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🇳🇱 The Dutch government plans to ban online gambling advertising and bonuses under a broad tightening of the country's regulated market.
The proposed package of reforms also includes centralised deposit limits, stronger affordability checks and wider powers against illegal operators. It will require legislation before taking effect.
Justice and Security State Secretary Claudia van Bruggen announced the proposals today. Under the plan, licensed operators could no longer advertise online gambling or offer inducements. This would include free bets provided when customers open accounts.
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| 2 |  💰 BurraPay went live at Circa Resort & Casino in Las Vegas this month, facilitating what it said was the first legal crypto-funded sports wager in Nevada history.
The cryptocurrency payments provider has launched its platform at Circa Resort & Casino in downtown Las Vegas, becoming the first crypto payments processor to operate within Nevada’s regulated gaming market. The supplier marked the launch with social media personality Bryce Hall placing wagers using cryptocurrency at the property’s sportsbook.
Speaking to NEXT.io, BurraPay CTO and co-founder Luke Millanta said Hall deposited $350,000 in the platform’s first transaction, after the company secured approval through the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
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| 3 |  👋 Renato Ascolia, CEO of global lottery at Brightstar Lottery, is set to step down from his role amid a senior leadership shake-up.
Ascoli will officially step down on 30 June after one year in the role. He previously served in various other executive roles at IGT, prior to the break-up of the wider business last year.
Marco Tasso, currently chief operations officer for international and Italy operations, will take on the new role of executive vice president and COO for global lottery. Tasso will have responsibility for all of Brightstar’s global lottery operations, including technology, product development, marketing, sales and product management.
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| 4 |  👋 Flutter Entertainment has announced plans to delist its ordinary shares from the London Stock Exchange, leaving the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) as the group’s sole primary trading venue.
The gambling giant confirmed the news in a statement this morning (12 June). It set out plans to delist from the LSE on 3 August this year. During its Q1 results announcement, Flutter revealed it was undertaking a review of the listing.
From the review, Flutter concluded that low trading volumes on the LSE, combined with the costs and regulatory burden of maintaining the listing, meant exiting the LSE was in the best interests of shareholders.
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| 5 |  🇬🇧 Entain has called on the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) to review its trade mark registration process after identifying at least 14 unlicensed operators that had secured trade mark rights.
In a letter sent to IPO chief executive and comptroller-general Adam Williams, Entain group general counsel and chief customer care officer Simon Zinger said operators serving British consumers without a licence were still able to secure UK trade mark registrations.
Entain said it had reviewed a sample of 18 gambling brands that it believed were serving UK consumers without a Gambling Commission licence and found that 14 did not hold a valid operating licence. The operator argued that the issue highlighted a potential gap between gambling regulation and the UK's intellectual property regime.
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| 6 |  🤝 BetConstruct AI has appointed industry veteran Lena Yasir as its new CEO. The online gaming technology provider, known previously as just BetConstruct, announced the decision on Wednesday (10 June).
The move comes during an aggressive expansion phase for the London-headquartered company, as it aims to scale its automated betting and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies globally.
Yasir brings around two decades of experience in the B2B wagering sector. Her background includes major roles at several top-tier gambling technology companies. She recently served as chief commercial officer at Arrise powering Pragmatic Play, after five years as a vice president at Pragmatic.
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| 7 |  🇳🇱 The Netherlands Gambling Authority (KSA) has hit operator 711 with an €886,000 fine for failing to comply with duty of care requirements.
After an investigation into 10 different player files, the KSA found that 711 had not intervened sufficiently to protect users from gambling harms. All 10 of the files threw up breaches of the Netherlands’ Gambling Act and are said to have taken place between 2022 and 26 June 2024.
The KSA’s sanction report claims that 711 failed to take sufficient measures to prevent excessive gambling and addiction in each case. On top of being found to have failed to identify signals of potential gambling harm, the report explains that 711 had acted contrary to its own stated policy, which suggests that the RG team must request a risk analysis if a player loses €2,500.
