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The 15-year concession for the Brussels casino, estimated at €750m, was retained by Napoleon Games on November 5. The city re-reviewed the bids at the request of the Council of State after the initial award was suspended in July.
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12 years and 6 months in prison received by former Macau legislator Au Kam San for leaking casino licence data.
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Panama's gambling market handled $2.49bn in bets in January-September 2026, up 16.6% year on year.
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UKRegulatorsiGaming TimesThe court ordered football club president Sebastião Lauze Queiroz de Amorim back to house arrest in Cuiabá due to a serious heart disease.
He was detained in 2025 in Operation Ludus Sordidus on suspicion of drug trafficking and illegal betting.
The House Education Subcommittee will examine student sports betting on Wednesday morning.
Its four witnesses are three campus health and prevention specialists and one state regulator, with no operator, league or NCAA voice.
USASportsRegulatorsiGaming TimesThe 2026 Brazilian Cup final will for the first time be played as a single match on Sunday, December 6, at Mané Garrincha Arena in Brasília.
Grêmio has already secured one of two spots, and the other will be decided by Vasco against Palmeiras on Sunday the 8th.
BrazilSportsIndustryBrasil 247IGT and MGM Springfield launched the first slots with WAP progressive jackpots in Massachusetts.
These are the first such slots in the state.
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DGOJ published details of its participation in a meeting of European regulators in Germany.
SpainGermanyRegulatorsSBC NoticiasSfera FC entered into a partnership with Barcelona for player development in Brazil.
The contract covers athlete support, exchanges and the possibility of transfers to the Catalan club's youth teams.
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On 12 November the Buenos Aires committee will consider a bill that taxes operators at 100% of their advertising spend.
The bill also bans bonuses.
ArgentinaRegulatorsiGaming TimesThe Florida Gambling Commission launched its first week of awareness about illegal betting.
The regulator warns users about unlicensed bookmaker sites.
UKSportsRegulatorsWFTVCOAF president Ricardo Andrade Saadi confirmed that legal bookmakers reported suspicious transactions, while illegal ones did not.
Illegal bookmakers were tracked only by banks.
STF minister Luiz Fux blocked requests from 29 bookmakers to resume operations until the court rules on the case.
Among them are Blaze and EstrelaBet, which contest the provisional measure that banned online betting.
BrazilSportsRegulatorsICL NotíciasDraftKings urged parents to talk with teenagers about betting.
FanDuel is funding videos for parents; 42.7% of teens aged 13-17 placed bets last year.
USASportsRegulatorsiGaming TimesThe UK Gambling Commission launched an Illegal Gambling Index, while a survey found 4% online engagement.
UKRegulatorsiGamingToday.comFlutter said that FanDuel took 23% of the Alberta market in its first months of operation.
The company expressed surprise at early results in Alberta that far exceeded its expectations.
USACanadaIndustryCanadian Gaming BusinessOn Friday, a Brazilian court suspended the licences of three bookmakers that a judge had previously authorised.
This happened despite a ban from President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
BrazilSportsRegulatorsYahooAccor and Hard Rock have signed a global loyalty, distribution and hotel agreement.
Hard Rock Hotels will gain access to the Accor loyalty platform with 125 million members.
The Massachusetts Gaming Commission is reviewing 22 bets totalling $21,800 placed by Bill Simmons through another person.
The commission has scheduled a hearing on the FanDuel case.
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The CFTC received 11 comments on its proposal on sports event contracts.
The regulator is awaiting views from major operators and states.
USASportsRegulatorsGambling InsiderThe Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) criticised Channel 4 for distorting the picture of the regulated bookmaking and gaming industry in Britain.
The programme Million Pound Shot showed prohibited or tightly controlled practices.
UKSportsRegulatorsYogonetPalmeiras Football Club has entered the final of the Brazilian Cup.
In 2026 it could receive more than R$ 350 million in prizes, and the club also competes for the Copa Libertadores and Brazilian Championship titles.
BrazilSportsIndustryMKT EsportivoIn Haiti, a National Gambling Commission has been established to regulate casinos, bets and lotteries.
Operators must pay license fees and taxes exclusively through the tax service.
