Location: Brazil

Brazil on Friday started blocking over 2,000 gambling websites designated as irregular, part of a push by the government to regulate the... more

The Brazilian Senate is set to launch an inquiry into the effects of online gambling on family budgets. The inquiry, which will be... more

Stake has been included on the latest list of gambling businesses permitted to operate in Brazil ahead of the country’s 1 January regulated... more

Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, whose government is trying to stop a sports bets craze consuming household incomes, said on... more

Brazil’s finance ministry has released a list of 192 brands from 89 companies that are permitted to operate in the country ahead of the... more

Brazil’s minister of finance outlined the government’s approach to illegal gambling enforcement… In a radio interview, Fernando... more

Celso Sabino, the tourism minister in Brazil, believes the vote to legalise land-based casinos could provide a welcome boost to tourism in... more

Soccer-mad Brazilians have fallen hard for online sports betting, yielding a boom of interest from foreign gambling companies that may... more

Six more Brazil gambling operators applied for licenses this week after the government warned it would start enforcement action from... more

Online gambling companies reportedly will be prevented from operating in Brazil if they haven’t requested authorization to do so. The... more