Paul Telford, a 17-year veteran in the online gambling industry and former General Counsel at Pokerstars parent The Rational Group, has joined the Isle of Man-based Annexio Group, a lottery betting services provider, in a similar capacity. Annexio is currently engaged in expanding its client base across multiple jurisdictions. Telford switched from the medical profession …
Online gambling software and games provider NYX Gaming has announced that it has secured a private placement of $10.5 million with an unidentified private investor. The offering was made up of unsecured convertible debenture and 2,863,636 ordinary share purchase warrants, which have a strike price of $3.50 and a three term. The debenture will attract …
Prima Networks, powered by Microgaming, has been awarded Class II licences by Romania’s gambling regulator, Oficiul Național pentru Jocuri de Noroc (ONJN), ahead of the regulated market opening later this month. The licences cover the ‘manufacture and distribution of specialised gaming software’ and ‘game platform management and hosting facilities’. A number of Romanian and .com …
SmartBets, the customisable odds comparison site powered by bettingexpert.com, has enlisted the help of its free-to-use BetBot to give Euro 2016 fans on Facebook a helping hand with their last-16 wagers. Autonomously participating in social media conversations with Facebook users, BetBot responds via Facebook Messenger, providing real-time odds on upcoming games from major bookmakers. BetBot …
Philippines-based online gambling software and games developer XIN Gaming has launched a new slot titled Fish Hunter King with a colourful theme based on a popular Chinese arcade game. The new slot is a 5-reel, 3-row, 50-line slot which offers opportunities to win cash prizes through a range of engaging features. Mathias Larsson, chief executive …
Australian media reports Thursday indicate that the provincial government of South Australia has agreed on a new “place of consumption” betting tax that they expect will raise an additional A$9.2 million a year for local government coffers. The 15 percent tax on NGR attributed to South Australian punters makes the province the first in Australia …
Dermot Smurfit’s GameAccount Network simulated gaming provider firm has been fined $25,000 by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement for breaching geolocation regulations by allowing small numbers of online punters outside New Jersey’s borders to gamble through the GAN Android real-money app offered by Betfair. GAN has explained away the transgressions as the result …
The Malta Gaming Authority has released its annual report for 2015, posting a year-on-year 4.3 percent rise in generated revenue at Euro 60.9 million (FY 2014: Euro 58.4 million) as the industry continued to enjoy ‘healthy’ growth in both the land-based and remote gaming sectors. Highlights of the report include: * Contributions in gaming taxes …
Brazilian media reports this week have triggered hopes for online gambling legalisation in the vast South American nation, with the expectation that within the next week the national House will see a new gaming reform bill (PL442/1991) featuring the genre, although it may take some time to pass. A Senate committee in April passed legislation …
Online gambling progressed in California and Pennsylvania Wednesday….but at one point it looked as if yet another failure due to VGT confusion would scuttle legalisation in the latter state. Both states held committee stage debates involving online gambling. In the Pennsylvania House lawmakers were presented with a massive set of amendments on A08621 to Rep. …
Kate Lampard CBE, a former UK barrister and vice chair of the South of England Strategic Health Authority, has been appointed the independent chair of the board of trustees of the Responsible Gambling Trust following a four-month selection process carried out by an independent committee. The RGT is a problem gambling charity funded by donations …
Slotland online casino reported in a press statement Tuesday that an online punter and his wife both screamed in excitement when he hit a $223,167 progressive jackpot on the casino’s proprietary slot Air Mail. Player SamuelJ told casino management: “I was in utter shock. It took me a few minutes before I started to scream. …
Online gambling technology provider NYX Gaming Group has announced that it has signed an agreement to expand its partnership with Caesars Interactive Entertainment, Inc. (CIE) to re-launch the CaesarsCasino.com brand on the NYX Open Platform System in New Jersey. The platform will give CaesarsCasino.com improved marketing and loyalty services, along with a growing portfolio of …
Online gambling industry monitors will be watching Pennsylvania House proceedings closely today (Wednesday) to see whether the political leadership will once again present Rep. John Payne’s HB649 online gambling legalisation bill along with a daily fantasy sports bill that has also passed committee stage and is set for a second reading. Given that daily fantasy …
New Zealand fast food worker Rawiri Pou (27) is NZ $10,144,395.82 (US $7.2 million) better off this week following Tuesday’s presentation of his major jackpot win on Microgaming’s Mega Moolah progressive slot, which took place June 17. Pou’s big hit happened at the Casinoland online casino, and was preceded by a NZ$1,500 reward which he …
Swedish online gambling software and games developer NetEnt has announced a new online casino games supply agreement with the major UK online and land gambling Rank Group plc. Under the terms of the agreement with Rank, NetEnt will deliver its online casino games to the Grosvenor Casinos and Mecca brands. “I am delighted to enter …
The UK online gambling games developer Realistic Games has launched its latest online slot, a three reel, five win line game titled 8th Wonder. The multi-featured game includes a Full House Bonus that allows players to double their win when they land a full house of any symbol. Featuring crystals, dollar bills, and lucky eight …
The Swedish online gambling games developer Yggdrasil has announced a content supply deal with GVC Holdings subsidiary Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment, which is to take on board the full Yggdrasil portfolio of slots. The package includes Yggdrasil’s collection of promotional tools, Boost and the Infinite API for gamification. Yggdrasil previously had a supply deal with GVC, …
The Malta-based white label online casino provider 1 Click Games has inked a content supply deal with Lithuania’s Loberta UAB, parent group of games developer MrSlotty, which specialises in mobile HD quality slots. 1 Click has committed to taking the full inventory of forty MrSlotty games this summer, diversifying and expanding its inventory for operators. …
The Canadian Football League website at www.cfl.ca carried a notification Monday that the body has agreed an advertising and promotions partnership with daily fantasy sports operator DraftKings. The deal will see the launch of new weekly fantasy contests specific to the CFL and its fifty-ninth season which kicks off this week with a match in …
The Pennsylvania House of Representatives returned to session Monday with just 10 days left to the start of the new financial year and the budget still a source of disagreement as efforts to close a substantial $1.8 billion deficit gap and fund education projects continued. Measures to achieve this without increasing state personal tax include …
Online casino operator NetBet has rather belatedly published details of a major jackpot hit last month on the Playtech developed progressive slot Mega-Jackpots Siberian Storm. The winner, who has elected to remain anonymous, is a British civil servant who was enjoying some downtime at home on a Saturday afternoon when he hit a GBP 506,382.68 …
Providing more evidence that it is increasingly leaning toward regulated sports betting across the USA, the American Gaming Association hosted its first-ever Law Enforcement Summit late last week to better understand the nature of the multi-billion dollar market and garner lawmen’s opinions on its possible regulation. Ed Davis, a former Boston police commissioner and a …
Hot on the heels of the news that professional business services provider KPMG has been engaged to review the digital activities of William Hill plc (see previous reports) comes the news that Crispin Nieboer, the new md of the Online division, has been putting a new top team together. The company’s Special Projects Director, Steven …