Category Archives: Betting

Safer Gambling Week launches new website for 2022 blitz

Safer Gambling Week has launched a new website to better inform and support all participants of this year’s Safer Gambling Week event that will take place from 17th – 23rd October 2022 (#SGWeek2022). The new website of safergamblinguk.org will serve as a hub of information and tools for all safer gambling stakeholders. Safer Gambling Week …

Jermaine Jenas encourages ‘a summer of horseracing’ with Everyone’s Turf

Television presenter and former professional footballer, Jermaine Jenas, has become the face of Great British Racing’s (GBR) Everyone’s Turf campaign launching this summer. Everyone’s Turf will run as a national advertising-led campaign which aims to show the different facets of the sport, and is receiving support from the Horserace Betting Levy Board (HBLB). As Jenas …

Ethiopia Youth Ministry seeks to ban sports betting

Ethiopia’s Ministry of Women and Social Affairs has outlined its support for a blanket ban on sports betting to protect the nation’s youth and avoid an ‘economic and social crisis’. FANA – Ethiopia’s state broadcaster reported that Abebe Haymanot, a representative of the Ministry focused on ‘Youth Development’ had notified “that work was underway to …

Henrik Lykkesteen: FUTBIN has been the perfect synergistic bolt-on for Better Collective

As we all know, esports has undergone tremendous growth over the last five years – more so since the pandemic. With that in mind, many betting and gaming companies have opted to expand their presence within the esports space – for Better Collective, this came in the form of its FUTBIN acquisition. Henrik Lykkesteen, SVP …

SECAP strengthens gambling oversight with Waldir Marques board appointment

SECAP – Brazil’s Secretariat of Evaluation, Planning, Energy and Lottery for the Ministry of Economy has announced the appointment of Waldir Eustáquio Marques Júnior as a new board member. The agency that has spearheaded the development of Brazil’s pending federal sports betting framework, welcomes a new advisor that has previously worked on lottery projects for …

SBC appoints Jessica Welman as Editor of SBC Americas

SBC Media has bolstered its coverage of the Americas, and made a notable investment into the future of its SBC Americas news portal, by appointing former Bally’s Interactive Director of Content, Jessica Welman, as Editor. Welman joins SBC at a crucial time for the betting industry in North America, with more than 30 US states …

ComeOn secures tough GlüNeuRStv sportsbook licence

The registry of the Ministry of Sports and the Interior of Saxony Anhalt has confirmed that it has granted a German Fourth Interstate Treaty (GlüNeuRStv) licence to ComeOn Gaming. Cherry AB’s B2C unit has registered the brands of sunmaker.de, comeonwetten.de and mobilebet.de under its approved German licence. Though having secured its GlüNeuRStv licence, ComeOn has …

Jens Melvang, Stats Perform: Maximising data ‘pivotal’ in fuelling betting engagement

With stakeholders from a wide range of areas in the multi-dynamic environment of sports business, data remains an extremely important asset in various companies’ arsenals. Jens Melvang, Senior Product Manager at Stats Perform, spoke to SBC of the firm’s newly announced series of advanced football metrics with the introduction of live Opta Vision data feeds. …

UKGC issues guidance on inbound consumer protection demands

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has issued new guidance to help operators match new consumer protection requirements that will be introduced as of 12 September. The guidance follows the Commission’s April update that announced a raft of new procedures ‘ensure online gambling businesses do more to identify and taken action to protect customers at risk …

Betfred renews legacy VS partnership with Inspired Entertainment

Betfred has announced that it will continue to work with Inspired Entertainment as its principal supplier of virtual sports (VS) games/content for its retail unit. The Manchester-based betting group announced that it has renewed terms with Inspired that has supplied its full range of VS games to Betfred’s 1,400 UK betting shops for the past …