Advennt · Cross-Jurisdiction Domain Hub
Overview
Jurisdiction Readings (130 markets)
19 clear/open
65 conditional/active
46 restricted/elevated
| Jurisdiction | Region | Status | Regulatory Summary | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama (US-AL) | Americas | Confirmed | Alabama has no legal statewide lottery, commercial casino, or sports betting. | Profile →Brief |
| Alaska (US-AK) | Americas | Confirmed | This cycle's evidence centres on SB 170, a comprehensive amendment to Alaska's charitable-gaming statute (AS 05.15), which introduces electronic pull-tab systems, lowers the minimum participation age… | Profile →Brief |
| Alberta (CA-AB) | Americas | Confirmed | Alberta's regulated iGaming market closed its three-month transition and grace period on October 13, 2026, moving from a deliberately tolerated unregulated-to-regulated migration window into an… | Profile →Brief |
| Algeria (DZ) | Africa | Confirmed | Algeria maintains a closed state-monopoly gambling market with no private licensing pathway; the PSA lottery and sports pool and the PMU horse-racing tote remain the only lawful operators. | Profile →Brief |
| Anjouan (KM-A) | Africa | Confirmed | The Union of the Comoros maintains a confirmed national prohibition on gambling. | Profile →Brief |
| Argentina (AR) | Americas | Probable | Buenos Aires Province is the active centre of gambling-regulatory movement in Argentina this period. | Profile →Brief |
| Arizona (US-AZ) | Americas | Confirmed | The Arizona Department of Gaming's Division of Racing summarily suspended Skyfall 7, LLC dba Turf Paradise's teletrack permit effective 16 October 2026, closing the on-track simulcasting and… | Profile →Brief |
| Arkansas (US-AR) | Americas | Probable | Arkansas's regulated gambling market consists of three licensed casinos, Oaklawn, Southland, and Saracen, offering retail and online sports wagering under Arkansas Racing Commission oversight. | Profile →Brief |
| Australia (AU) | Asia-Pacific | Confirmed | Australia's federal interactive gambling framework is undergoing its most substantial restructuring in years through the Interactive Gambling Amendment (Gambling Reform) Act 2026, which received… | Profile →Brief |
| Austria (AT) | Europe | Confirmed | Austria remains a federal monopoly jurisdiction for online and land-based gambling under the 1989 GSpG, but the government has for the first time published concrete draft legislation aimed at ending… | Profile →Brief |
| Bangladesh (BD) | Asia-Pacific | Confirmed | Bangladesh enacted the Gambling Prevention Act, 2026 (Act No. 98 of 2026), published in the Gazette Extraordinary on 1 July 2026 and effective immediately under section 1(2), repealing the Public… | Profile →Brief |
| Belgium (BE) | Europe | Confirmed | Belgium's gambling regulatory posture tightened across several fronts this period: a 15 percent rise in the Gaming Commission's annual contribution (the first since 2018), a new mandatory Duty of… | Profile →Brief |
| Brazil (BR) | Americas | Confirmed | Brazil's fixed-odds betting and online casino sector has moved from a one-year-old licensed regime to full nationwide prohibition. | Profile →Brief |
| British Columbia (CA-BC) | Americas | Confirmed | British Columbia's gambling regulatory architecture underwent a structural reset this cycle: the Gaming Control Act took effect April 13, 2026, creating the Independent Gambling Control Office (IGCO)… | Profile →Brief |
| Bulgaria (BG) | Europe | Probable | Bulgaria's gambling regulatory landscape is dominated this period by a draft Act amending the Gambling Act, notified to the European Commission as 2026/0536/BG on 2 October 2026. | Profile →Brief |
| California (US-CA) | Americas | Confirmed | California's gambling market is structurally bifurcated between 78 licensed non-banked card rooms and more than 75 tribal Class III gaming compacts, with no statewide commercial casino, sports… | Profile →Brief |
| Cambodia (KH) | Asia-Pacific | Probable | Cambodia's casino sector remains under active multi-agency enforcement pressure following the early-October 2026 suspension of online gambling at licensed casino premises nationwide. | Profile →Brief |
| Cameroon (CM) | Africa | Confirmed | Cameroon's online-gambling regime saw two material developments this cycle against an otherwise unchanged licensing backdrop. | Profile →Brief |
