Articles by Arijit Roul
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Bulgaria’s Near-Total Gambling Ad Ban Arrives Two Months After the Government Said It Would Backfire
PM Radev's proposals restrict gambling advertising to sports kits and sports facilities only, closing channels that survived Bulgaria's 2024 ban. All gaming…
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Palmerbet Allowed Excluded Player to Gamble for 18 Months; Here’s the Data Error That Did That
ACMA identified 535 contraventions of the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 after Palmerbet failed to close a self-excluded customer's account, counting one breach…
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Yahoo Finance Quietly Ended Its Polymarket Deal – Nobody Has Explained Why
Yahoo Finance removed Polymarket's dedicated prediction market hub, roughly six months after the November 2025 launch, with no reason given publicly by…
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Vyking Built Its Own Sportsbook Frontend: FIRST.bet Runs the Engine – Here Is Why That Split Matters
Vyking designed and built the entire player-facing sportsbook frontend, including mobile, on FIRST.bet's SportOS engine. FIRST.bet retains full control of pricing, trading,…
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India’s New Gaming Law Has 201 Complaints and Zero Registered Games
MeitY confirmed to the Central Information Commission that OGAI had registered zero online games as of 1 September 2026, four months after…
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Gibraltar’s Gambling Commissioner Says the Doom Narrative Is Wrong – Can the Licensing Data Back Him Up?
The Gibraltar Gambling Commissioner, Andrew Lyman, has come out against the image of decline, citing examples of licensing that is ongoing despite…
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Europe Lost an Estimated €22 Billion in Tax Revenue to Unregulated Gambling in 2025
Unregulated GGR across 27 EU member states jumped 74% between 2023 and 2025, reaching an estimated €91.6bn. Among Europeans actively interacting with…
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She Sat Inside Curaçao’s Gambling Regulator for Nine Months – Now She Is Releasing Everything
Wittmann claims she exploited a security flaw within eight hours of accessing the CGA portal and monitored casino ownership data for nine…
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Singapore Tightened Its Casino Rules Again — Here Is What Actually Changed
The new Casino Control (Prescribed Casino Chips) Regulations 2026 classify electronic credits as casino chips, with the GRA being allowed to designate…
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Ohio Wants Online Casinos, But Your Bonus Has to Be Spent In Person
Online casino promotional credits would be tied to physical casino visits, not digital accounts. Licences would be restricted to Ohio's 11 existing…
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Flutter Lands in TIME’s Top 50, the Only iGaming Operator to Do So
In TIME’s World’s Best Companies 2026 ranking, Flutter was 41st best in the world, having made the most significant improvement in its…
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Ethiopia Shut Its Entire Betting Industry Down – The Unlicensed Version Kept Growing
A draft audit covering July 2023 to December 2025 found licensed operators owe Br27.5 billion ($167M) in unpaid commissions, penalties and fees,…
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DraftKings Takes a Mobile Gambling Patent Fight to the Tribunal That Could Kill It
DK Crown Holdings filed a PTAB petition on 17 September targeting all 18 claims of Interactive Games' US Patent No. 12,406,284, a…
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Fred Done Says Betfred’s Rugby League Exit Is the Budget’s Fault – The Numbers Make It Hard to Argue Otherwise
The sponsorships by Betfred of the Super League, Challenge Cup, and England Rugby League expire in 2026 after being entered into in…
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Eight Dutch Licences Renewed, but the Compliance File Behind Them Deserves a Harder Look
8 operators received their licences for online gambling in the Netherlands for the period from 1 October 2026 to 30 September 2031.…
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Genius Sports Launches Prediction.com — and the Hard Questions Have Only Just Started
Genius Sports launched Prediction.com on 17 September 2026 through Legend, aggregating event contract pricing from multiple prediction market platforms including Kalshi and…
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Ghana’s Teen Bettors Are Chasing Money, Not Thrills – The Data Has Now Caught Up
Financial gain recorded the highest mean motivation score among 514 Accra adolescent sports bettors, outpacing social and coping motives by a significant…
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Entain Says 11 Premier League Clubs Are Still Tied to Unlicensed Gambling Operators, and the Clock Is Running Out
Entain's research identified 11 Premier League clubs holding unlicensed gambling arrangements, three more than the government's own estimate of eight. UK black-market…
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Curaçao Gaming Authority Confirms Its Online Portal Was Breached
The Curaçao Gaming Authority has officially reported the incident of the hack of its online gaming portal on 17 September 2026. The…
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Crypto.com and Robinhood Ask SCOTUS to Settle Who Controls Sports Prediction Markets
Robinhood filed its petition to SCOTUS on September 10, 2026; Crypto.com did it on September 11 – both contesting the Ninth Circuit…