Category Archives: Betting

Swedish gambling regulator updates self-exclusion site

Spelinspektionen, the Swedish Gambling Inspectorate, has detailed plans to update its Spelapus.se self-exclusion website, with the aim of making it more ‘user-friendly’. The authority has assured licensed betting firms that the new site, expected to launch in May of this year, will not introduce any ‘major adjustments’ to their operations. According to the Inspectorate, licensees …

Nedda Kaltcheva: Pronet Gaming – Strategising success through team & tech-building

Nedda Kaltcheva, Chief Technology Officer at Pronet Gaming, explains why it is as important to cultivate a winning working culture as it is to have state-of-the-art modular platform technology… There are three main areas of importance for any organisation seeking to strengthen its technological foundations: team and culture, architecture, and processes. This is particularly apparent …

Sportingtech selects Victoria Bonner as new CMO

Victoria Bonner has been named as the new Chief Marketing Officer for Sportingtech, joining the company from Relax Gaming.  Having first joined Relax Gaming in 2018, Bonner took responsibility for “inaugurating and leading its marketing functions”.  Sportingtech believes that the new hire will be able to use her experience of “building brands and successful marketing …

Playtech to develop horse racing content in Jockey Club partnership

Playtech and the Jockey Club have entered into a new strategic partnership, centred around the development of cross-product content.  The five-year deal will see Playtech produce content based on the Jockey Club’s network of racecourses and fixtures, with the firm having secured the rights to develop the features across its casino, live casino, poker, virtual …

Playtech notifies of rebound offer from TTB Hong Kong

Playtech Plc has shed further light on yesterday’s general meeting of investors that failed to approve Aristocrat Leisure’s £2.7 billion offer to acquire the FTSE250 technology group outright – a deal recommended by the board of directors. Further to yesterday’s GM, Playtech’s board was contacted by Hong Kong investment fund TTB Partners Limited ‘on behalf …

HappyHour.io accelerator hires Lauren Farrell as first CMO 

HappyHour.io the early stage igaming accelerator of former Gaming Innovation Group (GiG) Co-founder and Chief Executive Robin Reed has confirmed the appointment of Lauren Farrell as the venture’s first Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).  Farrell joins HappyHour.io’s executive management team from Stockholm-listed online gambling group LeoVegas AB, where she previously served as a Commercial Strategy Director …

UKGC joint-investigation leads to illegal lottery shutdown on Facebook 

A joint investigation by the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) and law enforcement partners has led to the shutdown of illicit lotteries operating on the social media platform of Facebook.   Formed under the guidance of the Government Agency Intelligence Network (GAIN), the Gambling Commission led a probe focused on disrupting illegal/unlicensed lotteries targeting UK consumers on …

BGC backs government’s Levelling Up job creation agenda

The Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) has outlined a commitment to investing £20 million on staff training and development across the UK, in support of the government’s ‘Levelling Up’ job booster programme.  In addition to the investment plans, the betting and gaming industry standards association has also pledged to create 5,000 apprenticeships for young people …

Svenska Spel to form ‘interactive’ Beijing 2022 microsite with Spotlight Sports

Spotlight Sports Group (SSG) has introduced a Swedish language interactive Winter Olympics microsite for state-owned gambling company, Svenska Spel.  The enterprise has stated that it will build, host and manage the site which will include SSG’s independent previews, giving Svenska Spel customers betting odds as well as expert analysis. Dan Korhonen, Svenska Spel Head of …

Aristocrat strategy to remain unchanged following Playtech acquisition fall through

Aristocrat CEO and Managing Director, Trevor Croker, has detailed that the company’s ‘commitment to participate in the RNG sector’ as part of its wider strategy will not be altered, following news of the collapse of its acquisition of Playtech. Issuing a statement this morning, Playtech anticipated that the minimum threshold of 75% of shareholders would …