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- Spending habits among UK student gamblers spark concern bit.ly/41GwFAA
- India’s sweeping ban on real-money online gambling has thrown two billion-dollar industries into chaos. Fantasy operators are shutting down, jobs are at risk, and now the law faces a Supreme Court challenge that could decide its future.
- Japan is reimagining Yumeshima Island as a "global tourism hub" anchored by the country’s first casino resort, MGM Osaka.
- Brazil’s regulated betting market generated $687.5 million in tax revenue during its first six months, a figure legal experts say could climb if new restrictions don’t drive players offshore bit.ly/4o4Frlb bit.ly/4o4Frlb
- Five more players have been hit with heavy sanctions by the ITIA over their involvement in a match-fixing syndicate in Belgium. bit.ly/4leUes5
- The Ethics Committee of the Bolivian Football Federation (FBF) is investigating five Club Real Santa Cruz players over suspected match-fixing last year
- Kenya’s gambling regulator plans to hike online operator license fees to Ksh200M ($1.5M), a move critics say could fuel black market growth and shut out smaller firms. “This will only open the floodgates,” warns Job Weku, a Kenyan iGaming analyst.
- After a failed refinancing effort, Star Entertainment has accepted @BallysCorp AU$300M buyout offer bit.ly/4i9Gr3b
- The inside scoop from Kyle Goldsmith: João Rafael Gandara, tax lawyer at Pinheiro Neto Advogados, explains how the gambling industry can lean on Congress to block the potential new gambling tax hike of 50%
- MGM Resorts International smashed revenue records in 2024 bit.ly/3WYONTC
- Could Austria find a way to liberalise online gaming after all? bit.ly/4kFnyaU IGB takes a closer look at how the Austrian government's new coalition agreement could impact the country’s gambling sector.
- Brandt Iden and Brendan Bussmann welcome Clarion Gaming’s Stuart Hunter to discuss the highly anticipated #ICE25 in this milestone episode
