{"id":645475,"date":"2025-12-21T03:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T03:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/645475\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T03:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T03:38:13","slug":"prediction-markets-arrive-in-uk-but-with-a-different-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/645475\/","title":{"rendered":"Prediction markets arrive in UK, but with a different set&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-c-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">In the US, prediction markets are considered commodity trades, no more of a gamble than a trade on the traditional stock market. This distinction is fundamental, as they are regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), rather than a gaming body. This has allowed the markets to bypass state-level gambling laws which vary across the country, and have enabled companies to enjoy a much lower level of oversight, particularly under the current administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the US, prediction markets are considered commodity trades, no more of a gamble than a trade on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,51,393,6732,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-645475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-gambling","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-northern-ireland","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115755477327851691","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}