iGaming News & Gambling Industry Updates
Latest iGaming news covering online gambling, sports betting, regulation, casinos and market insights from around the world.
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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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Entain Study Reveals Widespread Confusion Over Illegal Betting Ads Among UK Adults
A new study commissioned by Entain has found that most UK adults struggle to distinguish legal betting promotions from illegal ones on…
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PhilWeb Secures $33m Investment From Lance Gokongwei To Accelerate AI Infrastructure
PhilWeb Corporation has secured a PHP2.03 billion ($33.05 million) strategic investment from Filipino businessman Lance Gokongwei. This follows the company’s transition into…
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Brazil Targets Illegal Betting With New Financial Crackdown
Brazil has unveiled new measures to weaken the country’s illegal betting market by targeting the financial infrastructure used by unlicensed operators. During…
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VNLOK Threatens Meta With Legal Action Over Illegal Gambling Ads
Meta is facing legal action from Dutch gambling trade body VNLOK over claims that illegal gambling adverts keep appearing on Facebook and…
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ESBK Reports A Drop In Swiss Casino Revenue For 2025
The Swiss Federal Casino Commission has reported a decline in casino revenue for 2025, during a year of transition for the regulated…
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Estonia Gambling Tax Cut Fails To Attract Anticipated Operator Rush
Estonia’s decision to reduce online gambling tax has not produced the wave of new operators policymakers that was expected. The reform, approved…
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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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SkyCity Agrees A$21m Settlement Over Adelaide Casino Compliance Failures
SkyCity Entertainment Group has reached an in-principle settlement with South Australia's Commissioner for Liquor and Gambling over compliance failures at its Adelaide…
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China And Myanmar Combine Efforts To Fight Online Gambling And Fraud
Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged Myanmar to strengthen enforcement against online gambling, telecom fraud and other cross-border crimes during talks with…
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Entain Loses EU Trademark Protection For Sportingbet Logo
Entain’s Sportingbet brand has lost trademark protection across most betting and gaming-related goods and services after the EU Intellectual Property Office declared…
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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.…
