Compliance

The battle over who will control the future of betting in the world’s largest gambling jurisdiction intensified this week, as multiple states…

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Philippines lawmakers have revived debate over a potential nationwide online gambling ban, as regulators face mounting pressure to strengthen player protections and…

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“I think I very quickly realised that as a young woman, sitting at this machine for hours on end, I didn’t fit…

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It’s the oldest trick in the book: If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. But despite their much-heralded move into the Prediction…

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Spurred by the example of neighbouring Illinois, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is proposing to embrace a new tax-per-bet regime, with the specific…

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Hawaii, the American Pacific tourist paradise of 137 islands and latterly best known as the birthplace of former U.S. president Barack Obama,…

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Andrew Rhodes, the highly-regarded Chief Executive of the UK’s regulatory Gambling Commission (UKGC) is moving on after five-years in the top job….

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Like every great leader, Betsson driving-force and CEO Pontus Lindwall warned the troops and investors about the so-so news ahead in a…

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After the online betting market was legalized, and both onshore and offshore operators multiplied like mushrooms before regulation kicked off last year,…

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The Better Gambling Forum has opened a public consultation to further develop its Responsible Gambling Triple-P (RG3P) Framework, following the publication of…

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The Missouri Gaming Commission (MGC) has revealed the first month’s sports betting data, and things are off to a bonus-heavy start in…

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It’s not Letter From America’s role to write obituaries, but 2026–spurred by the inexorable rise of prediction markets–is already shaping up to…

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Cryptocasinos have rapidly become one of the most dynamic forces in the world of iGaming.   According to marketplace intelligence firm Yield Sec,…

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Controversial prediction markets site Polymarket–at the centre of an alleged insider betting scandal over the sequestration of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro by…

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The small Caribbean island of Nevis, population just 13,180 inhabitants, wants to emulate Curaçao and become the next big international iGaming licensing…

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EXCLUSIVE: Betsson CEO Pontus Lindwall was busy pressing the flesh at ICE Barcelona today, tamping down the negative fall-out of his company’s…

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Regulatory authorities and top iGaming industry stakeholders have called for a renewed crackdown on VPNs which allow compulsive bettors to swerve controls…

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Maine has made history by becoming only the eighth U.S. state, and the first since Rhode Island in 2023, to legalise online…

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Welcome to the New Year and the first Letter From America of 2026. We’re kicking-off by diving straight into the Venezuela prediction…

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It was nearing the end of the year when Mickey Carol, a science and tech reporter for Britain’s Sky News, received an…

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Predict. Now that’s a good start, because with U.S. giants FanDuel, DraftKings and BetMGM all set to embrace the prediction markets phenomenon…

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2025 for Brazil, the world’s fifth largest betting market, was a year of great challenges. Despite its rapid consolidation as one of…

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Finland’s Parliament has approved the country’s new Gambling Reform Bill by a landslide of 158 in favour to nine against. Operator license…

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Flutter Entertainment, the owner of Paddy Power Betfair, has been fined £2 million (US$2.66m) by the UK’s regulatory Gambling Commission for Social…

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ANALYSIS: For the first time, with the victory of José Antonio Kast, the far right has won the presidency in Chile through…

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And then there were three. Not definitely maybe but the president, alleged insider trader and Malaysia’s finest, New York City is finally…

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The Arizona Department of Gaming (ADG) has notified fantasy sports operator Underdog that it is revoking its licence due to its partnership…

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A man who ran an illegal WhatsApp gambling business and failed to pay a customer’s £269,000 account balance has received a 30-week…

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EXCLUSIVE: When the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Bureau, FinCEN, denounced 10 Mexican casinos for laundering cash from the Sinaloa drug cartel…

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SPECIAL REPORT: Sri Lanka, the fabled Serendipity of yore, is set to become an iGaming paradise as Southeast Asia’s next big hub….

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In a coordinated police operation carried out in Sweden and Spain, police dismantled a violent criminal network that was running large-scale illegal…

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Iconic British betting brand Betfred have done it again. Barely two-years after paying a massive £3.25 million settlement for breaching AML protocols,…

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It’s taken a dozen years but the Great New York City Casino Race has finally found its three winning finalists – and…

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EXCLUSIVE: You may very well ask, where in the world are Ceuta and Melilla? And why should we care?  The answer is, just…

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Britain’s biggest bookies have reacted with barely controlled fury to yesterday’s Autumn Budget, which featured massive tax hikes, principally targeting their iGaming…

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This October, a 15-year-old boy from Sendai, a major Japanese city near the capital Tokyo, was arrested for allegedly swindling a man…

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In a day of high dudgeon, if not high treason, featuring a chaotic pre-Autumn Budget leak and red faces from the Treasury…

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In a blistering attack on online betting, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves slammed iGaming today and hiked remote gambling…

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After seemingly aeons of leak and speculation the ground-shifting British Budget is nigh, amid very real fears that big much-touted hikes in…

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Autumn leaves may be falling but powered by the return of across-the-board sporting action revenues everywhere are up, marking the U.S. market’s…

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Illinois’ new per-wager tax is, remarkably, reshaping sports betting in the great American prairie state, with players placing fewer bets but risking…

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Mr Vegas parent Videoslots Limited has been ordered to pay £650,000 (US$852,580) following a UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) investigation that identified shortcomings…

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SkillOnNet Safer Gambling and AML Risk team manager Loizos Theodosiadis on using behavioural tracking systems and analytics to enable proactive risk management….

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The Mexican government has temporarily suspended 13 casinos after detecting an irregular financial scheme linked to online gambling in a federal investigation…

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Despite historically tight legal restrictions, Japan is a nation of gamblers. Remarkably, it has one of the highest GGRs in the world…

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SPECIAL REPORTS: The conflict between the retail casino sector and online betting platforms in Chile has got dirty, with no quick end…

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The Betting and Gaming Council Casino Group has warned that any increase in Machine Games Duty (MGD) in the upcoming Budget would…

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SPECIAL REPORT: In my previous life as a foreign correspondent I once had the dubious honour of interviewing the opium warlord Khun…

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More than 80 percent of U.S. sports bettors believe professional athletes alter how they play to influence the outcome of bets, according…

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Amid the dystopian subset of U.S. gambling, Florida’s gaming Seminole Tribe, who have a monopoly on betting in the Sunshine State, have…

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