Touchdown! If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em, DraftKings Enters The Prediction Markets Fray
Way back in time before 2018’s repeal of PASPA, when online sports betting was a strictly nefarious, off-field, affair, DraftKings and Flutter…
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All Huff and Puff, Brazil Leaving Gambling’s Beautiful Game
After months of dominating the gambling media headlines, it seems that Brazil’s much-touted embrace of legalising betting across all platforms is losing…
Flutter Gains Full FanDuel Control Through Boyd Agreement
Flutter Entertainment, listed on both the NYSE and LSE, has announced a significant move to secure 100 percent ownership of FanDuel, the…
Spanish Gaming Giant Cirsa Floats On A €2.7 Billion High
Spanish-origin casino giant Cirsa–now owned by U.S. venture capitalists Blackstone–made its stock market debut in Barcelona yesterday, raising its market value to…
Macau’s Blurred Vision: Get Out Of Town Before It’s Too Late
Hitherto it’s been world gambling’s biggest market; bigger even than storied Las Vegas. But the warning graffiti, increasingly, is being scrawled on…
One Country’s Misfortune is Another Country’s Opportunity, Vietnam Moves Into the Casino Cockpit
Just as Japan’s post-WW2 rebuild was super-powered by the outbreak of the Korean War, so too was Thailand’s society-changing tourist boom triggered…
Maybe It Ain’t Over ’til The UK Gambling Commission Northern & Shell Out
While the National Lottery’s new operator, Allwyn, basks in the glow of ongoing financial success, the legal fight over its controversial capture…
And Then There Were Eight, It’s Crunch Time For Aspiring Big Apple Casinos
Wynn Resorts and Las Vegas Sands dropped out prematurely, leaving a so-called lucky eight operators to contest the three open slots to…
Amid Bear Pit Of Legal Fights, Hot and Heavy Prediction Market Sites Kalshi and Polymarket Secure Millions in Funding
Despite legal battles, controversial prediction market wagering sites Kalshi and Polymarket have raised millions of dollars in funding to boost their assault…
ICE, ICE Maybe, Proposed GAMBLER Act To Fund U.S. Migrant Deportations
A former grunge bassist, turned hardcore MAGA acolyte and first-time U.S. Congressman, has proposed that American betting taxes be diverted to fund…
Gambler, Gambler, Frontier Tensions Hit Thai-Cambodia Border Casinos
In scenes reminiscent of an exotic Bollywood movie, frontier tensions between “frenemies” Thailand and Cambodia are hitting the lucrative cross-border casino business….
Let Us Entain You: BetMGM (And Stella David) Bring British Giant Back From The Dead
It seems that the appointment of entain veteran Stella David as the new permanent CEO in April has proved a master stroke…
Shack Attack: How Ayofemi Akinlaja is Opening the Gate of Africa iGaming
Ayofemi Akinlaja is a big man in many ways. Big in stature. Big in presence. Big in ambition. Now this serial Nigerian…
Jambo Asanti Sana! Welcome to iGF East Africa
iGamingFuture’s much-anticipated East Africa event kicked off today in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, with over 100 top-level iGaming leaders in attendance. Sasa…
Betting On The Future is a Family Affair, Trumpworld Powers Prediction Markets
Never has the ancient, back-handed Chinese rejoinder, I hope you live in “interesting” times, been more prescient. For, under the stewardship of…
Turkey Money Launderers Roasted Again
Turkey, the site of the biggest money laundering scandal in the history of British gambling, is again the focus of a multi-million-dollar…
Down But Not Out, Better Collective’s Q1 Reaffirms FY Target
Despite a 13 percent decline in revenue, year-on-year, major media affiliate Better Collective (BC) has reaffirmed its FY2025 fiscal target in its…
TGP Fined £3.3m By UKGC For AML Breaches, Nutmegging Top EPL Teams
The UK’s regulatory Gambling Commission (UKGC) has fined TGP Europe, a white label, Asia-focused, betting firm that front-of-shirt sponsors a cluster of…
Flutter Completes US$350m NSX Big Brazil Buy
World iGaming leader Flutter Entertainment has made a major move to dominate Brazil’s booming, newly-regulated, sportsbetting market by buying a controlling US$350…
The Long Goodbye, Macau Appoints Woman as Gambling Boss
Amid ongoing uncertainty over its direction of legislative travel, Macau, the world’s richest-by-far gaming jurisdiction, has appointed Ms. Ng Wai Han as…
DraftKings Hits The Jackpocket, But Stumbles, in Q1
DraftKings, the other Big Beast of U.S. online sports betting and iGaming, has reported revenue of US$1.41 billion (£1.06bn) for its first…
Posting Positive Q1, Big Boss Flutter Affirms World iGaming Dominance
Driven by impressive growth across most of its verticals in Q1, which saw an eight percent year-on-year rise in revenue to US$3.67…
Italian Supergroup Lottomatica Cuts Bella Figura With Stunning Q1
Italian gambling supergroup Lottomatica has delivered an outstanding Q1, its best ever, with total revenue up 33.1 percent, year-on-year, to €585.7 million…
Papal Heaven Can’t Wait For Kalshi and Prediction Markets
Despite widespread illegality and a traditional disdain for betting on the outcomes of papal conclaves, gambling on who’s going to be the…
101 Days Of Gomorrah Leaving Las Vegas With Major Crisis From Trump Tariffs
Las Vegas, Sin City, the City that Never Sleeps, has been called many things: Gulch City, the Marriage Capital of the World,…
