New rules require former betting operators to report remaining balances and provide financial details for bettors as authorities oversee the transition following the end of their licences.
Brazil’s top-flight football resumes with betting operators removed from shirts, stadiums and other commercial spaces as clubs await a possible challenge to the Government ban.
Brazil’s betting industry and the Government have presented opposing arguments to the Supreme Court, setting up a clash over the ban’s legal, economic and social consequences.
At least 36 of the 188 betting brands previously authorized to operate in Brazil have begun laying off staff following the government’s decision to ban the sector.
The Government says millions of bettors still have money trapped on betting platforms following the end of authorized operations in Brazil.
Brazilian deputies and senators have filed 48 proposed amendments to the provisional measure banning betting.
Brazilian football clubs are starting to strip betting brands from their commercial properties as the Government’s ban on betting advertising takes effect.
Gubernatorial candidate Maria do Carmo wants to turn Manaus's Tropical Hotel into a casino, but even a win at the polls wouldn't give her the authority to make that happen.
The city of Muriaé is hosting a panel discussion on betting-related consumer vulnerability and over-indebtedness.
A technical note from the Presidency's Communications Secretariat says football clubs can still sell existing stock of jerseys bearing betting operator logos.