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The Finnish launch plan reaches the board. Someone asks the commercial director what the welcome offer is. There is none, and the room assumes the CRM team has been too careful. Are bonuses allowed under the Finnish gambling licence? As acquisition, no. As retention, on conditions. The Gambling Act (Rahapelilaki 10/2026) prohibits free play, discou...

Stake’s short window to keep operating in Brazil closed almost as soon as it opened. On Friday, October 9, the president of the Federal Regional Court of the 3rd Region (TRF3), Luis Antonio Johonsom Di Salvo, suspended the injunction that had allowed Stake Brazil to keep offering fixed-odds betting until October 25. The suspension came one day afte...

New Blask research compares Brazil's ban, which took effect today, with India's August 2025 ban. In both countries the legal market disappeared, but the demand did not. Brazil's online betting market went dark, and Blask has published a study of what comes next, based on the precedent that exists: India's real-money gaming ban of August 2025. Blask...

An affiliate team opens the Finnish Gambling Act (Rahapelilaki 10/2026), searches for "affiliate", finds nothing, and reports that the ban does not exist. The search worked. The conclusion is wrong. I have seen founders spend six figures on legal opinions to justify a technicality, only to get hit with an enforcement decision because they misread t...

BETER , the award-winning provider of live streams, live data, and odds for esports and sports, has expanded its US footprint into a tenth state after being granted Vendor Registration license to supply its exclusive content to operators in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The license was granted by the Virginia Lottery, the state government agency re...

For years, the Nordic online gambling market has lived in a kind of regulatory in-between: national monopolies on one side, and a large, active base of players using internationally licensed operators on the other. That gap is now closing, but slowly and deliberately. Finland's ongoing gambling reform, alongside long-established frameworks from Mal...

BETER , the award-winning provider of live streams, live data, and odds for esports and sports, has further strengthened its US presence after its exclusive Setka Cup table tennis and ESportsBattle content was added to the Sports Wagering catalog and licensed in the State of Kentucky. The approval and license were granted by the Kentucky Horse Raci...

BETER , the award-winning provider of live streams, live data, and odds for esports and sports, has expanded its US presence after its exclusive Setka Cup table tennis content was added to the Sports Wagering catalog in the State of Illinois. The approval was granted by the Illinois Gaming Board, the regulatory and law enforcement agency responsibl...

The European iGaming Map 2026: The Cities That Power the Industry The online gambling industry does not live in one city. It never did. But in 2026 the geographic spread of the industry is more deliberate and more functional than it has ever been. Different cities serve different purposes. The licensing happens in one place, the exhibitions in anot...

Blask, the AI-powered market analytics platform for iGaming, has published its most comprehensive research to date: USA and Canada iGaming Landscape 2025 — The Offshore Reality . The 82-page report, co-authored with Steve Ruddock (Publisher, Straight to the Point Newsletter), is the first to quantify the full scale of North America's black market u...

BUCHAREST, Feb 16, 2026 – The Romanian Senate has officially passed two legislative proposals that signal a major shift in the country's gambling regulatory framework. The new measures target youth protection by increasing the legal age for gambling and imposing severe restrictions on digital advertising. In a move to curb gambling-related harm amo...

Throughout 2025, European iGaming markets have faced a new layer of complexity: shifting tax and licensing rules that directly impact marketing costs. Governments continue to increase gross gaming revenue (GGR) tax rates and impose stricter reporting standards. As of July 2025, these changes have become a critical factor in how operators and agenci...