Stench of Corruption Emanating From U.S. Prediction Markets
The stench of corruption emanating from U.S. prediction markets has become undeniable. From the controversial decision of the highest authority in the…
The stench of corruption emanating from U.S. prediction markets has become undeniable. From the controversial decision of the highest authority in the…
It’s difficult to gauge whether President Trump’s new prediction market ally was speaking tongue-in-cheek or fervently believed the spiel he was spinning…
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Never has the ancient, back-handed Chinese rejoinder, I hope you live in “interesting” times, been more prescient. For, under the stewardship of…
The appetite for gambling in New York, the “City That Never Sleeps”, is vast and compelling. Just look at the Empire State…
Playing true to its singular, “onery” moniker, Texas–along with California–is the last major territory holding out against the rising sweep of legal,…
In the age of president Donald Trump 2.0 it seems that contentious word “taxes” has been banned from the Anglo-sphere. Instead we’re…
EXCLUSIVE: Brazil, blessed with its vast Amazonian rainforest, spectacular northern desert of Lençóis Maranhenses and sprawling southern Pantanal wetlands, is known for…
To most of us America’s Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is a little known financial watchdog, if known at all. But it…
As England football fans have just recently been reminded to their delight and astonishment, it ain’t over until the Bellingham rings. Or…
India has 10,000 Gods. And each one, they say, has 400 avatars. Thus imagine the betting permutations in this amazing world, both…
It’s a tale of two archipelagos. The iGaming course of ASEAN neighbours The Philippines and Indonesia, the two biggest island nations in…
That old saw, ‘if California were a country, it would be the fifth richest in the world’, runs back and forth; reminding…
Amid the concerted bid to clean-up this Mediterranean island nation’s fractured image for corruption and money laundering, the appointment of Charles Mizzi…
The drive to “clean-up” gambling may–quite literally, in the case of betting giant Entain–be a black and white affair, but the fading…
Tis the season to be jolly and the thoughts of every good iGamer turns to–what else–that vital blessing: Money! So how’s this…
Never has the ancient African proverb “slowly, slowly, catchee monkey” been more apposite. Doing business in Japan, to coin additional euphemisms, is…
Gambling using credit cards to pay for bets is all set to be outlawed Down Under. Australia has given us many gifts:…
It may be illegal–‘Haram’–under the strictures of Islamic law but the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is fast approaching legalising gambling in the…
With US megalith MGM Resorts International ditching Entain to launch BetMGM in the UK, the world of iGaming is all shook up….
For some it’s been likened to a “Marriage A-la-Mode, for others it’s a cynical, if long overdue push into the booming North…
Fresh from his political drubbing for the “crime” of wanting to bring fresh air to the capital, London Mayor Sadiq Khan has…
Don’t let the name fool you. These days the Las Vegas Sands has very little to do with the Desert Queen herself,…
With its location at the heart of the Mediterranean and role as iGaming capital of the world, tiny Malta, an island nation…
“Havnameltdown”. Never has a name been so apposite in describing the existential crisis affecting horse racing, the sport of kings, on both…
While “What Goes in Vegas Stays in Vegas” has been the norm since the birth of gambling in the desert kingdom, “What…
In the end the White Paper hit with something of an anti-climax, perhaps representative of the measured, collegiate, head-boy style of Number…
Sport, and by extension sports betting, is facing a long summer of disruption and protest. For sport, its vagaries, its excitement, its…
Godzilla versus King Kong, there’s a metaphorical 500lb gorilla in the iGaming jungle. “Lots of hysterical nonsense is claimed about betting &…
Apart from the embracing, indeed comforting, atmosphere of all-pervasive order, and the immaculate state of big city streets, the first time visitor…
Imagine, for a moment, a match between England’s two most storied football clubs, Manchester United and Liverpool. Imagine, moreover, that seven players…
They say that India has 40,000 gods and goddesses, and that each one has four avatars. At the expense of exaggeration, it…
Amid the Great Depression, picture the scene. A down-at-heel punter, facing ruination, walks into a casino for one last throw of the…
Gambling reform–perhaps more than most issues on this government’s agenda–has been buffeted and delayed by the chaos of Covid and internecine Tory…
You’ve got to hand it to the bricks-and-mortar guys. They might have taken a beating from Covid. But in The States, at…
At the time–with the world awash with cheap money–it seemed like a master-stroke; a supreme marriage of convenience between the brash, ballsy…
Despite the fierce world economic headwinds, and their recent failure to launch on the New York Stock Exchange, Allwyn Entertainment, the soon-to-be…
It could have been a classic and uplifting scene straight out of a revisionist left field western: a virtuous circle of “Cowboys…
Perhaps the salient clue lies in the name: LeoVegas, a cheeky appropriation of two of the biggest branding images of world gambling…
So it’s a one-horse race, after all. By the time you’re reading this, ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak will no doubt…
Stung by a steady stream of criticism over illicit betting and accusations of corrupting young minds, Amazon, owners of Twitch, have decided…
Ever wondered how the Fat Banker got so fat? One answer could be because he/she/they ate the future for breakfast. And none…
Liz Truss, the UK’s fourth prime minister in six years, has made her keen right-wing supporter Michelle Donelan the new overlord of…
They say, with the deepest respect, that: “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” Yet, in rejoinder, and equally respectfully, it’s…
Post-Pandemic and post-Liberalisation iGaming flavours the pot, but in the stats war between the twin citadels of straight gambling, Las Vegas and…
A cynic may argue that in its “race to the top”, Flutter Entertainment, the world’s largest gambling group, has decided to lighten…
It’s said that Russian punters will bet on anything. And so it has proved after an ingenious cricket betting scam in India…
With the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine fuelling economic uncertainty and raging inflation, maybe now is not the time for 888’s debt-financed…
In this world of luck, of ever-changing pronouns and mixed metaphors, “It Could Be You!” But, as Camelot, the improbable host of…
In a double quandary that may have delighted two of the country’s most famous sons, surrealist artist René Magritte and the great…