iGaming News & Gambling Industry Updates

Nevada Representatives Steven Horsford and Mark Amodei have introduced the bipartisan Prediction Markets Are Gambling Act, a bill that will prevent federally regulated prediction market platforms from offering sports betting and casino-style event contracts. The proposal would maintain prediction markets around financial, economic and weather events while blocking products believed to function like traditional sports […]

The Gambling Commission has published research measuring consumer trust in Britain’s gambling industry, producing a composite score of 47.9%. The figure was drawn from questions added to the Gambling Survey for Great Britain. Participants rated eight statements covering accountability, transparency, corruption, fairness and the protection of children and vulnerable people. Respondents selected a score between […]

Key Points For the 2026/27 season, Coral becomes Birmingham City’s main sponsor, marking the first instance of a front-of-shirt sponsorship for the 100-year-old betting brand. At the same time, Entain decides to reduce its 52-year-old sponsorship of the Cheltenham Festival due to financial burdens brought by taxes. Unlicensed gambling operators are projected to account for […]

Key Points Flutter’s shares stop trading on the LSE on 31 July 2026, ending a listed lineage dating back to Paddy Power’s float in December 2000. The stock has shed roughly 60% of its value over 12 months, cutting market capitalisation from above $50 billion to around $19 billion. Prediction markets, a rising UK gambling […]

Bragg Gaming Group has appointed Tekkorp Capital founder Matt Davey as non-executive chairman after acquiring Drayton International. Davey, who holds 10.09% of Bragg’s shares through Tekkorp, replaces Holly Gagnon. She has stepped down as chair but will remain a director. The change follows Matevž Mazij’s resignation from the board after shareholders opposed his re-election over […]

Key Points Boyd Interactive growth pushed management to raise full-year online EBITDAR guidance by $5m to a $35m-$40m range, even as reported online revenue fell year-on-year due to the FanDuel market access restructuring. Midwest and South operations delivered $556.9m in revenue, up 3.1%, carrying the quarter while Las Vegas Locals and Downtown continued to drag […]

Key Points Netflix has brought on Ian Hunter, who worked with Stars Group for seven years and was previously with Snap Inc., to oversee the relationships with real money gaming advertisers in their London office. This is Netflix’s first such role. Netflix’s advertising business generated over $1.5 billion in 2025, with the company targeting roughly […]

Key Points The chief executive officer of Lottoland, Nigel Birrell, announced that there was only a redundancy consultation in the Gibraltar office without revealing how many out of 270+ staff members were threatened. United Kingdom remote gaming tax hiked twice from 21% to 40% starting from 1 April 2026, which adversely affected the business of […]

Key Points The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled on 16 July 2026 that Google lost its hosting safe harbour in Case C-421/24 because its pre-admission review of YouTube Partner Programme channels gave it specific knowledge of gambling content. Italy’s Council of State, not the EU court, will deliver the final verdict on […]

Key Points The Nevada Gaming Commission unanimously approved Fertitta CFO Richard Liem and general counsel Steven Scheinthal on 23 July 2026, the most concrete regulatory step taken since the $17.6bn deal was announced in May. Neither company confirmed the transaction’s current status after the go-shop period closed on 11 July, raising questions about Carl Icahn’s […]