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Swedish Gambling Regulator Seeks Stronger Safeguards In EU Anti-Money Laundering Reforms
Spelinspektionen has warned that proposed changes to Sweden’s anti-money laundering laws could complicate gambling supervision and weaken access to information needed for…
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Georgia Approves International Gambling Tournament Rules And Conditional Fee Exemption
Georgia’s Parliament has approved gambling amendments requiring foreign nationals to account for at least 80% of participants in qualifying international tournaments. Events…
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Sri Lanka Sets December Deadline For Delayed Gambling Regulations
Sri Lanka’s Gambling Regulatory Authority (GRA) has set 31 December 2026 as its deadline to publish regulations covering casino operations, betting and…
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KSA Orders Endorphina to Block Games on Illegal Dutch Sites
Between January and September 2026, inspectors found no problem accessing Dutch gamblers on 27 unlicensed sites, and they did it 41 times.…
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Romania Reviews Gambling Laws Amid Regulatory Uncertainty
Romania's gambling regulator has changed the team working on the country's gambling laws, but they're not saying whether it'll be a complete…
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Spain Requires Gambling Operators To Verify Ownership Of Every Payment Method
Spain’s licensed online gambling operators must verify that each player owns the payment methods used for deposits and withdrawals under new anti-money…
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Colombia Bill 477 Targets Online Betting With 19% VAT
Bill 477 is a proposal to reintroduce 19% VAT on online betting deposits and hike the tax on prizes to a whopping…
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Nova Scotia Weighs Risks of Online Gambling Expansion
John Lohr says that the government is talking about expanding Nova Scotia's online gambling market, but at the moment, they haven't made…
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Malta’s Licence Crackdown Loses Some Steam
NEXT.io managed to get hold of some info that the MGA has ditched its standard legal opinion template, which is a major…
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Chile’s Mixed Signals on Betting 22% Tax, but Zero Adverts
Let's get down to brass tacks, the 22% tax is on the money operators take in minus what they pay out in…
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Star Entertainment Ordered To Pay AU$260 Million Over Money-Laundering Failures
Australia’s Federal Court has imposed an AU260 million (182 million) penalty on The Star Entertainment Group for breaches of anti-money laundering and…
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UK Gambling Industry Warns MGD Increase Could Accelerate Illegal Market Growth
UK gambling businesses and advisers have warned that raising machine games duty (MGD) to 25% could intensify pressure on licensed operators and…
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UK Betting Industry Warns Machine Duty Increase Threatens Shops And Jobs
Britain’s betting industry has criticised the increase in machine games duty (MGD) from 20% to 25%, warning of further closures, employment losses…
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Italy Probe Alleges ADM Official Helped Slot-Machine Network Evade Inspections
Italian prosecutors allege that an ADM official accepted payments to disclose inspection information to a network suspected of tampering with gaming machines…
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Tether.bet Faces Scrutiny Over Documents Used To Obtain Curaçao Licence
Tether.bet allegedly obtained its Curaçao licence using false documents, according to an investigation discussed by SBC News. The high-stakes operator closed in…
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Finland Approves 18 Gambling Licences From 81 Applications
Only 18 of 81 hopefuls have got their licence and we're expecting each one to take a whopping six to eight months.…
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Paraguay Plans New Gambling Regulator Amid Oversight Concerns
Just a handful of officials, 12 of them in total, are keeping an eye on gambling across the whole country in 263…
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Chile Proposes Major Changes to Online Betting Laws
The government has put forward a set of amendments that include a five-year licence to operate, an additional 3% tax which will…
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The Star Gold Coast Licence Suspension Delayed to 2027
The Queensland Government has pushed back the planned 90-day licence suspension for The Star Gold Coast to 31 March 2027, allowing the…
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Brazil Betting Ban Faces Supreme Court Hearing on 3 November
The Supreme Court is set to hear the dispute over the ban on the 3rd November, but don't expect the ban to…
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