| China (CN) | Asia-Pacific | Confirmed | Mainland China's gambling regime remains a comprehensive prohibition under Criminal Law Art. 303, with the two state lotteries as the sole lawful exception. | Profile →Brief |
| Colorado (US-CO) | Americas | Confirmed | This cycle surfaces two material Colorado gaming-law developments layered onto a mature, growing sports-betting and limited-gaming market. | Profile →Brief |
| Connecticut (US-CT) | Americas | Confirmed | Connecticut's licensed gambling market is a stable tribal/lottery duopoly generating strong revenue growth, but this cycle is defined by an aggressive, coordinated enforcement campaign against… | Profile →Brief |
| Costa Rica (CR) | Americas | Confirmed | Costa Rica's gambling sector operates without a dedicated online-gambling licensing framework, governed instead by a 1922-era gambling statute and municipal data-processing certificates that were… | Profile →Brief |
| Croatia (HR) | Europe | Probable | Croatia's Gambling Act was amended by NN 72/2025, introducing higher licence fees, mandatory self-exclusion integration, terminal bans in casual venues, and minimum-distance rules for new venues… | Profile →Brief |
| Côte d'Ivoire (CI) | Africa | Probable | Cote d'Ivoire operates a dual-regime gambling regulatory structure under Law No. 2020-480 of 27 May 2020. | Profile →Brief |
| Delaware (US-DE) | Americas | Confirmed | Delaware is the oldest US online gambling market and the first state to launch full-scale real-money online casino gaming on 7 November 2013, following the Delaware Gaming Competitiveness Act of… | Profile →Brief |
| District of Columbia (US-DC) | Americas | Probable | D.C.'s gambling regime centres on two regulated activity classes: multi-operator sports wagering, opened up by the 2024 reform, and Game of Skill retail machines, whose retail licensing has now split… | Profile →Brief |
| Dominican Republic (DO) | Americas | Probable | Law 86-26, promulgated 22 September 2026 and gazetted 2 October 2026 as Gaceta Oficial No. 11263, replaces the framework built on the 1964 Law 351 and consolidates casinos, lottery banks… | Profile →Brief |
| Ecuador (EC) | Americas | Probable | Ecuador's sports-betting regime moved from a transitional, under-specified licensing state into a formally issued procedure with MINEDEC Acuerdo Ministerial 00078-A, published in the Registro Oficial… | Profile →Brief |
| Egypt (EG) | Africa | Confirmed | Egypt maintains a near-total prohibition on gambling rooted in the 1937 Penal Code (Articles 271 and 352) and the Civil Code (Article 739 voiding gambling contracts), with a narrow foreigner-only… | Profile →Brief |
| Estonia (EE) | Europe | Probable | Estonia's gambling market is regulated under the Gambling Act 2008, with EMTA (the Estonian Tax and Customs Board) as licensing authority and register-keeper. | Profile →Brief |
| European Economic Area (EEA) | Europe | Confirmed | Profile →Brief | |
| Florida (US-FL) | Americas | Probable | Florida's gambling landscape remains anchored by the Seminole Tribe's compact-based online sports-betting exclusivity through Hard Rock Bet, with the Florida Gaming Control Commission maintaining an… | Profile →Brief |
| France (FR) | Europe | Confirmed | France's licensed gambling market operates under the Autorite nationale des jeux, and this period's record is dominated by two developments rather than a change to market structure. | Profile →Brief |
| Georgia (US-GA) | Americas | Confirmed | Georgia is one of the most restrictive U.S. states on gambling. | Profile →Brief |
| Germany (DE) | Europe | Confirmed | Germany's gambling regime remains anchored in the Gluecksspielstaatsvertrag 2021 (GlueStV 2021), administered by the Gemeinsame Gluecksspielbehoerde der Laender (GGL), a public-law institution seated… | Profile →Brief |
| Ghana (GH) | Africa | Probable | Ghana's gambling regime continues to operate under the Gaming Act 2006 (Act 721), with the Gaming Commission of Ghana (GCG) as the sole regulator for non-lottery gambling activity; lotteries sit… | Profile →Brief |
