La Rioja’s director general of Taxes, Jesús Ángel Garrido, said the region plans to develop its existing gambling law through specific regulations rather than undertake a full reform. He also said the administration is providing quarterly sector data and plans to establish an advisory body; a new regional order is promoting biometric access controls.
Operators in La Rioja may face further rules on gambling and biometric access controls.
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It was reported that the Canary Islands advisory council supported dismissing a request to nullify a gambling tax matter. The claimant alleged notification defects had prevented an adequate defence.
It was reported that Inspired Entertainment’s chief executive criticised the UK remote gaming duty increase to 40% in April. He expressed hope that any machine games duty rise would be smaller.
A Quaest poll found that 16% of respondents who were optimistic about Brazil's future cited regulation of betting and social media as a source of hope under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. That group represented 44% of respondents, making the combined issue about 7% of the full sample; the poll did not separate betting from social-media regulation. The survey interviewed 2,004 people from 30 October to 2 November.
Brazilian political analyst Jussara Soares and Arko Advice vice-president Cristiano Noronha forecast that Congress will approve Provisional Measure 1.394/2026, which bans fixed-odds betting and online games. Noronha said approval could include a transition period; the measure enters urgent procedure on 9 November while its joint committee remains uninstalled.
A newspaper editorial published on 8 November called on Brazil's Supreme Federal Court to uphold Provisional Measure 1.394/2026, which ended regulated online betting. The editorial cited R$144 billion allegedly diverted from retail to betting over two years; a commentary challenging that figure put regulated-market gross gaming revenue at R$56.97 billion over 18 months, using Ministry of Finance figures for 2025 and the first half of 2026.