Sports Betting

The Secretariat of Prizes and Betting (SPA) in Brazil announced the suspension of fourteen licensed gambling establishments due to their failure to fulfill their reporting obligations and comply with responsible gambling regulations. After the start of sanction procedures in August 2025, the SPA ex…

Digital borders may be difficult to see, but regulators are increasingly determined to enforce them. Australia’s House has passed a bipartisan gambling reform package featuring an online advertising opt-out register, age and identity checks, and tighter limits on inducements and sports broadcasts.…

Nidhhi Agerwal questioned by ED as illegal betting app investigation widens Asia Ingi Thor Arngrímsson - August 19, 2026 Delivered by PolitePaul service

Chilean Senate Commission Questions Tax Rules for Foreign Online Betting Platforms Latin America Eduardo Krett - August 19, 2026 Delivered by PolitePaul service

The World Cup exposed how closely sports piracy and unregulated gambling now operate, with illegal streams monetizing audiences through betting ads, referrals and repeat impressions. About 174.3 billion qualifying illegal… Delivered by PolitePaul service

Fanatics Betting & Gaming and the National Football League (NFL) have agreed to a multi-year partnership where Fanatics Sportsbook becomes an Official Sports Betting Partner of the NFL. The partnership, expected to be announced before the start of the new season, is not exclusive. The NFL has been…

Polymarket U.S. is beta testing combination bets, also known as combos, ahead of the start of the 2026 football season. The prediction market operator refers to the combined contract wagers as Combinatorial Athletic Outcome Contracts, or CAOCs. Polymarket filed with the Commodity Futures Trading Co…

Novig has filed a lawsuit against Wisconsin, the fifth state the prediction market operator has sued since launching its sports event contracts nationally on Aug. 4, seeking to shield its platform from state sports betting and gambling regulations. The 45-page federal lawsuit was filed in U.S. Dist…

Gambling is seemingly everywhere, but a new Gallup poll suggests fewer Americans are being enticed to participate despite relentless advertising and the public’s growing exposure to casinos, sports betting, lotteries, prediction markets, and iGaming. Gallup, among the most respected public opinion…

Billionaire investor Kenneth Dart is reportedly staring at a $4.2 billion paper loss on his stake in Flutter Entertainment (NYSE: FLUT), but that’s not stopping him from amassing a sizable stake in DraftKings (NASDAQ: DKNG), Flutter’s primary rival in the U.S. A recent DraftKings Form 13G filing wi…

GeoComply and FanDuel Group have agreed to a multi-year partnership renewal that expands the geolocation provider’s technology across FanDuel’s entire product lineup. GeoComply’s partnership with FanDuel dates back 13 years to the operator’s daily fantasy sports days, before FanDuel launched its U.…

Fortuna Entertainment Group (FEG) has finalised the acquisition of a majority stake in Lithuanian sports betting operator TOPsport, expanding its presence across Central and Eastern Europe. The Czech-headquartered sports betting and gaming group initially announced the agreement in March, with plan…

Catalist Sports and Kalshi have announced a first-of-its-kind multi-year partnership that will bring exclusive official live streaming and data rights to one of the fastest-growing segments of the U.S. sports landscape: prediction markets. The post Catalist Sports powers next phase of prediction ma…

Albania has completed the regulatory framework for the return of online sports betting, seven years after a blanket gambling ban pushed much of the market underground, but authorities have yet to open the licensing process. The new regime will permit up to 10 online operators, while betting shops a…

Brazil’s Secretariat of Prizes and Bets (SPA) has ordered the immediate suspension of 14 licensed betting sites after taking seven precautionary measures against operators over failures involving regulatory oversight and responsible gaming controls. The measures, adopted on Friday, followed adminis…

The Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCSC) has moved to block access to Polymarket over a month after entering a dispute with the predictions platform over illegal gambling. At the start of July, South Korean regulatory bodies gave Polymarket the chance to respond to these allegations, al…

Blokotech has unveiled BlokoPredict, a white-label prediction markets platform designed to help operators launch prediction markets without building proprietary trading infrastructure. The solution combines market creation, pricing, settlement, compliance and reporting into a single platform that c…

For many casino operators, expanding into sportsbook remains firmly on the strategic roadmap, but often they fail to reach implementation. The hesitation rarely comes from a lack of opportunity. Instead, it stems from a series of long-standing assumptions: sportsbook is expensive to launch, difficu…