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| 8 |  👀 Gambling Commission director of enforcement and intelligence John Pierce has warned AI-powered compliance systems are “too often” failing to meet anti-money laundering (AML) requirements.
Speaking this week at the Gambling Anti-Money Laundering Group (GAMLG) Conference in London, Pierce made clear the regulator was not opposed to the use of AI and other new technologies for AML purposes, but urged operators to ensure the technology is delivering effective outcomes before it is rolled out.
“We aren’t ideologically against the use of new technology in your processes,” he said. “But you need to be sure they are doing what is required and the evidence we’ve seen so far is too often they simply aren’t delivering. If your business is considering this type of approach, make sure it’s delivering compliance before you launch it. We have seen improvements but there is more to do.”
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| 9 |  🇧🇷 Boa Lion, the Brazilian joint venture between MGM Resorts International and Grupo Globo, has agreed to buy Bingão do Brasil, a pre-operational online video bingo developer.
According to an Administrative Council for Economic Defence (CADE) notice published in Brazil’s Official Gazette on 9 June, the transaction has been submitted for competition review.
The transaction, the price of which was not disclosed, covers 100% of Bingão do Brasil. Completion still depends on approval from CADE, Brazil’s competition authority, which reviews mergers and acquisitions that may affect market concentration.
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| 10 |  🇫🇮 Proposed draft regulations for the Finnish market include €20 slot limits, a ban on autoplay, and mandatory 15-minute player reminders.
The proposals, published by Finland's Ministry of the Interior, form part of the country's transition from its long-standing monopoly system to a licensed online gambling market. A consultation on the draft decrees will remain open until 5 August, after which the rules will be finalised ahead of the new regime's planned launch in 2027.
While the draft includes a range of player protection requirements, industry attention is expected to focus on the autoplay ban, mandatory gameplay reminders and the level of proposed stake limits for online casino products.
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| 11 |  🇸🇪 Sweden's AB Trav och Galopp (ATG) has announced the appointment of Anna Romboli, currently of Svenska Spel, as its new CEO.
As confirmed by ATG, Romboli will officially assume her new role in December 2026. She will replace Jörgen Forsberg, who has been serving as acting CEO in the wake of Hasse Lord Skarplöth’s resignation in February. Forsberg will remain as temporary CEO until Romboli takes up her new role later this year.
Romboli will join the company after over seven years as vice president of Svenska Spel Tur, the lottery division of the Swedish state-owned gambling operator. Prior to this, she spent more than five years with NetEnt, first serving as chief communications officer before going on to become senior vice president of its affiliation business unit.
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| 12 |  📈 Flutter Entertainment’s share price has rocketed in recent days, after FanDuel announced it was letting go of staff across numerous roles.
The Flutter-owned US betting giant has not confirmed the exact number of staff let go in this latest round of layoffs, but sources familiar with the matter have suggested the figure could be in the hundreds.
NEXT.io understands that many of the roles cut are middle-management positions and that the layoffs have been spread across various departments, including both sportsbook and casino. One source told NEXT.io this appeared to be a “money-saving move dressed up as an organisational pivot.”
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| 13 |  🇬🇧 Betty CEO on UK launch: 'It's going to be some flavour of success'
After announcing Betty's launch into the UK market, NEXT.io speaks with co-founder and group CEO Justin Park about the operator's first venture outside Ontario.
The UK marks Betty's second market entry, though an Alberta launch is also on its way later this year. And if the launches prove successful, there could be many more new markets still to come. In this Q&A, Park explains why the UK is the perfect place to prove the portability of the product.
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| 14 |  👋 Asaf Noifeld has stepped down as managing director of casino at FanDuel after more than four years in the position.
Noifeld confirmed the news in a LinkedIn post today (10 June). He had led the FanDuel casino business since May 2022. In his post, Noifeld did not disclose why he is leaving FanDuel, but did say it was the "right moment for the next adventure". He added that he will remain with the business for "a few more months" before moving on.
