Regulation & Law

The Nevada Gaming Commission on Thursday approved a $7.2 million fine against Venetian Las Vegas Gaming LLC, doing business as The Venetian Resort Las Vegas, over failures to stop convicted felon and illegal bookmaker Mathew Bowyer from playing, whose activity at the casino largely occurred between…

Online gambling operator QuinnBet (Gibraltar) Limited has agreed to pay £609,104 ($830,501) after a UK Gambling Commission investigation found failures in its anti-money laundering (AML) and social responsibility controls. The settlement followed a compliance review of QuinnBet's remote gambling li…

Denmark has blocked prediction market platform Polymarket as part of a wider crackdown on unlicensed gambling websites. Polymarket is one of 98 gambling websites blocked by the Danish Gambling Authority (Spillemyndigheden) after the Frederiksberg Court ruled that the sites were offering gambling se…

Encore Boston Harbor is facing a worker strike if the Wynn Resorts property doesn’t meet the contract demands of its two largest employee unions. Unite Here Local 26 and Teamsters Local 25 represent some 1,350 workers employed as housekeepers, cooks, servers, bartenders, slot attendants, and wareho…

Eventus International has confirmed that SPiCE International 2026 will take place November 12-13 in Cebu, Philippines, bringing operators, suppliers, investors, regulators, government officials, technology companies, and other gaming industry participants together for a two-day exhibition and confe…

A third-division football game in Finland has caused match-fixing suspicions, and for a country in the midst of overhauling its gambling system this may lead to further concern. HIFK welcomed Atlantis to their Töölö home arena last week. The match produced a total of eight goals, with HIFK losing a…

Better Collective maintains its full-year 2026 guidance which is expected to be achieved on the significant turnaround of commercial activities in North American markets. H1 accounts saw group income stand at €175m (£150m), up 7% on 2025 results of €164m 2025, combined with EBITDA before special it…

The debate around prediction markets has often surrounded issues such as whether they constitute gambling, and whether they are fair, i.e., whether insiders are abusing their knowledge to “fade the crowd” and secure a financial outcome by abusing their privileged information. ACDC Report Warns abou…

Australia’s Labor government secured parliamentary approval for the widest ranging package of gambling reforms the country has seen in decades this week. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s government announced on 20 August that the Interactive Gambling Amendment (Gambling Reform) Bill 2026 had been…

Ending seven years of prohibition, Albania is ready to bring online sports betting from the shadows and back into the national economy. Prime Minister Edi Rama has acknowledged that prohibition failed to eliminate demand, with betting instead moving offshore and underground. A new regime seeks to r…

A man in Mississippi pleaded guilty on Wednesday to having spent more than $1 million gambling while evading $2 million in federal income taxes, an official statement by federal prosecutors read. The case was detailed by Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald of the Justice Department’s National…

The return of the Premier League traditionally triggers one of the most intense customer acquisition periods on the sportsbook calendar. Operators compete across paid media, affiliates, sponsorship, CRM and promotions to capture the surge in betting interest surrounding the opening fixtures. Yet ri…

The Affiliate Leaders Summit 2026 will tackle rising advertising regulation, emerging market opportunities and the future of the affiliate model through its dedicated Future of Affiliate Strategy track. The post Affiliate Leaders Summit 2026 to explore the next era of affiliate growth first appeare…

The Dutch Gaming Authority (KSA) has found that gambling activity increases sharply when young people reach the legal age, with 11% of accounts opened by 18-year-olds created on their birthday. The findings have renewed debate over gambling protections for young adults. The KSA examined 15,761 newl…

Virginia’s casino industry is bracing itself for yet another record year as gaming revenue keeps climbing and construction advances on two major casino resorts. 21% YoY Increase The Virginia Lottery, responsible for regulating casino gaming and online sports betting in the commonwealth, shared that…

Kangwon Land Inc, the only business in South Korea permitted to run a resort with a casino open to locals, paid more in national and local taxes and contributions to “funds” in 2025 than the country’s foreigner-only casino segment combined. That is according to data issued by the National Gambling…

The Premier League starts again tonight, and one of the key changes that some viewers may not be aware of is the voluntary ban on front-of-shirt gambling sponsorships. Many will view this as a win – I’ve consistently cited a YouGov poll which showed that 77% of those surveyed agreed with the ban. A…

SkyCity Entertainment Group announced a year-on-year decline in EBITDA by 22.3% for FY26, which was caused by decline in casino revenues and increasing operating costs. EBITDA fell to NZ$181.6 million ($107.7 million) for the year ended June 30, while underlying revenues have declined by 0.3% to NZ…