State-by-state regulation tracker for the US online gambling market, from New Jersey to the latest state legislative pushes.
A platform that was paying CFTC fines and blocking US users just three years ago is now reportedly worth $15 billion. Polymarket's comeback is one of the most dramatic turnarounds in the prediction markets industry.
Corporate - Liam O'Brien - 21 Apr 2026
A business bought for £2.2 billion less than four years ago may be about to change hands for a tenth of that price. The Bally's Intralot bid for Evoke is the most significant corporate development in British gambling for years.
Corporate - Liam O'Brien - 20 Apr 2026
A congressional hearing has exposed deep uncertainty at the heart of American prediction markets regulation. When the CFTC chair cannot tell a prediction market contract apart from a sportsbook bet, the regulatory gap becomes impossible to ignore.
Regulatory - Liam O'Brien - 17 Apr 2026
Having clamped down on real-money gaming, India is now taking a lighter touch with social and skill-based games. The shift toward risk-based regulation could significantly reduce compliance burdens for a large segment of the country's gaming industry.
Regulatory - Liam O'Brien - 17 Apr 2026
What started as a small group of industry professionals looking for real insights has grown into one of the most active and engaged communities in iGaming. The 500-member milestone is a reflection of the industry's hunger for a space where professionals can be open and real, connect and share experiences, and have candid discussions beyond the usual conference circuits and polished press releases.
Press Release - Liam O'Brien - 17 Apr 2026
Australia's gambling regulator has handed Chasebet a formal warning for self-exclusion promotion failures, while simultaneously moving against 19 more unlicensed operators in an ongoing crackdown on the illegal market.
Corporate - Liam O'Brien - 16 Apr 2026
Spribe's global campaign to protect its Aviator crash game is gaining momentum in the courts. A Brazilian ruling against one of Flutter's own brands sends a clear message to the entire industry.
Corporate - Liam O'Brien - 16 Apr 2026
Casino Guru is proud to receive this nomination, as it once again serves as proof of the company’s sustained focus on improving the wider industry ecosystem, prioritizing player protection, and championing a fair and transparent online gambling industry.
Press Release - Liam O'Brien - 16 Apr 2026
Washington's derivatives regulator has named the team that will help shape the future of prediction markets, cryptocurrency and AI regulation. The appointments signal where the CFTC's priorities lie.
Regulatory - Liam O'Brien - 15 Apr 2026
From Robinhood's selective product choices to Europe's blanket bans, the prediction markets industry is facing a moment of reckoning over market integrity. The question is whether the sector can regulate itself before regulators do it for them.
Prediction Markets - Liam O'Brien - 13 Apr 2026
The Dutch regulator has found serious gaps between Unibet's stated anti-money laundering policies and what it actually does in practice. And Unibet may not be the only operator in the crosshairs.
Regulatory - Liam O'Brien - 10 Apr 2026
As the EU battles to fund its most ambitious budget yet, online gambling operators have found themselves in the crosshairs alongside Silicon Valley giants. The industry should be paying close attention.
Regulatory - Liam O'Brien - 10 Apr 2026
Kalshi insists its products are financial instruments. State regulators insist they are bets. A Nevada judge has sided firmly with the regulators, and the fight is now playing out in courtrooms across the country.
Prediction Markets - Liam O'Brien - 6 Apr 2026
Following a transformative year for the Brazilian iGaming industry, Alea is returning to São Paulo for its second consecutive term as the Headline Partner for NEXT.io Focus Brazil.
Press Release - Liam O'Brien - 1 Apr 2026
The UK's Remote Gaming Duty has doubled overnight. Industry insiders are warning of a spiral effect that could permanently reshape Britain's licensed gambling market, and nobody, including the Treasury, knows where it ends.
Regulatory - Liam O'Brien - 1 Apr 2026
Evoke warned this would happen if the government pressed ahead with its tax plans. It pressed ahead. Now 200 William Hill shops are closing and thousands of jobs are at risk.
Corporate - Liam O'Brien - 31 Mar 2026
As martial law continues, Ukraine is deploying automated technology to shield its military from online gambling, in what represents one of the most targeted regulatory interventions in the industry.
Regulatory - Liam O'Brien - 26 Mar 2026
Germany's gambling regulator claims 77% of players are in the licensed market. The industry says the real figure is closer to 50%, and the consequences of getting it wrong could reshape the country's entire regulatory future.
Regulatory - Liam O'Brien - 24 Mar 2026
The Malta Gaming Authority is investigating unauthorised access to one of its systems after German security researcher Lilith Wittmann claimed responsibility, accused the regulator of enabling organised crime, and threatened to release a wider archive of gambling related data if enforcement action is pursued.