| Gibraltar (GI) | Europe | Confirmed | Gibraltar replaced its 2005 gambling framework with the Gambling Act 2025, in force from 1 April 2026, structurally splitting licensing from enforcement: the Authority now grants, varies and cancels… | Profile →Brief |
| Greece (GR) | Europe | Probable | Greece's gambling market combines steady commercial growth with a tightening enforcement posture aimed at the unlicensed sector's promotional layer. | Profile →Brief |
| Guernsey (GG) | Europe | Probable | Guernsey's gambling market is defined by a hard legal division between two regimes. | Profile →Brief |
| Hawaii (US-HI) | Americas | Confirmed | Profile →Brief | |
| Hong Kong (HK) | Asia-Pacific | Confirmed | Hong Kong's gambling market continues to be structured around the Hong Kong Jockey Club's exclusive licensed position, with the dominant development this period being the government-ordered… | Profile →Brief |
| Iceland (IS) | Europe | Confirmed | Iceland retains its long-standing state-monopoly gambling model under the 2005 Lotteries Act, but that framework is under active pressure for the first time in years. | Profile →Brief |
| Idaho (US-ID) | Americas | Confirmed | Idaho is a constitutionally restrictive jurisdiction: gambling is prohibited under Article III, Section 20 of the state constitution, with only three enumerated exceptions (state lottery, pari-mutuel… | Profile →Brief |
| Illinois (US-IL) | Americas | Confirmed | Illinois' sports-wagering and fantasy-contest framework continues to operate, but a federal court ruling has partially suspended its application to prediction-market exchange contracts. | Profile →Brief |
| Indiana (US-IN) | Americas | Confirmed | Indiana enacted two restrictive gambling-adjacent instruments this period: a prohibition on online sweepstakes games built on dual- or multi-currency systems where virtual currency can be exchanged… | Profile →Brief |
| Indonesia (ID) | Asia-Pacific | Confirmed | Indonesia maintains a total, standing national prohibition on all forms of gambling, criminal in basis and treated as durable. | Profile →Brief |
| Iowa (US-IA) | Americas | Probable | Iowa's gambling regime remains anchored in the licensed casino, sports-betting, and daily fantasy sports framework under Iowa Code Chapter 99F, administered by the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission. | Profile →Brief |
| Ireland (IE) | Europe | Confirmed | Ireland's gambling regime underwent its most significant structural change in nearly a century. | Profile →Brief |
| Japan (JP) | Asia-Pacific | Confirmed | Japan's integrated-resort market structure remains anchored by a single approved licence, MGM Resorts' Osaka IR at Yumeshima, with two of the three statutory licences contemplated under the IR… | Profile →Brief |
| Kansas (US-KS) | Americas | Probable | The defining development for Kansas is legal rather than legislative: Attorney General Kris Kobach joined a thirty-nine to forty state coalition amicus brief filed 7 October 2026 at the U.S. Supreme… | Profile →Brief |
| Kazakhstan (KZ) | Asia-Pacific | Confirmed | Kazakhstan operates a licensed land-based casino zone model concentrated in the Kapshagay/Konaev and Borovoye enclaves, alongside licensed online sports betting via bookmaker/ESU integration, while… | Profile →Brief |
| Kentucky (US-KY) | Americas | Probable | This cycle's dominant development is the legislature's override of Governor Beshear's veto of House Bill 904, which raised Kentucky's minimum sports-wagering age to 21 (effective July 13, 2026)… | Profile →Brief |
| Kenya (KE) | Africa | Probable | Kenya's gambling regime operates under the Gambling Control Act, 2025, implemented through six sets of regulations published between 29 June and 2 July 2026. | Profile →Brief |
| Latin America (LATAM) | Americas | Probable | The Dominican Republic's new games-of-chance regulator, the DGJA, began formal operations on 13 October 2026 under Law No. 86-26, an autonomous authority established 2 October 2026 to replace the… | Profile →Brief |
| Liechtenstein (LI) | Europe | Probable | Liechtenstein's gambling market this period is dominated by a live dispute over the Geldspielabgabe (gaming levy) between the State and the host communes of Gamprin and Mauren, playing out inside the… | Profile →Brief |
