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Ethiopia prepares a betting relaunch after a $170.8M audit gap

December’s licence revocation left the revenue baseline intact. The Ethiopian Lottery Service (ELS) is preparing to relaunch sports betting and digital lotteries under stricter oversight. Chief executive Beza Girma confirmed a Fana Media Corporation account of the draft audit behind that plan.  The review covers July 2023, when operators first received licences, through December 2025. […]

A São Paulo court lets Stake Brazil stay online until 25 October

Only Stake is back online, because it took this case to court. On 8 October 2026, the 9th Federal Civil Court in São Paulo ordered the block on stake.bet.br lifted until 25 October, or until another ruling.  Brazil’s betting ban, measure 1.394/2026, took every licensed site offline on 6 October, but ends licenses only on […]

Thailand’s URL blocks leave the top three without a successor

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 […]

Indonesia to block illegal bank accounts as iGaming grew 64.5% YoY

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 […]

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