Category Archives: Betting

The Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) has appointed Darragh O’Loughlin as its new Chief Executive Officer, which comes into effect from 29 June 2022. Previously Secretary General of the Irish Pharmacy Union from 2013 until April 2022, O’Loughlin has also served as a Council member of The Pharmacy Regulator (PSI) for six years and was …

The board of Playtech Plc has stated confidence in achieving the group’s full-year 2022 commercial and corporate objectives following ‘an excellent start to year trading’.  Issuing a snapshot trading update, the FTSE250 gaming technology group revealed that positive Q1 trading had generated unaudited EBITDA results of more than €100 million, with the ‘run rate continuing …

Real Madrid midfielder, Luka Modrić, has become an ambassador of Croatia-based sports data company, SofaScore. In forming the agreement, on Sunday, Modrić was met by the company’s founders, Zlatko Hrkać and Ivan Bešlić who will see the La Liga player cooperate with the firm ahead of this year’s World Cup. In particular, the football scores …

The groundwork for Brazil’s pending regulation of its federal sports betting regime has become clearer as government agency SECAP publishes a ‘draft proposal’ outlining its preferred regulatory outcomes.  Back in 2019, SECAP – Brazil’s Secretariat of Evaluation, Planning, Energy and Lottery – was placed directly in charge of finalising the legislation of Brazil’s sports betting …

DAZN has hired another industry veteran to the leadership team of its sports betting venture DAZN BET, appointing Gemma Burge as Head of Safer Gambling.  Burge specialises in risk management and safer gambling for the online and land-based betting and gaming sectors, having accumulated experience over a 15 year career, which included employment at Sky …

SIS (Sports Information Services) has secured its latest betting operator client, providing Loyalbet with horse and greyhound racing content from a range of countries. The agreement will cover over 65,000 live horse and dog racing events annually from across 165 racecourses and tracks from five continents, including ‘premium live’ UK and Irish horse racing fixtures.  …

To drive its sports betting business in the Brazilian market, online firm Betsul has partnered with Genius Sports to leverage the latter’s data, technology and broadcast solutions.  Genius will provide the Latin American operator with its suite of data-backed outsourced solutions such as PreMatch, LiveTrading and Risk, and in order to maximise turnover, margins and …

Activist investment fund Corvex Management LP has disclosed to the Stockholm Nasdaq that it has built up a 10% shareholding in Kindred Group Plc. Corvex is led by seasoned activist investor Keith Arlyn Meister, a former principal of Icahn Enterprises – the private investment fund of US finance magnate Carl Icahn. The New York fund …