The Irish gambling group Boyle Sports has become the first major bookmaker to roll out the innovative Virtual Betting Channel from SIS. The VBC, developed by Inspired Gaming Group’s virtual sports division, went live this week and will provide Boylesports with a portfolio including horses, dogs and football, in all of its 160 betting shops. …
It seems the wheels of government in Ireland turn slowly, judging by a report in the Irish Times this week, revealing that a government-tasked study of necessary gambling reforms – including internet gambling – is still under review six months after its conclusions were submitted. Ireland’s gambling laws are seriously in need of updating in …
Betting exchange Betfair has announced the appointment of Michael Bischoff as Director of Information Systems. Bishoff joins Betfair from a role as Director of Global Technical Services at LCH.Clearnet, a financial instrument clearing house serving international exchanges and OTC markets. Key aspects of the position include leading a team of 120 technologists and the co-ordination …
Australian interactive media company Two Way Limited confirmed the launch of its TV wagering service TAB ACTIVE in Southern Australia this week. The service has been offered to Tabcorp customers in Victoria and New South Wales since 2008 and has been extended to TattsBet customers in Queensland this month. Viewers of the three Sky Racing …
Officials from Wimbledon, the world’s oldest tennis tournament, have been given a watch-list of “undesirables” suspected of betting corruption reports UK newspaper The Sunday Telegraph. The blacklist has been compiled by the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU), an investigations team run by a former Scotland Yard detective, and is said to include suspected individuals linked through …
Access to the worlds biggest gambling Mecca will improve with the upgrade of Macau International Airport announced Simon Chan Weng Hong, president of the Macau Civil Aviation Authority. A new development plan has been drawn up to improve airport services which will allow the airport to cater for 7.1 million passengers annually by 2020, increasing …
UK bookmaker William Hill has announced the retention of its chief executive Ralph Topping until at least 2013. Topping (60) has been with the Group for 40 years in various roles and was appointed to chief executive in February 2008. The agreement with effect from January 2011 will see Topping receive GBP 600 000 in …
Although he originally wanted to remain anonymous, the Sky Vegas big winner who recently hit a GBP2.64 million progressive jackpot on the Millionaire’s Club slot revealed his identity over the weekend. Civil servant David Robson, who is still living in his parents’ council house, says he was “just killing half an hour” with a 90p …
An American man with business interests in Costa Rica, who is believed to be a high roller at land casinos and is alleged to have connections with online gambling e-processing, was arrested over the weekend whilst in transit through Phoenix airport. Federal officials revealed that the man, who was travelling from his home state of …
Newly released figures show Atlantic City’s casinos had to endure another decline in revenues in May, showing an across the board slide of 9 percent to $290.6 million when compared with those of May 2010. Associated Press reports that the biggest loser was Trump Plaza Hotel Casino, down 25 percent, from $17.3 million last May …
Societe des loteries video du Quebec, a subsidiary of Loto-Quebec, has announced that International Game Technology (IGT) will provide 7,200 replacement video lottery terminals for the Quebec gaming outlets. The announcement comes after Loto-Quebec received government approval in December 2009 to proceed with replacing its VLTs to update machines currently in use. The replacement process …
A bitter dispute involving the British Horserace Betting Levy Board, the British Horseracing Association and major betting exchange Betfair has been resolved following expert legal advice on the question of whether customers of UK betting exchanges are capable of being leviable bookmakers. At a meeting Friday the BHLB decided that it would not seek to …
The French online gaming trade association l’Association Française du Jeu en Ligne (AFJEL), has published a White Paper recommending changes to French online gaming law. The association has released the paper with a view to fast tracking new reforms and ensuring a fairer, more competitive French market for players and operators. The Act of May …
Online gaming and software provider CryptoLogic announced a whopping GBP2.6 million jackpot win this week. A 37-year old civil servant from Newcastle, England won the jackpot at SkyVegas playing on CryptoLogic’s Millionaires Club online slot game with just a 90 pence stake. The player, who is the biggest SkyVegas winner to date, plans to spend …
UK-based financial fixed odds betting service provider Cantor Gaming & Wagering (Cantor) inked a deal with online gaming firm Victor Chandler International, this week. Victor Chandler will add the new product via an integrated platform provided by Cantor along side its own spread betting offering. The new service will give customers of Victor Chandler access …
UK online sportsbook provider Openbet has appointed Nikos Kryvossidis as Senior Vice President to head up sportsbook operations and Mark Paling as Commercial Content Director. Nikos, a former Google executive, will oversee the engineering, product development, creation and delivery of new products amongst other responsibilities. Strengthening its operation team, OpenBet has also appointed Mark Paling …
A 37-year-old civil service worker from Newcastle in the UK has become the latest online gambling multi-millionaire after hitting a GBP2.6 million jackpot on Cryptologic’s Millionaires Club progressive slot. The software developer revealed this week that the punter’s 90p bet at SkyVegas.com had brought him a fortune on the nine line, five-reel slot game last …
Having assisted in the construction of the Greek government’s new proposals to licence and regulate online gambling, Betfair is less than pleased at the outcome and has taken its concerns to the European Commission, the group’s legal director revealed this week. The EC is currently considering the Greek proposals, on which it is due to …
Spanish politicians may have passed liberalisation laws on the nation’s internet gambling, but it appears there is no guarantee that these will be implemented in a single initiative. The Guardian newspaper reports this week that analysts are concerned following indications from Spain that approval of online betting exchanges could be delayed. The analysts reported that …
The Nevada Gaming Control Board said Thursday that statewide gambling revenues were $806 million in April, compared with $810 million in April 2010 — a drop of less than 1 percent. $42.6 million in taxes were levied on the revenues, $2.9 million more that the amount collected during the same month last year and an …
China’s welfare lottery sales hit 50.16 billion yuan ($7.74 billion) as of June 5 this year, up 30.61 percent year-on-year, the Welfare Lottery Distribution and Management Center said on Thursday. This year’s welfare lottery sales are expected to exceed 100 billion yuan, compared with last year’s total sales of 90.4 billion yuan, reports The China …
The inequity of US legislation designed to hammer online gambling in the United States was again illustrated this week in an article which appeared in USA Today. Enforcement campaigns against internet gambling in the USA are highly contentious and tend be more than a little selective, with horse racing, state lotteries and fantasy sports all …
Andrew Twaits, the online gambling group Betfair’s senior man in Australia, has come out strongly for tighter regulations, including a tougher approach to online poker. Twaits said online poker sites, which he claims cost the local industry hundreds of millions of dollars annually, should also be part of new legislation aimed at cracking down on …
Plans by the South African gambling authorities to ask the Reserve Bank to institute a block on credit cards used in internet gambling transactions have been put on hold pending the outcome of a Supreme High Court appeal, reports the daily newspaper The Times. The issue is the latest development on a long running and …