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The League Agreement That Counts Has No Logo On It Industry News 29 Aug 2026 The League Agreement That Counts Has No Logo On It The CFTC's June 2026 proposal lists six factors that would weigh in favour of a sports event contract, and two of them describe a relationship rather than a contract. Eighteen months of announcements have produced league deals, regulator memoranda and vendor integrity networks, but the arrangement the rule actually describes sits in the gap between them. Here is what factor five asks for and who has it. Read more → Who Sits on the Board of an Exchange That Trades With Itself? Regulation 28 Aug 2026 Who Sits on the Board of an Exchange That Trades With Itself? Almost everything in the CFTC's July 2026 conflicts proposal can be built by an engineering team. One requirement cannot: at least 35 percent of a designated contract market's board has to be people who owe the exchange nothing. That expectation has been guidance since 2007, the Commission has twice tried to make it binding and withdrew both times, and the third attempt is open for comment until 5 October 2026. Read more → Nobody Wrote a Public Interest Test for Election Markets Regulation 27 Aug 2026 Nobody Wrote a Public Interest Test for Election Markets The CFTC proposal published on 12 June 2026 says elections, the Nobel Prize and the Academy Awards are contests rather than gaming. That reads like good news for the venues listing them. Read the appendix closely and it is something narrower: leaving one review also means leaving behind the only factor list the proposal ever wrote down. Read more → The Right to Respond Is Only Worth What You Can File Education 26 Aug 2026 The Right to Respond Is Only Worth What You Can File The June 2026 proposal gives a prediction market real procedural rights for the first time: a written determination, a statement of concerns, a response, and a look at the staff recommendation before the Commission votes. Every one of them is a deadline to file something. Read as a schedule rather than as a protection, the proposed rule is a list of documents a venue either has ready or does not. Read more → Open Interest Fell While Volume Set a Record Education 25 Aug 2026 Open Interest Fell While Volume Set a Record In July 2026 prediction market volume hit an all time high of $50.59 billion while open interest on the same venues was falling. Both numbers are accurate, and the difference between them is the difference between attention and commitment. Read more → Britain Splits a Prediction Market by What It Points At Regulation 24 Aug 2026 Britain Splits a Prediction Market by What It Points At The Gambling Commission and the FCA divided prediction markets between them in February and March 2026, and they did it without arguing about jurisdiction. Each asked what the contract references, then routed it. One half got a licence category that has existed since 2000. The other half landed inside a permanent retail ban. The same test is now running in the European Union, and it cuts the book in the opposite direction to Washington State. Read more → There Is No Passport for a Prediction Market in Europe Regulation 23 Aug 2026 There Is No Passport for a Prediction Market in Europe Nine European gambling authorities signed a single statement on prediction markets on 17 June 2026, and their national decisions had already blocked platforms in France, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Spain. Europe never argued about which regulator has jurisdiction. It asked a product question instead, and the test it used is one any venue can run on itself. Read more → Who Is Protected When a Regulator Declares an Emergency? Regulation 22 Aug 2026 Who Is Protected When a Regulator Declares an Emergency? The CFTC ordered a derivatives exchange to stay open on 11 August 2026, and much of the coverage read it as a federal shield. The order itself, and a Connecticut ruling four days later, say something narrower and far more useful to anyone running a venue. Read more → When the Exchange Owns the Market Maker Regulation 21 Aug 2026 When the Exchange Owns the Market Maker The CFTC has proposed to bar a firm from trading its own money on an exchange it shares an owner with, then hand back one narrow exception for an affiliate that does nothing but make markets. The structure it describes is the one most prediction market venues are built on. Comments close on 5 October 2026, which is why this is worth reading in August rather than after it is settled. Read more → Bought Volume Is Not Demand: The CFTC Incentive Advisory Industry News 20 Aug 2026 Bought Volume Is Not Demand: The CFTC Incentive Advisory On 12 August 2026 the CFTC's Division of Market Oversight issued an advisory on how exchanges self certify incentive programs. It reads as a filing manual, but the checklist it sets out is a design test, and a footnote gives exchanges until 14 September 2026 to review programs they have already certified. Here is what it asks, and why volume bought at a threshold is not the same thing as demand. Read more → A Price Is Not an Odds Line: Display Is a Compliance Signal Industry News 19 Aug 2026 A Price Is Not an Odds Line: Display Is a Compliance Signal On 7 August 2026 the CFTC told regulated venues to stop showing event contract prices in the plus and minus shorthand used by sportsbooks. Read quickly, it is a note about styling. Read properly, it is an anti-fraud letter that treats the surface where the trade happens as part of the product, and it lands while the same platforms are telling courts that their sports contracts are not bets. Read more → Two Courts, Two Answers: Operating While the Map Contradicts Itself Regulation 18 Aug 2026 Two Courts, Two Answers: Operating While the Map Contradicts Itself A federal court in New York said states may enforce gambling laws against sports event contracts. Twenty days later a federal court in Minnesota said a state ban was likely preempted. Both read the same statute. Here is what that split, and the Utah, Washington and CFTC actions that followed it, actually means for anyone running a prediction market as of 18 August 2026. Read more →
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