Asia’s growing interest in ‘prediction markets’ is rapidly outpacing its regulatory preparedness, pushing users and liquidity toward offshore platforms and leaving domestic authorities with a widening consumer-protection and tax-collection blind spot. That is the central warning in a new report from Tiger Research, which argues that the region’s failure to clearly classify prediction markets—as ‘financial products’, ‘gambling’, or a distinct third category—has effectively created a regulatory vacuum.
The debate is more than semantic. Prediction markets allow participants to buy and sell… Read more