Regulatory - Liam O'Brien - 23 Mar 2026
Earlier this year, Casino Guru officially revealed the shortlists across all award categories, following a record-breaking number of high-quality applications from across the iGaming industry. These shortlisted candidates represent the strongest performers in areas such as transparency, social responsibility, innovation, leadership, and player protection.
Press Release - Liam O'Brien - 23 Mar 2026
New figures from GamCare and debt advice provider PayPlan show that 1,954 people sought financial guidance through GamCare's Money Guidance Service in 2025, more than double the previous year, with total reported debt rising 153% to £7.2 million, and January 2026 recording the highest monthly referral total in the service's history.
Regulatory - Liam O'Brien - 18 Mar 2026
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has filed 20 criminal misdemeanour charges against prediction market platform Kalshi, alleging it operated an unlicensed gambling business and accepted bets on state elections in violation of Arizona law, marking the first criminal prosecution of a prediction market company by any US state.
Prediction Markets - Liam O'Brien - 17 Mar 2026
Meta has removed more than 159 million fraudulent ads and shut down 10.9 million scam-linked accounts in 2025, while a joint international operation with the Royal Thai Police, FBI, and US Department of Justice disabled 150,000 accounts tied to Southeast Asian scam centres and led to 21 arrests, as criminal networks increasingly use fake gambling platforms to lure victims.
Corporate - Liam O'Brien - 16 Mar 2026
Indiana Governor Mike Braun has signed House Bill 1052 into law, making Indiana the first state in 2026 and the seventh overall to prohibit dual-currency sweepstakes casino platforms, with civil penalties of up to $100,000 per violation taking effect from 1 July 2026.
Regulatory - Liam O'Brien - 13 Mar 2026
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has issued binding staff guidance and opened a formal advance rulemaking process on prediction markets, signalling a decisive shift under Chairman Mike Selig as event contracts surge from five per year in 2006 to roughly 1,600 certified contracts in 2025.
Prediction Markets - Liam O'Brien - 12 Mar 2026
Austrian prosecutors have filed criminal bribery charges against Novomatic founder Johann Graf and former Ainsworth CEO Harald Neumann, adding fresh regulatory scrutiny to a company already locked out of its AU$1-per-share takeover of Australian gaming supplier Ainsworth Game Technology after minority shareholders blocked the deal in February 2026.
Corporate - Liam O'Brien - 12 Mar 2026
Finland's state-owned operator Veikkaus has signalled ambitions to become a respected international gaming group by 2030, as its full-year 2025 results reveal declining domestic revenues and its B2B arm Fennica Gaming posts near-doubled turnover across 17 global markets all ahead of Finland's licensed market launch in July 2027.
Corporate - Liam O'Brien - 11 Mar 2026
The milestone further strengthens the CRC’s position as one of the industry’s most trusted dispute resolution platforms, providing free and impartial assistance to players across the globe.
Press Release - Liam O'Brien - 9 Mar 2026
Bally’s Intralot will transition its lotteries leadership on 16 March 2026 as Nikos Nikolakopoulos steps down as President of Lotteries, with chief operating officer Chrysostomos Sfatos set to assume the role while the outgoing executive remains on the board as a non-executive director.
Corporate - Liam O'Brien - 5 Mar 2026
Israeli police are investigating a large Polymarket wager that correctly predicted a United States strike on Iran on 28 February, amid concerns about possible insider knowledge and renewed scrutiny of how prediction platforms handle high risk geopolitical markets.
Prediction Markets - Liam O'Brien - 4 Mar 2026
The Netherlands Gambling Authority has reported a rise in cases of athletes betting on their own competitions during 2025, while overall match fixing alerts from licensed sportsbooks remained broadly stable and prompted renewed focus on integrity controls and reporting expectations.
Regulatory - Liam O'Brien - 4 Mar 2026
A Nevada federal judge has remanded disputes involving Kalshi and Polymarket back to state court, a shift that clears the way for Nevada regulators to pursue rapid orders that could restrict prediction market contracts offered to residents.
Prediction Markets - Liam O'Brien - 3 Mar 2026
Following hundreds of high-quality applications from companies and individuals across the entire industry spectrum, Casino Guru has narrowed the field to the strongest candidates in each category who demonstrated unfaltering compliance with the format’s requirements.
Press Release - Liam O'Brien - 3 Mar 2026
Nationwide says gambling spend rose in January, with the top 10 per cent of gamblers averaging about £745 a month, as a busy 2026 sports calendar raises concern about higher betting activity and growing demand for support services.
