50 PUBLIC GAMING INTERNATIONAL • NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2025 PULSE betting, and other digital games to players in Italy." Brightstar serves nearly 90 lottery customers and their players on six continents. It is the primary technology provider to 26 of the 46 lottery jurisdictions in the U.S. and eight of the world's 10 largest lotteries. Greek lottery tender attracts two bidders: Brightstar Global Solutions and OPAP, a subsidiary of Allwyn. The tender aims to award a minimum ten-year concession for the exclusive right to produce, manage, operate and promote the Greek State Lotteries. The Lottery Corporation (Australia) announces the appointment of Wayne Pickup as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Great Britain’s Gambling Commission (GBGC) releases the first of a four-part report into the nation’s illegal online gambling market. This first instalment focuses on consumer behaviours, motivations, and personas – offering new insights into who engages with illegal gambling websites, how they encounter them, and the drivers behind their engagement. Andrew Rhodes, Chief Executive of the Gambling Commission, said: “The illegal online market is unsafe, unfair and criminal – that is why the Commission has invested heavily in this area in recent years. To be even more effective in combatting the illegal market it’s vital that we have both a deep and broad understanding of how it operates, and this insight is a crucial step in building that understanding in a very complex area to research. We are determined to protect consumers and maintain confidence in the regulated sector by taking robust, evidence-led action. Since April 2024 we’ve seen a ten-fold increase in our disruption activity, and we intend to continue to work with a wide range of partners to build on this success.” INTRALOT announces the appointment of a new CEO and the Board of Directors formation into a Body Mr. Robeson Mandela Reeves was elected as new Board of Directors member of INTRALOT S.A., and was appointed as new Chief Executive Officer of the company. Sokratis Kokkalis serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors, non-executive member; Soohyung Kim serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, non-executive member; Nikolaos Nikolakopoulos will hold the position of President; and Chrysostomos Sfatos the position of Chief Operating Officer. UK Gambling Commission hands £1 million fine to ProgressPlay for money-laundering UK Gambling Commission launches Hub to combat black market Sri Lanka passes bill to establish independent Gambling Regulatory Authority Dutch regulator to introduce new licences for skill-based gaming machines Allwyn begins scale rollout of over 30,000 new Wave terminals for UK National Lottery Lotto NZ blocks global gambling syndicates from bulk-buying tickets for big-dollar Lotto Powerball draws. Dutch national lottery raises concerns over illegal gambling A study suggests that players who gamble illegally are doing so more often and with larger amounts. The UK Gambling Commission has published its Young People and Gambling Report 2025. CASINOS AND SPORT BETTING NEWS The Good news: The black market’s share of the sports betting economy in Florida has shrunk 19% since 2022. The Bad news: That illegal market in 2024 was still generating $258 million in annual revenue for offshore operators. Good News/Bad News: That’s way better than California where illegal betting continues to grow. How sports betting is affecting NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL players No American sports league has been fully insulated from gambling scandals since the Supreme Court overturned a federal ban on sports betting in 2018. The NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL have all confronted policy violations resulting in punishments ranging from fines and suspensions to league bans and even federal indictments. Predictive Markets operator Kalshi remains clear to offer sports events contracts to its customers across the U.S. With a new football season approaching fast, the company is looking to expand the catalog even further. The prediction market operator Kalshi posted self-certifications with the federal derivatives regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), that would allow it to offer contracts on football games that resemble point spreads, point totals and touchdown props in typical sports betting. A recent article (MarketWatch) reported that for a particular weekend (Sept 27–28) 98% of Kalshi’s contract volume was for sports-related contracts. Another source pegged Kalshi’s sports-related trading volume gave a figure of 79% averaged over a longer. Pretty amazing for an operator who is not even in the sports-betting business. Robinhood Derivatives filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block Massachusetts regulators from enforcing state gambling laws against its sports prediction market operations, jumping into a broader legal fight over who controls event-based trading platforms. Harvard Endowment Makes Big Move Into Fanduel parent Flutter Entertainment Stock This $57 billion-dollar Ivy League endowment has big bet on big betting stock. Harvard’s $6 billion stake in Flutter is among the money manager’s largest equity positions. Slot machine manufacturer Light & Wonder also ranks among the endowment’s top 10 equity positions. FanDuel to launch predictions app FanDuel Predicts will be available in states where online sports betting is not yet legal. FanDuel and CME Group have unveiled plans to launch prediction markets through a new FanDuel Predicts app in December. Parent company Flutter says customers not on tribal lands and, in states where online sports betting is not yet legal, will be able to trade event contracts on the outcome of sporting events. As new states legalise online sports betting, FanDuel will cease offering sports event contracts in those states. FanDuel Predicts will provide access to sports event contracts across baseball, basketball, football, and hockey, subject to regulatory filings. Event contracts will also be offered on benchmarks such as the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100, prices of oil and gas, gold, cryptocurrencies and key economic indicators such as GDP and CPI.
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