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24 files
Enforcement & illegal markets
Ukraine asks iGaming suppliers to cut off unlicensed casinos but sets no deadline
Ukraine · Fact Check
France orders Polymarket blocked after its geoblocking was circumvented
France · Watch Explained
Sweden warns SPRIBE over software supplied to operators without required licences
Sweden · Watch Explained
Police find 16 illegal betting terminals as £110,000-plus cash and gold are seized
Great Britain · Watch Brief
Brazil's Jogo de Sombras probe: R$5bn moved is not R$5bn in criminal proceeds
Brazil · Fact Check
Brazil suspends 14 betting domains in seven precautionary orders
Brazil · Timeline
PAGCOR says roughly half of online gaming sites accessed in the Philippines are illegal
Philippines · Fact Check
Australia adds Casea and Crown96 to a blocklist now covering 1,788 gambling sites
Australia · Watch Brief
A fake LightningBet lookalike joined Australia's 1,774-site blocklist in July
Australia · Watch Brief
Brazil's Operation Conto da Sorte targets an alleged network - R$145m is a ceiling
Brazil · Watch Brief
Brazil's Operation Slots links illegal betting promotion to a R$951.1m asset block
Brazil · Watch Brief
Brazil betting probe tracks 87 suspected shell companies and crypto transfers
Brazil · Watch Brief
Danish court orders 98 gambling sites blocked, taking the official total to 870
Denmark · Watch Brief
A $75m eSports World Cup ended in Paris - betting on it was still illegal in France
France · Watch Brief
Michigan tells 45 offshore gambling operators to stop taking bets
Michigan, United States · Watch Brief
Chestoption's €3.082m Dutch fine over Vave offer becomes final without an objection
Netherlands · Watch Explained
Dutch regulator's record €24.846m Novatech fine could have exceeded €100m without legal cap
Netherlands · Watch Explained
Two arrested in Bristol illegal-casino investigation after Lower College Street raid
Great Britain · Watch Brief
Brazil's R$1bn betting order is not a R$1bn seizure - what Operation Arena actually says
Brazil · Timeline
Three machines, $1,200 in gift cards and no arrests: inside Michigan's pub search
Michigan, United States · Watch Brief
Australia is blocking gambling sites that mimic licensed betting brands
Australia · Fact Check
Australian court orders A$24.24m penalties over prohibited online poker
Australia · Watch Explained
MGA warns three casino websites are using false Malta licence claims
Malta · Fact Check
Why Evolution's £4.75m UK settlement changes the risk for game suppliers
Great Britain · Watch Explained
21 files
Player protection & gambling harm
Massachusetts opens exclusion route for bettors found to have harassed athletes
Massachusetts · Watch Explained
Massachusetts study: young adults described sports betting as low-risk entertainment
Massachusetts · Watch Explained
Spain's cross-operator deposit limits start in March 2027, not immediately
Spain · Watch Explained
Dutch court cuts Casino Zoetermeer Cruks fine to €21,500; higher appeal remains possible
Netherlands · Watch Explained
UK arcade operator fined £150,000 after ignoring self-exclusion scheme requirement
Great Britain · Watch Brief
Brazil's blocked betting-user groups equal about one in ten active accounts
Brazil · Watch Explained
Ksa fines 711 €886,000 after breaches in all 10 high-risk files reviewed
Netherlands · Watch Explained
Betty Gaming ordered to pay C$120,000 after 23 underage users opened Ontario accounts
Canada (Ontario) · Watch Explained
Crown and The Star fined A$2.25m after the same 16-year-old entered 22 times
New South Wales, Australia · Watch Explained
France fined an online operator €500,000 after reviewing 30 high-risk players
France · Watch Brief
France's risk algorithm flagged 600,000 accounts linked to 60% of tracked gambling losses
France · Watch Brief
Malta tested self-exclusion across 20 licensees and found gaps between brands
Malta · Watch Explained
A one-year-old was left in an 80°F casino car for 2 hours 41 minutes, Pennsylvania regulator says
Pennsylvania, United States · Watch Brief
