Regulation & Law

Returning for its second year on 29 September at SBC Summit 2026, Soft2Bet’s industry-focused educational programme will examine how balancing user satisfaction with regulatory compliance can elevate the player experience, promote sustainable growth, and reinforce responsible gaming. The post Soft2…

Prediction market operator Kalshi has agreed to work with brokerage and financial infrastructure company Alpaca to distribute its event contracts to international users, pending approval from local regulators in each market. Under the arrangement, individuals and businesses that rely on Alpaca's br…

Boom Sports will integrate ProphetX’s federally regulated prediction market exchange into its platform, giving users access to sports event contracts covering game results, individual player performance and season-long futures. The agreement will provide Boom users with a direct in-app route to tra…

Mozzartbet Group will cease operating under its Malta Gaming Authority (MGA) licence from 1 October 2026. The decision will see the international betting operator discontinue Mozzart.com, which has operated under Mozzartbet Malta Limited’s MGA licence since March 2019. A notification of the closure…

Kalshi is certainly not going to let politicians betting on themselves slide, not even in the case of a House of Representatives hopeful who thought she was too small to even register on the platform’s anti-fraud radar. Well, she was wrong, and this type of lawmaker would probably not always mean t…

Oklahoma tribes continue to fret over the looming threat of prediction markets at a time when a legal tug-of-war between gaming regulators and platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket continues. Tribal Nations Speak About Looming Prediction Markets Threat While the suspense builds up, representative…

A woman from Michigan has been charged with three counts of lottery fraud after attempting to scan stolen scratch-off tickets. The woman, who has since been arrested and identified as Keaysha Warren, 23, has been charged with lottery fraud. Michigan Woman Held in South Carolina – Charged with Lotte…

Operator takes up trade association membership as multi-licensing transition approaches.

There are officially just two weeks to go until the inaugural LiGA Summit 2026, where prominent operators, legal experts, affiliates, providers and other industry stakeholders will share their views on Peru’s newly regulated iGaming market and the wider LatAm sector. Taking place on 17 – 18 Septemb…

For gaming businesses looking towards Central Asia, there is more to consider than simply market growth, and in just three weeks, the 3rd annual SPiCE Central Asia 2026 will put those questions directly to the operators, affiliates and providers navigating the region, when it returns to The Biltmor…

Prediction markets have gone from a niche curiosity to one of the most contested questions in global gambling. Are they a financial product, a betting product, or something regulators haven’t caught up to yet? SBC’s new Global Prediction Market Forum will bring the industry’s leading voices togethe…

Šimon Vincze, Head of Sustainable and Safer Gambling at Casino Guru, and Dr Margaret Carran, Assistant VP for Education Partnerships, City St George’s, University of London, have presented the Self-Exclusion Standards Project, a project focused on creating standardized and clear guidelines for how…

SkyCity has concluded the sale of its office building located at 99 Albert Street and the adjacent properties on Victoria Street in Auckland as part of its efforts to bolster its financial position and cut down on debt. New Zealand-listed SkyCity announced on 1 September that the NZ$74.5m (€37.9m)…

Star Entertainment is under fresh scrutiny after internal documents revealed managers had raised safety concerns multiple times about a weakness at its Brisbane casino complex months before the death of a young employee. Internal Reports Raised Sky Deck Safety Concerns Before Employee Death Records…

A new US study has highlighted concerns about gambling-related harm among firefighters, police and emergency medical personnel, finding unusually high levels of gambling participation and links to post-traumatic stress symptoms and military service. Gambling Problems Affect 44% of US First Responde…

France’s gambling authority has warned gambling operators that a mere suspicion of fraudulent activity does not justify blocking payouts or withholding player balances, demand evidence to prove an occurrence of fraud. The Autorité nationale des jeux (ANJ) published new directives regarding gambling…

The Malta Gaming Authority has informed the public regarding a selection of 11 websites pointed out in August 2026 that erroneously profess to be linked with the Authority or have Maltese gaming licenses. According to the Malta Gaming Authority, it has nothing to do with the 11 websites that were l…

The Nederlandse Loterij has taken legal action against Skyhills and its affiliates, alleging that they have permitted Dutch players to engage in gambling activity without the required license. The complaint argues that Skyhills N.V., which operates from Curaçao, is neither licensed by the country’s…