| Lithuania (LT) | Europe | Probable | Lithuania's gambling market is administered by a single regulator, the Losimu prieziuros tarnyba (LPT), which issues licences across a stable, unchanged class taxonomy spanning remote gambling, table… | Profile →Brief |
| Louisiana (US-LA) | Americas | Confirmed | Louisiana's gambling market is defined by a single regulatory event with ripple effects: the Louisiana Gaming Control Board's decision to decline full licence renewal for DraftKings, substituting a… | Profile →Brief |
| Luxembourg (LU) | Europe | Probable | Luxembourg's gambling market remains structured around a two-incumbent monopoly: Loterie Nationale holds exclusive rights over lottery and online gambling products, while Casino 2000 operates as the… | Profile →Brief |
| Macau (MO) | Asia-Pacific | Confirmed | Macau's gambling market is a concession-based system, with six DICJ-licensed concessionaires operating under the 2022 gaming law and 29 gaming promoters authorised for 2026 under a fixed 1.25 percent… | Profile →Brief |
| Maine (US-ME) | Americas | Probable | LD 1164, the Act to Create Economic Opportunity for the Wabanaki Nations Through Internet Gaming, authorized tribal-exclusive online casino gaming in Maine and took effect in July 2026, but its… | Profile →Brief |
| Malaysia (MY) | Asia-Pacific | Confirmed | Malaysia operates a prohibition-family regime with a narrow band of land-based, non-Muslim-only state-monopoly carve-outs. | Profile →Brief |
| Malta (MT) | Europe | Confirmed | Malta's gaming tax regime was restructured effective 1 October 2026 under Legal Notice 84 of 2026, which amends the Gaming Tax Regulations (Subsidiary Legislation 583.10) to move from a flat 5% rate… | Profile →Brief |
| Marshall Islands (MH) | Asia-Pacific | Probable | The Marshall Islands maintains a blanket statutory prohibition on gaming and gambling under 31 MIRC Ch.4, the Gaming and Recreation Prohibition Act 1998, which permits no commercial licensing pathway… | Profile →Brief |
| Maryland (US-MD) | Americas | Probable | Maryland's gambling regulatory landscape this cycle is dominated by a contested enforcement campaign against unlicensed sports-event-contract operators, Kalshi, Crypto.com, Polymarket and Robinhood… | Profile →Brief |
| Massachusetts (US-MA) | Americas | Confirmed | Massachusetts operates an active sports-wagering market across seven online licensees (Bally Bet, BetMGM, Caesars, DraftKings, Fanatics, FanDuel, and theScore Bet) plus three retail books, all… | Profile →Brief |
| Mexico (MX) | Americas | Probable | The dominant development for Mexico is a joint OFAC/UIF enforcement action naming a licensed quarter-horse racing venue, Club La Molienda in Nuevo Laredo, as part of a Cartel del Noreste financial… | Profile →Brief |
| Michigan (US-MI) | Americas | Confirmed | Michigan's regulatory activity centered on enforcement rather than structural change to its licensing framework. | Profile →Brief |
| Minnesota (US-MN) | Americas | Confirmed | Minnesota remains a no-commercial-casino, no-sports-betting jurisdiction, with commercial-gambling activity confined to tribal Class III gaming under existing IGRA compacts and charitable gambling… | Profile →Brief |
| Mississippi (US-MS) | Americas | Confirmed | Profile →Brief | |
| Missouri (US-MO) | Americas | Probable | Missouri's prediction-market dispute escalated in October 2026 when Novig, operating as Ludlow Exchange LLC, sued Attorney General Catherine Hanaway along with Missouri Gaming Commission Executive… | Profile →Brief |
| Montana (US-MT) | Americas | Probable | Montana's gambling market structure is unchanged in its fundamentals: a state lottery monopoly, operating as Sports Bet Montana, runs the only sanctioned sports-wagering channel and continues to… | Profile →Brief |
| Morocco (MA) | Africa | Confirmed | Morocco's gambling framework remains anchored in the 1966 Dahir No. 1-65-206, a durable statute with no dedicated online-gambling regime layered on top of it. | Profile →Brief |
| Myanmar (MM) | Asia-Pacific | Confirmed | Myanmar's gambling landscape is defined by narrow legal permission and a widening criminalised perimeter. | Profile →Brief |
| Nebraska (US-NE) | Americas | Confirmed | Nebraska's gambling market is presently defined by a retail-only sports wagering regime: wagering is authorized exclusively through licensed racetrack casinos, and no statewide mobile or online… | Profile →Brief |
