iGaming Business News

Key Points Prediction markets claimed roughly 27% of all legal US sports-betting volume during the World Cup, tripling their market share from 9% in January, according to H2 Gambling Capital estimates. Kalshi surpassed both DraftKings and FanDuel in daily mobile app users during the tournament, while its “FIFA World Cup Winner” market alone generated over […]

Key Points 44% of tested casinos silently doubled wagering requirements by calculating them on deposits plus bonuses combined, not bonuses alone. Multi-stage welcome packages advertised at 20x-30x reached an effective 40x once all deposit stages were completed. Under Finland’s new Gambling Act (Rahapelilaki 10/2026), welcome bonuses for new customers will be prohibited from 1 July […]

Key Points Italy’s Agenzia delle Entrate has lifted its 2026 gambling income estimate by €807m, pointing to the overhauled online licensing system and the GGR rate adjustments baked into the 2025 Budget Law. Between January and April 2026, gambling tax receipts dropped 7.8% against the prior year, pulled down by shrinking gaming machine income and […]

Key Points Cirsa acquired a controlling stake in Sociedade Figueira Praia, the operator of Casino Figueira of Figueira da Foz, giving itself its first entry into the land-based gambling market of Portugal. This partnership goes hand-in-hand with Cirsa’s purchase of CasinoPortugal.pt in December 2024, thus forming an omnichannel platform in Portugal’s regulated market environment. The […]

Key Points BetHog closes 31 July 2026, less than two years after launch, with players given until then to withdraw funds. Parent company redirects all engineering and product resources to Sentient Studios, its B2B AI dealer platform that claims to be the only operational product of its kind on the market. Nigel Eccles says operator […]

Key Points ANJ used administrative blocking powers to order French ISPs to restrict access to Polymarket and its variants after a two-year investigation into parent company Adventure One. In June 2026 alone, Polymarket logged 578,751 visits and 205,057 unique French visitors, despite having a geoblocking system in place since November 2024. Nine European gambling regulators […]

Research by the Anton Proksch Institute has revealed that around 300,000 adults in Austria are experiencing problem gambling behaviour. The situation is worsened by major sporting events such as the FIFA World Cup, which increase the risk for vulnerable players. Oliver Scheibenbogen, Head of Academy, Research and Digitalisation at the institute, said the organisation has […]

Singapore’s Auditor-General’s Office (AGO) has identified shortcomings in the country’s gambling safeguards after banned people were able to access casinos and place wagers. These findings were published in the AGO’s latest audit report, which examined the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Singapore’s (GRA) management processes. “We found lapses in the management operations at the Gambling Regulatory […]

According to new figures published by the Gambling Commission, almost half of Great Britain’s adult population gambled during the four weeks before participating in the latest Gambling Survey. The regulator noted that 47% of adults aged 18 and over had gambled, but this figure fell to 27% after excluding respondents whose only gambling activity was […]

Key Points The Betsson company recorded its best quarterly turnover ever at €310.2m in Q2 2026, but the operating profit decreased by 38.9% from that of the previous year to €42.2m due to a fall in the EBIT margin to 13.6% from 22.7%. The Latin America region turned out to be the biggest market for […]