The folks who are in favour of both a united Canada AND regulated sports betting and gaming in provinces across our home and native land most likely woke up yesterday morning with feelings of the mixed sort.
The sovereignist Parti Québécois, led by Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, garnered enough seats Monday to form a minority government. The PQ won 59 seats followed by the Liberal Party with 40 while the former ruling party, the Coalition Avenir Québec, was completely shut out.
While the new Premier and his party will attempt to re-plant the seeds of separation, Plamondon has indicated he won’t hold a referendum until after the term of the current U.S. President ends in 2029.
Under the PQ’s fiscal plan, there is a forecasted $6.6-billion reduction in government spending over five years and promises to get rid of the provincial sales tax on second-hand goods, temporarily cut the province’s sales tax on gasoline in half and expand benefits under Québec’s parental insurance plan. We’ll see if Plamondon et al can get help from one of the other political parties on those fronts.
However. . . both Plamondon and Liberal leader Charles Milliard let it be known on the campaign trail that they were open to bringing some semblance of the Ontario and/or Quebec regulated gambling models to La Belle Province.
“Mr. Milliard says – and he’s right – I’ve done the research – online sports betting in Québec is a wild west,” Plamondon said back in early September. “American companies arrive, then advertise, and are not regulated.
“Ontario decided to clean up and collect a tax on these activities, and it raised an additional $300 million. It’s an excellent idea that may fly under the radar because it’s a bit original but imagine if we take $300 million and invest it in homelessness, for children who are hungry at school, for learning disabilities. We could have an immediate impact.”
Covers journalist Geoff Zochodne spoke yesterday with Arianne Gauthier, the spokesperson for the Québec Online Gaming Coalition, who believes the election results show there’s a “consensus” to have private-sector operators in a regulated market.
Québec has a lengthy track record for committing significant dollars to sports facilities. Tennis Canada this summer announced plans for a complete makeover of its Montreal facility at Parc Jarry, including a 15,000-seat stadium with retractable roof. The mayor of Québec City last week gave a thumb’s-up to a CFL expansion franchise with the caveat of funding support from the province and the federal government for a new stadium (or a massive makeover of the football stadium on the campus of Laval University).
As Dave Briggs reported in last week’s dispatch, some $2.67 billion in tax revenue has been delivered to Ontario’s coffers since April 2022. An influx of tax revenue from private-sector gambling operators in a regulated might help with the PQ’s fiscal plans. Also, the new provincial government is likely to join Alberta in opposition to the federal Bill S-211 that’s currently in front of the standing committee on Canadian Heritage. At last week’s Global Gaming Expo, Alberta minister Dale Nally said the bill “is another example of federal overreach on a provincial jurisdiction”.
The Quebec Online Gaming Coalition and others interested in seeing the province join Alberta and Ontario will be crossing fingers and toes in hopes that Plamondon and Milliard put their words into action in a rare act of bipartisanship in today’s political climate.
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An update, AML edition, on Ontario and Alberta
When Canadian Gaming Association board member Derek Ramm joined us on a recent Gaming News Canada Show episode, among the topics du jour was the failure of the Ontario and Alberta regulated gambling markets to have an anti-money laundering program in place at launch.
If you’ve been reading this weekly dispatch over the past five-plus years, you’ve seen the criticism iGaming Ontario has received for delays in putting into place both AML and centralized self-exclusion programs. The self-exclusion box was ticked off this spring with the introduction of BetGuard.
In Alberta, there was a centralized self-exclusion product in place when the market opened its doors in mid-July. But nothing on the AML front.
“There should have been a product in place on Day 1, but sometimes politics is speed to market,” Ramm told your humble podcast host. “In Ontario there’s still frustration about the lack of any sort of AML technology. We don’t have the efficiencies we probably should (have).”
Ramm also mentioned on the pod that the Alberta iGaming Corporation put out last month an RFI (Request for Information) “to gather preliminary information regarding technology and solution approaches that may support AiGC’s future-state anti-money laundering capability. . .” for the province’s regulated market. The RFI’s closing date is Friday.
Gaming News Canada emailed the communications team at AiGC for more information on its AML plans and received this statement:
AiGC’s recent Request for Information (RFI) on anti-money laundering (AML) software is a non-binding process and doesn’t commit AiGC to any procurement or course of action. Its purpose is to help us understand the options available and the current state of technology for AML solutions.
