Posts From: October 2018

PowerPlay.com releases online sports betting & casino platform

Today sees the official launch of Caribbean-based online gaming site PowerPlay.com. The new gaming brand is launching their offering to Caribbean and Central American players. PowerPlay strongly believes that the Caribbean and Central...

Business News
Rank shares tumble after revenue drop

Rank Group reported a 4.9 percent year-on-year decline in comparable group revenue for the 16 weeks to mid-October, hit by a drop in sales and traffic at its casinos and...

Business News
GVC Holdings Q3 Total Group NGR Rises 14%

GVC Holdings said Thursday that its online NGR rose 28 percent in the third quarter, driven by strong growth across all major territories and helped by a good end to...

Business News
Crisis in the New Zealand Racing industry

Winston Peters, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Racing, recently presented the Messara Report, to the New Zealand Racing Industry(NZRB). The report made 17 recommendations. Many of these recommendations are...

Business News
Responsible gambling and collaboration at Sustainable Gambling Conference

On Tuesday, Kindred Group arranged the “Sustainable Gambling Conference” in Stockholm, gathering over 200 guests from around Europe. Experts from regulatory agencies, researchers, operators and therapists discussed issues that are...

Business News
Scientific Games extends long-running Texas Lottery partnership

Scientific Games announced that the Texas Lottery extended the Company’s existing contract for instant “scratch” games six additional years through 2024. Scientific Games’ innovative instant products, including spotlight games, families of games, Scratch My...

Lotto
Spanish government calls for ban on gambling ads

Spain’s current minority PSOE government headed by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez struck a budget deal with rival party Unidos Podemos which could have significant impact on online gambling advertising. Stipulated...

Business News
Amazon’s Twitch NFL live stream shows potential future of live sports online

According to ESPN Thursday Night Football will debut for free on Amazon-owned live streaming platform Twitch beginning with this week’s matchup between the Minnesota Vikings and the Los Angeles Rams, the company announced...

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NBA and MLB could see $1.7 billion from legalized sports betting

Annual revenues for Major League Baseball (MLB) and the National Basketball Association (NBA) may increase by $1.1 billion and $585 million, respectively, due to widely available, legal, regulated sports betting,...

Sports Betting
Lotteriinspektionen appoints anti-match fixing coordinator

A new match-fixing coordinator, Katarina Abrahamsson, will take part in the Lottery Inspectorate – which changes after the turn of the year to Spelinspektionen – October 15th. The appointment takes...

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