Regulator Watch: UAE, Saudi, Cyprus, EU & Russia

Regulator Watch

Reads about 80 regulator and industry sources (financial, gaming, data protection, telecom and digital regulators, app store rules, specialist media) and returns what they published in the last few days. Each publication becomes one English row. An LLM screens it: what kind of publication it is, whether it matters for your topics, and a one-line English headline.

Input

Field	Default	Meaning
jurisdictions	["UAE", "Cyprus", "EU"]	Whose sources to read. Topic is industry media and topic searches, Platform is app store and platform rules.
sinceDays	7	Keep publications from the last N days (1 to 60).
topics	gaming and gambling, mobile apps, AI, fintech and crypto, personal data, intellectual property, advertising	What counts as relevant, in plain words.
screen	true	Run the LLM screener.
openrouterApiKey	none	OpenRouter API key for the screener. Falls back to the OPENROUTER_API_KEY environment variable. With no key the rows come back unscreened.
maxItemsPerSource	10	Newest publications kept per source.

Output row

{
  "source_id": "esma",
  "source_name": "ESMA (MiCA)",
  "source_jurisdiction": "EU",
  "title": "ESMA publishes final report on ...",
  "url": "https://www.esma.europa.eu/...",
  "publisher_url": null,
  "published": "2026-11-07",
  "kind": "guidance",
  "relevant": true,
  "verdict": "brief",
  "audience": ["crypto"],
  "event_jurisdiction": "EU",
  "story": "esma-mica-final-report",
  "headline": "ESMA finalises MiCA guidance on ...",
  "money_mentioned": "",
  "date_mentioned": "30 June 2027"
}

• kind: rule_change, enforcement, deadline, guidance, consultation, event, report, opinion, pr, other.
• verdict: keep (a lawyer should read it), brief (worth one line), drop (noise or off topic). pr, event, opinion and other are never keep; anything not relevant is drop.
• publisher_url: the original article behind a Google News link, when it resolves.
• story: the same slug for every article about the same event, so you can group duplicates.
• Screening fields are null when screening is off or the model call failed.

Publications with no date in the feed or on the page are dropped. Sources that only track page changes are skipped.

Sources

About 83 feeds. Pick them by jurisdiction in the input. A source marked (via Google News) is read through a Google News search of its site; the row then carries the original article link in publisher_url when it resolves.

UAE: VARA (Dubai), TDRA (via Google News), GCGRA (via Google News), UAE Government Portal (u.ae) (via Google News), DFSA (DIFC) (via Google News), ADGM / FSRA, Central Bank of the UAE (via Google News), UAE Media Council (via Google News), Ministry of Economy & Tourism UAE (via Google News), SCA UAE (via Google News), Federal Tax Authority UAE, Al Tamimi (via Google News), UAE laws and cabinet resolutions (via Google News).

Saudi Arabia (KSA): SDAIA (via Google News), GAMR (via Google News), SAMA (Saudi Central Bank) (via Google News), CST Saudi (via Google News), Ministry of Commerce Saudi (via Google News), CMA Saudi (via Google News), ZATCA Saudi.

Cyprus: Cyprus DPA, CySEC, Cyprus Gaming and Casino Supervision Commission, Cyprus Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy, Cyprus Bar Association, National Betting Authority Cyprus, Cyprus Mail.

EU: EC Digital Strategy, EDPB, ESMA (MiCA), EBA, Irish DPC (via Google News), Garante (Italy) (via Google News), CNIL (France), noyb.

Russia: Roskomnadzor (via Google News), Roskomnadzor (Telegram), Russian Ministry of Digital Development (via Google News), Russian Ministry of Digital Development (Telegram), Rospatent (IP), Bank of Russia: fintech news (via Google News), Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (via Google News), Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (Telegram), Russian Federal Tax Service (via Google News), Russian Ministry of Finance (via Google News), Rosfinmonitoring (via Google News), Kremlin.ru, ConsultantPlus: new documents, Pravo.ru: IT courts and bills, CNews, D-Russia.

Malta: Malta Gaming Authority, MFSA (Malta) (via Google News).

UK: Ofcom (via Google News), UK CMA, UK Gambling Commission (loot boxes).

US: FTC, US Copyright Office (AI & IP), SEC (US), CFTC, FinCEN.

Kazakhstan: AFSA (AIFC Kazakhstan), Kazakhstan: IT, AI, gaming and data laws (press) (via Google News).

Global: FATF (via Google News), Curaçao Gaming Control Board (press) (via Google News).

Platform: app store rules: Apple Developer News, Android Developers Blog, Steamworks.

Topic: industry media and topic searches: Topic: loot boxes and game monetisation (via Google News), Topic: Russian personal data law (via Google News), Reddit r/gamedev, Habr: IT law, Hacker News, Ars Technica, The Verge, GamesIndustry.biz, App2Top, iGaming Business, PocketGamer.biz, Game Developer, CoinDesk.

Cost

The screener uses google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite through OpenRouter, about $0.0002 per publication, so a 300-row run costs about 6 cents on your OpenRouter key.