Corporate - Liam O'Brien - 2 Mar 2026
Switzerland has added 271 new domains to its offshore gambling blacklist, taking the total to 2,944 as regulators intensify enforcement under the Federal Act on Money Games and extend blocking to affiliate sites that direct Swiss users to unlicensed operators.
Regulatory - Liam O'Brien - 25 Feb 2026
DraftKings has reorganised parts of its workforce as it ramps up automation and scales its prediction market ambitions, with management and analysts pointing to cost alignment, AI driven decisioning, and infrastructure changes ahead of a major 2026 sports calendar.
Prediction Markets - Liam O'Brien - 24 Feb 2026
FDJ United has shifted its online betting and gaming strategy from acquisitions to technology transformation, with CEO Stéphane Pallez outlining accelerated internal platform migration, stack consolidation, and stricter focus on platform control as tax and regulatory pressure intensifies across Europe.
Corporate - Liam O'Brien - 23 Feb 2026
France has activated the JONUM regime, a three-year trial that regulates games using monetisable digital objects such as blockchain-based items and non-fungible tokens, imposing gambling-style safeguards while prohibiting cash prizes and requiring declarations and transparency for regulatory monitoring.
Regulatory - Liam O'Brien - 20 Feb 2026
The Malta Gaming Authority has published a thematic review of self exclusion practices after mystery shopping tests across 20 licensees found delays, cross brand weaknesses, and shortcomings in limit setting prompts and Reality Check controls, with remediation required and enforcement escalated where needed.
Regulatory - Liam O'Brien - 19 Feb 2026
Indiana has moved closer to an outright prohibition on online sweepstakes casinos after the Senate passed an amended House Bill 1052 that would define sweepstakes games in state law and empower the Indiana Gaming Commission to issue civil penalties of up to $100,000, with the bill now returning to the House for final agreement.
Regulatory - Liam O'Brien - 19 Feb 2026
The SEC is stepping up scrutiny of prediction markets and coordinating weekly with the CFTC, as Chairman Paul Atkins told senators that contract design and activity can trigger overlapping jurisdiction and shape how regulators ultimately classify these products.
Prediction Markets - Liam O'Brien - 16 Feb 2026
ATG reports a dip in 2025 profits to SEK 2.099 billion as CEO Hans Lord Skarplöth departs; the operator warns that Sweden's increased gambling tax is now directly undermining the financing of the horse racing industry.
Corporate - Liam O'Brien - 16 Feb 2026
Casino Guru and Gamecheck have announced a new partnership aimed at strengthening transparency, integrity, and trust within the iGaming industry.
Press Release - Liam O'Brien - 16 Feb 2026
As the dust settles on the aborted merger between Tabcorp and BetMakers, the industry is left to wonder if the Australian giant can successfully navigate its digital transformation alone or if another tech savvy target is already in its sights.
Corporate - Liam O'Brien - 12 Feb 2026
The Estonian Riigikogu has finalised a correction to the Gambling Tax Act, restoring a 5.5% levy on online casinos after a drafting error briefly left the sector untaxed. The new rules, effective from 1 March 2026, alongside upcoming crypto reporting requirements, signal a major push for fiscal transparency and the protection of cultural funding.
Regulatory - Liam O'Brien - 10 Feb 2026
Egypt initiates a legislative crackdown on unlicensed online betting apps, targeting major offshore operators like 1xBet to curb addiction and financial loss. The new draft law promises strict penalties for users and seeks to close the digital loopholes that have allowed the shadow gambling market to grow into a billion dollar industry.
Regulatory - Liam O'Brien - 9 Feb 2026
The Swedish Gambling Authority has confirmed that new supervision fees will impact all licensed operators from 1 March 2026. This financial update arrives just weeks before a strict ban on credit gambling takes effect, creating a challenging environment for the industry as it battles to retain players against a growing black market.
Regulatory - Liam O'Brien - 9 Feb 2026
This episode of iGaming Real Talk offers practical insight without hype. It is a grounded conversation for founders, operators, and industry leaders navigating growth, visibility, and leadership in a rapidly changing landscape.
Press Release - Liam O'Brien - 4 Feb 2026
If you walk the floor of any major iGaming conference, you are usually drowning in a sea of cheap black polyester. Sandra Bondare, Co-Founder of Swag42, argues that this isn't just a fashion crime; it is a strategic business error.
Interviews - Liam O'Brien - 4 Feb 2026
Leading gambling operators SkillOnNet and Wildz Group have rejected Finland's proposed universal loss limits, warning that overly strict rules will drive players to the black market. Citing the failures of the German regulatory model, the companies argue that the new legal framework must remain competitive to ensure high channelisation rates when the market opens in 2027.
Regulatory - Liam O'Brien - 3 Feb 2026