Category Archives: Betting

EPIC joins GIS  to train future sports leaders on gambling harms.

EPIC Risk Management will work with the UCFB’s Global Institute of Sport (GIS) to examine the impacts of gambling-related harms on sports development.  The partnership will see the safer gambling and harm minimisation consultancy become an official partner of GIS – the UCFB’s Masters Degree program for professional sports management. Both organisations have pledged to …

Play North to ‘optimise communications’ with Symplify’s CRM system

Symplify has expanded its European client base and standing in the gambling sector, entering into a partnership with igaming firm Play North. An igaming firm, Play North operates the Dutch online casino site Kansino, and will utilise Symplify’s CRM email, SMS and Push packages to ‘optimise its communication strategy’. The partnership will also see Symplify’s …

Sky Bet to use ‘largest sponsorship inventory to date’ for responsibility promotion

Steve Birch, Sky Bet CEO, has stated that the operator’s partnership with the English Football League (EFL) will continue to focus heavily on responsibility.  Approaching the 10-year mark, the Flutter Entertainment sportsbook brand’s collaboration with England’s second-to-fourth flights of football continues amid a debate on betting’s relationship with sports.  Gambling reform advocates have repeatedly encouraged …

Lottomatica nets 6x EBITDA jump as new Italian powerhouse 

An enlarged Lottomatica Group, formed by the merger of Lottomatica Scommese and GoldBet Italia, has declared a stellar H1 trading period.  Having emerged as Italy’s largest betting group, Lottomatica reported a quadrupling of group revenues from 2021 results of €178m to €800m recorded during H1 2022. The 4X growth in headline revenues was attributed to …

Australia provides solid base for PointsBet as FY22 revenue climbs 32%

PointsBet experienced positive trading across the Australian, US and Canadian betting markets throughout 2022, although finding minimal success in the latter. As detailed in its financial results for Q4 and FY 2022, the ASX-registered enterprise saw its sports betting turnover increase by 32% from $.78bn in 2021 to $5bn, with a gross profit of $497.8m …

Kindred launches 23m share buyback scheme

Kindred Group Plc investors have been notified that the board of the Stockholm-listed online gambling group has authorised a share buyback mandate to begin.  The buyback mandate had secured its approval at an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) held by Kindred’s board on 10 June 2022. From 1 August, Kindred will begin its share repurchasing scheme …

FC Nantes and ZEbet promote sports betting in a ‘recreational’ way

Zeturf Group has announced a deal to become an official partner of the Ligue 1 football club, FC Nantes. The collaboration will see the firm’s sports betting brand, ZEbet, appear on Antoine Kombouaré‘s men’s shorts for the upcoming three seasons.  In a release, FC Nantes said: “Aware of addressing all audiences, the many operations planned …

Building scale and innovation – PointsBet on why Dublin is a betting tech hub

As North American betting stakeholders continue to expand their operations across the states and provinces of the US and Canada, many are looking to the established markets of Europe for guidance and support. This has included US-facing PointsBet, which recently announced the opening of a Dublin tech hub off the back of its acquisition of …

British casino pioneer Jimmy Thomas passed away

The death of James ‘Jimmy’ Thomas, President and Co-Founder of The Hippodrome Casino, London, has been announced. After a short illness, Jimmy died in his sleep on the morning of Saturday, 30 July at the London Clinic with members of his family present. He was 88. He leaves a son and two daughters, Simon, Lisa …

David Clifton, CDC: The inevitability of affordability in safer gambling

Affordability has been at the heart of long-term debate and controversy throughout the course of the Gambling Act review. With the White Paper judgement due soon – according to the government – some are anticipating a need for greater data usage to gain insight into customer behaviour and certain individuals’ financial circumstances. David Clifton, Director …