The EU AI Act for gambling operators, suppliers and affiliates has entered its enforcement phase. Since 2 August 2026 the transparency rules of Article 50 apply, the ban on manipulative AI has been biting for well over a year, and the high risk obligations have moved to 2027 and 2028. Each of these changes lands differently on operators, on suppliers and on affiliates, and the analysis below explains how.
Prediction markets in Italy are back at the top of the gaming law agenda, after the Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli (ADM) ordered a fresh wave of blackouts against unlicensed online gambling and put Polymarket.com back on the list. For a vertical that generated record trading volumes worldwide only a few months ago, the message from the Italian regulator could hardly be clearer: without an Italian remote gaming license (i.e. a so-called concession), the door stays shut.
With Dario Evangelista of Betsson we discuss about the legal risks and compliance challenges of operating a global online gambling business in the digital age.
The 2022 edition of the Games Industry Law Summit gathered all the major legal experts from the video gaming industry and here are my main takeaways.
