{"id":654660,"date":"2026-09-08T06:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=845682"},"modified":"2026-09-08T06:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:30:21","slug":"uk-regulator-revisits-the-2019-ban-blocking-prediction-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/uk-regulator-revisits-the-2019-ban-blocking-prediction-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Regulator Revisits the 2019 Ban Blocking Prediction Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/uk-regulator-revisits-the-2019-ban-blocking-prediction-markets-768x512.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"UK Parliament building in daytime\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Britain&#8217;s Financial Conduct Authority has held talks with trading platforms about easing the retail binary options ban that keeps Kalshi and Polymarket out of the UK, The Times reported. The rules are unchanged, and a second regulator still stands between the platforms and British customers. A British Change in Direction The Financial Conduct Authority has [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Financial Conduct Authority has held talks with trading platforms about easing the retail binary options ban that keeps Kalshi and Polymarket out of the UK, The Times reported. The rules are unchanged, and a second regulator still stands between the platforms and British customers. A British Change in Direction The Financial Conduct Authority has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":654661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-654660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}