Brazil collected BRL 4.586 billion in betting taxes in the first four months of 2026, roughly double the same period in 2025, cementing its position as the world's fifth-largest betting market. But the ANJL's president warns that illegal operators still account for 41 to 51% of all activity, making sustained enforcement the market's defining challenge.
Royal International Corporation, operator of Vietnam's Royal Ha Long Casino, reported a $342,000 net loss for Q2 2026, reversing a $380,000 profit in the same period last year, as gaming revenues collapsed 50% amid World Cup competition and consecutive large wins by VIP patrons.
The UK Advertising Standards Authority's AI monitoring programme has awarded the licensed gambling sector a straight-A compliance rating for four months in a row, with a 96.2% pass rate that significantly outperforms the alcohol advertising sector.
Prediction markets captured 27% of US legal sports-betting volume during the 2026 World Cup, with Kalshi topping $2 billion in daily trading and recording more app users than DraftKings or FanDuel, as Macquarie forecasts $1.5 trillion in sector volume by 2030.
Rahmawati Puspita Ningrum faces a two-year prison sentence at the Surabaya District Court after promoting the martabak188 online casino on Instagram Stories for $112, in the latest of dozens of Indonesian influencer prosecutions for gambling promotion.
A nationally representative Swedish study published in July 2026 found that 34 percent of female gamblers aged 18 to 26 have a concurrent mental health disorder, more than double the rate among male gamblers, as Sweden's online GGR grew 3.2 percent and total problem gamblers reached an estimated 350,000.
The Nevada Gaming Commission unanimously licensed Fertitta Entertainment's CFO Richard Liem and General Counsel Steven Scheinthal on July 23, advancing the $17.6 billion all-cash acquisition of Caesars Entertainment through a key regulatory checkpoint.
Pennsylvania has introduced House Bill 2711, which would regulate prediction markets with consumer protections and insider trading rules but no tax on operator revenue, setting it apart from every other state that has moved to regulate the sector.
Live betting has crossed 52% of all US online sports wagers, with microbettors spending nearly twice as much monthly as pre-match customers. A federal lawsuit and new health research are now challenging the sector's rapid growth.
Colombia's outgoing Petro administration has tabled its fifth attempt to impose a permanent 19% VAT on online gambling, pursuing the measure through Congress after a 2025 emergency decree was ruled unconstitutional.
Brazil's Secretariat of Prizes and Bets has launched a 45-day public consultation to revise its betting operator authorization rules, giving operators and the public until September 9 to shape the new licensing framework.
The UK Gambling Commission has ruled that all future regulatory settlement payments from enforcement cases will flow into the government's Consolidated Fund, ending the previous practice of directing such funds toward gambling harm programmes, despite half of consultation respondents opposing the move.