AiGC is the reporting entity for FINTRAC purposes in Alberta’s regulated iGaming market. Registered operators conduct the day-to-day AML controls and provide relevant information to AiGC. We, at AiGC, oversee these activities; we review and assess the information received to fulfill obligations under federal AML legislation.
Meanwhile, iGaming Ontario’s plan to implement an automated system for filing suspicious transaction reports continues to be a slow boat from Georgian Bay to the St. Lawrence Seaway. The iGO comms team provided this statement Monday in response to our request for an update:
iGaming Ontario takes its anti-money laundering obligations seriously and we are confident in the robustness of our program. We work closely with our operators and the federal regulator FINTRAC to identify and report suspicious financial activity in the regulated market.
We are also pioneering a modern, scalable data platform that will substantially streamline information exchange with our operators, identify player risk and more fully automate AML reporting. As communicated to our operators, we are targeting a launch this spring.
And speaking of AML. . . .
While we were en route to Vegas for G2E some 10 days ago, the international Financial Action Task Force and Asia-Pacific Group on Money Laundering delivered an evaluation report, Canadian style. The report “assessed the effectiveness of the country’s measures against money laundering, countering terrorist financing and proliferation financing (AML/CFT/CPF), and the level of compliance with the FATF Recommendations, at the time of an on-site visit in November 2025”.
This section of the report caught our eye:
Overall, Canada faces material ML risks driven by major profit‑generating crimes, while TF (terrorism financing) risk remains limited in scale and proliferation financing (PF) exposure is assessed as low to medium, with sectoral and jurisdictional differences shaping the risk profile. ML in Canada is mainly linked to proceeds from drug trafficking, fraud, commercial trade fraud and tax crimes, often involving organised crime groups and professional money laundering intermediaries. Key inherent vulnerabilities are present across large banks, certain money services businesses, virtual asset service providers, private corporations and express trusts, with growing exposure related to virtual assets, crowdfunding mechanisms and online gambling platforms.
In a LinkedIn post, the aforementioned Derek Ramm points out that while Canada’s oversight of the casino received plaudits from the report “what it leaves out may matter more”.
Also from Ramm:
“The assessors accepted Canada’s model at face value, which is very puzzling. The provincial Crown agencies are the reporting entities, while in the majority of cases private operators are the ones who actually run the day-to-day business. The report doesn’t examine how accountability flows, and it doesn’t discuss the provinces acting as owner, beneficiary and regulator all at once.
“Also, counting the sector as 19 reporting entities really flatters the numbers. Seventeen FINTRAC examinations over five years looks like near-full coverage, but the picture looks very different once you account for the sheer number of gaming venues and operators behind those statistics.
“Canadian gaming has a real AML story to tell. Hopefully the next evaluation will take more than a superficial look at the industry.”
PENN-owned theScore Bet incurs the wrath of the AGCO
In keeping with the plethora of puck parlance over recent editions of the newsletter, PENN Entertainment has landed itself in the penalty box after being called for an infraction by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario.
Yesterday, the AGCO announced a $200,000 monetary penalty has been handed to the proprietors of theScore Bet for “presenting cash-out offers that were not honoured”. From the AGCO’s news release:
The enforcement action relates to a $1,000 bet placed on March 14, 2025. The bet was a multi-leg parlay, meaning the player had to correctly predict the outcomes of multiple NHL, NBA and NCAA basketball games all taking place that day. If every selection was correct, the potential payout was more than $1 million.
After all but one of the legs were successful, theScore presented the player with a cash-out offer of approximately $380,000. The player accepted the offer immediately, however theScore rejected the transaction during automated verification after the odds changed.
Four minutes later, theScore presented the player with a second cash-out offer of almost $100,000. The player again accepted immediately, but this offer also was not honoured. The bet ultimately settled as a loss, and the player received no payout.
The Registrar found that neither cash-out offer was achievable as presented to the player. The enforcement action relates to Standard 4.07 of the Registrar’s Standards for Internet Gaming, which requires that information provided to players before and during gameplay does not mislead players or misrepresent games, including by describing outcomes, prizes or features that are not achievable.
Gaming News Canada received this statement from a PENN spokesperson:
“We take our responsibility to provide customers with a fair and transparent betting experience seriously. We have been engaged with the AGCO throughout this process and remain committed to working constructively with our regulator.”
The AGCO has taken action against eight gambling-related operators for alleged wrongdoing so far in 2026. One of those operators, PointsBet Canada, has appealed a five-day suspension handed down by the AGCO back in February for allegedly failing to “properly monitor, detect, document and report suspicious betting patterns” around the 2024 betting scandal involving then-Toronto Raptors player Jontay Porter. A decision has yet to be announced on the appeal.
