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FATF Flags Money Laundering Risks Across Gambling Sector
The Financial Action Task Force has published a report identifying red-flag indicators for money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation financing across gaming…
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Connecticut Expands Crackdown On Prediction Markets with Nine Cease-and-Desist Orders
Connecticut has ordered nine prediction market platforms to stop offering sports event contracts considered as unlicensed sports betting. Governor Ned Lamont and…
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ESMA Warns Prediction Markets Are Vulnerable To Insider Trading and Manipulation
The European Securities and Markets Authority has warned that prediction markets are “rife” with insider trading. In its latest Trends, Risks and…
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Turkey Traced TL17.75 Billion in Illegal Betting Accounts – The Scale of What It Found Is the Story
The Interior Ministry of Turkey confirmed money transactions of TL17.75 billion through bank accounts associated with 177 suspects in a coordinated raid…
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OpenBet Acquires OmniLogic: The Lottery Tech Move That Signals Where Betting B2B Is Heading
OpenBet agreed on 15 September 2026 to acquire Győr-based OmniLogic, a decade-long sportsbook supplier to WLA lottery operators across EMEA, for an…
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New Zealand Regulator Recovers NZ$11.5 Million in Pokies Compliance Probe
The DIA secured commitments to return NZ$11.5 million to community organisations after a two-to-three-year investigation into how pokies trusts handled gambling proceeds.…
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New Zealand Announces Auction Date for Online Casino Licences
The DIA confirmed 29 September 2026 as the start of New Zealand's ascending clock licence auction, with the EOI phase now closed…
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Locke to Shareholders: Genius Wins Either Way – Connecticut Already Subpoenaed Them
Locke's public letter argues Genius earns from prediction markets regardless of regulatory outcome, backed by Q2 revenue of $195.5m against $185m guidance.…
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Bally’s ‘Resets’ Chicago Casino Construction Amid VGT Dispute
Bally's disclosed substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern in its Q2 2026 SEC filing, while projecting it…
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Stake Shuts Irish Users Out After GRAI Engagement, Then Asks for a Licence
The GRAI confirmed that operators including "two major prediction markets and a major international online gambling platform" geo-blocked Irish users voluntarily; national…
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Dutch Regulator Hands Lotto BV a Five-Year Lifeline, But a Court Could Still Take It Away
The KSA renewed Lotto BV's lottery, scratch card and land-based sports betting licences through 2031, justified by the operator's state-owned status, without…
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Half of Dutch Gambling Money Goes Offshore – The Regulator Wants Europe to Act
One-half of all euros that Dutch citizens bet is going to the black market, costing the Netherlands at least €500 million each…
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Kalshi Beats DraftKings and FanDuel on NFL Week 1 Pricing, But the Parlay Gap Tells a Different Story
Citizens JMP Securities tracked 28 data points on 11 September and found Kalshi's implied vig at 4.32%, below FanDuel's 4.44% and DraftKings'…
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FIRST.bet Poached Pragmatic Play’s LatAm Architect – Now He Has to Do It Again, in a Harder Vertical
Firstly, Victor Arias, who has been managing the Latin America branch of Pragmatic Play for the past six years after setting it…
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DAZN Appoints Sportradar’s Nasdaq Architect as CFO in Sweeping C-Suite Overhaul
Alex Gersh, the man behind Sportradar's Nasdaq listing, who then became CFO of Paysafe, is appointed as the new CFO of DAZN.…
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Conservative Campaign Chief and His Wife Plead Guilty in UK Election Betting Scandal
Anthony Lee placed 60 successful bets totalling £1,549, with potential winnings of £15,000; he then passed the confidential election date to his…
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Sunderland Signed a Multi-Year Shuffle Deal Days After the UK Consultation on Banning Unlicensed Gambling Sponsorships Closed
Shuffle holds only a Curaçao licence; its product is not legally accessible to UK consumers. The DCMS consultation on banning unlicensed gambling…
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Slips Launches “Slip Me” Betting — But the Legal Picture Is More Complicated Than Anyone Is Saying
Slips launched Create Bet and Challenge on 9 September 2026, letting users wager on any topic straight from group chat, with peer-to-peer…
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Newcastle and BetMGM Sign New Multi-Year Deal as Scrutiny Grows
The official UK and European betting partner of Newcastle United Football Club has been BetMGM after LeoVegas Group extended their collaboration with…
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A Latvian Operator Just Cleared Estonia’s Licensing Gate – Digitain Is Powering What Comes Next
LuckyBet.ee is a Latvian-backed brand entering Estonia as its first market outside Latvia, with Nordic expansion already confirmed by its co-founder. Estonia's…
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