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AGA chief urges CFTC to leave sports betting regulation to states

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American Gaming Association chief executive Bill Miller told a US Senate subcommittee on 20 May that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission should focus on financial markets rather than sports betting. Miller argued that prediction markets present sports betting as financial contracts, while Coalition for Prediction Markets senior adviser Patrick McHenry defended operators’ safeguards and the CFTC’s oversight role.

The dispute concerns whether federal or state authorities should oversee prediction markets offering sports contracts.

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AGA urges Congress to restrict sports event contracts on prediction markets

The American Gaming Association urged Congress to classify sports event contracts as gambling and bar CFTC-registered platforms from listing them through self-certification. Testifying before a Senate Agriculture subcommittee, AGA senior vice-president Christopher Cylke said platforms including Kalshi and Polymarket operate outside state and tribal gambling systems. The association estimated that states and tribes had lost more than $1.2 billion in gaming tax revenue since sports contracts began.

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