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Leadership changes hit Chile’s regulator before online betting reforms

 Vivien Villagrán Chile's Superintendencia de Casinos de Juego is working through a wave of senior leadership vacancies at its headquarters - turnover that, notably, coincides with a pending bill that would hand the regulator a considerably larger job: overseeing online betting platforms alongside its traditional land-based casino remit. Vivien Villagrán ...

Betano extends lead as Brazil’s regulated iGaming market consolidates

 Betano has strengthened its position as Brazil's leading online betting and gaming brand, with new research showing the country's regulated market has become significantly more concentrated 18 months after licensing was introduced. According ...
Peru's regulator raises the bar for online gambling

Peru’s regulator raises the bar for online gambling

 Peru has gone from debating whether to regulate online gambling to becoming one of the most closely watched licensing jurisdictions in Latin America - a shift Yuri Guerra, General Director of Casino Games and Slot Machines at Peru's tourism ...

ProntoPaga’s Peru chief named among Forbes’ most powerful women

 ProntoPaga's Peru chief named among Forbes' most powerful women Micha Calmet, Country Manager of ProntoPaga in Peru, has been named to Forbes Peru's 2026 list of the 50 Most ...

New Chile betting association backs market regulation

 Chile's biggest betting brands launch new industry association Five of the largest online betting operators in Chile - Betano, Betsala, Estelarbet, Juegalo and Novibet - have ...

Wazdan grows Brazilian footprint through Betnacional partnership

 Wazdan grows Brazilian footprint through Betnacional partnership Wazdan has strengthened its position in the Brazilian market by launching its games portfolio with Betnacional ...

AgruGaming launches to give Chile’s online gaming suppliers a voice in regulatory reform

 David Fica Jaque — founder of online casino technology firm Land Vegas Group A new industry body has entered Chile's online gambling landscape at a pivotal moment for the sector: with a ...

Argentina’s biggest betting challenge is the illegal market

 Argentina's legal online betting market accounts for less than a tenth of total gambling activity in the country, according to Betsson Argentina CEO Maximiliano Bellio, speaking to El Cronista's CEO Talks interview series. Illegal platforms make up the remaining share — a gap Bellio described as the industry's central challenge, one he said requires a sustained push to bring players over to licensed sites. Bellio, who built Betsson's Argentina operation from scratch after the Swedish operator entered the country in January 2022 when betting was first regulated in the City and Province of Buenos Aires — followed later by Córdoba — used the interview to lay out how fragmented that regulatory landscape still is. Each province runs its own licensing regime through its own gaming authority, a structure Bellio compared to the US state-by-state model. The City of Buenos Aires currently licenses 12 operators, the province seven, and Córdoba four, with each jurisdiction developing its own rules while coordinating informally with neighbouring regulators, given how closely Buenos Aires city and province overlap in practice. Betsson's local team has grown to more than 100 people across commercial, marketing, finance, risk and development functions, backed by group support out of Malta and Stockholm, where the Nasdaq-listed operator is headquartered. Betting on football, and betting on legality Betsson's growth strategy in Argentina, with shirt deals for Racing Club since May 2023 and Boca Juniors since June of that same year, the latter running through 2028. But Bellio framed those partnerships less as pure marketing reach and more as a channel for steering fans toward licensed platforms and away from unregulated ".com" sites — an approach he credited with winning Betsson a Martín Fierro award last year for a Boca-fronted campaign that emphasised responsible, over-18 betting rather than a straightforward call to wager. Bellio put a number on how much of that illegal share could realistically shift: working alongside industry chambers Alea and Caxva, Betsson estimates roughly half of current illegal betting activity could eventually migrate to licensed platforms — a figure he tied to Argentina's banking realities, since only about half the population operates through formal, declared income, and legal operators are required to verify the source of any funds a winning player deposits. He pointed to biometric verification and cross-checks against Renaper, Argentina's national identity registry, as tools licensed operators use to keep minors off their platforms — protections he said are structurally impossible for illegal sites to replicate, since those platforms lack access to regulated advertising channels and reach younger audiences mainly through social media influencers instead. Looking ahead, Bellio said Betsson's near-term priority is consolidating its existing sponsorships and market position in Argentina rather than an aggressive new push into additional shirt deals, while continuing to back non-football properties like 3x3 basketball, which the operator has sponsored since the discipline received its FIBA licence locally. Argentina's legal online betting market accounts for less than a tenth of total gambling activity in the country, ...

Boyle Casino delivers 139 per cent organic search growth in UK market

 Boyle Casino UK Boyle Casino increased its estimated monthly organic search traffic by 139 per cent year-on-year, making it one of ...

Bejoynd secures Brazil certification for BE Core platform

 Bejoynd Bejoynd has formally secured certification for its BE Core platform in Brazil, marking a key milestone in the ...