{"id":218625,"date":"2026-04-09T20:48:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=218625"},"modified":"2026-04-09T20:48:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:48:24","slug":"uk-regulator-says-prediction-markets-would-fall-under-gambling-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=218625","title":{"rendered":"UK Regulator Says Prediction Markets Would Fall Under Gambling Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has explained how it would handle prediction market platforms if they launched in Great Britain. The regulator suggested these products would be treated as gambling services instead of financial tools. UKGC Signals Prediction Markets Would Require Gambling Licences In a new statement&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamblingnews.com\/news\/uk-regulator-says-prediction-markets-would-fall-under-gambling-laws\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has explained how it would handle prediction market platforms if<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lse-mrkt"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218625-uk-regulator-says-prediction-markets-would-fall-under-gambling-laws.jpg",700,350,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218625-uk-regulator-says-prediction-markets-would-fall-under-gambling-laws-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218625-uk-regulator-says-prediction-markets-would-fall-under-gambling-laws-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218625-uk-regulator-says-prediction-markets-would-fall-under-gambling-laws.jpg",640,320,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218625-uk-regulator-says-prediction-markets-would-fall-under-gambling-laws.jpg",640,320,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218625-uk-regulator-says-prediction-markets-would-fall-under-gambling-laws.jpg",700,350,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218625-uk-regulator-says-prediction-markets-would-fall-under-gambling-laws.jpg",700,350,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218625-uk-regulator-says-prediction-markets-would-fall-under-gambling-laws.jpg",700,350,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218625-uk-regulator-says-prediction-markets-would-fall-under-gambling-laws.jpg",700,350,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218625-uk-regulator-says-prediction-markets-would-fall-under-gambling-laws-590x350.jpg",590,350,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=26\" rel=\"category\">London Market<\/a>","tag_info":"London Market","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/218626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}