Business & M&A

The debate around prediction markets has often surrounded issues such as whether they constitute gambling, and whether they are fair, i.e., whether insiders are abusing their knowledge to “fade the crowd” and secure a financial outcome by abusing their privileged information. ACDC Report Warns abou…

What is domain parking traffic? Domain parking traffic includes users who come from parked domains. A parked domain is a registered domain name with no live website attached to it, because it has expired or was specifically registered as a common misspelling of a popular brand. For example, when so…

Australia’s Labor government secured parliamentary approval for the widest ranging package of gambling reforms the country has seen in decades this week. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s government announced on 20 August that the Interactive Gambling Amendment (Gambling Reform) Bill 2026 had been…

GMonitor, the AI operating system for the gambling industry, has secured a place among the five finalists of SBC First Pitch 2026, the startup competition taking place at SBC Summit Lisbon. The post GMonitor among startups competing for SBC First Pitch 2026 crown first appeared on Asia Gaming News…

Macau’s July arrivals rose 2.4 percent to 3.54 million, driven by same-day visitors, while overnight arrivals fell 2.9 percent. The post Macau receives 3.54M visitors in July, overnight traffic falls first appeared on Asia Gaming News | AGB - Asia Gaming Brief.

The Affiliate Leaders Summit 2026 will tackle rising advertising regulation, emerging market opportunities and the future of the affiliate model through its dedicated Future of Affiliate Strategy track. The post Affiliate Leaders Summit 2026 to explore the next era of affiliate growth first appeare…

Tool allows players to pick up to five players and a betting market on each player.

Genting Malaysia Bhd’s United States and Caribbean operations are forecast to contribute 36 percent of the group’s annual earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) in 2027, up 20 percentage points from 2025. That would be based on a projected 63.1 percent year-on-y…

Virginia’s casino industry is bracing itself for yet another record year as gaming revenue keeps climbing and construction advances on two major casino resorts. 21% YoY Increase The Virginia Lottery, responsible for regulating casino gaming and online sports betting in the commonwealth, shared that…

The new COO arrives from the client side of the company, with a mandate to standardize processes, put data behind every decision, and apply AI where it saves real working hours. NuxGame has appointed Mariia Baranova as Chief Operating Officer. Baranova takes charge of operations across the company…

In the second quarter of 2026, Genting Malaysia returned to the profit column significantly bolstered by the full-scale commercial launch of casino service inside Resorts World New York. The company booked a net profit of RM27 million as compared to a net loss of RM25.2 million for the first quarte…

AffPapa is excited to welcome Betable as the Signature Sponsor of the iGaming Club Lisbon 2026, scheduled to take place on 28th of September. Betable is a modern iGaming platform built for operators that want to launch and scale without the limitations of legacy infrastructure. Its turnkey, casino-…

SkyCity Entertainment Group announced a year-on-year decline in EBITDA by 22.3% for FY26, which was caused by decline in casino revenues and increasing operating costs. EBITDA fell to NZ$181.6 million ($107.7 million) for the year ended June 30, while underlying revenues have declined by 0.3% to NZ…

Affiliate reports sharp increase in North America EBITDA margin in Q2 thanks chiefly to prediction markets.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has initiated legal action against numerous prominent sweepstakes casino providers, including Stake, Chumba Casino, LuckyLand, and Global Poker, in a bid to terminate their activities and retrieve money that consumers purportedly lost. The lawsuits were lodge…

A player who wins $100,000 and loses $100,000 this year now owes federal tax on $10,000 they never kept. The 90% cap on gambling loss deductions applies from the 2026 tax year, and the venues competing hardest with licensed sportsbooks are not clearly bound by it. We spoke with John Isaac, Editor a…

In the first of a five-part roundtable series, SBC Media asks some of the leading voices from across the iGaming industry about the trends, challenges, tips and tricks that are shaping the marketing landscape in 2026 and beyond. For part one, we spoke to Martin Hodges (Co-Founder and CMO, BetComply…

Moody’s Ratings has affirmed casino group Las Vegas Sands Corp’s (LVS’s) ‘Baa3’ senior unsecured rating, as well as the ‘Baa2’ senior unsecured rating of its Macau unit Sands China Ltd. The outlooks for the two companies remain ‘stable’, the ratings agency said in an update. Moody’s added in its ra…