🇧🇾 Belarus Starts New Betting Rules

Belarus now requires players to confirm their identity through video calls or visits to betting shops. It also banned having multiple accounts and blocked payments to foreign betting sites.

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🇹🇿 In Tanzania, the local regulator plans to issue 14,124 licenses annually — 845 for new operators and 13,279 renewals. The reform of the gambling sector is expected to generate $11.15M in revenue.

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🇦🇷 Argentina: Scammers Use Fake Betting Apps

In Tucumán, scammers made fake betting apps using the name and logo of Casino de Tucumán. These apps were shared on WhatsApp and Facebook to steal personal and bank info.

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📰 News In Brief #41

🌍 World: By 2025, online gambling may hit 30% of the market, and up to 45% in Europe.

🇷🇺 Russia: Legal betting turnover hit ₽4.7T in 2024, while unlicensed share dropped to 17.6%. The market is becoming more transparent.

🇧🇷 Brazil: Zimpler got central bank approval to operate as a payment aggregator.

🇦🇺 Australia: ACMA found BetStop breaches by Buddybet, Ultrabet, VicBet, and Topbet. Buddybet exited the market; Ultrabet faces court-enforced compliance upgrade.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong: Government proposes 50% tax on basketball betting turnover and a licensing system to curb gambling harm.

🇹🇷 Turkey: The police seized $127M in assets during a raid on illegal online betting.

🇯🇵 Japan: Tokyo police arrested 9 tied to Konibet casino. The site processed $621M in deposits, with $29M profit funneled illegally.

🇺🇦 Ukraine: New regulator PlayCity will resume licensing in June with an automated approval system.

🇺🇸 USA: 

➡️ Arizona’s regulator urged CFTC to act — sports prediction markets run unlicensed and break tribal deals, said Jackie Johnson.

➡️ X (ex-Twitter) partners with Polymarket as its official prediction market. The deal will bring real-time betting insights to users via X’s data Polymarket.

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🇸🇪 Swedish Gambling Authority Bans Curaçao Operator

The SGA has blocked Curaçao-based operator Simba NV for illegally targeting Swedish consumers without a license.

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🇧🇷 Brazil Raises Gambling Tax

Brazil has increased the tax rate for gambling operators from 12% to 18% of Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) — effective immediately.

➡️ But the new tax rate is legally considered "temporary". To become "permanent", it must be approved by the country's Congress within the next 120 days.

➡️ Experts warn that when all mandatory deductions are included, the total tax burden could hit 50% of revenue — a record high.

This could hurt the market and make investors think twice about putting money into it.

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🇪🇪 Estonia to Cutting Its iGaming Tax

Estonia will reduce the iGaming tax from 6% to 4% by 2028 and tighten advertising restrictions, banning ads with influencers and risk-free betting promotions.

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🎰 Affiliate Scam Hits iGaming

Fake landing pages using MrBeast’s branding are promoting 1win and Vulkan — and the iGaming community is taking notice.

↪️ A fake article published by the Coventry Observer falsely claimed that MrBeast would launch a “MrBeast Casino App” in 2025. The website featured AI-generated content, his logo, and eye-catching “Download” buttons.

But those buttons actually redirect users to 1win and Vulkan, with links that dynamically switch between operators.

Soon, the community uncovered a dozen similar landing pages and fake news sites like grandprix247.

↪️ Deadspin and Snopes have already warned about MrBeast deepfakes promoting fake casino brands.

↪️ Still no official statement from MrBeast, yet scammers continue using his logo to fake legitimacy.

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🌏 Key Trends in the Asian iGaming Market

➡️ India has over 140M active players

➡️ During IPL (Indian Premier League) and BPL (Bangladesh Premier League) — both are major cricket tournaments — user activity surges: up to 370M in India and 20+ M in Bangladesh

➡️ The most popular games are live games, casual games (especially crash games), and fantasy sports

➡️ Both traditional sportsbooks and betting exchanges are in high demand

➡️ Complex slot games with many paylines are not popular

➡️ In Bangladesh, players really value fast payouts

➡️ Betting exchanges often generate higher revenue (GGR) than regular bookmakers

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🇱🇹 Lithuania Issues First Crypto License 

Robinhood European just got the green light to offer crypto custody, administration, and transactions — not just in Lithuania, but across the entire EU.

➡️ Robinhood Europe already has a category "A" brokerage license from the Bank of Lithuania, which allows it to operate as an investment firm. 

➡️ In May, the Lithuanian parliament extended the transition period requiring crypto firms to obtain a license until the end of 2025. 

➡️ So far, 29 companies have applied — 10 are already under review.

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🚨 Fake News About Anjouan and BC.Game

A recent investigation by Josimar claims that BC.Game, the main sponsor of Leicester City, got a gambling license in Anjouan using a non-existent company called Twocent Technology Limited, registered in Belize.

But Twocent Technology Limited does exist.

It is officially listed in the BCCAR, Anjouan’s company registry.

Looks like Josimar didn’t check the correct registry before publishing the story.

Was this just a simple mistake, or is someone trying to attack Anjouan on purpose?

Vote with a reaction:
👍 — Mistake
😡 — Deliberate attack
🤔 — Not sure yet

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🇨🇼 Updates from Curaçao

As of June 2025, Curaçao is accepting B2B gaming license applications under the new LOK framework.

With stricter compliance rules now in place, all temporary licenses are under review — full approvals or revocations are expected by December 24, 2025.

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🇬🇮 Gibraltar Off FATF Risk List

Gibraltar is no longer on the FATF’s high-risk list after fixing problems with money laundering and terrorism financing rules.

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🇷🇴 Romania Stopped Gambling Regulator

Romania is closing the ONJN regulator. Its low efficiency cost the country almost €1B in lost tax revenue from gambling operators.

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🇦🇪 UAE: Two More Game Providers Licensed 

The GCGRA has just added two more names to its list of approved gaming providers:

➡️ TCS John Huxley – A UK-based supplier of equipment and software for live games, supporting both land-based and online casinos.

➡️ Pollard Banknote Limited – A Canadian lottery specialist with operations in both offline and online formats.

The total number of GCGRA-licensed providers is now 10.

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