Stake, Spin Casino latest to join Alberta market
As your huffing-and-puffing editor-in-chief checked his inbox yesterday morning after surviving his inaugural spin class of the 2026-27 season, news landed that well-known gambling brand Stake has been given the green light by the Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis Commission to join Canada’s second regulated sports betting and gaming market. There remains the business of getting an operating agreement with the Alberta iGaming Corporation, but we’re told that will happen before the October 13 cutoff date for legally operating in the western Canada province.
“Our planned entry into Alberta represents an exciting milestone step for us in Canada – we are not here to blend in,” Kris Abbott, Canada’s country manager for Stake who held similar roles previously with Coolbet and Betano, said in a news release. “We are here to raise the bar and bring the distinctive Stake experience to Alberta’s highly engaged player audience.”
Stake has been attempting to join Ontario’s regulated market for more than two years now. Abbott told GNC in an email yesterday that Stake’s application is before the AGCO and “we expect to hear more soon”.
Also of interest in the release was that Birgitte Sand, who was instrumental in the creation of the Ontario market some five-plus years ago now, is a member of Stake Canada’s board of directors.
“Securing licensing in Alberta provides a strong foundation for the company’s development in Canada and reflects the importance we place on meeting local standards and player safety. We commend the Alberta government, the AGLC and the AiGC for their work to establish Alberta’s regulated iGaming framework,” Sands said in the release.
AiGC also announced late last week that Spin Casino is the 35th gaming product to join the market. As we reported in last week’s newsletter, Service Alberta and Red Tape Reduction Minister Dale Nally believes that number could close reach 60 by next week’s cutoff.
Supreme Court of Canada appeal hearing ready to roll
Barring an unforeseen circumstance, there will be a Supreme Court of Canada hearing today in “Atlantic Lottery Corporation, et al. v. Attorney General of Ontario (Ontario) (Civil) (As of Right) on whether Ontario should be able to offer online poker and daily fantasy sports beyond its borders. You can access a live stream of the proceedings here.
In case you’ve been riding the waves in Nazare for the past 18 months, the ALC (with the support of fellow Canadian Lottery Coalition members BCLC, Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries and Loto-Québec) are appealing a 2025 Court of Appeal for Ontario decision that ruled in favour of the Attorney General of Ontario. Standing in support of the Attorney General for the Supreme Court appeal are the Canadian Gaming Association, Flutter Entertainment, NSUS Group and the Attorney General of Alberta.
Molly Cormier, the executive director of the newly named Canadian Alliance for Regulated Gaming (more on that in another section of the newsletter), arrived in Ottawa for the hearing. Cormier wouldn’t get into specifics around the case only to say for the coalition/alliance “legal clarity is very important for us in Canada’s gambling framework”.
The western Canada province is a late comer to these legal proceedings now that it has opened its regulated gambling market. Dan Keene, the Albera iGaming Corporation’s CEO, said during the SBC Summit Canada in May that Alberta and Ontario were working on a memorandum of understanding around the combining of player pools. We are told that’s not a done deal.
Yesterday, Alberta licensee Tonybet let it be known it is now offering online poker to Canadian customers outside of the western Canada province and Ontario.
We will follow the developments from the Supreme Court hearing and keep our loyal subscribers informed. In the meantime, if you’re looking for a more-detailed primer on the appeal, we steer you to Tom Nightingale’s reporting last month for Canadian Gaming Business.
Canadian Lottery Coalition has a new handle
Count the former Canadian Lottery Coalition among the stakeholders calling audibles as the gambling industry continues to evolve across the country.
So, goodbye CLC, hello Canadian Alliance for Regulated Gaming. In a news release Monday, CARG announced it’s now a not-for-profit association “representing members of the legal and regulated gambling industry”. The alliance’s members include Atlantic Lottery, BCLC, Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries, and Loto-Québec.
Gaming News Canada spoke yesterday with Molly Cormier, who replaced Will Hill as executive director in April. We asked the former Atlantic Lottery director and journalist about “regulated” being included in the rebrand for a couple of reasons. The four lottery and gaming corporations aren’t responsible for regulation of gambling in their respective provinces, and we asked Cormier if membership to the alliance will now be open to licensed operators and suppliers in Ontario and Alberta.
“I’m a Maritimer. . . I’ll talk to anybody,” said Cormier, laughing, then adding, “We don’t have the authority to be a regulator.”
