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SkyCity Just Sold Its Own Headquarters – The Numbers Behind That Decision Are Uncomfortable
SkyCity completed the NZ$74.5m settlement of its Auckland headquarters and Victoria Street properties on 1 September 2026, sold to Mainland Capital and…
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France’s ANJ Tells Operators: Suspicion Is Not Enough to Withhold Player Funds
ANJ published a practical fraud guide on 31 August 2026, clarifying evidence standards without creating new legal duties. Operators cannot withhold winnings…
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Ethiopia Arrested 38 Betting Firms – They Had No Licences to Begin With
Ethiopian authorities arrested the owners of 38 betting enterprises and froze their accounts as part of a sweeping crackdown across seven sectors.…
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Dutch Lottery Sued Skyhills and It Vanished. So Why Are Fines Still the Main Weapon?
Skyhills N.V., a Curaçao-based operator with no Dutch licence, went offline immediately after Nederlandse Loterij filed civil proceedings against it and all…
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Brazil Raided Flutter’s NSX Group – The Curaçao Question Is Bigger Than One Company
Brazilian authorities froze R$191 million in assets tied to NSX Group and launched 11 tax proceedings seeking a potential BRL 300 million…
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Maarten Haijer Leaves EGBA After 13 years As Secretary General
Maarten Haijer has resigned as secretary general of the European Gaming and Betting Association after 13 years. Pierre Tournier, with EGBA, will…
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Evolution Challenges Black Cube Discovery Request in Protracted Defamation Case
Evolution has urged a New Jersey court to reject a new discovery request from Black Cube in the companies’ long-running defamation dispute.…
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Curaçao Introduces New Remote Identity Verification Rules For Gaming Operators
The Curaçao Gaming Authority, working with the Central Bank of Curaçao and Sint Maarten and the Financial Intelligence Unit Curaçao, has introduced…
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Ireland Built a Gambling Regulator – Now Comes the Part Nobody Prepared For
Since remote betting licences launched on 1 July 2026, the GRAI has issued cease-and-desist orders against a large volume of unlicensed operators,…
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Kalshi’s First Lifetime Ban: How George Santos Turned a Prediction Market Into His Personal ATM
Kalshi imposed a lifetime ban on George Santos and fined him $71,356; this is the very first lifetime ban imposed by Kalshi…
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Sri Lanka Built a Gambling Regulator That Still Cannot Issue a Single Licence
The GRA Act came into force on 1 December 2025, but the subsidiary legislation for issuing licenses has still not been notified…
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Estonia Bet on a Gambling Tax Cut to Fill Its Coffers. Nine Months Later, the PM Is Asking If It Was Worth It
Prime Minister Kristen Michal has ordered an early review of Estonia's phased online gambling tax cut, two years ahead of the originally…
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Brazil’s Betting Sector Pays £1.2bn in Taxes, Then Politicians Try to Bury It
The tax remitted to the Federal Revenue by the licensed betting companies in Brazil between January and July 2026 amounted to R$8.7…
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Botswana Voted 20-1 to Rewrite Its Gambling Rules – Not Everyone Agreed: Why?
Bill No. 15 of 2026 has been passed by the Botswana National Assembly on 13 August with 20 votes in favor to…
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Sweden’s Gambling Market Increased in Q2 – But the Number That Truly Counts Has Gone Unreported
Licensed turnover stood at SEK7.4 billion in Q2 2026, increasing by 5.1% year-on-year, although the commercial online segment increased by more than…
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NorthStar Got Fined CA$100K for AML Failures – That Is Not Even the Worst Part
Player crossed NorthStar's CA$25,000 risk level in the first month. The account remained active for 15 months before the player made any…
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Merkur Is Paying Nearly Triple the Market Price for Seven Small French Casinos – That Should Raise Questions
On 27 August 2026, Merkur agreed to acquire 95% of Casigrangi, the controlling shareholder of Société Française de Casinos, at an implied…
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Dutch Data Exposes Meta’s Illegal Gambling Ad Crisis, and the Numbers Are Getting Worse
Up to 97% of gambling ads reaching Dutch users in May and June 2026 promoted unlicensed operators, per VNLOK's audit of Meta's…
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Caesars Votes Sept. 22 on Fertitta’s $17.6B Deal, and Not Voting Counts Against It
On 22nd September 2026, in Reno, there will be held a special shareholders' meeting will be held to vote on an acquisition…
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Black Cow Set For Major Restructure Amid Financial Issues
JJK Partners signed a majority stake deal but only invested £2.2m, just 17% of Black Cow's share capital, against a £13.2m valuation.…
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