A new YouGov survey on public perceptions of the gambling industry in the UK has found that 60 percent of respondents favour stricter regulation of the overall industry, reports the CityAM newspaper. And just four percent, felt that there should be a looser approach to regulation, whilst 25 percent felt the current status quo is …
Comment around a proposed online gambling legalisation bill prepared by Pennsylvanian state Senator Edwin Erickson (see previous reports) intensified Tuesday when the senator introduced SB 1386 to the state Senate. The bill is supported by Senator Bob Mensch but there was some speculation on what it actually covers; the preamble suggests a focus on internet …
The question of ‘bad actors’ – companies that continued to service the US market after the UIGEA passed in 2006 – has been at the heart of debate around online poker legalisation proposals recently, particularly in the political and tribal maneuvering in California, where two bills are currently before the Legislature (see previous reports). It’s …
Colossus Bets, operator of the GBP 10,000,000 Colossus football and sports jackpots, has announced that it has signed up with Betfair to launch Betfair Pools. Betfair Pools is available at Pools.Betfair.com and offers unique jackpot and pools for the football World Cup currently taking place in Brazil and into the regular football season. The service …
Men’s magazine FHM has seemingly revived its online casino offering but this time in partnership with 888games. The company launched an FHM-branded online casino in collaboration with Cantor Gaming back in 2006 which subsequently shut its virtual doors just one year later. Accessed through a dedicated tab on the FHM Magazine website, customers have a …
France Pari sportsbook and horse racing solution provider SPORTNCO has extended its presence in Europe with the launch of three new sportsbetting platforms. SPORTNCO now provides a fully integrated turnkey sportsbetting solution which includes IT solutions, bets, odds and risk management services to Pari Mutuel Urbain’s Belgian subsidiary EUROTIERCE along with two platforms catering for …
Spanish online gaming regulator La Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGoJ) has given provisional authorisation to Rational Group subsidiary Reel Spain to expand its offering to include Blackjack and Roulette on its PokerStars brand.
Gala Coral Group subsidiary Coral Interactive has appointed former Boylesports chief executive officer and chief technology officer Keith O’Loughlin as sportsbook director. O’Loughlin will report to Coral Interactive director John O’Reilly who said the appointment is another key in the growth of Coral online. “I am delighted to have been asked to join the team …
The president of the Sofia District Court has instructed ISP providers to block bets10.com, 7bets10.com, casinomaxi9.com and casinometropol8.com all owned or operated by Realm Entertainment Limited along with tropeziapalace.com owned by Fitzgerald Industries Group. The five become the latest to be added to the authority’s black list.
Former regional vice president of GTECH S.p.A. for Central Europe Frank Cecchini (49) has been appointed to lead the Betware commercial team. Stefan Hrafnkelsson, Betware’s chief executive officer is convinced Cecchini’s impressive lottery market experience will enhance the company’s expansion strategy. “Frank joins us at a very exciting time; after finalizing the acquisition process, together …
Betfair’s New Jersey interests under the BetfairCasino brand has become the official and exclusive online gaming partner of the Live Nation New Jersey division of entertainment business Live Nation Entertainment. Under the terms of the agreement, BetfairCasino.com will become a partner of the PNC Bank Arts Center and Susquehanna Bank Center, as well as several …
Sportradar will incorporate German champions FC Bayern Munich at its World Cup live match centre on the club’s homepage. The initiative will show Bayern player performances at the Brazil 2014 World Cup and include in-depth live content. “Our customized and high quality product is the perfect companion for fans all over the world,” said Carsten …
Software provider Pariplay has partnered with C3 Entertainment in a licencing agreement that will see the release of its first branded slot title “The Three Stooges”. The slot is themed around The Three Stooges short called Disorder in the Court. It features two bonus rounds and a free game mode that takes players to the …
Sportech Racing and Digital has acquired Bump Worldwide Inc, a provider of electronic 50/50 raffles conducted during professional sporting events. The partnerships between Bump and the professional sports teams raise money for the teams’ charitable foundations, complementing Sportech’s existing, long-standing charitable activities in the UK. Bump currently has license agreements in place with the charitable …
Sports betting technology provider Power8 has secured an agreement giving it the naming rights to Spanish Liga football club Espanyol’s stadium for the next seven years. Espanyol’s Estadi Cornella-El Prat will now be known as the Power8 Stadium, a company spokesman said this week, adding that the firm will additionally receive substantial exposure through branding …
Online gambling group Gaming Realms has reported a mixed bag of financial news for the six month period to end March 2014, noting that revenues soared 400 percent to GBP 3.6 million in the period and player acquisition is good, but that aggressive marketing has created a loss prior to taxation of GBP 4.9 million …
The Malta-based turnkey and white label casino and sportsbook provider EveryMatrix has signed an agreement with online gambling games developer Williams Interactive to add casino content to EveryMatrix’s Casino Engine product. Ebbe Groes, chief executive of EveryMatrix, said: “In addition to our offering of casino content from companies such as IGT and Bally among others, …
Corporate financier Steve Epperly, Senior Director, CIT Corporate Finance – Gaming, a division of CIT Group Inc. says an increasing number of US states want to provide gaming options to their residents rather than see them head to adjacent states to gamble, leading to the recent expansion of the gaming industry…and that legalised online gambling …
The Jamaican authorities’ war on lottery scammers continued over the weekend with the arrest of 10 fraudsters during a police operation in Browns Town. Raiding parties from the Lottery Scam Task Force seized computers and documentary evidence from several private homes, a police spokesman told the Associated Press news agency Sunday. Jamaica has become notorious …
The respected law firm DLA Piper has published its assessment of a recent letter sent to incoming Belgian lawmakers by the Belgian Gaming Commission, requesting further restriction and rationalisation of the gaming industry. The assessment was carried out by Patrick Van Eecke and Raf Schoefs of the law company’s Brussels offices and gives an introductory …
All eyes will be on the performance of the Amaya Gaming group shares on the Toronto market Monday to see if the stock’s outstanding performance achieved last week can be sustained. Local media report that following the news that the Montreal-based firm had agreed to buy the Pokerstars and Full Tilt parent company The Rational …
The prolific Swedish online gambling games developer Net Entertainment has made advance versions of its latest 5 reel, 9 pay-line online titled “Attraction” available to selected licensees and affiliates. Players discussing the new game claim that it is a clone of the company’s popular Starburst offering, with a theme based on magnetic attraction. The game …
Starting the week off with a bang is the announcement by gambling and lottery supplier group GTECH that it is in ‘preliminary’ talks with contemporary U.S. firm International Game Technology with the objective of buying the American company. “This transaction could potentially involve the use of a mix of cash and equity as consideration,” GTECH …
Exploiting the interest around football generated by the current World Cup in Brazil, the mischief marketers at the online and land bookmaker Paddy Power again grabbed media coverage this week by changing the signage on a small percentage of the company’s betting shops in the UK and Ireland to reflect an association with one of …