"Over the years, I had the opportunity to work across multiple businesses, countries and teams, including four relocations, and of course the move to the US to join FanDuel. I learned a lot along the way: about products, strategy, leadership, growth, pressure, competition… but mostly about people, and how much can be accomplished when great people are working together as 'ONE TEAM',” he wrote.
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| 15 |  ⚽ Huddle Technology has launched a B2B football pricing product, and with the World Cup about to kick off, the timing is no accident.
Having built its expertise in US sports, the tech supplier has launched its new offering for operators to “meet the surging global demand for bespoke and high-frequency betting experiences.” With a combination of automated pricing engines and human input, Huddle hopes its clients will benefit from sharper pricing and greater uptime.
Speaking to NEXT.io, Huddle co-founder and CEO Francesco Borgosano stressed the importance of this summer for sports betting operators, saying: “This World Cup is a convergence of betting cultures, with the now-open US market increasingly dictating the betting trends into Europe and elsewhere. Bettors now want that level of personalisation that has led to the global explosion in player props and bet builders in recent years.”
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| 16 |  🇫🇷 French operator Groupe Partouche said growth within its online gaming business helped push overall revenue up 2.5% during the second quarter of its 2026 financial year.
For the three months to the end of April, consolidated revenue reached €109.5m, up from €106.9m in Q2 of 2025. Gross gaming revenue (GGR) was also 1.9% higher at €182.1m for the period, while net gaming revenue was up 1.7% to €84.5m.
While France remained the operator’s main source of GGR, it was the online segment of its international business that reported the strongest growth. For Q2, online gambling revenue increased 26% year-on-year to €7.1m.
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| 17 |  📈 DraftKings shares rose 7.59% to $26.66 today after the operator announced strong and growing volumes in its prediction markets offering.
The US sports betting giant revealed that annualised total volume traded on its predictions platform reached $3.1bn in May, up 34% month-on-month. Of that total, consumer volume on the predictions platform hit $1.3bn on an annualised basis in May, up 24% month-on-month, as the company said recent app improvements ahead of the NBA Finals had helped streamline access to its unified sports platform.
The figures underline DraftKings’ ambition to build a single “super app” spanning sportsbook, lottery, gaming and prediction markets, a strategy the company laid out at its March investor day, where it pointed to a $55bn to $80bn gross revenue opportunity by 2030.
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| 18 |  🇳🇿 New Zealand has put detailed online casino regulations in place, giving operators their clearest view yet of the country's new licensed iGaming regime.
The Online Casino Gambling Regulations 2026 were made by Order in Council on 2 June, and are set to come into force on 3 July. They sit under the Online Casino Gambling Act 2026 and set the operating rules for harm prevention, consumer protection, advertising, reporting, audits, fees and levies.
Full licensing is expected in 2027. The Department of Internal Affairs expects to begin issuing licences from early 2027, with the system fully operational later that year. Up to 15 licences will be made available.
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| 19 |  🇫🇮 50 licence applications have been filed ahead of Finland launching its regulated gambling market next summer, according to the country’s National Police Board (NPB).
However, the board also warned those applying may not find out if they have been successful for up to six months. “The complexity of processing and evaluating applications is affected by the fact that the majority of applicants are foreign,” said Juha Katainen, senior advisor at the NPB.
“We hope that applicants will avoid constantly contacting us about the processing status of their application, as answering enquiries takes time away from processing applications.”
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| 20 |  👀 A startup founded by industry veterans has unveiled what it describes as the ClearScore for gambling. NEXT.io spoke to the founders to learn more.
While compliance demands have soared in recent years, what is going on under the bonnet is still often a mystery to players. A new start-up is attempting to change that with an app that gives users a clearer understanding of their own betting health.
The team behind GamScore includes racing veteran and chair Josh Apiafi, CEO Phill Adams, RG expert Mark Potter, and other experts within the field of banking and technology. The product uses open banking data fed through an AI engine to generate a simple traffic light score, giving users a cross-operator view of their deposits, spending and budgeting.
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