Pragmatic Play expanded its partnership with Rank Group, adding live casino tables to its portfolio.
Under the agreement, Rank Group now receives access to blackjack, roulette, auto-roulette and speed auto-roulette tables.
A U.S. federal judge temporarily banned Kalshi from offering sports contracts on the lands of two California tribes.
The Court of Appeal found that the tribes are likely to show the contracts are class III gambling.
USASportsRegulatorsFocus Gaming NewsOn November 9, 2026, the International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR) launched a search tool for verifying licences.
Awareness week on illegal online gambling runs until November 13.
The British Horseracing Authority calculated that for every 100 visits to licensed horse racing betting sites, there are 19.4 visits to illegal sites.
The study measures web traffic, not money.
UKSportsRegulatorsiGaming TimesThe Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) expects losses of R$420m in 2027 due to the ban on online betting.
BrazilSportsRegulatorsiGaming BrazilTikTok Shop has banned sweepstakes casinos and chance-based sales in the U.S.
The ban applies to sellers and content creators.
USACasinoRegulatorsgamblingindustrynews.comOn November 5, 2026, the UK Gambling Commission published new survey data on the extent of consumer engagement with illegal gambling websites.
It is part of its work to build better evidence and disrupt illegal markets.
UKRegulatorsUKGCIn October, casino revenue in the US state of Maryland declined year over year.
It marks the sixth consecutive month of year-on-year declines.
USACasinoIndustryInterGame OnlineThe Brazilian government plans to push priority laws through Congress in 2026, before its composition changes.
They include the budget, a bill to end betting and issues involving big tech companies.
BrazilSportsRegulatorsBrasil 247Kanggiten has entered into a partnership with Endorphina to expand gaming content on its B2B platform.
The deal gives operators access to another vetted studio.
The Association of Argentine State Lotteries ALEA held its 70th extraordinary meeting and discussion cycle in Puerto Madryn.
Representatives of 20 jurisdictions took part in the event.
ArgentinaLotteriesRegulatorsSBC NoticiasThe Supreme Federal Court of Brazil suspended legal proceedings brought by companies seeking to resume operations.
The ruling does not resolve disputes over licences and compensation.
BrazilRegulatorsVEJAIndonesia's Financial Services Authority ordered banks to block 39,923 accounts suspected of links to illegal online betting.
The regulator is also expanding checks on customers and linked accounts.
In the UK, 40 organisations have been provisionally awarded £39.7 million from the statutory levy fund to address gambling harm.
The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) is distributing the funds.
UKRegulatorsInterGame OnlineAsturias classifies promotion of gambling among minors as a serious offence.
The new Child and Adolescence Law sets specific rules against advertising gambling and online betting to children.
Brazil's Regional Federal Court (TRF-3) granted operator CDA Gaming a precautionary measure.
Brazil's Attorney General's Office is appealing the decision.
BrazilRegulatorsSBC NoticiasDraftKings responded to a US Congressional inquiry and denied using technology to exploit vulnerable consumers.
Senator Richard Blumenthal and Congressmen Paul Tonko and Valerie Foushee wrote a letter to the bookmaker.
USASportsRegulatorsGamblingnews.comCasino industry leaders praise the potential of the Texas market, as recent political shifts have revived hopes for legalization in the state.
USACasinoRegulatorsGlobal Gaming InsiderAGOK called on Kenya's Senate to completely annul gambling control regulations over alleged enactment errors.
The Gambling Control Act 2026 is partly in force, but some of its provisions face severe scrutiny.
From 30 October, Google expanded personalised betting ads on YouTube in the US, UK and Canada.
Prediction markets were added to its targeting rules for sensitive categories, but their operators face specific restrictions.
UKUSAPrediction marketsCRM and retentionYogonet LatAmA bill to regulate online betting in Buenos Aires province keeps gaining backing from municipalities.
The 64-article bill would set up a comprehensive regime for gambling prevention and control.
ArgentinaSportsRegulatorsYogonet LatAm10 companies, including Coinbase and Polymarket, received cease-and-desist letters from the Ohio Casino Control Commission over sports event contracts.
The regulator considers them illegal under state law, and some firms are already complying.
