Posts From: May 2018

BetConstruct obtained two Class I licences from MGA

BetConstruct announces that it has been granted two Class I licences by the Malta Gaming Authority. With these licences the company is now enabled to provide gaming products of the...

Malta
Portugal’s regulated iGaming market up by 8 per cent

Portugal’s regulated iGaming market grew by 8 per cent during the first quarter of 2018. Portugal’s regulated online gambling market generated overall revenue of €122.5 million in 2017, its first full...

Business News
Sky Sports Racing deal done for Melbourne Cup

Sky Sports Racing will broadcast the Lexus Melbourne Cup exclusively live in the UK and Ireland this year after signing a long-term deal with the Victoria Racing Club (VRC), it...

Business News
Online bookies face $30m gambling tax hit

Victoria ( Australia ) will impose an 8% point-of-consumption tax on online betting agencies, barely half the rate introduced or promised in other states. The tax would start from January and...

Business News
DraftKings gears up for Sports Betting

DraftKings, has been hiring staff for a new office it opened in Hoboken in February. Chief Executive Jason Robins said the company has also held discussions with officials at the...

Sports Betting
NFL wants Congress to pass betting legislation

The NBA and Major League Baseball began making their voices heard in the dozens or so states looking to legalize sports betting, the NFL sat on the sidelines, awaiting a...

Sports Betting
‘Who Stole the Cup?’

A Hollywood-style heist carrying the strapline ‘Who Stole the Cup?’ themes bwin’s Football World Cup campaign. Directed by Pedro Martin-Calero, the ad stars football legends Cafu, Vicente del Bosque, Stefan Effenburg and Diego...

Marketing
Supreme Court lets states legalize sports gambling

The Supreme Court cleared the way on Monday for states to legalize sports betting, striking down a 1992 federal law that had prohibited most states from authorizing sports betting. The court said...

Sports Betting
Kambi welcomes US Supreme Court decision

Kambi welcomes today’s US Supreme Court’s judgment, which finds the federal ban on sports wagering to be unconstitutional and transfers the responsibility to state legislators. Since the enactment of the...

Sports Betting
Betfred MD urges employees to oppose cut to £100 FOBT stake

Betfred’s managing director has urged employees to lobby their MP to oppose the expected cut to the £100 stake punters can wager every 20 seconds on fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs),...

Business News