Betway has signed numerous deals with British race courses to either extend or expand horse racing sponsorships. The online operator renewed deals with Jockey Club Racecourse, Arena Racing Company and York Racecourse to retain its sponsorship of headline events while extending its support to the Newmarket and Haydock race courses. New events include headline sponsor …
Pennsylvania House of Representatives lawmaker Robert Matzie has signalled his intention to introduce a bill seeking the House’s approval in principle for intrastate legalised sports betting, but with an interesting proviso…it is a “be prepared” effort dependent on New Jersey winning its Supreme Court appeal against earlier and bitterly contested judicial decisions supporting the federal …
A commission to London-based games developer Gamevy from the LeoVegas online and mobile casino for a bespoke game marking its fifth birthday resulted in the unveiling this week of Be The King, an instant win game where players choose when to cash out – or whether to risk their winnings as they collect Leo symbols …
The looming clampdown on contracts-for-difference spread betting announced late last year by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (see previous reports) has spurred one of the major operators in the sector, FTSE-listed IG Group, to withdraw its Sprint binary options product from new clients in an attempt to get ahead of the regulator’s proposed new industry …
It was about this time last year that Hawaii Attorney General Doug Chin weighed in on the legality of daily fantasy sports, saying at the time that DFS contests constitute illegal gambling under existing state laws. This time around, a new bill SB677 was introduced late last week by Senator Michelle Kidani which proposes the …
The Philippine state-run Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) is calling on illegal gambling operators to “Go Legal”, Manilla news agency SunStar reports. Alexander Balutan, general manager of the PCSO, told reporters that the Philippine Government is readying the expansion of its Small Town Lottery (STL), “the only legal and authorized numbers game”, and encourages illegal gambling …
BetConstruct’s fantasy sports offer has expanded to offer American sports in time for the US Fantasy Sports Trade Association’s (FSTA) Winter Conference 2017, which is being held in Nashville this week . Fantasy sports partners can now offer their customers American football, baseball, ice hockey and basketball along with improved functionalities such as a detailed …
NYX Gaming Group’s Openbet division has been selected by the New Zealand Racing Board (NZRB) following what has been described as a rigorous tender process. Our readers will recall, the NZRB announced its intention to engage with Paddy Power Betfair and OpenBet to potentially formalize a Fixed Odds Betting platform in late December 2016 (see …
Marketing optimisation specialist Beehive has entered into a supply deal with GVC Holding’s for the provision of its data-powered marketing platform across GVC’s Playtech brands. The deal will enable GVC to deploy targeted, personalized promotional offers. “With CPAs on the rise, it has never been so important to implement a CRM solution that can optimise …
Betsoft Gaming’s latest content supply partnership will see its Slots3 collection launched on VoodooDreams.com, SuprNation’s primarily Swedish and Nordic focused online gaming operation. The deal includes the deployment of Betsoft’s ToGo line of mobile games. “We have built our site to serve as a future-facing, next generation casino that is specifically tailored toward mobile gaming,” …
Gaming Innovation Group (GIG) has appointed Aaron Xuereb as chief data officer responsible for GIG’s iGaming Cloud data infrastructure. “The power of data is most evident when you are able to forecast the future (Predictive Analysis) or even better being able to change it in a positive way (Perspective Analytics),” Xuereb said. “This is what …
The longest sponsorship deal in the history of British horse racing has come to an end with Ladbrokes becoming the new sponsor of the race formerly known as The Hennessy Gold Cup for the next five years, Racing Post reports. The Hennessy Gold Cup is an annual Grade 3 National Hunt chase in Great Britain …
Ladbrokes Coral Group plc has appointed Annemarie Durbin as a non-executive Board Director with immediate effect. Durbin, a qualified lawyer with over two decades of international banking experience, will also take up membership of the Audit, Remuneration, Social Responsibility and Nomination Committees with effect from March 1, 2017. She is a non-executive director of WHSmith …
The WinADay online casino has reported a major jackpot hit of $210,435 on its ancient Greece-themed proprietary progressive slot Olympus. Player JohnT, a retired grandfather, told casino management that his first priority for the windfall was to take his wife of 30 years on an anniversary holiday, and his grandchildren to Disney World. “I feel …
NetEnt has launched a new local jackpot title “Divine Fortune”, a five-reel, 3-row, twenty-fixed line video slot themed on ancient Greece and a world of mythical creatures, legendary riches, and golden coins. The game features Falling Wilds re-spins, Wild substitutions and a Jackpot Bonus game with three different jackpots including the progressive Mega Jackpot. Divine …
bet-at-home.com AG has lifted its profit guidance for the 2016 financial year following what it terms a “supremely positive business development in the fourth qinary EBITDA expectations of Euro 30.0 million within the bet-at-home.com AG group were exceeded to amount to around Euro 33 million. Preliminary guidance on gross gaming revenue (GGR) of Euro 134.0 …
Kenyan sports betting operators are currently voicing concerns regarding amendments to the Betting, Lotteries and Gaming Act proposed last month by member of parliament Jakoyo Midiwo. The proposals include provisions that seek to licence only betting companies that are fully owned by Kenyan nationals; marketing and advertising restrictions; tax on winning players; limits on playing …
The anti-smoking panacea vaping will be the unusual theme of Endorphin’s next online slot, Diamond Vapor, which the company plans to showcase at the ICE expo in London next month, according to a company announcement Monday. The company’s publicity material on the new game explains: “Fruit-themed slots, some of the most popular games of all …
The Chinese government’s powerful and organised internet censorship drive, euphemistically described as a clean-up designed to protect the citizenry from unacceptable content, is to focus on internet service providers, virtual private network services, internet data centers (IDC), and content delivery networks (CDN) companies, according to an announcement at the weekend by the Ministry of Industry …
The Bovada online casino has reported rather sketchily on two major wins this week. Paul D. from Boston, MA, scored really big, earning $808,529.80 playing the Food Fight progressive jackpot slot on the Bovada online casino on a wager of $11.25. Unfortunately Bovada’s press release does not give any further details. Rock H. from Parker, …
The UK Government has extended Walter Merricks’ term as Commissioner of the Gambling Commission for a further year, ending December 31, 2017. Merricks chairs the boards of IMPRESS, the independent monitor for the press, and JUSTICE, the law reform charity. He was the inaugural Chief Ombudsman of the Financial Ombudsman Service for a decade, and …
It’s going to be costly for Macau online gambling and junket tycoon Jack Lam to return to the Philippines following his rather hurried departure last year with allegations of economic sabotage, bribery and tax evasion swirling around him (see previous reports). On Monday a Philippines Senate hearing evidence on a P50 million bribery at the …
The European Court of Justice Attorney General Maciej Szpunar’s rejection of the Gibraltar Betting and Gaming Association’s arguments on the UK p.o.c. tax and his opinion that the UK and Gibraltar were one entity in these circumstances (see previous reports) could have major implications, opines an article published by Bloomberg business news this week. Tim …
Privately-owned online sports betting operator Interwetten delivered robust full year results for the 2016 fiscal period, in which the company has almost achieved doubling its revenues over the past four years, success it attributes to its in-house developed platform and targeted marketing. Key performance indicators for the 12 month period, ending December 31, 2016 include: …