William Hill has signed a new four-year content and integrated services supply deal with Betdigital. Andrew Sackey, head of product and content at William Hill said Tuesday he looks forward to working with Betdigital, one of its key suppliers, on new projects in the near future.
Playtech’s troubles over its acquisition of Ava Trade Ltd continued Tuesday with an update from the company suggesting that it has been unable to resolve the opposition to the deal of the Central Bank of Ireland, and will formally challenge the bank’s decision. The update advises: “The Central Bank of Ireland (“CBI”) has reverted to …
Barclays Bank has announced the successful completion of an accelerated GBP 260 million bookbuilt offering to institutional investors of 8 million ordinary shares in Betfair Group plc, on behalf of Le Peigne SA in respect of 5 million placing shares and Rothschild Wealth Management (UK) Limited. The two companies, acting on an agency basis for …
Daily fantasy sports market leaders DraftKings and FanDuel are trying to manage a growing row in social and international mainstream media over allegedly “insider” use of data by employees in order to gain monetary advantage. The furore over the past 72 hours developed when a DraftKings manager, Ethan Haskell, “inadvertently” released what constitutes insider information …
Hockey, basketball and soccer fans will all benefit from a new four-year partnership deal between daily fantasy sports operator DraftKings and Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment in Toronto, owners of the NHL Toronto Maple Leafs, the NBA Toronto Raptors, MLS Toronto FC and the Air Canada Center franchises. The Center is the base where DraftKings …
Norway’s media authority Medietilsynet has identified a “massive increase in illegal gambling advertising directed at Norway” prompting it to enter into dialogue with counterparts in the UK, Spain and the Netherlands. According to two studies commissioned by the media authority from Nielsen Media Research in 2014 and 2015, illegal gambling advertising has increased from NOK …
The UK’s Responsible Gambling Trust (RGT) has commissioned a behavioural study on remote gambling from PriceWaterhouseCoopers. The study will be conducted in two phases, and builds on the research into customer behaviour on gaming machines in licensed betting officers published in December 2014. The first phase, which will be undertaken in collaboration with the Canadian …
White label multi-channel casino and betting solutions provider Viral has integrated content from GameART in flash and HTML5 following the signing of a distribution deal. GameART expects to follow up the initial integration on the platform with additional gaming content in the near future.
Cherry has increased its 71 percent stake of Malta-based online casino business Almor Holding Ltd (Almor) by an additional 4 percent for Euro 760 000. Almor operates German-facing online casino and sportsbook brands Sunnyplayer, Sunmaker, and Kingplayer. Cherry reports that Almor has continued to perform above expectation and during the first half of 2015 turnover …
German gambling operator mybet Holding SE has offloaded its payment services subsidiary C4U-Malta Ltd. to an unidentified buyer in the financial services sector for Euro 3 Million as it moves to refocus on its core business. mybet expects the sale to complete within the fourth quarter of this year once several conditions have been met.
French operator Pari Mutuel Urbain (PMU), in collaboration with France Galop and LeTrot, has entered into a joint venture with the Jockey Club Brasileiro (JCB) for the advancement of horse racing in the country. Through a newly created subsidiary, PMU Brasil, PMU will operate horse race betting on behalf of the JCB, including marketing in …
Sports betting provider Betgenius has developed a new parent company Genius Sports Group as it restructures to accommodate growth in business verticals. Betgenius will become one of the Group’s verticals continuing with its focus on developing bespoke B2B betting solutions for operators. The second business vertical will focus on the Group’s data capture and distribution, …
Software developer Genesis Gaming will provide a complete portfolio of video slots in Flash and HTML5 to social and real-money independent platform provider Big Stack Technologies. Big Stack’s platform currently offers casino and peer-to-peer poker offerings. “We are excited by the amount of interest there is in deploying Social Casinos in the United States, especially …
Platform provider EveryMatrix has been awarded a Remote Bookmaking Betting Operations license by Ireland’s Revenue Commissioner. The award of the license marks EveryMatrix’s fourth jurisdictional license joining the UK, Malta and Curacao.
Playtech has run into opposition from the Central Bank of Ireland regarding its acquisition of Ava Trade Limited (see previous reports). In a stock exchange notification Monday Playtech advised that late on Friday 2 October 2015, it received a letter from the Central Bank of Ireland opposing the proposed acquisition of Ava Trade. “Having taken …
Online gambling companies developing products compatible with the “wearable technology” trend are on the right track, judging by a Forrester Research report released today (Monday). The results of the research firm’s latest study on wearables make encouraging reading for developers, manufacturers and enthusiasts alike, with 21 percent of the US online population buying a wearable …
The major Finnish online gambling organisations Veikkaus, Raha-automaattiyhdistys (RAY) and Fintoto will merge in the next few weeks to create a Nordic mega-company, the publication YLE reports. The merger will create business synergies and could lead to staff cuts due to rationalisation, and only a third of the current management teams in all three organisations …
Portugal’s new online gambling regulator, Serviço de Regulação e Inspeção de Jogos (‘SRIJ’) has approved the independent compliance testing and standards company eCOGRA as a certifying organisation of gambling technical systems following a tough assessment of its staff, technical capability and relevant industry experience. eCOGRA currently employs more than 50 qualified and trained employees, focused …
Already under pressure for contentious work-arounds on internet in-play betting, some Australian online operators were advised of a further probe this weekend by the New South Wales Office of Liquor Gaming and Racing. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that heavy advertising offering bonus bets in the lead-up to this weekend’s football grand finals appears to …
The latest in a seemingly endless series of negotiations between Antigua and Barbuda and the USA over an online gambling dispute seems to have bogged down, judging by an impassioned plea to the United Nations last week by Antigua PM Gaston Browne. In a speech to the Assembly, Browne talked about the twelve-year dispute and …
DJI Holdings, a London-based firm that has penetrated the Chinese lottery market (see previous reports), has announced a new achievement, reporting that it has been given official approval to conduct a mobile sports lottery app field trial in the Shandong provincial city of Qingdao. DJI’s joint venture Qingdao Taifa Network Science Technology Service will conduct …
UK residents; brace yourself for a storm of daily fantasy advertisements following the announcement Friday that DraftKings has inked a partnership deal with the usually fanatical anti-betting US National Football League. The three-year deal is in respect of the NFL’s annual three-game series in Britain and will see DraftKings branding, promotional events, tournament activity and …
Depending on your personal view, online gambling operator Betsafe’s latest Rugby World Cup promotional campaign is amusing and innovative….or rather vulgar. The company has gone to some expense to equip selected pubs across Britain with purpose-built urinals fitted with motion sensors and an eye-level video screen. The idea is that the natural output of players …
Macau’s struggling gambling industry could receive a boost from the Chinese government before the end of the year, although details of what this could include have not yet been made public. The new was enough to lift Macau gambling company share prices significantly, Bloomberg business news reported Friday. Li Gang, director of the China’s local …