Posts From: April 2018

Tabcorp penalised after Commission investigation

The betting firm involved in last year’s “piegate” incident has had its licence to offer gambling in Britain reviewed by the Gambling Commission. The Commission’s investigations revealed that Tabcorp UK...

Business News
Australia to strengthen gambling ad rules for online streaming services

The Australian Communications and Media Authority is consulting on new rules to restrict gambling advertising during live streamed sport. ‘Until now, rules restricting gambling advertising have applied to broadcasting services only,’ said...

Business News
Rank Group partners with Rant & Rave to deliver enhanced customer engagement

Rant & Rave the UK leader in real-time customer engagement technology, has announced it has been appointed by Rank Group, a leading multi-channel gaming operator, to enhance its customer experience...

Business News
UK Gambling Commission appoints CEO

Neil McArthur has been appointed as Chief Executive of the Gambling Commission with immediate effect. He had been acting as Interim CEO since Sarah Harrison MBE left the organisation at...

People News
PlayUp acquires Draftstars

Australia based PlayUp, the developer, owner and operator of leading-edge technologies focused on live sports entertainment in the online gaming and daily fantasy sports sector, has acquired Draftstars from CrownBet. ...

Business News
The PGA Tour supports legal sports betting

The PGA Tour will support regulated gambling on its competitions if the Supreme Court overturns a federal ban on betting. Over the last year and a half we worked on...

Sports Betting
Newgioco Group announces strong first quarter earnings

Newgioco Group, a betting technology company providing regulated lottery and gaming products and services through licensed subsidiaries based in Europe, is pleased to report that strong first quarter transactional sales in the online...

Business News
The Gran-National: silver surfers turn to smartphones to place their bets

Online bookmakers are set for a bumper weekend, as Britain bets big on the world-famous Grand National. According to new data from Worldpay, a leader in payments, 2018 is set...

Business News
Playtech to buy Snaitech

Playtech is to splash out €846mln for Italian rival Snaitech. The company already has backing for its bid from shareholders accounting for around 70.6% of the issued share capital of...

Business News
Kindred Group wants Sweden’s government to break up state-owned operator Svenska Spel

Sweden’s state-owned gambling monopoly Svenska Spel will not be privatized, despite the government’s plan to break up the longstanding monopoly by introducing a licensing system that would, for the first time, be...

Business News