PASPA

24th October 2025

Mafia-Backed Betting Scandal: 34 Arrested In Sweeping FBI Raids

The biggest betting scandal in modern U.S. sports history erupted yesterday, as the FBI arrested 34 suspects, including Portland Trail Blazers coach…

3rd June 2025

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…

19th March 2025

Seeking To Turn Back Sports Gaming, U.S. SAFE Bet Act Revived

The abortive SAFE Bet Act, a proposed draconian crackdown on U.S. sports betting, is back from the dead. Following its failure last…

13th March 2025

New Jersey Seeks To Legalise Sweepstakes iCasinos

Riding the wave, New Jersey is once again leading the way in U.S. gambling reform with two open bills that seek to…

18th December 2024

Play’n GO’s Giant Steps: Brazil the Biggest Opportunity Since PASPA

Finally going live on the very first day of the coming New Year 2025, Brazil’s nascent regulated sports betting market is perhaps…

12th November 2024

Brazil: Bringing Order And Progress To The Chaos Of Sportsbetting

Only weeks away from full regulation and already a significant clutch of potential operators, led by Super Group’s Betway, have decided to…

17th July 2024

Carrots or Stick, Will Middling Ohio Kick-start U.S. iGaming?

Tempted by the prospect of generating some US$650 million (£500m) in additional annual tax revenues, Ohio is seriously considering becoming the eighth…

3rd June 2024

Bad Company: Illegal Online Gambling Marches On In USA

Even after the 2018 repeal of the contentious Federal PASPA ban, which signalled the start of legal online sports betting; the Bad…

31st January 2024

How Deep Is Your Love, Flutter Goes All-in On America

Pursued by the twin Furies of greater regulatory oversight and the growing kick-back against problem gambling in its native European backyard, Flutter…