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Several France internationals, led by Kylian Mbappé, are unhappy that their images were used in a World Cup betting promotion for Betclic, an official partner of the French football federation, according to L’Équipe. A grievance aimed at the federation, not the bookmaker French national-team players, led by Kylian Mbappé, are unhappy about the use of … Read more
Kick co-founder Ed Craven told a gambling streamer that the platform’s Kick Partner Program does not reward viewership from Slots or Casino streams, urging him to broadcast other categories instead. The reply is a rare on-record acknowledgment from the Stake and Kick co-founder that the program excludes the gambling content the platform is known for. … Read more
Polymarket has accused its archrival Kalshi of corporate espionage, alleging in a New York Post report that the federally regulated exchange serially copied its product launches and may be watching its SoHo offices. The crypto-native platform says it opened an internal probe and kept a dossier of suspicious incidents, and even tinted its windows. Kalshi … Read more
Polymarket’s chief marketing officer sent more than $2.5 million through a personal PayPal account to over 800 people in 14 months, including at least $350,000 to influencers who promoted the crypto prediction market on X without disclosing they were paid, POLITICO reports. $2.5 Million Through a Personal PayPal Account According to a POLITICO investigation published … Read more
Midnite will become Wolverhampton Wanderers’ front-of-shirt sponsor for the 2026/27 season, the club’s 150th, in a deal that shows British football’s gambling-sponsorship money is expected to flow down the pyramid as the Premier League’s voluntary front-of-shirt betting ban takes hold. Gambling Money Flows to the Second Division UK sportsbook and online casino Midnite has agreed … Read more
Former U.S. congressman George Santos publicly promised he would attend President Trump’s State of the Union address in February, then quietly bet on Kalshi that he would not, according to people familiar with his trades. The prediction market froze his account and referred the case to two federal regulators, both of whom have opened insider-trading … Read more
Polymarket has signed an exclusive prediction-market distribution partnership with Berlin-based football media platform OneFootball, opening a channel to 200 million monthly active users and a broader 645-million-fan ecosystem two weeks before the 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off in North America. The catch: Polymarket still cannot legally operate in Germany (or anywhere else in Europe) … Read more
The former NBA guard was hit with new federal sports bribery charges over an alleged six-digit kickback he received to manipulate his performance in a 2023 Charlotte Hornets game. The superseding indictment escalates a sweeping federal sports betting probe that has charged 34 defendants since last October. Bribery Charges Add to Existing Wire Fraud Case … Read more
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed two gambling-related bills on the final day of his decision window, banning online sweepstakes casinos and creating a new Class E felony for prediction market manipulation. The dual signing makes Tennessee the seventh U.S. state to outlaw sweepstakes casino operations and one of the first to criminalize the manipulation … Read more
Spain’s gambling watchdog opened sanctioning proceedings against Polymarket and Kalshi, ordering precautionary blocks on both platforms while it investigates whether the unlicensed operators violated the country’s gambling law. European Enforcement Efforts Grow as US Takes Different Direction The Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGOJ) published the notices in the Boletín Oficial del Estado after … Read more