Cormier said the new name reflects an association that, according to the news release, “provides a unified national forum for collaboration, research, public education and policy engagement on the issues shaping Canada’s gambling sector”.
“We’ve seen gambling policies become more national in scope and increasingly complex,” she said. “The members felt they needed a strong national voice and around player health, player protection and enforcement. (They) felt there’s no national voice when it comes to focusing on the public interest mandate.”
Not surprisingly, prediction markets are on the alliance’s radar. Cormier also said the association is submitting this week a brief to the standing committee on Canadian Heritage around Bill S-211. She added that CARG “really respects the decision and the authority of the provinces on how gaming is conducted in their jurisdictions”.
The association’s news release points to a willingness to work with “governments, regulators, industry stakeholders and communities. . .”. We will be keeping tabs on that given the past tensions between the former coalition and its members with grey-market operators in provinces not named Ontario and Alberta, and with groups such as the Quebec Online Gaming Coalition.
Sportsnet sends response on coverage around ads
ICYMI, the lead item in last week’s edition of Gaming News Canada on the role of our national sports broadcasters in the conversation around gambling advertising.
We thought it only fair to contact the communications folks at Sportsnet and TSN for a response what was written and also what feedback, if any, the networks were receiving when it comes to the volume and content of gamblng commercials and branded content.
Emails requesting comment were sent Friday and Monday to the communications manager at Bell Media. The response?
Yesterday, a Sportsnet spokesperson sent this statement:
The sports betting industry is heavily regulated, and all betting ads that appear on our channels are in accordance with provincial regulations and industry standards. We are extremely thoughtful about the volume and content of ads, and we continue to engage with government and industry stakeholders on responsible gaming.
On another note, former iGaming Ontario chief of staff Mitch Davidson posted on X in response to a TVO program looking at gambling advertising.
PointsBet Invitational removed from Curling Canada calendar
There was a bit of reportage Monday by Gregory Strong of The Canadian Press that Curling Canada had “quietly” dropped the PointsBet Invitational from its 2026-27 calendar.
The inaugural PBI took place in Fredericton in September 2022, just months after the launch of Ontario’s regulated gambling market and not too long after Curling Canada landed a sponsorship deal with PointsBet Canada. Nic Sulsky, then PointsBet’s chief commercial officer, was a catalyst in creating the March Madness-type men’s and women’s curling event with 12 top Canadian rinks, national junior champions, club titleholders, sponsor’s exemptions and teams selected by the host committee.
Gaming News Canada reached out Monday to Sulsky for comment and asked him if the PBI lit the fuse for him to co-found The Curling Group, current proprietors of the Grand Slam of Curling and Rock League.
“When the PointsBet Invitational was created, I knew almost nothing about the curling world,” Sulsky wrote back. “I’d led the PointsBet partnership with Curling Canada and came at the event as an outsider. The idea was basically: Let’s take inspiration from the most popular casual sports fan event and create something that might engage new and younger fans. ‘What would March Madness look like in curling?’ I definitely underestimated the depth and complexity of the Canadian curling ecosystem, but the whole point was to try something different, take some risks and give the sport a new look.
“The irony is that while the PointsBet Invitational ultimately didn’t work, the instinct behind it absolutely did. We believed curling could be louder, more entertaining and willing to challenge convention and a few years later, I bet my career on it (pun intended).”
It appears as if Curling Canada isn’t ruling out bringing back the event.
“I think we can just see how this first year goes and if it’s something that we really want to see for the high-performance program,” David Murdoch, the national association’s high-performance executive director, told Strong. “And for Curling Canada in terms of promotion, where it’s just the Canadian athletes, then maybe that’s something that we can build out as the quad goes.
“There’s certainly some benefits that we enjoyed from just having the Canadian teams all together under one roof.”
People on the Move
Enteractive appoints Stephen Parry as Group CEO.
Dan Taylor’s tenure as Flutter’s Chief Executive Officer got underway October 1. Meanwhile, Edward Traynor is appointed interim Group Chief Legal Officer and Group Company Secretary with the retirement of Don Liu.
Katie Simmonds is named Chief Legal & Business Officer at Sport Integrity Global Alliance.
Fredrik Ogren is appointed Group Chief Technology Officer at Allwyn.
Hannah Buitekant is the new Chief Growth Officer at FairPlace Sports Media.
Former Casumo Chief Technology Officer Cristina Turbatu joins iGP in a similar role.
Gary Hunter is appointed Chief Information Security Officer at PENN.
