News · Updated as it happens
Casino market news, honestly reported
What is actually happening at the operators we cover and in the regulatory environments around them. Tax changes, licensing reform, market shifts, and the practical effects on the terms a player sees at the cashier. Written by the same editorial desk that runs our review-testing programme, so what we report here is what we saw during our monthly recheck cycles, not what we read in press releases.
🇬🇧 UK Market · Analysis
£16.6 billion offshore: reading the UK non-GamStop numbers honestly
The UK offshore casino market is now estimated at around £16.6 billion in annual stakes, roughly one pound in five of all online gambling volume, and it is projected to pass £33 billion by 2028. Here is what those numbers actually show, what is driving the growth, and how a UK player should read them without either alarmism or salesmanship.
🇸🇪 SE Regulation · Analysis
Sweden's 2026 double-whammy: credit-card ban and Cosmopol closure
Two Swedish regulatory changes landed within twelve weeks of each other in 2026. Read together, they describe a market shift still working through the numbers.
🇦🇺 AU Payments · Explainer
The PayID pokies myth: what "PayID casino" actually means
Offshore casinos advertise PayID everywhere, but Curaçao-licensed operators cannot legally hold an Australian bank account. Three architectures are in use.
🌍 Licensing · Retrospective
Curaçao LOK, one year on: which operators kept their licence
The LOK went fully live on 1 January 2026, ending Curaçao's twenty-eight-year-old master licence system. Twelve months later, we audited what changed.
🇬🇧 UK Regulation · Analysis
The UK's Remote Gaming Duty jump to 40%: what changed at the cashier
Six months after the biggest single tax rise in UK online gambling history, we walked through the cashiers of ten UK operators.
More coverage on the way
We publish a substantive news piece roughly every two to three weeks. Next up on the schedule: the Q2 2027 update to the offshore market numbers when the new Yield Sec report lands, and the mid-cycle recheck on our UK shortlist.
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