off from the land-based casino regime just as casino tax receipts fall to little more than half of what the treasury budgeted. What it has not created, yet, is any published route to a licence.
The European Lotteries' 19th annual sector report shows regulated lotteries across 37 countries contributed more than €29.4 billion to public budgets, sports, culture, and health in 2024, the highest figure ever recorded. Online GGR climbed 19% to €6.2 billion, underscoring a structural shift that the sector's traditional retail backbone has not yet reversed.