| Nepal (NP) | Asia-Pacific | Confirmed | Nepal maintains a bifurcated gambling regime: general gambling and betting is criminally prohibited under the Penal Code 2074, while a narrow licensed land-based casino track, open to foreigners… | Profile →Brief |
| Nevada (US-NV) | Americas | Confirmed | Nevada's dominant regulatory story at present is the escalating, multi-forum litigation over whether event-based prediction-market contracts require a state gaming licence. | Profile →Brief |
| New Brunswick (CA-NB) | Americas | Confirmed | New Brunswick operates a provincial Crown-monopoly gambling model derived from s.207(1)(a) of the federal Criminal Code and codified in the Gaming Control Act, SNB 2008. | Profile →Brief |
| New Hampshire (US-NH) | Americas | Confirmed | New Hampshire's gambling market is structured around a single-operator sports-wagering monopoly under RSA 287-I, with DraftKings holding the exclusive statewide online and retail licence through June… | Profile →Brief |
| New Mexico (US-NM) | Americas | Confirmed | New Mexico's gaming market remains a tribal-retail-exclusive model: five tribal casino sportsbooks operate on a retail-only basis, and tribal casinos generated approximately 230 million dollars in… | Profile →Brief |
| New York (US-NY) | Americas | Confirmed | New York's sports-wagering market operates under New York State Gaming Commission oversight, with the dominant development being formal rulemaking activity rather than any change to market structure… | Profile →Brief |
| New Zealand (NZ) | Asia-Pacific | Probable | New Zealand's online casino reform, under the Online Casino Gambling Act 2026, reached its decisive licensing juncture. | Profile →Brief |
| Nigeria (NG) | Africa | Probable | Nigeria's gambling regulatory landscape saw a material development in October 2026 when the Lagos State Lotteries and Gaming Authority issued a Public Notice to telecommunications operators, mobile… | Profile →Brief |
| North Carolina (US-NC) | Americas | Confirmed | North Carolina's 2026 legislative session left the core sports and horse race wagering licensing structure at the State Lottery Commission unchanged, with the Commission's rulemaking page confirming… | Profile →Brief |
| North Dakota (US-ND) | Americas | Confirmed | Profile →Brief | |
| Ohio (US-OH) | Americas | Confirmed | Ohio's gambling market is anchored by Ohio Casino Control Commission-regulated sports wagering under Type A and Type B licensure, alongside casino and iGaming channels unaffected by the developments. | Profile →Brief |
| Oklahoma (US-OK) | Americas | Confirmed | Oklahoma's gambling market is dominated by tribal Class III casino gaming conducted under more than thirty individual IGRA compacts, with pari-mutuel wagering regulated separately by the Oklahoma… | Profile →Brief |
| Ontario (CA-ON) | Americas | Confirmed | Ontario's iGaming sector is marked by an AGCO maximum-penalty enforcement action against theScore Bet and the Supreme Court of Canada's reservation of judgment on Ontario's international peer-to-peer… | Profile →Brief |
| Oregon (US-OR) | Americas | Confirmed | Oregon's regulated gambling market remains a single-platform monopoly under the Oregon Lottery and DraftKings, a structure this cycle finds stable in itself. | Profile →Brief |
| Pakistan (PK) | Asia-Pacific | Confirmed | Pakistan (~230 million population, >97% Muslim) maintains a near-absolute constitutional and statutory prohibition on all forms of gambling. | Profile →Brief |
| Palau (PW) | Asia-Pacific | Probable | Palau's gambling framework rests on a general prohibition under the Criminal Code and 17 PNCA Chapter 50, alongside a narrow statutory exception. | Profile →Brief |
| Panama (PA) | Americas | Probable | Panama's gambling market is undergoing its most significant structural change in years through Bill No. 403, reported approved by the National Assembly, advanced by deputies Raúl Pineda and Crispiano… | Profile →Brief |
| Philippines (PH) | Asia-Pacific | Probable | PAGCOR's second Minimum Guaranteed Fee tranche took effect on 1 October 2026, raising the recurring cost floor for all Gaming System Administrators: PHP10,500,000 per month at PHP35,000,000 gross… | Profile →Brief |
