Gaming Policy

16+ hour, 34+ min ago   (987+ words) The National Lottery Authority (NLA) has opened a new front in its effort to bring Liberia’s rapidly evolving gaming industry under tighter regulatory control, issuing a Notice of Default, Administrative Directive and Demand to Cease and Desist against Seven Blue…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (557+ words) California has been running the exact same play, just with online casinos instead of parking variances, since 2022. Nobody had a mechanism to force compromise. So the bill died. Then it came back. Then it died again. Three things, based on…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (468+ words) New York regulators accused VGW of offering illegal gambling through its platforms, Chumba Casino, Global Poker, and LuckyLand Slots. Sweepstakes casino operator Virtual Gaming Worlds (VGW) has paid New York regulators $8 million, following a cease-and-desist order issued by Attorney General…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (65+ words) By Aaron Plotke, Nicholas Chang, Congress Must Act to Safeguard the No Surprises Act from Industry Gaming States Spotlight Promising Fixes to the No Surprises Act 9.10.26 / Issue Brief A Summer of Continuing the Fight: Defending Coverage, Demanding Health Equity 8.31.26 / Insights…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (157+ words) Citadel Securities urged the SEC, not the CFTC, to oversee prediction contracts tied to public companies. Its Sept. 9 letter argued KPI contracts are security-based swaps, warning CFTC self-certification risks market fragmentation for Kalshi, Polymarket, and Crypto.com and reshapes oversight…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (385+ words) OAKLAND PARK, Fla (Gambling911.com) - Earlier Wednesday, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the state had secured the $8 million from VGW Holdings Pty. Ltd. and its affiliates (VGW), one of the largest operators of so-called “sweepstakes casinos". In June 2025, the…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (396+ words) Global watchdog flags criminals using gambling platforms without actually betting, splitting transactions to evade detection and placing coordinated bets to manipulate events The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is alerting countries of how to spot abuse of the gaming and…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (220+ words) The watchdog says the fast-growing online gambling ecosystem crosses borders in ways that outpace controls built for brick and mortar casinos and regulated banks, leaving compliance blind spots. Online casinos and sportsbooks face heightened exposure to laundering because money can…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (379+ words) The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is alerting countries of how to spot abuse of the gaming and gambling sectors, including criminals using gambling platforms to move money without actually gambling, making multiple small transactions (”smurfing”) to avoid detection and…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (314+ words) September 9, 2026 By Crypto Reporter The US has never treated crypto as a single, tidy category. The SEC leans toward viewing many tokens as securities, the CFTC eyes Bitcoin and Ether as commodities, and individual states layer their own rules on…...