Regulation & Law

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…

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has initiated legal action against numerous prominent sweepstakes casino providers, including Stake, Chumba Casino, LuckyLand, and Global Poker, in a bid to terminate their activities and retrieve money that consumers purportedly lost. The lawsuits were lodge…

A player who wins $100,000 and loses $100,000 this year now owes federal tax on $10,000 they never kept. The 90% cap on gambling loss deductions applies from the 2026 tax year, and the venues competing hardest with licensed sportsbooks are not clearly bound by it. We spoke with John Isaac, Editor a…

QuinnBet, an online bookmaker, has settled a case with the UK Gambling Commission by paying £609,104 ($830,501) due to a review which found a number of serious issues regarding the company’s anti-money laundering and safe gambling practices. This settlement covers issues from March 2023 to August 2…

In the first of a five-part roundtable series, SBC Media asks some of the leading voices from across the iGaming industry about the trends, challenges, tips and tricks that are shaping the marketing landscape in 2026 and beyond. For part one, we spoke to Martin Hodges (Co-Founder and CMO, BetComply…

BetStop has recorded over 67,000 registrations in three years, with 78% of users under 40 and 38% choosing lifetime exclusion. The post BetStop registrations top 67,000 three years after Australian launch first appeared on Asia Gaming News | AGB - Asia Gaming Brief.

A man who allegedly ran amok with a kitchen knife in a restaurant at Northern California’s Thunder Valley Casino Resort on Wednesday (August 19) has been named and charged with attempted murder. Joseph Naugle, 22, a worker at the Dos Coyotes Border Café inside the casino, is accused of stabbing fiv…

A new report suggests that more than 150 cryptocurrency wallets trading on Polymarket’s international prediction market platform may have bought and sold event contracts using nonpublic information about US military operations. The analysis comes from the nonprofit Anti-Corruption Data Collective (…