SBC is launching a Global Prediction Markets Forum, announced September 2. The event will feature a panel including Crypto.com and Quirino Mancini, partner at WH Partners Italy, as moderator. The panel will debate whether event contracts constitute gambling.

The gambling-versus-financial-instrument framing is a live regulatory risk for prediction market operators. A major industry forum elevating the question signals the debate is moving from regulator chambers to mainstream industry discourse.