Sweden's new Spelpaus rule defines when a self-exclusion check actually counts
Sweden · Watch Explained
13% of young people think peers used VPNs to reach online gambling, UK study estimates
Great Britain · Fact Check
Brazil offers 100,000 gambling telehealth slots a month - capacity is not usage
Brazil · Watch Explained
A regulator-backed gambling risk model is now open source - but it is not a compliance shield
Netherlands · Watch Explained
Ksa upholds bet365 direction over limits reaching 103% of calculated monthly income
Netherlands · Watch Explained
Betfred operator pays £900,000 after £17,900 loss in 24 hours went without another interaction
Great Britain · Watch Explained
UK sets £5,000 first-stage trigger for financial risk assessments
Great Britain · Watch Explained
Dutch studies find gambling reaches children years before the legal age
Netherlands · Watch Explained
13 files
AML, fraud & integrity
Curaçao gives existing remote-KYC systems until May 2027 to meet liveness and audit rules
Curaçao · Watch Explained
Gambling Commission suspends BresBet and Bet St George while AML reviews run
Great Britain · Watch Brief
Nevada finalises $7.2m Venetian settlement over illegal-bookmaker AML failures
Nevada, United States · Fact Check
Only one in five reported suspected match-fixing contact in Norway's survey
Norway · Watch Brief
Great Canadian faces C$170,000 in penalties over reporting and monitoring failures
Canada (Ontario) · Watch Explained
BetMGM fined $100,000 after four fraud rings opened 2,024 betting accounts
Pennsylvania, United States · Watch Explained
Sweden ends the AML exemption for commercial land casinos on 1 September
Sweden · Watch Brief
AI-generated identities enter Britain's high-risk casino warning
Great Britain · Watch Brief
Betano operator reported to Danish police after one customer deposited DKK 199,500 in 16 days
Denmark · Watch Explained
Atlantic Lottery paid C$212,025 after a FINTRAC exam - what the penalty does not allege
Canada · Fact Check
3,000 stolen identities and $3m in gambling promos: what the federal case actually alleges
Connecticut, United States · Timeline
QuinnBet settles for £609,104 after UK regulator finds AML and safer-gambling failures
Great Britain · Watch Brief
Danish regulator stops Inpay taking new online gambling clients over AML failures
Denmark · Watch Brief
11 files
Advertising, affiliates & platforms
Dutch regulator intervenes over Mbappé name and shirt-number gambling ads
Netherlands · Watch Explained
Dutch regulator moves to collect €675,000 from three companies tied to illegal casino ads
Netherlands · Watch Explained
Spain fines Zona Gemelos company over links promoting unlicensed operator Locowin
Spain · Watch Explained
ACMA issues its first influencer enforcement action over Jamie Mullarkey gambling promotion
Australia · Watch Explained
Australia passes broad gambling reforms on sports ads, celebrities and online keno
Australia · Watch Explained
Brazil's betting-ad rule reaches creators, affiliates, platforms and app stores
Brazil · Watch Brief
Coljuegos fines influencer Yeferson Cossio COP116m over Instagram promotion
Colombia · Fact Check
Spain is putting influencers, sign-up offers and Google results into one gambling-law rewrite
Spain · Watch Brief
Illegal raffles can look like TikTok LIVE - UK research maps the payment trail
Great Britain · Watch Brief
A single article linking to GG.bet cost Danish publisher ACR Teknik DKK 20,000
Denmark · Watch Explained
Brazil asks Google and Apple to explain betting-app age and licence checks
Brazil · Watch Explained
13 files
Licensing & regulatory change
Ukraine approved 94 gambling-harm tasks without a national prevalence baseline
Ukraine · Watch Explained
New Zealand starts screening operators for 15 online-casino licences
New Zealand · Timeline
CSA and CIRO reject dealer route for sports and entertainment event contracts
Canada · Watch Explained
Austria's draft would open online gambling licences from October 2027
Austria · Watch Brief
UK rejects three fee options, then chooses a 25% Gambling Commission increase