| Qatar (QA) | Middle East | Confirmed | Profile →Brief | |
| Quebec (CA-QC) | Americas | Confirmed | The 5 October 2026 Quebec general election produced a Parti Quebecois minority government holding 59 of 127 seats, five short of a majority, which will need another party's support to legislate. | Profile →Brief |
| Rhode Island (US-RI) | Americas | Confirmed | Rhode Island's gambling market is moving toward a multi-operator sports-wagering structure following Senate passage of S3118 Substitute A, which would raise the sports-wagering vendor cap from one to… | Profile →Brief |
| Rwanda (RW) | Africa | Confirmed | Rwanda's gambling market underwent significant change this cycle. | Profile →Brief |
| Saudi Arabia (SA) | Middle East | Confirmed | Saudi Arabia enforces a total, Sharia-based prohibition on all gambling. | Profile →Brief |
| Senegal (SN) | Africa | Confirmed | Senegal's gambling sector this cycle is defined by fiscal tightening under Law 17/2025's 20 percent tax on winnings, applied retroactively from December 2025 and layered on 2025 double-taxation… | Profile →Brief |
| Serbia (RS) | Europe | Confirmed | Serbia's gambling market operates under the Law on Games of Chance, administered by the Games of Chance Administration, and is presently in an active implementation phase of the November 2024… | Profile →Brief |
| Seychelles (SC) | Africa | Probable | Seychelles operates a licensed offshore gambling model administered by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) under the Gambling Act, 2014, covering casino, slot machine and interactive gambling… | Profile →Brief |
| Slovakia (SK) | Europe | Probable | Slovakia's gambling regime continues to operate under Act No. 30/2019 Coll., with URHH as the licensing and regulatory authority. | Profile →Brief |
| Slovenia (SI) | Europe | Probable | Slovenia operates a concession-based gambling regime under the Gaming Act (ZIS, 1995 as amended), treating gambling as an exclusive state right. | Profile →Brief |
| South Africa (ZA) | Africa | Confirmed | South Africa's gambling market remains bifurcated between a mature, licensed land-based and provincial sports-betting sector and a large unauthorised online-casino segment. | Profile →Brief |
| South Carolina (US-SC) | Americas | Confirmed | Profile →Brief | |
| South Dakota (US-SD) | Americas | Confirmed | South Dakota's gambling market remains anchored to two regulated channels: land-based casino gaming in Deadwood under state licence, and Class III gaming operated by nine federally recognized tribes… | Profile →Brief |
| South Korea (KR) | Asia-Pacific | Confirmed | South Korea's gambling-adjacent regulatory environment tightened materially this cycle around a single dominant thread: the treatment of decentralized, blockchain-settled prediction markets as… | Profile →Brief |
| Spain (ES) | Europe | Confirmed | Spain's online gambling regime tightened through two converging player-protection moves: a reopened DGOJ consultation on a mandatory, consent-independent risk-detection mechanism, and new mandatory… | Profile →Brief |
| Sri Lanka (LK) | Asia-Pacific | Probable | Sri Lanka completed a foundational overhaul of its gambling regime via the Gambling Regulatory Authority Act, No.17 of 2025, certified 3 September 2025 and in force since 1 December 2025. | Profile →Brief |
| Taiwan (TW) | Asia-Pacific | Confirmed | Gambling in Taiwan is criminally prohibited under Chapter 21 (Articles 266-270) of the Criminal Code, with the 2022 amendment extending the prohibition explicitly to online and… | Profile →Brief |
| Tanzania (TZ) | Africa | Probable | Tanzania's gambling market is regulated by the Gaming Board of Tanzania (GBT), issuing licences for casino gaming, sports betting, virtual games and lotteries under section 26 of the Gaming Act Cap.… | Profile →Brief |
| Texas (US-TX) | Americas | Confirmed | Texas remains a broadly prohibitionist gambling jurisdiction: commercial casinos and sports betting are unlawful under Texas Penal Code 47.02 absent a specific statutory or constitutional carve-out… | Profile →Brief |
| Thailand (TH) | Asia-Pacific | Confirmed | Thailand maintains a near-total gambling prohibition under the Gambling Act B.E. 2478 (1935), with only two state-sanctioned carve-outs: the Government Lottery Office draw lottery and licensed… | Profile →Brief |
