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FanDuel co-founder Nigel Eccles is shutting BetHog's crypto casino to focus fully on Sentient Studios, its AI live dealer business, after operator demand surged.
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FanDuel co-founder Nigel Eccles is shutting BetHog's crypto casino to focus fully on Sentient Studios, its AI live dealer business, after operator demand surged.

Pennsylvania's iGaming and online sports betting revenue overtook slot machines and table games for the first time in fiscal year 2025 to 2026, PGCB data shows.

Ireland's Gambling Regulatory Authority says it can seek High Court blocking orders on both site access and funding as it weighs action against a major prediction market operator.

The Gambling Commission's confirmed financial risk assessments have set off a July 2026 clash with horse racing, the Betting and Gaming Council and a Commons committee now demanding to see the underlying evidence.

A House Agriculture subcommittee will examine customer protections and market integrity in sports event prediction markets on July 21, 2026. Here is who is testifying, what is at stake, and why the CFTC and the states are on a collision course.

Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Berset says the 2026 World Cup pushed betting and in-stadium prediction markets into risky new territory, and wants a binding integrity framework built before 2030.

Italy's treasury projects an 807m euro increase in gambling and betting receipts for its 2026 budget assessment, driven by a reformed online licensing regime, higher GGR tax rates and 52 new nine-year concessions, even after receipts fell 7.8% early in the year.

Gamecheck says it has found around 5,000 fake online casinos in Brazil in 2026, more than 50 times the country's 87 licensed operators. Here is what it means.

Peru offers one of the lowest headline gambling tax rates in the world, yet a turnover based ISC levy and a field of nearly 100 operators are turning it into Latin America's toughest margin market. Here is the paradox explained.

The UK Gambling Commission has confirmed it will introduce financial risk assessments in stages, starting at a 5,000 pound net deposit threshold and with no enforcement in the early phases. Here are the thresholds, the pilot data and the industry reaction.

Underdog has gone fully in-house with a CFTC-regulated prediction market exchange, becoming the first sports company to hold the complete DCM, DCO and FCM license stack. Here is what changed and why it matters.

GamStop registrations rose 16% year on year in H1 2026, with under-25 sign-ups up 26% and a record 12,236 in May, as the 2026 World Cup lifts demand.