Macau’s gross gaming revenue was MOP$21.68bn in October, reportedly down 10% year on year. The figure was reported as equivalent to US$2.69bn.
The revenue decline gives operators and investors an indicator of Macau’s gaming-market performance.
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A Kyrgyzstan parliamentary committee voted on 27 October to advance a draft law in its second reading that would prohibit binary options schemes. The proposal would also ban their promotion and recruitment, and increase criminal sanctions for illegal gambling and lottery operations, according to the report.
A committee of Kyrgyzstan's parliament voted on 27 October to advance a draft law in its second reading that would prohibit binary options schemes, according to a report. The Zhogorku Kenesh Committee on Finance, Budget, Entrepreneurship, and Competition Development approved the draft, which would also ban the promotion and recruitment of participants and increase criminal sanctions for illegal gambling and lottery operations. The measures are provisions of a draft law and are not in force.
Macau’s Statistics and Census Service reported that real GDP rose 0.1% year on year in the third quarter of 2026. It said exports of gaming services fell 4.8%, while other tourism services and gross fixed capital formation increased.
In the third quarter of 2026, Macau's real GDP expanded by only 0.1% compared with the same period a year earlier. The Statistics and Census Service put the figure in a preliminary release issued on Friday. Output for the three months to 30 September came to MOP106.06 billion. That pace was weaker than the 0.3% seen in the second quarter and far below the 7.1% posted in the first.
As.Tro called an extraordinary meeting of its technical committee for 2 November to examine measures in Italy’s draft 2027 budget affecting the gaming sector. The association said the discussion would focus on cash-prize gaming machines and related tax levies, with a view to assessing potential effects and issues for possible proposals to institutions.
As.Tro has called an extraordinary meeting of its technical committee for 2 November at 16.00 to examine the provisions in the draft 2027 budget law, the association said. The meeting will look at the measures the budget introduces for the gaming sector, with particular attention to those affecting cash-prize entertainment machines and the related tax levies.
Denmark’s regulator wants parents to understand gambling-style mechanics in popular video games, according to the report. The article text was unavailable.
IBJR president Carlos Lima said Brazil’s betting market could change permanently after a provisional measure revoked licences held by legal operators. He said delays in a Supreme Federal Court ruling on the measure could increase economic harm, including layoffs; some companies have already reduced their Brazilian teams, he added.
Brazil's regulated betting market may not return to its previous state after Provisional Measure No. 1,394/2026 revoked the licences of licensed operators, according to Carlos Lima, president of the Brazilian Institute for Responsible Gaming (IBJR). Lima, speaking in an interview with Folha de S. Paulo, said the sector is still hoping that Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Luiz Fux will suspend the measure in the coming days.