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Bet365 CEO Denise Coates earns £280 million despite profit drop

Denise Coates, founder and chief executive of online gambling giant Bet365, received a pay package of at least £280 million in the year to March 2025, according to Companies House filings, making her one of Britain’s highest-paid executives for another year.
December 29, 2025 | 3 min read
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WATCH: Casumo CEO says gambling operators face “uncharted territory”

Casumo chief executive Francesco Postiglione said the online gambling sector is entering “uncharted territory” as regulatory tightening, hybrid work patterns and rapid advances in artificial intelligence reshape how operators compete, in an interview published in the Leadership Watch series by Game Lounge.
December 29, 2025 | 2 min read
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Map of Golden Triangle
Lea Hogg
Associate Director of Media & Comms

Understanding the Golden Triangle Economic Zone

Understanding the Golden Triangle not merely as a place, but as a system shaped by geography, history, and governance failures, is essential to explaining why it remains one of Southeast Asia’s most enduring security challenges. The apparent slowdown at the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone, reported recently by The Telegraph, raises a question that has surfaced repeatedly over the past half-century: is this finally the moment when the region’s illicit economy begins to unravel, or merely its latest transformation?
December 26, 2025 | 3 min read
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Slowdown at the golden triangle by Telegraph
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Slowdown at Golden Triangle casino hub, Telegraph reports

A lawless casino enclave in Southeast Asia’s Golden Triangle, long associated with online scams, drugs and human trafficking, is showing signs of decline after years of international pressure, according to a report published by The Telegraph.
December 24, 2025 | 3 min read
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UAE racing company
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Arena Racing Company secures UAE gaming-related vendor licence

Arena Racing Company (ARC), the United Kingdom’s largest racing operator, has been awarded a Gaming-Related Vendor licence by the United Arab Emirates’ General Commercial Gaming Authority (GCGRA), an independent regulatory body responsible for overseeing commercial gaming activities in the country.
December 23, 2025 | 3 min read
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Red Rake Gaming expands global presence

Red Rake Gaming has announced a partnership with QTech Games, a leading aggregator and platform renowned for its strong presence in emerging markets on a global level. This collaboration brings Red Rake’s diverse and visually engaging portfolio of slots to QTech Games’ extensive aggregation platform, giving players across multiple continents access to high-quality, entertainment-focused casino content.
December 22, 2025 | 3 min read
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Brazil iGaming strategy
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Why ARPU will impact Brazil’s iGaming strategy

Brazil, although a new market, is one of the giants of global iGaming. With a population of 220 million, near-universal smartphone use, and a passion for sport woven into everyday life, the metric is animating industry balance sheets. It is ARPU, average revenue per user, that is quietly reshaping how Brazil’s gambling experiment is understood.
December 19, 2025 | 4 min read
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UK tax increase gambling
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UK Gambling industry reels as Reeves unveils multi-billion pound tax hike

UK-listed gambling companies are bracing for a substantial financial blow after Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced sweeping tax increases on online casinos and betting to help repair the nation’s public finances. The Treasury is targeting £30 billion in additional revenue, with gambling duties expected to contribute about £1.5 billion of that total.
December 18, 2025 | 3 min read
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Swedish Authority appointment
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Swedish gambling official elected chair of international match-fixing network

Samuel Wahlberg, the coordinator against match-fixing at Sweden’s Gambling Authority (Spelinspektionen), was elected on Monday as the new chairman of the Group of Copenhagen, a key international network of national anti-match-fixing platforms that supports implementation of the Council of Europe’s Macolin Convention. 
December 17, 2025 | 3 min read
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