Posts From: December 2016

Playtech agrees Finland deal

  Playtech, the world’s leading gaming content and software, systems and services supplier, and Veikkaus, the lead brand behind the country’s enlarged FRV Finland group made up of the recently...

Business News
Intertain Announces New Debt Financing

The Intertain Group Limited (TSX:IT), the largest online bingo-led operator in the world, today announced that it has raised additional debt finance in an aggregate sterling equivalent amount of £160...

Business News,Features
POLICE ARREST ALLEGED GENOVESE MOBSTERS FOR OPERATING OFF-SHORE GAMBLING RING

According to ABC News,  NYPD have Thirteen of the reputed members of the Genovese crime family arrested for operating an illegal off-shore gambling ring. The arrests were the result of...

Business News
Stefan Gustafsson has been appointed acting CEO of Mr Green

Stefan Gustafsson has been appointed acting CEO of Mr Green & Co Technology AB. He has extensive experience in senior positions within IT, among other positions such as CIO at...

Business News
Paddy Power Betfair boosts product development security with Balabit’s Shell Control Box

Paddy Power Betfair has announced that it has deployed Balabit’s privileged user monitoring solution Shell Control Box (SCB) to monitor privileged access to production systems and enhance the security and...

Sports Betting
Polish Parliament adopts Gambling Act

The Lower House of the Polish Parliament on Thursday passed a law designed to reduce illegal gambling activities and, it says, increase the amount of money going into government coffers...

Business News,Features
Bookmakers Betfred completes £195m refinancing

Fred and Peter Done founded Betfed in 1967, Betfred is one of the country’s best known bookmakers, employing more than 10,000 staff across over 1,400 licensed betting shops. And today...

Business News,Features
Japan passes bill to lift ban on casinos

Global gaming operators watch closely after first step towards $40bn market. In a parliamentary session that lasted less than 15 minutes and saw protest walkouts by some MPs, the lower...

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GVC Holdings hikes planned special dividend

The FTSE 250-listed firm — which acquired rival bwin.partygaming in a £1bln takeover last year – said its full-year profits would be at the top end of expectations as recent...

Business News
KKR-backed consortium makes $5.5 billion counterbid for Australia’s Tatts

A group including private equity firm KKR and Macquarie Group Ltd on Wednesday offered up to A$7.3 billion ($5.47 billion) to buy Australian lottery operator Tatts Group, threatening a takeover...

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