Asia

*Search demand in the Philippines passed Brazil for the first time while Latin America’s largest licensed market was winding down.*

M98 kept first place as the three old leaders’ combined hold thinned to nearly half. On 5 October, the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society restricted 945 075 online gambling URLs from October 2025 through September 2026. Officials plan to work with search engines so gambling sites and related pages are harder to find. Blask […]

Komdigi’s account list got longer, and the instructions attached to it got wider. On 5 October Indonesia’s Financial Services Authority (OJK) told commercial banks to run enhanced due diligence, block about 38 796 accounts tied to online gambling, or both. Banks must also close other accounts that match the same national identity number (NIK) and […]

84% of survey participants reported gambling dept. In January 2026, Enstitü Sosyal published a study of gambling in Turkey built on records from Yeşilay counselling centre YEDAM.  YEDAM is a place where people go for help with addiction, including gambling. More than 84% survey participants reported gambling debt, and 49.8% owed more than ₺100 000 […]

Investigators spent September tracing betting money through bank accounts and mobile wallets while players searched for betting apps more than ever before. On September 25, the Federal Investigation Agency booked eight suspects in Faisalabad over gambling platforms whose company accounts showed Rs119.93B (about $432M) in credit turnover, eight days after cricketer Mohammad Rizwan challenged a […]

Raids on Philippines became the largest after POGO ban, while offshore demand fell more than 20% YoY. On 2 October the Bureau of Immigration, with the NBI and the Armed Forces, raided two Zamboanga Sibugay sites tied to banned POGO work. Commissioner Joel Anthony Viado called the raids the largest POGO bust of 2026. The […]

Dhaka replaced an 1867 house-gambling ban with a statute that finally covers iGaming. On 1 July 2026 Bangladesh enacted the Gambling Prevention Act 2026, Act No. 98, and repealed the Public Gambling Act 1867. The 1867 text covered gambling houses and said nothing about a website, a mobile wallet, or a foreign-hosted sportsbook.  Blask data […]

Cambodia’s growth prediction is weak, while iGaming is falling in the country. The Asian Development Bank cut Cambodia’s 2026 GDP growth forecast to 3.9% in the September Asian Development Outlook. On 19 August the Ministry of Economy and Finance had already trimmed its own 2026 print. Tourism took the extra cut ADB attributes the extra […]