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Australia passed its biggest overhaul of gambling advertising in 2026, capping TV ads, banning them during live sport and barring celebrities and stadium branding. Here is what changed and when it starts.
DraftKings and Flutter both slipped in late September as investors weighed rising state taxes and the cost of chasing prediction-market rivals such as Kalshi and Robinhood.
Attorney General Letitia James announced on 9 September that VGW will pay $8 million to settle claims its Chumba, Global Poker and LuckyLand brands ran an illegal gambling operation in the state.
New Zealand's Online Casino Gambling Act 2026 creates the country's first licensing regime for online casinos, with up to 15 licences awarded by auction and unlicensed operators told to leave. Here is the timeline, the rules and what changes for players.
A unanimous appeals panel ruled on 25 September that Ohio and Tennessee may apply their gambling laws to prediction-market sports contracts, the second federal defeat for Kalshi in a month.
In under two years, sweepstakes casinos went from a lightly challenged national product to a contracting patchwork. This is the 2026 state-by-state map: which states banned the model by statute, which are pushing it out through enforcement, and where it still operates.
Online casino gambling is legal in Canada only where a province runs it. Ontario built the country's first open market, and its model, run by iGaming Ontario under the AGCO, now shows what a regulated Canadian casino looks like.
The Gambling Commission's annual figures, published on 17 September, show a 4.4% rise in gross gambling yield, with online slots now worth £4.8bn even as betting shops keep closing.
Crypto casinos take real-money bets directly in cryptocurrency and market themselves on 'provably fair' games. Here is what that phrase actually proves, why most of these sites are off-limits to US players, and where the real risks sit.
A sweepstakes casino runs on virtual coins and a no-purchase-necessary rule, which keeps it inside Canada's contest law rather than its gambling law. As US states ban the model, Canada has become the market operators watch most.
Pokies are woven into Australian life, but online pokies are illegal to offer here under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001. Here is the split between land-based and online in Australia, and why bitcoin pokies carry the same risk.
The largest US sweepstakes casinos run near-identical games on near-identical dual-currency models. This is an editorial look at how the biggest names actually differ, which comes down to scale and their track records with regulators, not their prize menus.
A crypto casino you reach from Canada is almost always an offshore operator. Here is where bitcoin and crypto casinos actually stand under federal law, in regulated Ontario and Alberta, and everywhere else.