Senators at a Commerce Committee panel hearing aired concerns Wednesday about rapidly growing prediction markets, appearing largely unswayed by industry arguments that they are not a form of betting subject to state regulation. Members of the committee’s Consumer Protection, Technology and Data Privacy Subcommittee were in agreement at a hearing that sports “event contracts” on prediction […]

A Senate committee this week will examine how to “strengthen oversight, protect the credibility of competition.”

Greater oversight is needed of wager-on-anything prediction markets given the risk of insider trading and worsening of gambling problems.