Fanatics’ $1bn ad threat puts US sportsbook acquisition costs back in play
Fanatics has put a $1 billion price tag on its next US sportsbook customer grab, giving rivals a...
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Author: Jake G.
Denmark’s live-sport ad ban targets the affiliate money behind betting promotion
Denmark’s revived whistle-to-whistle betting ad ban is aimed at more than what viewers see during...
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Gaming Consolidation Gets Practical: Licences, Rent Relief and B2B Assets Change Hands
This week’s iGaming M&A is a capital-allocation audit, not a takeover parade. The deals are...
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Washington’s Swap Fight Could Turn Prediction Markets Into America’s Next Betting Rail
Prediction markets have crossed the swaps line, and Washington is deciding whether that line...
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Brazil’s iGaming Ban Puts Global Earnings and Regulatory Trust at Risk
Brazil spent years building a regulated betting market, then switched it off with almost no...
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Great Britain’s £17.5bn Gambling Record Reveals a Risky Casino-Led Boom
Great Britain’s gambling industry has reached a record £17.5bn in GGY, but the number lands more...
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Malta’s 5% Tax Comfort Blanket Is Gone: Operators Face a Sharper 2026 Bill
Malta’s 5% gaming tax was never merely a spreadsheet line. It helped sell the island as a...
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Caesars’ $17.6bn Take-Private Clears Shareholders. The FTC Holds the Keys
Caesars shareholders have approved Tilman Fertitta’s $17.6bn take-private deal, giving the Houston...
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Brazil’s Betting Ban: A Self-Inflicted Regulatory Wound That Will Cost Everyone Except the Black Market
When President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced that licensed betting operators would be banned...
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Polymarket Lobbies Europe for Financial Status as Gambling Crackdown Tightens
The prediction-market giant is pushing regulators to treat its contracts as MiFID II instruments...
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Bally’s Bronx Financing Shows Capital Still Trusts Assets, Not Companies
Bally’s found $560 million for Ferry Point days after telling the SEC there was substantial doubt...
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Bet365’s 340 Job Cuts Put Britain’s Gambling Tax Squeeze on the Payroll
Britain’s gambling tax argument has spent years hiding in Treasury models and trade-body warnings....
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Connecticut’s Prediction Market Crackdown Targets Sports Betting’s Entire Supply Chain
Connecticut did not send prediction-market operators a polite licensing reminder on Sept. 10,...
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Playtech’s 77% EBITDA Surge Shows America Is Its B2B Prize—and Its Risk
Playtech’s H1 2026 numbers make the B2B pivot look less like a corporate cleanup exercise and more...
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EU AML Rules Put Gambling’s Weak Compliance Models on a Countdown to 2027
Europe’s gambling sector long treated AML compliance as a national sport: learn the local quirks,...
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The €2.8bn European Merger Everyone Is Watching: Lottomatica Buys Scale, Blackstone Buys Time
Lottomatica’s €2.8bn all-share merger with Cirsa redraws Europe’s listed gaming hierarchy in one...
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Catena Rises While Gambling.com Bleeds: The Affiliate Divide Has Turned Into Triage
The affiliate business spent years mistaking bulk for a moat. Buy domains, flood Google with...
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Warsh, Crypto and the 90% Loss Cap: Washington Is Building an Offshore Funnel
Higher Rates Turn Old Deal Logic Into a Cash-Flow Problem Kevin Warsh’s confirmation as Federal...
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The Credit-Card Ban Mirage: Plastic Is Not the Problem Gambler’s Main Fuel
A credit-card gambling ban makes a photograph: borrowed money stopped at the door, officials...
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The Ninth Circuit Has Spoken: Kalshi’s Federal Preemption Gamble Is Over – And What Comes Next Could Reshape American Gambling Forever
In the annals of American gambling law, last Friday’s Ninth Circuit ruling in Kalshi v....
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