USASportsRegulatorsGamblingnews.comFour CS2 teams will compete at PGL Major Singapore 2026 under temporary names and logos due to local gambling advertising laws.
The affected teams are BC.GAME, 1win Esports, BETBOOM and PARIVISION.
Ireland's Department of Justice is pushing for a full ban on gambling advertising as soon as it is legally and operationally feasible.
The Gambling Regulation Act 2024 is now being implemented with the involvement of the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland (GRAI).
The Dominican Republic's gambling regulator named seven authorised online operators and warned that around 81 operators lack state permission.
It is developing licensing rules under the country's new gambling framework.
PG Soft lost ground in October's monthly ranking of top slots in Latin America.
The studio, which had been challenging Spribe and Pragmatic Play, has plummeted in the tracker.
A federal judge expedited the CFTC's lawsuit against Utah over prediction markets.
First filings are due November 10, with a hearing set for November 20.
USAPrediction marketsRegulatorsGambling InsiderPanama's gambling market handled $2.49bn in bets in January-September 2026, up 16.6% year on year.
The same period a year earlier totalled $2.14bn, according to the Comptroller General's office.
TaDa Gaming expands its African footprint through a partnership with Kenya-based operator OdiBets.
The localised casino content is now live for OdiBets players.
The Philippines gaming market shrank 11.41% as Q3 2026 gross gaming revenue came in at PHP 83.7bn (£985.2m).
It is the third straight quarterly decline, and PAGCOR links the slow recovery to Middle East uncertainty.
PhilippinesIndustryiGaming ExpertEvoplay signed an expanded deal with St8 to widen its content reach in Ontario.
Its slots and instant games will become available to operators in the province through St8's aggregation platform.
CanadaCasinoDeals and M&Aigaming.newsBeykoz Chief Prosecutor's Office in Turkey launched an operation against 25 suspects who provided bank accounts to illegal betting sites.
They are also accused of mediating money transfers for these sites.
Kenya's gambling regulator GRA published a list of 11 operators licensed for the 2026/2027 financial year.
In a letter dated 2 November 2026 to Safaricom CEO Peter Ndegwa, it set out their trading names and licence numbers.
Supplier Inspired cut its EBITDA guidance over Brazil, where a regulated market is being shut down and accounts for about 5% of revenue.
Interactive growth slowed to 3% with the 40% remote gaming duty now in force in the UK.
BrazilUKDeals and M&AiGaming Times$426m payment scheme for online casinos uncovered in Kazakhstan.
Payments went to 1win, Pin-Up, Pinco, Vavada, Mostbet, Nomadgames and Sultangames.
Illegal betting and fraud scheme involving about R$40m busted by police in seven Brazilian states and the US.
12 temporary arrest and 27 search warrants were executed in Goiás and six other states, with Interpol engaged over a suspect living in the US.
BrazilUSASportsRegulatorsG1Macquarie kept Genius Sports at Outperform with an $11 price target after a third-quarter beat.
The analyst says the fourth quarter could be one of the largest beats in the sector.
Kalshi filed with the SEC for rules on perpetual security futures, opening public comments on them.
This could speed up equity-linked contracts for newly listed companies.
USAPrediction marketsRegulatorsBitcoin FoundationOn 6 November, Cambodia linked all 18 revoked casino licences to the Prince Group network.
The revocations are not new, but the attribution went to 46 diplomats a day after Washington's third round of Prince Group sanctions.
USACasinoRegulatorsiGaming Times€840k in penalties for non-compliance recovers Dutch regulator Kansspelautoriteit from 3-102-897762 LTDA.
The order with penalty payments was imposed by a 6 March 2026 decision, and the penalties were forfeited automatically by law.
NetherlandsRegulatorsKSA NetherlandsJustice Fux suspended all lawsuits against the betting provisional measure nationwide until Brazil's Supreme Court rules.
At the Prosecutor General's request, he called fixed-odds betting a recognisably harmful activity.
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Chilean police shut down an illegal casino with 71 slot machines.
The raid targeted a gambling outlet that operated outside the law and had no government permit.
ChileCasinoRegulatorse-play.pl$2.79bn of mobile sports betting handle set a new New York record in October, the state's best result for the mobile segment.
