A Michigan judge has extended the temporary ban on Kalshi's sports event contracts and ordered the prediction market to geofence the state by August 12 or pay $500,000 a day.
The Czech Ministry of Finance has blacklisted Polymarket as unlicensed gambling and told ISPs to block it within 15 days, joining France, Germany, Spain and Belgium.
Bryce Harper denies consenting to a FanDuel video sent to a high-volume bettor who is suing FanDuel and DraftKings over their VIP host programs. Here is what the case means for US sports betting.
Rank Group has upgraded its full-year underlying operating profit guidance to about £76m, some £8m above consensus, as cost savings offset a higher gaming tax.
Cirsa has taken majority control of Slots del Sol, Paraguay's leading online casino operator, in its first move into the country and its fifth Latin American market.
US sportsbooks face a growing push to implement college campus geofencing restrictions, but the technical challenge of drawing accurate exclusion zones around urban campuses interwoven with public roads and private buildings is proving substantially harder than state-line enforcement, with experts warning that students can simply cross the street.
The week of July 7 to July 14, 2026 saw multiple significant B2B iGaming partnerships including Vegangster integrating ZingBrain AI for smart lobby personalization, Amusnet serving as gamification partner at the Hollywoodbets Durban July, win2day adding Evoplay content in Austria, and ICONIC21 going live on the Blue Ocean Gaming aggregator.
A Ninth Circuit panel grilled Kalshi's attorneys on July 11, 2026 over why the company's sports-event contracts should not be treated as sports wagers under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, as California tribes seek to revive their injunction bid to block Kalshi from tribal lands in a case that could reshape prediction markets law nationwide.
Brazil's Ministry of Finance announced mandatory health warnings on all betting advertisements from July 17, 2026, while Rio de Janeiro issued a decree banning betting ads from public spaces, as the ANJL backed the new rules but called for simultaneous enforcement against illegal platforms that continue to advertise without restriction.
Denmark's Spillemyndigheden blocked 334 illegal gambling websites in 2025, a 70% year-on-year increase, as the Authority strengthened cooperation with Apple, Google, Meta and Twitch for app store and social media enforcement, and introduced dynamic blocking of mirror sites under a new agreement with Danish ISPs.
Digitain appointed Dario Jurcic as Chief Commercial Officer for Europe and Africa, bringing the former Sportradar SVP of iGaming and CEO of Nsoft on board to lead commercial strategy across regulated European markets and drive the company's expansion in Africa including Kenya, South Africa, Zambia and Malawi.
Playtech rose more than 17% in the week ended July 11, 2026 after its H1 trading update guided full-year adjusted EBITDA to at least €270 million, far above the analyst consensus range of €205 to €225 million. Bally's Corporation and Penn Entertainment were the week's biggest losers, while the Roundhill iGaming ETF gained 2.3%, beating the S&P 500.