Buoyed By iGaming, Caesars Entertainment Reports Q1 Revenue Growth
Buoyed by a strong iGaming performance, Caesars Entertainment has released its financial results for the first quarter of 2025, reporting net revenues…
Led by LatAm, Betsson Signals Positive Growth In Q1 2025
Betsson AB has released its interim results for the first quarter of 2025, reporting group revenue of €293.7 million (£249.88) representing an…
Cometh The Hour, Cometh The Woman, Entain Stalwart Stella David Appointed Permanent CEO
Shares in troubled UK-origin omnichannel Entain surged by near-eight percent in early morning trading today, Tuesday, on the London Stock Exchange following…
Despite The Sharks, BetMGM Rides The Digital Wave With Outstanding Q1
Despite Daddy–or is it Mummy?–being caught “in flagrante delicto” on historic money laundering breaches, MGM Resorts International-entain joint-venture BetMGM continues to ride…
Chulo-ji! India Awakes And Moves Toward Legalising Gambling
After decades of obfuscation, clarity is finally emerging in India’s arcane gambling space, the biggest unregulated betting market by population in the…
Shoot-out At The iCasino Fantasy Factory, Crypto Becoming The Real Deal With US$80 Billion GGR
Like it or not, it seems that controversial crypto gambling sites–much like prediction markets–are becoming the future of iGaming. According to latest…
Growing Not Us To Thailand’s Proposed Gambling Locus
Despite the keen endorsement of Thai political kingmaker and former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the southeast Asia country’s much-touted Entertainment Complex Bill,…
Elaine Wynn, Legendary Co-founder Of Wynn Resorts Dies At 82
Think of the Las Vegas Strip’s fabulous Mirage and its erupting volcano, the Bellagio and its spectacular fountains, marvel at the Wynn’s…
Top-of-the-Tree Evolution Affirms Global iGaming Leadership in Stunning FY24
Top B2B Swedish-origin playmaker Evolution AB published its FY24 results today, showing surging growth in both revenue and profit and asserting its…
15 Booked, Charged With Illegal Betting Over 2024 General Election By UKGC
The UK’s regulatory Gambling Commission (UKGC) has charged 15 people with offences under the Gambling Act 2005, following an investigation into alleged…
McIlroy’s Hollywood Masters Win Drives Major William Hill Payout
Rory McIlroy’s dramatic victory in a play-off at the U.S. Masters has resulted in one of the largest golf-related payouts in William…
Casino Guru Pilots Droodles Microbreaks For User Wellbeing
Casino Guru has launched a new initiative in partnership with the Digital Wellness Center (DWC), a specialist organisation focused on preventative solutions…
Tumbling Dice As Trump’s Tariffs Hammer World Gambling Stocks
The value of the world’s top betting brands is in freefall this week as the international economic order reels from the arbitrary…
32Red Integrates Gaming Corps Titles To Boost UK iGaming Offer
32Red has partnered with Sweden-based game developer Gaming Corps to enhance its content portfolio and further strengthen its position in the UK…
Beyond Social Media Wars, Real Deal Ukraine Announces Major Gaming Move
Taking a leaf out of the Trumpian playbook, embattled Ukraine has used social media to announce the creation of a brand new…
UKGC Calls Corbett’s Telephone Credit Number, Imposes Hefty AML Fine
Leading North of England Corbett Bookmakers has been fined a swingeing £686,070 by the UK’s regulatory Gambling Commission (UKGC) for serious social…
New York City Casino Wars: Mega Hitters Move Over Mafia
The appetite for gambling in New York, the “City That Never Sleeps”, is vast and compelling. Just look at the Empire State…
Prediction Markets: Battle For The Soul of U.S. iGaming
A Trumpian “Mother of all iGaming Battles” is looming over the status and legality of the coming–but wildly controversial–prediction markets business. At…
Barely Sheltering From Fiscal Storm Of “Transformational” FY24, Entain Losses Halve To £461m
In perhaps the understatement of the year, and certainly the most eagerly-awaited response to the current manna of full year fiscals falling…
Flutter’s FY24 Effect Felt Around The World
Paddy Power and FanDuel owner Flutter Entertainment has re-affirmed its top draw leadership of world iGaming on the back of a spectacular…
Sports Betting High Stakes In Game Of Texas Hold’em
Playing true to its singular, “onery” moniker, Texas–along with California–is the last major territory holding out against the rising sweep of legal,…
Clicks Ya Oughta, Caesars Entertainment Dreaming Of US$500m Digital Baby
Word on the Vegas Strip is that debt-laden, top-heavy bricks-and-mortar Caesars Entertainment, having delivered a flatline FY24, is looking to monetize by…
Don’t Cry For Codere Online, Argentina
Argentina’s fragmented iGaming marketplace continues to pose major commercial challenges for leading hispano-american online gambling players Codere. Currently Argentina is being regulated…
Brazil Blip In Big FY24 For Better Collective
Better Collective has announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2024, showing significant growth — despite some challenges…
“King Kenny” Alexander Ghost of Entain’s Past Rises To Sue Company
Kenny Alexander–the ghost of Entain’s past, whose stewardship of the British gambling giant ultimately led to it being fined a massive £615…