Category Archives: Betting

Scott Longley: 2021… Chasing up the Big Mo’

Providing further year-end perspectives, SBC has enlisted the help of Scott Longley of the Wagers.com Earnings+ More Substack to summarise the M&A, IPOs and boardroom shake-ups that have reformed gambling’s playing field make-up…  When the Earnings+More newsletter (as it was then) launched in April, it was partly as a response to the expansion of the …

2022 Budget Law holds no reforms for Italian gambling

Italy’s Budget Law for 2022 has been approved without any gambling sector amendments being adopted by Parliament. The result will see no legislative progress for Italy’s gambling sector that requires definitive resolutions on betting shop, gaming machine and online gambling concessions. Without Budget Law amendments, 2022 points to another year of conflict between operators and …

Flutter eyes Italian podium place with €1.9bn takeover of SISAL

Flutter Entertainment Plc has this morning announced that it has secured definitive terms to acquire Italian gambling group Sisal for a consideration of €1.9 billion (£1.62bn). An agreement has been reached with US private equity fund CVC Capital – the current owner of SIsal – which will see the Italian market leader in online and …

Hejdenberg joins Swedish inspectorate as new communications lead

Spelinspektionen, the Swedish Gaming Inspectorate, has appointed Yvonne Hejdenberg as its new Head of Communications, effective as of 1 January 2022.  Prior to her position with Spelinspektionen, Hejdenberg garnered experience of communication, PR and brand issues from ‘several different industries’ in both the public and private sectors.  The new appointee’s gambling industry experience comes primarily …

UKGC finalises licence review into IMME over ‘significant’ failings

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has taken enforcement action against International Multi-Media Entertainments Limited (IMME) due to suitability, social responsibility and money laundering’. After a nearly year-long licence review, commencing on 17 January 2020, IMME has made the decision to surrender its UK gambling licence, after the Commission was minded to revoke the certification.  IMME …

AstroPay improves withdrawal process through customisable API

AstroPay will provide merchants with the ability to process withdrawals from a customisable API which adapts to individual requirements around security and velocity. The new solution, AstroPay said, will offer companies the best support in “securely managing and facilitating their payment needs”. Merchants will be able to freely process withdrawals, offering customers a variety of …

Sportradar expands ‘interactive’ partnership with top-flight German football

Sportradar has agreed to extend its ‘accessible’ partnership with International, a subsidiary of DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga, for a further five years. Until the 2025-26 season, Sportradar will sublicence the rights for moving images from those competitions to its network of sportsbook operators.  The agreement further enables the platform to continue to collect and distribute …

B90 Holdings secures Entercreation’s online sportsbook and casino unit

Gaming industry online marketing and operating company B90 Holdings will acquire the operations, domain and business IP of Entercreation Limited’s Spinbookie.com online sportsbook and casino. The total consideration for the transaction will initially consist of 8.6 million in new ordinary shares of nil par value in the capital of B90, with a further 8.6 million …

James King: Problem Solved… Flows can demonstrate the beauty of agnostic delivery

2020 and 2021 saw pressures increase on operators’ ability to modify platforms to match market and regulatory demands. Observing arising complexities across the industry’s value chain, James King leads the development of Flows, an industry-tailored innovation platform designed to turbocharge delivery, automate workflows and reduce reliance on technical teams. SBC: Hi James, thanks for this …

Darina Goldin, Bayes Esports: Why is it so hard to create good betting odds?

Esports is data-driven like no other sport. Given a good data source, it is possible to have full information about a match at any given second, yet creating good reliable betting odds for esports remains a challenge in the industry, writes Darina Goldin, Director of Data Science at Bayes Esports. Some of that can be …