Sky Betting & Gaming names Neil Banbury as Managing Director.
Merkur Group appoints Paul Richardson as Senior VP, International Casino.
Ex-Paysafe senior director Daniel Carson joins Cyclops as VP of Strategy.
Ruwani Hewa comes on board at Paysafe as VP, Consumer Product.
Evoke appoints Tara-Rose Byrne as Head of UK Online Compliance.
Liam Whitehead is the new Head of Partnerships at HEROIC.
Ex-Bragg commercial director Hristofor Hristov is named Head of International Business Development at Amusnet.
Skylar Dice departs Golden Entertainment to become Vice President & General Manager at Aliante Casino + Hotel + Spa.
Gabriel Baron bids adieu to American Gaming Systems and his role as VP of Table Products to launch a new gaming business with Stephen Crystal and SCCG Management.
Saskia Karsen Ferrer is appointed Head of Programmes & Delivery at Legend.
Aristocrat Gaming names Mihir Wagh as Head of Global Supply Chain.
SciPlay is seeking a new General Counsel with Rob Gustafson’s departure.
John Stanhope has a new role at American Gaming Systems as Vice President of Interactive Technology.
Chris Kronow Rasmussen is the new Vice President for Sports Betting Integrity at General Commercial Gaming Regulatory Authority.
James Ford walks away from his Senior Director of Gaming role with LeoVegas Group.
Lindsay Kalbfleisch has a new role at Greo Evidence Insights as Director, Implementation and Insights.
MediaTroopers appoint Zoran Arunovic as Team Lead – AdOps & Campaign Management.
Pamela Yang moves from her Canada Casino Product Manager role at FanDuel to Product Manager on the Casino Generosity team.
Sebastian Brescanovic is named Group iGaming Product Manager at Allwyn.
Bradley Szalach departs Catena Media and his Content Lead gig.
Finally, a tap of the True hockey twig to Barron’s reporter Nick Devor, who is receiving the Walker Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications’ Barrett and Steel Outstanding Young Journalist award for his work on the legal dispute over 1-800-Gambling, attrition in the CFTC’s enforcement division, and a cryptocurrency token governing resolutions on Polymarket.
Classified (Jobs) Information
On the Home Front
DraftKings has a remote opening for a Sportsbook Operations Senior Associate.
In Toronto, Fanatics is hiring a Senior Campaign Operations Manager – Casino.
Wanted by Loto- Québec: a Business Partner, Talent & Culture.
The Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority is in search of a Programmer Analyst (IT Application).
Betty has a position available in Calgary for a Customer Success Representative.
Niagara Casinos is on the lookout for an IT Infrastructure Manager.
Better Collective is in need of a U.S./Canada Commercial Content Writer & Editor.
Red Bull Canada has a freelance role available for a Social Channels Specialist.
Western Hockey League HQ has an opportunity for a Director, Finance & Administration.
South of the Border
Seminole Hard Rock Support Services requires a Director, AML Compliance.
Delaware North has a position available in Buffalo for a Director of Growth Analytics.
BetMGM has a remote opportunity for a Real Time Associate.
Hard Rock Digital is hiring a Specialist – Data Governance.
The Chicago Blackhawks are searching for a Vice President, Corporate Partnerships.
NBA HQ is on the lookout for a WNBA and International Brand Strategist.
Yahoo Sports is seeking an Associate Producer.
Across the Ponds
In New South Wales, Aristocrat is seeking a Senior Director: Enterprise Workforce Planning Transformation.
In Malta, Betsson Group has an opportunity for a Director of Product.
ComeOn Group requires a Payment Solutions Manager.
In Salzburg, Red Bull is hiring a Gaming & Esports Player Marketing Specialist.
Reading and Reflecting
We mentioned in last week’s dispatch comments from gambling executives in Las Vegas that visitors with Canadian passports would return to normal in the not-too-distant future. About that, eh. . . :
Also, from last week, Tom Nightingale of Canadian Gaming Business has more on our reporting of Dale Nally’s comments at G2E that Alberta will have a heavy hand in dealing with unlicensed operators.
Covers guy Geoff Zochodne spent some of his time in Vegas last week with Circa owner Derek Stevens, who got the lay of the land in Niagara Falls while visiting Canada this summer.
Globe and Mail reporter Meera Raman was first with the news that some longstanding Canadian finance executives are seeking the green light to build an unprecedented investment dealer “focused exclusively on prediction market trades”.
