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Brazil committee backs bill banning minors from gambling advertising BrazilBrazilian lawmakers have advanced a child-protection bill that would prohibit children and teenagers from appearing in advertisements for lotteries, gambling products and other goods or services they are legally barred from consuming.June 7, 2026 -
Brazil advances new legal framework to fight illegal betting market BrazilBrazil’s Chamber of Deputies has moved forward with Bill No. 4,044/2025, a proposal designed to strengthen financial, administrative, technological and criminal enforcement against illegal gaming and betting operators.June 3, 2026 -
Brazil’s Bets Law faces new political pressure as Congress moves to rewrite gambling rules BrazilTwo new bills filed on May 19 have intensified pressure on Brazil’s regulated betting framework, with lawmakers seeking tougher rules on advertising, licensing, consumer protection and gambling-harm prevention ahead of the election cycle.May 31, 2026 -
Brazil’s new debt relief programme targets credit-funded betting payments BrazilBrazil’s Novo Desenrola Brasil programme introduces a new layer of financial control over betting activity, banning credit operations directly linked to fixed-odds betting payments and blocking debt-renegotiation participants from betting platforms for 12 months.May 30, 2026 -
Brazilian Congress debates new allocation of betting revenue for sports and public security BrazilBrazilian lawmakers are reviewing several proposals that would redirect part of the revenue from licensed betting and online gaming to sports programmes and public security funds, showing how the newly regulated market is becoming an important source of political and budgetary interest.May 18, 2026 -
Brazil Senate committee backs plan to send betting revenue to military sports BrazilBrazil’s Senate Sports Committee has approved PL 6124/2025, a bill that would redirect part of the revenue collected from licensed fixed-odds betting operators to the country’s military sports system.May 14, 2026 -
Apple allows licensed betting apps on Brazil’s App Store BrazilApple has updated its App Store rules to allow fixed-odds betting apps in Brazil, but only for operators holding a valid licence from the Secretariat of Prizes and Bets of the Ministry of Finance.May 13, 2026 -
Brazil updates eFX rules for betting-era payments while maintaining dedicated transaction classification for gaming flows BrazilBrazil’s Central Bank has approved a new package of rules for the eFX international payment service, tightening who can operate it and how funds must be handled, while the country’s foreign-exchange framework continues to use a dedicated classification code for “games and bets” transactions.May 7, 2026 -
Brazil spotlights new anti-match-fixing tools during national technical meeting in Brasília BrazilThe Brazilian federal government used the II Encontro Técnico Nacional sobre Combate à Manipulação de Resultados Esportivos, held in Brasília from April 28 to 30, to showcase a new package of systems, intelligence tools and institutional mechanisms designed to strengthen the country’s response to sports-betting-related match manipulation.May 2, 2026 -
ANJL and IBJR back Brazil’s new CMN resolution restricting prediction-market products BrazilTwo of the main associations representing Brazil’s fixed-odds betting market have endorsed the new National Monetary Council resolution that bans the offering and trading of derivatives tied to sports events, online games and political, electoral, social, cultural or entertainment themes, with the measure set to take effect on May 4.April 29, 2026
