What the live casino market leader's capital reallocation means for supplier pricing, operator procurement, and competitive positioning On 18 March 2026, Evolution AB's board proposed paying no dividend for the 2025 financial year — breaking a standing policy of distributing at least 50% of net profit annually and suspending a framework that had returned approximately EUR 3.5 billion to shareholders since 2020. The announcement has been read as a crisis signal. The evidence

Greece, Romania, and Italy are escalating enforcement against unlicensed gambling while leaving the tax rates, product restrictions, and advertising bans that drive players offshore untouched. The cost is falling on licensed operators and their suppliers. This brief examines who pays, how much, and what comes next. Governments across Southern Europe are escalating enforcement against unlicensed gambling rather than reforming the tax rates, product restrictions, and advertisin

The SPA has opened a public consultation on a draft Ordinance that would make supplier recognition mandatory for any B2B company providing services to licensed Brazilian operators. If enacted as written, this does not merely add a compliance step; it restructures the conditions under which B2B commercial relationships in the Brazilian market are legally permissible. The consultation closes March 23, 2026. But the constraint that cannot be reversed by reading the final text is