Brazil’s Ministry of Health issued a guide for public health teams treating people with gambling-related problems, according to the report. The ministry also launched a care pathway and a centralised self-exclusion platform, and established a gambling-health observatory with the Ministry of Finance.
The guide and related services set out health-system responses, including a route to care and website-blocking requests.
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The IBJR said its monitoring had identified 60,477 suspected betting addresses in Brazil since it began tracking them after the betting prohibition. Its LegitBet system found betting-operation indicators on 34,134 sites, while the IBJR noted that these were database entries, not necessarily newly created sites, and did not replace authority reviews.
The Brazilian Responsible Gambling Institute (IBJR) said its monitoring had identified 60,477 addresses suspected of offering betting since it began tracking them after betting was prohibited in Brazil. In 34,134 of those sites, the institute's LegitBet system found elements characteristic of betting operations, such as bonus offers, Pix payments and registration forms, according to the institute. The data was updated to Tuesday 27 October.
Brazilian Health Minister Alexandre Padilha publicised telehealth support for people experiencing betting addiction ahead of a 3 November Supreme Federal Court hearing, the report says. The report says the video linked a ban on betting to increased food purchases, while the government’s MP 1.394/2026 faces legal challenges.
Brazil's health minister, Alexandre Padilha, posted an Instagram video promoting telehealth support for people with betting addiction, days before a Supreme Federal Court public hearing on 3 November in ADI 8027. Justice Luiz Fux is expected to rule on the actions challenging MP 1.394/2026.
Spain’s Ministry of Health reported that gambling participation among people aged 15 to 64 fell from 60.2% in 2018 to 53.8% in 2024. In-person participation declined from 59.5% to 52.9%, while online participation rose from 3.5% to 5.5%; the ministry’s figures include lotteries and quinielas in the in-person category.
Brazil's ban on fixed-odds betting could remove up to R$18bn in transfers to the legal beneficiaries defined by Law 14.790/2023 by the end of the five-year authorisations in 2029. The GGR contribution raised R$6.64bn over 17 months of the regulated market, and the loss is projected at R$16bn, or R$18bn with the rates already approved for 2027 and 2028. The SPA/MF figures cover net collections from January 2024 to June 2026 and transfers from February 2025 to June 2026.
Brazil's ban on fixed-odds betting could remove up to R$18bn in transfers to the legal beneficiaries defined by Law 14.790/2023 by the end of the five-year authorisations in 2029, according to figures obtained from the Treasury via freedom-of-information request and. The measure interrupting the flow is Provisional Measure (MP) No. 1.394/2026, published on 25 September.
Reportedly, the bank deadline to return balances from platforms closed by MP 1.394/2026 ended on 14 October. Caixa Econômica Federal was due to handle amounts not yet transferred from 15 October; by the morning of 15 October, the government had not released a consolidated tally. Its latest figures showed R$ 159 million pending, while eight companies had not sent banks all the information needed for refunds.
Caixa Econômica Federal took responsibility on 15 October for returning balances that had not reached bettors from platforms closed under MP 1.394/2026, after the banks' deadline ended on 14 October. By the morning of 15 October the government had not released a consolidated tally of the operation, according to the report.