Corporate Raiders Set To Cash-in Codere For €2+ Billion
A cluster of corporate raiders and investors are set to sell their controlling shareholding in Spanish gaming giant Codere for more than…
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Argentina Bans Polymarket After Suspicious Trading
Argentina has banned Polymarket–one of the world’s largest prediction market platforms–after a contract estimating February’s inflation data registered a trend reversal 15…
Brazilian Operators Call Time On Prediction Markets As Kalshi Goes Live
Kalshi’s entry into Brazil has sparked backlash from the country’s online betting industry, with operators urging regulators to crack down on prediction…
Brazil Bets On New Sports University Funded By Gaming Taxes
Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies has approved a proposal from President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s government to establish a new public university…
Prediction Markets Coming To Brazil
Inspired by the U.S. boom in digital derivatives, B3, Brazil’s main stock exchange, plans to launch prediction market products before the end…
“Tchau Lindo”, Brazil’s Beautiful Game Takes A Bath After Sponsorship Bubble Bursts
After the online betting market was legalized, and both onshore and offshore operators multiplied like mushrooms before regulation kicked off last year,…
Nevis: Small Island, Big Caribbean iGaming Dream
The small Caribbean island of Nevis, population just 13,180 inhabitants, wants to emulate Curaçao and become the next big international iGaming licensing…
Without You: What Does Maduro’s Fall Mean For Venezuela’s iGaming Industry?
EXCLUSIVE: The seizure and sequestration of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro by U.S. Special Forces opens up unique opportunities for the oil-rich nation’s…
Brazil 2025: Thriving Despite The Ongoing Challenges Facing Its Newly-Regulated iGaming Market
2025 for Brazil, the world’s fifth largest betting market, was a year of great challenges. Despite its rapid consolidation as one of…
How Will Kast Mould iGaming In Chile?
ANALYSIS: For the first time, with the victory of José Antonio Kast, the far right has won the presidency in Chile through…
bet365 Betano Cleared Of Mexico Drug Cartel Money Laundering Smears
EXCLUSIVE: When the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Bureau, FinCEN, denounced 10 Mexican casinos for laundering cash from the Sinaloa drug cartel…
Raids in Spain and Sweden, Europe Cracks Down On Illegal Gambling and Money Laundering
In a coordinated police operation carried out in Sweden and Spain, police dismantled a violent criminal network that was running large-scale illegal…
Where In The World Are Ceuta and Melilla? And Why Should We Care?
EXCLUSIVE: You may very well ask, where in the world are Ceuta and Melilla? And why should we care? The answer is, just…
bet365, Betano Caught In Mexico Alleged Money Laundering Blitz
The Mexican government has temporarily suspended 13 casinos after detecting an irregular financial scheme linked to online gambling in a federal investigation…
Internecine Gambling Conflict In Chile Getting Hot And Dirty
SPECIAL REPORTS: The conflict between the retail casino sector and online betting platforms in Chile has got dirty, with no quick end…
Rio’s Gaming Pa’ Ti: Brazil’s Legendary Wonder City Wants To Be a Tropical Las Vegas
EXCLUSIVE: With its beaches and world-famous Carnival, Rio de Janeiro has always been a tourist attraction. Now, some see its potential to…
Bets, Banks and Billionaires, Brazil iGaming [And Other Bs] Facing Massive Tax Hikes
Brazil’s ruling Workers’ Party call it the “BBB Tax” — for Bets, Banks and Billionaires. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s leftist…
Wellington Meets His Waterloo As Brazil Fails To Shut Money Laundering Loophole
A bizarre Brazilian court case in which a punter tried to recover his winnings from an illegal betting site has exposed the…
Brazil The Buzz Of Beautiful iGaming At SBC Lisbon
The Aviator girls in leather hot pants danced to hard rock, the cocktails–shaken not stirred–flowed and 30,000 iGaming executives and fans rushed…
EXCLUSIVE: Brazil Feels The Full Flutter Effect
When global gambling giant Flutter acquired Brazilian group NSX, experts were quick to point out that the newly formed operator Flutter Brazil…
LatAm Q2 Results Boost Serial Success Of Spanish Giants CIRSA
Boosted by Latin America, Spanish-origin omnichannel CIRSA has delivered impressive Adjusted EBITDA of €187 million (US$219m) for its Q2 2025 – an…
Brazil Cracks Down On iGaming While Under The Influencers
Brazilian influencer Emily Souza was arrested in June after two months on the run and accused of promoting illegal gambling platforms and…
Brazil’s Online Betting Booming But There May Be Trouble Ahead
Although 51 percent of the online sports betting market in Brazil is still operated by underground platforms, the legal iGaming and online…
Losing The State Billions in Lost Taxes, Illegal Sportsbetting Still Thriving in Brazil
Some five-months after the market was regulated, illegal betting continues to dominate Brazil’s sports gambling industry, costing the federal government an estimated…
The Lion Never Sleeps, Brazil’s Taxman Hunts Online Sports Betting
Brazil’s fearsome taxman, “O Leão” of notoriety, the lion that never sleeps, is threatening to kill-off the nation’s fledgling regulated online sports…
Brazilian Social Media Influencers Caught Up in Sports Betting Scandal
Virginia Fonseca is Brazil’s top digital influencer with more than 53 million followers on social media. But now she’s been summoned to…
Last of the Mohican: Chile’s Iconic Hardman Arturo Vidal Embroiled in Football Match Fixing Scandal
Known in his homeland as “El Rey Arturo”, King Arthur, or simply “El Rey”, Chile’s midfield hardman Arturo Vidal has become embroiled…
Match-fixing Threatens Soaring Sports Betting In Latin America
Brenda García, captain of Mexican women’s first league soccer team Mazatlán, was banned from the sport for six-years in February for match-fixing…
Breaking With Lawless Past, Latin America Pivots To Legal Future
While the betting market in Latin America is going from strength to strength, growing faster than in other parts of the world,…
Young and Lovely, Brazil’s iGaming Smiles But Doesn’t See
“Tall and tan and young and lovely, the girl from [Brazilian iGaming] goes walking and when she passes I smile but she…