JOA Group chief executive Laurent Lassiaz said he hopes France will regulate online casinos within the next 18 to 24 months and curb illegal operators. He said Casinos de France is advocating a three-year exclusivity period for its proposed JADE model before online groups could enter the market.
The proposed model could shape market access and competition if France regulates online casinos.
The day’s most important stories, free. One email a day.
SELAE averaged 14.23 million website visits in Spain, ahead of ONCE at 7.25 million, according to a traffic ranking based on data from Similarweb, Sensor Tower and Ahrefs. bet365 was the leading private operator with 5.09 million visits; the report also said Spain’s online gaming market recorded €1.7bn in gross gaming revenue in 2025, up 17% year on year.
A press report dated 22 June 2026 lists resolutions by Spain’s DGOJ concerning Fpoolcl, Winamax, Iberix Gaming and Codere Online. The supplied page text does not specify the resolutions’ contents.
The French gambling mediator received 1,856 requests in 2025, a 20% increase on 2024, according to the mediator's activity report published by the ANJ. Sports betting accounted for 91.5% of admissible requests, mostly concerning account management and bet disputes. The mediator deplored the doubling of withdrawals by Winamax, which withdrew from 126 cases.
Betclic Group ceased operations in Benin in January 2026 after disagreements with local authorities over the country’s gambling tax framework, according to the report. The 2025 Finance Law sets a 25% tax on gross gaming revenue for online and remote gambling, while casinos and physical betting outlets face a 10% rate.
Spain’s DGOJ published the programme and speaker list for its International Gaming Congress, scheduled for 13 and 14 November in Madrid, according to the report. The agenda includes regulators, academics and some industry representatives, including Winamax data-analysis team lead Guillaume Lacraz.