Turkey is escalating its crackdown on illegal betting, according to Interior Minister Mustafa Çiftçi who described the black market as a national security concern.  Çiftçi highlighted the extensive scale of the illegal market in Turkey in a recent interview with…

The sports betting industry has submitted a report to the government challenging studies that link betting to increased debt and default rates among households in Brazil. The document was commissioned by the National Association of Games and Lotteries (ANJL) and…

For the past five years, former Casinos Austria executive Niklas Sattler has been working on a bid to disrupt Austria’s calcified land-based casino sector.   Through his company, Alea Trust, he has been gathering top casino executives and industry experts, assembling…

BC.GAME has launched its sports betting and online casino offering in Ghana after securing regulatory approval. Announced on Wednesday, BC.GAME’s entrance into Ghana marks its third regulated market alongside Mexico and Nigeria, the latter of which it entered earlier this…

On Tuesday, Caesars Entertainment released its first quarterly earnings results since being acquired by Fertitta Entertainment in late May, and while its Q2 and half-year results were something of a mixed bag, its Las Vegas business was down across the…

ChatBet, the conversational betting and transactional messaging platform, has partnered with iSolutions to expand access to AI-powered betting experiences across Africa and other emerging markets. The partnership will allow operators using the iSolutions platform to integrate ChatBet’s conversational betting technology,…

The South African Bookmakers Association (SABA) has called for prediction markets to be banned in the country amid concerns over sporting integrity. In a press release issued on Monday, SABA voiced its concerns over the “emergence and growth” of unregulated…

Public Health Wales (PHW) has announced a new two-year funding initiative supporting community-led efforts, aimed at preventing gambling-related harms across Wales. The Gambling Harms Voluntary Sector Grant Fund will allocate up to £700,000 ($931,084) annually, with grants of up to…

The Dutch state has decided that the best gambling advertisement is no gambling advertisement. In June, the cabinet proposed a near-total ban on online gambling advertising, with only narrow exceptions. The package assembled by Claudia van Bruggen, state secretary for…

Picture the customer every sportsbook signed up this summer. They came for the World Cup, often as a first-time depositor. They bet on the group games, followed the bracket, enjoyed it. Then the final came and went, and now they…