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 …
The Amusement and Music Owners Association of New York would on the face of it appear to be an unlikely supporter for legalised online gambling, but the trade association and equipment supplier Betson Enterprises are about to embark on just such a campaign. The goal is to secure licenses for on-premises electronic betting services as …
The latest online gambling operator to join the eSports trend is Dafabet, which this week signed a partnership deal with eSports operator Fnatic, agreeing to sponsor and promote the site to its international player base, and provide Dafabet branding for Fnatic eSports tournaments. Dafabet will additionally offer betting action on Fnatic tournament matches on games …
The Cambodian government has issued 10 new land casino licenses but says that the new operators are mainly interested in online opportunities that are possible through the licenses; in Cambodia, land licensees can add online gambling to their offering. Ros Phearun, deputy director general of the financial industry department at the Ministry of Economy and …
Apollo Entertainment Ltd, which operates the Casino Rewards online gambling enterprise, had to defend a serious age-related issue reported to the Advertising Standards Authority last month. Whilst it was successful, the case did highlight a potential problem area for the industry. The complaint came from a member of the public who reported that Casino Rewards …
The overall Czech gambling industry is worth around 138,000,000,000 Czech Korunas (GBP 3,761,890,857) a year in wagers based on 2014 statistics, and the online and mobile component is growing rapidly, the Prague Post reported this week. It is estimated that gambling companies in general earned roughly 30,000,000,000 Kč in 2014. The popularity (and the big …
A little over eighteen months ago the owners of the famous US resort casino Foxwoods, the Mashantucket Pequot Gaming Enterprise, and Irish online gambling technology company GameAccount teamed up to debut GAN’s first free-to-play ‘Simulated Gaming’ online casino product in the US…but the partnership has not lasted. In separate announcements this week the two companies …