Articles by Arijit Roul
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Kalshi’s IPO Timeline Shifts to 2027 or 2028 Amid Rapid Growth
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour stated that the company was in preliminary stages of talking about its IPO, however, an IPO would not…
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BoyleSports Signs Three-Year NIFL Title Deal Worth More Than £1 Million
BoyleSports has signed a three-year title partnership with NIFL covering the Premiership, Championship and Women's Premiership, the league's first deal valued above…
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Dutch Gambling Tax Hike Raises Just €2m of €108m Target
The Dutch gambling levy went up from 30.5% to 34.2% in January 2025, followed by another increase to 37.8% in January 2026;…
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UK Gambling Charities Still Waiting for Statutory Levy Money
Several charities provisionally awarded funding from the statutory levy's £25.4m prevention pot have still not received any money, nearly three months after…
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Curaçao Issues First Crypto Compliance Rules for Licensed Casinos
Crypto compliance guidelines by the Curaçao Gaming Authority were published for the first time in June 2026 for the benefit of B2C…
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Brazil Executes 14 Warrants in Three States as Billion-Dollar Illegal Betting Network Exposed
Operation Conto da Sorte uncovered a 37-company illegal betting network with an estimated BRL50 billion ($9.7 billion) in financial movement across Pernambuco,…
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Egypt Parliament Moves to Criminalise Online Betting
Egypt’s government is considering changes to the Cybercrime Law, which will officially consider online betting apps as crimes, and can result in…
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Meta Steps into Prediction Markets with Arena as Sector Reaches $130bn
A separate team of Meta employees led by Mark Zuckerberg has been tasked with creating Arena – a completely separate app with…
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PlayCity Extends Platform Enforcement to Kick
PlayCity now reports illegal gambling channels directly to Kick's headquarters, with the first two violating channels removed within the past week. Thirty-seven…
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BetConstruct AI Signs Deal with FIFA’s Official Prediction Market Partner
BetConstruct AI has integrated ADI Predictstreet's prediction market solution, giving its operator partners access to official FIFA-licensed content. ADI Predictstreet holds the…
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Austria to Open Online Gambling Market in 2027 — But Not to Everyone
Austria's coalition government has passed a draft law that ends Win2Day's longstanding online casino monopoly, with the market set to open to…
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Thailand Shut Down 13,888 Gambling Sites During the World Cup
Thailand's Ministry of Digital Economy and Society blocked 13,888 gambling-related websites, social media pages and URLs between 1 and 18 June 2026.…
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Germany’s Gambling Watchdog Opens Formal Probe into ADI Predictstreet’s World Cup Pitch-Side Ads
Germany's GGL has opened a formal review into whether ADI Predictstreet's World Cup pitch-side advertising breaches German gambling laws, given that the…
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Bragg Gaming CEO Mazij Voted Off Board as Shareholders Run Out of Patience
During the 18 June AGM held in Toronto by Bragg, Mazij was not elected to the board because there were 55.67% voting…
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Gibraltar Hunts for a New Gambling Commissioner as Andrew Lyman Heads for the Door
Gibraltar's government has formally opened a search for a new gambling commissioner and executive director, with Andrew Lyman set to leave the…
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Betfred Shuts Irish Accounts on 30 June as GRAI Takes Control of Online Licensing
Betfred will shut down Irish customer accounts from 30 June, one day before the GRAI formally takes charge of online gambling licensing…
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Ireland Puts Remote Bookmakers on High Alert in 30-Point Money Laundering Plan
Ireland's updated national risk assessment rates remote bookmakers as carrying "significant" money laundering risk, the highest level in the gambling sector, a…
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Former Star CEO and Legal Chief Cop A$1.1m in Fines as Court Shuts Governance Case
Matt Bekier received a A$700,000 fine and a six-year ban; Paula Martin was hit with a A$400,000 penalty and a seven-year disqualification,…
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Optimove Lays Off 10% of Staff as AI Rewrites the Rules of How It Operates
Optimove has let go of roughly 10% of its global workforce, a move the company frames as a deliberate rebuild around artificial…
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New Jersey Court Shuts the Door, for Now, on Playtech Joining Evolution’s Defamation Case
The Superior Court of New Jersey denied Evolution's motion to add Playtech as a defendant in its defamation case against Calcagni &…