David Surtees, chief financial officer of digital sports media company Perform Group Plc, will stand down as of January 31, 2014 after serving six years with the firm. Paul Walker, Non-Executive Chairman, said, “On behalf of the board, I would like to thank David Surtees for his significant contribution over the last six years. David …
Amaya Gaming Group has appointed Marlon D. Goldstein as its new executive vice-president, corporate development and general counsel, effective January 24, 2014. Prior to joining Amaya, Goldstein was a principal shareholder in the corporate and securities practice at international law firm Greenberg Traurig as well as filling the role of co-chair of the firm’s Gaming …
The Betfred Group has announced the successful completion of a GBP 200 million refinance deal following its GBP 265 million acquisition of The Tote two and a half years ago. The Manchester Evening News reports Betfred’s repayment of its acquisition facilities, including the early repayment of the GBP 115 million deferred consideration from the Government …
Pennsylvania’s Tribune Live newspaper reported over the weekend that Pennsylvania, West Virginia and nine other US states could approve online gambling this year or next, according to gambling consultant and analyst Fred Gushin, managing director and founder of the well-respected Spectrum Gaming Group. Speaking last week at a webinar presented by LexisNexis and Spectrum, Gushin …
US punters will soon be watching a new Fox television comedy series with a light legal touch and a charming central character with flaws that include too great a fondness for gambling and a disorganised approach to money and gambling debt management that makes his personal life something of a shambles. Screening for the first …
Against a backdrop of a failed parliamentary vote to restrict Fixed Odds Betting Terminals and a largely negative UK media blizzard of criticism of the betting machines, a UK bookmaker has commented on the issue in a bid to allay concerns. The William Hill plc spokesman noted the industry was due to voluntarily introduce a …
Malta’s Lotteries and Gaming Authority received an increased number of illegal gambling reports in 2013, but the lack of evidence in many of these resulted in few prosecutions, the island’s minister for the economy, Chris Cardona, has revealed. The Malta newspaper The Independent reports that in replying to a parliamentary question by Nationalist MP Claudio …
Coincidentally with former Denver mayor Wellington Webb’s Denver Post op-ed on the subject, Sheldon Adelson’s idea of what a revamped Wire Act might look like surfaced over the weekend, thanks to poker blogger Marco Valerio. It must be emphasised that the document (see below) is still very much a mere three-page draft, but it confirms …
Blithely ignoring strong empirical evidence to the contrary, most recently from a senior Borgata exec speaking about that company’s online gambling experience in New Jersey, Sheldon Adelson ally and former Denver mayor Wellington Webb (72) burst into print over the weekend, claiming that legalised internet gambling will cost American jobs. Our readers may recall that …
Former two-term South Pittsburg mayor Mike Killian (56) was in the local news media headlines Friday after being sentenced to six months in federal prison followed by one year of house arrest and a $30,000 fine for running an illegal gambling operation. The former mayor pleaded guilty to a single count, but claimed he was …
The land gambling business in Nevada may be seeing some light at the end of the tunnel after a truly terrible few years of economic recession, but it’s not out of the woods yet according to the latest financial numbers released Friday by the state regulator. The Associated Press news agency reports that the statistics …
Media reports from Colorado in the United States claim that a local Boulder County man, 62-year-old Larry Kyle Richardson, has been indicted by a grand jury on an internet gambling-related racketeering charge, and that the case has links with a high profile Oklahoma internet gambling bust several years ago . Five defendants convicted in the …
New Jersey online gamblers who have been experiencing difficulty in accessing websites in the newly liberated intrastate market due to geo-location rejections will soon have a solution in their hands, thanks to independent initiatives being undertaken by a number of the bigger operators anxious to provide them with services. Apparently the problem in most cases …
Webis Holdings subsidiary WatchandWager.com and the operators of Cal Expo, a Californian harness track, have announced the award of contractual approval from the Thoroughbred Owners of California to allow California residents to wager on thoroughbred racing taking place across the USA, and also all international jurisdictions for which it has the rights. The approval follows …
White label e-gaming platform provider EveryMatrix is to offer another live dealer option following an update of its CasinoEngine product following an agreement with Ezugi, which will see the latter provide live streamed blackjack, roulette and baccarat, along with a newly developed lottery offering. The latest addition brings to six the number of live dealer …
The Texas-based social casino games developer Bee Cave Games has raised an additional $1.9 million in investment, which it will use to further develop and market its latest Blackjack Casino product for iOS, Android and Facebook usage. Founded in 2012, Bee Cave raised $1.3 million in a second round of funding mid-2013 .
December 2013 hirings at the Swedish online gambling group Betsson include former Betfair head of international marketing Peter Weinreich and Markus Aurala, who was previously chief product officer at Mr Green Online Casino. Weinreich has been appointed managing director for Betsson’s Danish market, based in Copenhagen. He is familiar with the region, having worked as …
Gibraltar-based software developer Nektan, which specialises in touch screen gambling games and online and mobile slots that include a skill element, is hewing diligently to its business plan to expand in the United States, a course that it publicly mapped out last year. Insider reports and Twitter posts indicated this week that the company, which …
The Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reports that the Netherlands State Lottery (Staatsloterij) and charity lottery De Lotto are investigating a possible merger to allow the combined entity to better compete in the approaching regulated Dutch online gaming market. The legalisation and liberalisation of the market to permit a more open and competitive environment that includes …
One of the US gambling industry’s premier annual conferences, the East Coast Gaming Congress will focus on online gambling as well as land issues when the eighteenth edition kicks off on May 19 at the Borgata Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City. With online gambling increasingly occupying the US headlines as state-by-state legalisation evolves, the …
The William Hill plc land and online gambling group has selected the Creature advertising agency to handle its GBP 15 million account after studying various proposals in a competitive marketing pitch in which the group’s incumbent agency, Fabula, declined to participate. The marketing publication CampaignLive reports that the gambling group called the review in November …
Malaysia’s Home Minister Datuk Seri Dr. Ahmad Zahid Hamidi was in the local news again this week with more tough talk on his plans to stamp out illegal land and online gambling . The minister revealed that progress has been made on the introduction of a specialised task force on organised crime, which will include …
There’s no love lost between Sweden’s state gambling monopoly Svenska Spel and the Nordic country’s advertising and media industry, thanks to the monopoly’s attempts to have gambling ads for its rivals in other EU nations stopped, and media appeals to the European Commission that Sweden may be in contravention of EU law . Getting 2014 …
Scientific Games Corporation and game designer and provider Hasbro, Inc. have expanded an earlier licensing agreement between the two companies to provide Scientific Games with access to new channels of distribution, additional brands and extended geographic territories. The amendments expand the existing Scientific Games lottery and subsidiary WMS Gaming slot machine licence agreements to extend …