United Kingdom · Watch Explained
Nine European regulators put prediction-market partnerships on notice
Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland · Watch Brief
Finland drew 50 licence applications before its gambling market even opens
Finland · Watch Brief
France put Sorare and CYLIMIT inside a three-year Web3 gaming experiment
France · Watch Brief
Ireland opened its new betting licence portal - an application is not yet permission to trade
Ireland · Watch Brief
Sweden closes five lottery reviews with three remarks and two fee-backed warnings
Sweden · Watch Brief
The UAE gaming regulator now has a formal information channel with Abu Dhabi finance
United Arab Emirates · Watch Explained
Brazil opened 2,000 pages behind 85 betting authorisations - here is what they can prove
Brazil · Watch Explained
Britain's new machine rule can trigger immediate removal - but only after written notice
Great Britain · Watch Brief
11 files
Courts, disputes & governance
LeoVegas loses objection to €500,000 Dutch player-protection fine; court filing not disclosed
Netherlands · Watch Explained
Swedish court upholds SEK 12m Videoslots sanction - but wipes out SEK 8m Roar Vegas case
Sweden · Watch Explained
Ninth Circuit affirms loss of Kalshi's Nevada sports-contract injunction
Nevada, United States · Watch Explained
Canadian casino-revenue body appeals a C$91,162.50 AML penalty
Alberta, Canada · Watch Brief
Jackpotbet bankruptcy sends Danish players to a trustee as a separate funds case reaches court
Denmark · Timeline
Malta's gaming review found too much decision-making concentrated in too few hands
Malta · Watch Explained
Winzon lost its Malta licence and faces €147,080 in penalties - refunds remain separate
Malta · Fact Check
Kalshi is caught between a Michigan stop order and a federal command to honour trades
Michigan, United States · Watch Brief
New York's prediction-market fight now names Kalshi, Coinbase and Gemini
New York, United States · Timeline
New York calls Valve loot boxes illegal gambling - the $1m skin is still an allegation
New York, United States · Fact Check
National Lottery challenge hits another wall as appeal permission is refused
Great Britain · Watch Brief
17 files
Markets, products & data
New Jersey casino-industry revenue rose 0.9% while operating profit fell 10.1%
New Jersey · Fact Check
Ontario hit C$9.884bn in July wagers; 89% came from online casino
Ontario · Fact Check
Swedish licensed gambling reached SEK7.4bn as Spelpaus registrations dipped 0.7%
Sweden · Watch Brief
Brazil tax ruling explains the annual calculation for betting prizes
Brazil · Watch Explained
Brazil says bettors must calculate annual 15% tax on net betting prizes
Brazil · Watch Explained
Booming Games accepts C$70,000 Ontario penalty over prohibited auto-play
Canada (Ontario) · Watch Brief
DraftKings connected poker players across Michigan, Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Michigan, Pennsylvania and New Jersey · Watch Brief
France's World Cup betting hit €1.3bn, but only one in four players avoided a loss
France · Watch Brief
Massachusetts sportsbooks posted $65.56m in taxable revenue in one July
Massachusetts · Watch Brief
Michigan online gambling crossed $346m in July even as betting handle fell
Michigan, United States · Watch Brief
Dutch gambling tax rise was meant to add €216m. The forecast says €57m
Netherlands · Watch Brief
Vbet warned again after World Cup microbets crossed Dutch integrity rules
Netherlands · Watch Brief
New Jersey gaming hit $678m in July as online casino win reached $276.9m
New Jersey, United States · Watch Brief
Pennsylvania gaming reached $591m in July - and $249m came from iGaming
Pennsylvania, United States · Watch Brief
Sweden's licensed gambling market reached SEK6.7bn as Spelpaus neared 138,000 users
Sweden · Watch Brief
The UK regulator's new gambling trust score landed at 47.9 out of 100
Great Britain · Watch Brief
Stakelogic pays £122,835 after a manual stopwatch missed 16 UK slot games running too fast
Great Britain · Watch Explained