| Tunisia (TN) | Africa | Probable | The principal development for Tunisia is a draft 2027 Finance Bill provision, article 24 paragraph 3, that would raise the tax rate on online games and competitions conducted via communication or ICT… | Profile →Brief |
| Turkey (TR) | Europe | Probable | Turkiye's gambling posture tightened materially this cycle around a single coordinating instrument: Presidential Circular No. 2025/18, which formalises an Action Plan for Combating Illegal Online… | Profile →Brief |
| Uganda (UG) | Africa | Probable | Uganda's gambling regime is governed by the Lotteries and Gaming Act, 2016 (Cap 334), with the National Lotteries and Gaming Regulatory Board (NLGRB) confirmed this cycle as the correct regulator… | Profile →Brief |
| United Arab Emirates (AE) | Middle East | Probable | Federal Decree-Law No. 25 of 2025 deleted Articles 1012-1019 of the UAE Civil Transactions Law, the chapter establishing gambling and betting contracts as void, effective 1 June 2026. | Profile →Brief |
| United Kingdom (UK) | Europe | Confirmed | The UK gambling regulatory environment is in an active tightening phase in 2026, with the 2023 White Paper continuing to convert into concrete LCCP and SRCP amendments across licensing, enforcement… | Profile →Brief |
| United States (US) | Americas | Confirmed | The defining feature of the United States market is the collision between federal derivatives regulation and state gambling law over event-contract and prediction-market products. | Profile →Brief |
| Uruguay (UY) | Americas | Probable | Uruguay retains a state-monopoly online-gambling regime under Law 19.535 (2017), with private online operation prohibited absent state authorisation. | Profile →Brief |
| Utah (US-UT) | Americas | Confirmed | Utah's statutory prohibition on gambling was recodified and expanded by HB 243, Gambling Revisions, effective 6 May 2026, adding proposition bets, a wager on an individual action, statistic… | Profile →Brief |
| Vanuatu (VU) | Asia-Pacific | Probable | Vanuatu's gambling market continues to operate under four standing statutes — the Casino Control Act [Cap 223], Lotteries Act [Cap 205], Vanuatu Interactive Gaming Act [Cap 261] and Gaming Control… | Profile →Brief |
| Venezuela (VE) | Americas | Confirmed | Venezuela's gambling sector is structured around two statutorily separate regulators: the Comisión Nacional de Casinos (CNC), with exclusive competence over casinos, bingo halls and slot machines… | Profile →Brief |
| Vermont (US-VT) | Americas | Confirmed | Vermont operates a narrow, mobile-only regulated gambling market. | Profile →Brief |
| Vietnam (VN) | Asia-Pacific | Confirmed | Vietnam continues to operate a fragmented, decree-based gambling regime with no unified gaming law, split across the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Public Security, and Ministry of Information and… | Profile →Brief |
| Virginia (US-VA) | Americas | Confirmed | Virginia's gaming regulatory perimeter expanded in April 2026 when House Bill 145 transferred daily fantasy sports oversight from the Department of Agriculture to the Virginia Lottery Board, which… | Profile →Brief |
| Washington (US-WA) | Americas | Confirmed | Washington's gambling framework is tribal-exclusive by design: Class III gaming operates under compacts between the state and roughly 29 federally recognized tribes, with the Washington State… | Profile →Brief |
| West Virginia (US-WV) | Americas | Confirmed | West Virginia's licensed online-casino and sports-wagering market continued its steady build-out this period, with Games Global securing a West Virginia Lottery Commission supplier and content… | Profile →Brief |
| Wisconsin (US-WI) | Americas | Confirmed | Wisconsin's 2026 gambling regime is defined by two enacted statutes moving on separate tracks. | Profile →Brief |
| Wyoming (US-WY) | Americas | Confirmed | Wyoming's gambling market is structured around five commercial mobile sportsbook operators licensed under the state's existing sports-wagering framework, with no commercial casino venues in the… | Profile →Brief |
| Zambia (ZM) | Africa | Probable | Zambia's gambling market entered a structural transition this cycle. | Profile →Brief |