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Brazil's TJDFT court ruled on July 21, 2026, that Blaze and influencer Virginia Fonseca cannot advertise gambling as providing fixed profits or replacing employment. The ruling carries fines of up to BRL 2 million and follows a separate BRL 2.3 million SPA fine and an ongoing BRL 120 million damages claim by public prosecutors.
The Campaign for Fairer Gambling is pushing New Jersey legislators to pass bill S-2160, which would make the state the first in the US to ban online microbetting, citing research that 78% of microbettors meet problem gambling criteria.
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.
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.
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.
France's gambling regulator ANJ has ordered internet providers to block Polymarket nationwide, escalating from a 2024 funding ban after 578,751 French visits in a single month.
Congressman Josh Gottheimer's facial recognition age verification bill has Kalshi's support, but critics say it contains language that could widen the CFTC's approval of gaming style contracts.
Kalshi has agreed to roll out GeoComply's geofencing across Nevada by August 12, 2026, ending a contempt fight after regulators caught its own location-blocking tool failing repeatedly.
The Massachusetts Gaming Commission has agreed to dismiss a lawsuit from the Public Health Advocacy Institute after finally collecting and sharing anonymized casino player data with researchers, a requirement written into state law in 2011.
The UK Gambling Commission has published the full findings behind Evolution's £4.75 million settlement, and they go well beyond the headline fine: outdated AML risk assessments and weak third party oversight let the live casino supplier's games reach six unlicensed websites.
Kenya's High Court has issued a stay order suspending the Gambling Control (Licensing) Regulations 2026, just weeks after they took effect, following a legal challenge over steep fee hikes and consultation concerns.