USASportsIndustryInterGame OnlineGambling Policy Commission will assess existing UK legislation and the 2023 white paper.
The commission of economists and academics has opened a call for evidence, and a new gambling act is an option.
UKRegulatorsEGR IntelOklahoma's ban on online sweepstakes gaming took effect on November 1, but three of four major sweepstakes poker operators left the state earlier.
Clubs Poker and Stake.us withdrew on October 30, two days before Senate Bill 1589 came into force.
USAPokerRegulatorsPoker Industry PROBrazil loses all licensed bookmakers: from 9:00 on Monday no regulated operator is running.
BNLData's editor staked R$80 at Casa de Apostas and won R$215.20.
BrazilSportsRegulatorsBNLDataAGCOM's consultation on gambling advertising in Italy nears its deadline.
It covers proposed changes to the exclusions in AGCOM's 2019 guidelines implementing Italy's gambling advertising law.
ItalyCRM and retentioniGaming Express$185k in two Kalshi trades on Wednesday, November 4, bet on Cincinnati qualifying for the 2027 NCAA men's basketball tournament.
Each trade was $92,500, and they came 19 minutes apart.
USASportsIndustryGamblingnews.comCanada's Digicann Ventures signed a binding share-exchange agreement with Winning Asia Technology Macau.
If completed, it would be a reverse takeover, and the company would be renamed Auronexa Technologies Inc.
CanadaDeals and M&AGGRAsiaItalian authorities seized gaming machines and Totem terminals that do not comply with the rules in Canosa di Puglia.
The ADM customs and monopolies agency and the Guardia di Finanza in Barletta ran the operation against illegal gambling.
ItalyRegulatorsJamma Italy12 years and 6 months in prison received by former Macau legislator Au Kam San for leaking casino licence data.
First public national security case in Macau: prosecutors allege he passed confidential data to outside organisations.
7% of Brazilians cite betting and social media as reasons for hope in Lula's new government.
A ban is not even among the top promises voters demand, and they talk about regulation instead.
BrazilSportsIndustryBNLDataAbout $14m of EBITDA in Q3 2026 cost Melco poor VIP luck at City of Dreams Macau.
City of Dreams Cyprus posted record EBITDA, and buybacks continued.
Hacksaw Gaming launches its games in Mexico on the Brazino777 platform.
Its slots and instant-win games are now available to local players.
MexicoCasinoDeals and M&AThe GamblestSouth Korean casino operator Paradise confirmed interest in an investment tied to the proposed purchase of Maison Glad Jeju hotel on Jeju.
No decision has been made yet, the company said in a regulatory filing on Monday.
Brazil's provisional measure on betting entered an accelerated procedure, though no joint committee has been formed yet.
CNN analysts expect the measure to be approved, and point to Lula's "Army" as the government's main asset.
BrazilRegulatorsBNLDataBookmaker SortenaBet is under fire from Procon, Brazil's consumer protection agency, over betting ads aimed at children.
BrazilSportsRegulatorsMetrópoles1,175 illegal sites a day are being blocked since provisional measure 1394 took effect, ten times the previous pace.
The block count measures enforcement effort, not results: illegal online casino supply has not shrunk.
BrazilCasinoRegulatorsBNLDataTanzania's Public Investments Committee praised GBT for its work on 7 November and called for stronger regulation.
The gaming sector, the MPs said, should serve the national economy and protect the public interest.
In a national broadcast, Lula repeated the claim that shutting down betting operators did not boost retail sales or industrial output.
IGet data shows a 2.1% drop in October sales, while IBGE recorded an industrial decline.
BrazilSportsRegulatorsBNLDataMacau's gaming regulator approved three more slot games from supplier IGT.
Two of them are designed for the RISE55 cabinet, and the approvals were listed under IGT Asia, Macau Ltd.
Spain's regulator DGOJ explained how its algorithm works to protect online casino players.
One of its goals is to flag behaviour linked to problem gambling early.
SpainCasinoRegulatorsRevista Casino PeruThe US regulator CFTC demands that prediction markets drop geographic restrictions.
Courts and state regulators meanwhile keep challenging sports event contracts.
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