BCLC responsible gambling guru Ryan McCarthy joined the conversation, via the LinkedIn, on sports betting and youth.
As the puck drops on the start of the NHL regular season, Loto- Québec has a new commercial about gambling responsibly. Nous l’aimons.
Hockey fans of your geezer-status editor-in-chief’s vintage will remember ye olde Showdown series from Hockey Night in Canada intermissions back in the 1970s. Well, Better Collective and bet365 have come up with their own version, which will debut tomorrow.
Hard Rock Bet customers in Ontario, Florida, New Jersey and Michigan will have the opportunity to compete in a $5 million slots tournament being operated by the Seminole Tribe of Florida in December. According to a new release, digital qualifiers through the Hard Rock Bet app will take place in Ontario and the other three markets beginning this week and running through the end of November. Winning a qualifier means a trip to the live tournament on December 12.
Some Canadian media outlets, including Toronto Life, got a little giddy last week at learning Prime Minister Mark Carney was attracting interest from prediction markets as a Nobel Peace Prize candidate (just don’t tell Don Trump Sr.).
A G2E panel that included Responsible Gambling Council boss Sarah McCarthy devoted a significant chunk of time to youth gambling, wrote Kirk Geller for Global Gaming Insider.
TheScore has a new multi-year partnership with the National Football League in the true north strong and free.
Bede Gaming product chief Sarah Hitchcock spoke with Craig Davies for Canadian Gaming Business on the company’s work with partners around changing trends in the gaming industry, and other matters.
Isaac Rose-Berman delivered on the Substack a thoughtful piece about gambling as a social activity.
Robert Fletcher of NEXT.io did some reportage on the plans of Catena Media and Better Collective to get into the prediction market affiliate biz.
NPR journalist Bobby Allyn tells the story of the man who self-excluded from sports betting websites only to have prediction markets arrive.
In his Straight to the Point newsletter, Steve Ruddock delivered a summary of G2E, American style.
NEXT.io senior journalist Sonja Lindenberg asks if operators in Brazil’s (previously) legal market played a hand in the ban handed down last week.
Did you hear the one about Hard Rock Bet, football and bars of soap whose names are inspired by American cities?
Speaking of Ruddock, he also reported about another month, another billion dollars in revenue for igaming operators in the U.S. of A.
Earnings + More has reaction to the latest tax hike being imposed on the UK gambling industry.
Dan Waugh weighed in on the UK Gambling Commission’s “tortured survey of its Young People and Gambling Survey”.
There’s also reporting by Martin Bjoerck of iGaming Business of the UK gambling industry taking aim at proposed ban on gambling ads.
The CEO of Robinhood . . . er. . . predicts that the activity around sports on prediction markets will take a back seat to crypto contracts and other sectors in the not-too-distant future.
The ban on betting in Brazil could mean more business for other markets in Latin America, reported Macarena Lopez Rodicio for NEXT.io.
San Antonio Spurs superstar Victor Wembanyama wants nothing to do with being an ambassador for a sports betting operator.
Jason Lloyd of The Athletic raised a Spockian eyebrow about LeBron James’s endorsement deal with Polymarket.
The Massachusetts Gaming Commission has launched the “Bet on Respect” campaign as a zero-tolerance policy for sports betting harassment.
Good reading from Sports Business Journal’s Bret McCormick on the hospitality program for the MLB A’s new stadium in Las Vegas.
The case of the U.S. politician who made the dumb-dumb move of betting on his own pardon.
The Ohio Casino Control Commission has sent cease-and-desist correspondence to 10 prediction market companies.
The volume of trading in some areas on prediction market platforms is drawing some scrutiny, reported CNBC’s Ananya Chetia and Davis Giangiulio.
Giangiulio also wrote a piece on the increasing normalcy of sports betting when it comes to Gen Z, and why that’s drawing concern.
Global Gaming Insider chronicler Keih Ma has the deets on changes to the rules around advertising from Germany’s Joint Gambling Authority of the Federal States.
The EKG Line newsletter has the latest online casino market metrics from the country on the south side of Lake Ontario.
The merger of the Vegas experience and sporting events is working quite well, a G2E panel agreed.
Speaking of G2E, Steve Ruddock pounded the keyboard for a piece on CasinoReports.com about the cone of silence around online casinos at last week’s conference.
A Pennsylvania lawmaker is pushing for online gambling operators to provide monthly activity statements to customers.
Clarion, which operates ICE, iGB and the Indian Gaming Tradeshow, has a new owner.
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