Section

All news

Every story from the iGaming Daily newsroom.

313 articles

GR8_TECH World Cup 2026 sportsbook operator data analysis showing betting margins and staking patterns

GR8_TECH World Cup 2026 Data: Spain's Win Exposed the Crowd-vs-Model Gap Every Sportsbook Should Study

GR8_TECH's aggregated operator data from the 2026 World Cup shows average tournament margins above 12%, final-match stakes 89% above the tournament average, and an Argentina bettor bias of 82% at Betano that made Spain's 1-0 extra-time win the most commercially productive result possible for sportsbooks. The full dataset opens at The Locker Room on August 20.

iGaming Daily Newsroom·July 26, 2026·8 min read

Regulation

Brazil Betting Tax Revenue Up 90% But Illegal Operators Still Control Half the Market

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.

iGaming Daily Newsroom·July 26, 2026·8 min read

Casino

Royal Ha Long Casino Posts $342,000 Loss in Q2 2026, Blaming World Cup and VIP Winning Streaks

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.

iGaming Daily Newsroom·July 26, 2026·6 min read

UK ASA gambling advertising compliance straight-A rating 2026

Regulation

UK Gambling Ads Score Straight-A Compliance Rating for Fourth Month Running, ASA Data Shows

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.

iGaming Daily Newsroom·July 26, 2026·7 min read

Kalshi prediction market hits $2 billion daily trading volume during 2026 World Cup

Sports Betting

Kalshi Hits $2 Billion Daily Volume as Prediction Markets Reshape US Sports Betting

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.

iGaming Daily Newsroom·July 26, 2026·9 min read

Indonesian influencer faces jail for promoting illegal online casino on Instagram

Regulation

Indonesian Instagram Influencer Faces 2-Year Jail for Promoting Banned Online Casino

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.

iGaming Daily Newsroom·July 26, 2026·8 min read

Responsible Gambling

Swedish Study Finds 34 Percent of Young Female Gamblers Have Mental Health Disorders

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.

iGaming Daily Newsroom·July 26, 2026·7 min read

Fertitta Caesars $17.6 billion acquisition Nevada gaming commission licensing 2026

Finance & M&A

Fertitta's $17.6 Billion Caesars Takeover Advances as Nevada Licenses Key Executives

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.

iGaming Daily Newsroom·July 26, 2026·6 min read

Pennsylvania HB 2711 prediction markets regulatory framework no tax 2026

Regulation

Pennsylvania's Prediction Market Bill Takes the No-Tax Route Other States Have Refused

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.

iGaming Daily Newsroom·July 26, 2026·5 min read

Sports Betting

Live Betting Now Tops 52% of US Sports Wagers as Microbetting Health Alarms Grow

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.

iGaming Daily Newsroom·July 26, 2026·6 min read

Colombia permanent 19 percent VAT on online gambling Petro tax reform 2026

Regulation

Colombia's Outgoing Government Makes Final Push to Permanently Tax Online Gambling

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.

iGaming Daily Newsroom·July 26, 2026·7 min read

Brazil SPA opens public consultation on new betting licensing rules 2026

Regulation

Brazil Opens 45-Day Public Consultation on New Betting Licensing Rules

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.

iGaming Daily Newsroom·July 26, 2026·6 min read

PreviousPage 9 of 27Next