Amy Howe's dismissal ends a five-year tenure marked by market-share gains that have since stalled. For Flutter, the harder question is structural, not personnel.
India's new online gaming legislation draws hard lines between skill games, e-sports, and real-money gambling. How operators and investors read those lines will determine whether the world's largest untapped market opens or stays closed.
Minnesota's twin bills targeting prediction markets and sweepstakes casinos signal a broader regulatory counter-movement that could fragment what operators had hoped would become a unified U.S. vertical.
As the UK's tax burden on gambling operators intensifies, some are quietly lowering online slot RTP to protect margins — but the evidence from comparable regulated markets suggests the cure may be worse than the disease.
MGM Resorts' first-quarter results show digital and Macau carrying the load while Las Vegas barely budges — a signal that the Strip's post-pandemic earnings engine may be cooling faster than the headline numbers suggest.
Faced with rising tax burdens, British online casinos are trimming return-to-player rates on slots — but the experience in Germany offers a cautionary precedent operators should not ignore.
The William Hill owner's worsening FY2025 results reflect more than internal restructuring — they signal a structural reckoning for high-street betting in a market squeezed by taxation, regulation, and unlicensed competition.
Parliament's passage of a harmonised 30% operator levy and a 15% withholding tax on net winnings marks a structural shift in Uganda's approach to gambling revenue — one that other sub-Saharan regulators are watching closely.
Parliament's passage of a harmonised 30% operator levy and a 15% withholding tax on player winnings marks one of the most aggressive simultaneous tax interventions in sub-Saharan African gambling history — and other markets are watching.
The €10,000 fine against Zona Gemelos producer Make Money Now SA signals that Spain's regulator is expanding its enforcement perimeter well beyond licensed operators — and media companies are now squarely in its sights.
A technical failure that let more than 5,000 unprocessed bets slip through Norsk Rikstoto's systems has drawn formal regulatory scrutiny — and it reflects a broader tightening of expectations around operator infrastructure across Europe's monopoly markets.
As Remote Gaming Duty pressures squeeze margins, a quiet industry-wide drift toward lower return-to-player rates risks accelerating the very player migration it's meant to prevent.
The CFTC's newly populated Innovation Task Force arrives at a pivotal moment for prediction markets, as operators from Fanatics to ADI Predictstreet race to build infrastructure that regulators haven't yet fully defined.
The Malta-based operator is folding a Danish-licensed casino into a portfolio already built on Northern European compliance. The pattern behind the deal matters more than the deal itself.
Thirty-five Indian nationals charged in Bali underscore a structural reality: Asia's unlicensed online gambling operations are increasingly multinational in design, deliberately straddling jurisdictions to frustrate enforcement.
New research finding Meta non-compliant with Dutch gambling ad age-targeting rules is less a story about the Netherlands than a warning about the structural limits of delegating compliance to social media platforms.
The District of Columbia's public hearing on internet casino legalization drew conflicting testimony, reflecting a national pattern of legislative caution that may be running out of road.
As the remote gaming duty burden intensifies, some UK operators are lowering slot RTPs to protect margins — but the arithmetic of player behavior suggests the cure may be worse than the disease.
The Berkshire Hathaway chairman's offhand observation about American risk appetite lands at a moment when regulated operators are still fighting for mainstream legitimacy — and it cuts both ways.
The completed acquisition of Legend by Genius Sports marks one of the largest sports media-data transactions in recent memory, and it raises pointed questions about where vertical integration goes from here.
As The Hague weighs a blanket gambling ad ban, the more consequential revelation is that Cruks — the national self-exclusion registry — cannot be used to screen marketing recipients, undermining the system's core promise.
The Regulation of Online Gambling Rules 2026 and the PROG Act 2025 create a framework that bans real-money gambling while formally regulating online gaming — a split that will define market access for years.
As Evoke reports a deepening FY2025 loss and confirms UK retail closures, the group's trajectory raises broader questions about the viability of omnichannel models under sustained regulatory and black-market pressure.
The €10,000 fine against the production company behind Zona Gemelos is a small line item in Spain's Q1 2026 enforcement ledger — but it signals a durable regulatory logic that operators and their media partners can no longer afford to overlook.
The Dutch government's consideration of a blanket gambling ad ban — driven partly by failures in the Cruks self-exclusion framework — signals a regulatory posture that could reshape licensed market economics across Europe.
Availability has outpaced quality in esports wagering, and the gap between operators who list markets and those who retain bettors is widening.
As UK operators quietly lower slot return-to-player rates to absorb rising tax burdens, the strategy risks accelerating the very player exodus regulators and executives should fear most.
Parliament's passage of two sweeping tax bills will reshape the economics of licensed gambling in Uganda from July 2026, compressing operator margins and reducing the net value of winning bets at the same time.
Dutch regulators are weighing a blanket gambling ad ban while acknowledging structural flaws in the Cruks self-exclusion system — a combination that should concern any operator holding a licence in a maturing Western European market.
With the CFTC forming an Innovation Task Force and operators like Fanatics building out product depth, prediction markets are moving from regulatory curiosity to serious competitive threat for licensed sportsbooks.