Slovakia’s Finance Minister Ladislav Kamenický approved Libuša Baranová’s appointment as director general of the Office for the Regulation of Gambling, according to reports published on 9 October 2025. Baranová succeeds Jana Mravíková, the agency’s second leadership change this year.
The change in leadership puts a new director general in charge of Slovakia’s gambling regulator.
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Curaçao finance minister Charles Cooper has not filed the complaint against the Curaçao Gaming Authority that he announced in July 2026. Cooper told Antilliaans Dagblad that his legal advisers recommended waiting until the investigation into the CGA and Random Consulting Ltd is complete. The CGA has ended its service contract with Random Consulting and taken its portal offline.
Curaçao's finance minister, Charles Cooper, has not filed the complaint against the Curaçao Gaming Authority (CGA) that he announced in July 2026. Cooper told Antilliaans Dagblad that his legal advisers recommended he wait until the investigation into the CGA and Random Consulting Ltd is complete.
Brazil’s finance minister has compared a ban on betting sites to a plebiscite. The report places the ban within a wider political discussion.
Brazilian Finance Minister Dario Durigan said on 17 September that the government had made no decision on banning or imposing stricter restrictions on betting. He said discussions focused on the cost of living and household income, citing R$62bn flowing from families to betting. The report said that figure does not represent industry gross gaming revenue and listed different reported GGR figures for 2025 and the first half of 2026.
Reportedly, Brazil’s finance minister supported regulating betting and strengthening controls. The minister stopped short of backing a gambling ban as calls for prohibition increased.
Dario Durigan, Brazil's finance minister, came out in support of regulating betting and tightening oversight of the industry, though he avoided endorsing a ban on gambling. According to him, public accounts do not rely on betting revenue to stay balanced. The rules, he added, have long been consolidated and were never meant to generate income.
Brazilian Finance Minister Dario Durigan said in a 21 August interview that 5 million people were barred from online betting and another 1.2 million had self-excluded, bringing the total to 6.2 million. He supported regulating the sector rather than banning it, saying a prohibition could encourage illegal betting. Durigan also said President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva would have preferred to end betting.