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The UK Gambling Commission fined Rank Group £5 million after identifying weaknesses in anti-money-laundering controls and customer-protection interventions at three Grosvenor casino businesses. Rank must undergo an independent audit of its AML and safer-gambling policies.
Brazilian measures reported during the week would prohibit fixed-odds betting and online casino activity from October 6. The reported action comes less than two years after Brazil established a regulated online betting market.
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission asked a federal court to find that federal regulators have exclusive jurisdiction over prediction markets. The filing seeks to block New York efforts to apply state gambling laws to event-contract providers including Coinbase and Gemini.